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SATURDAY,
The Paris papers of Thursday bring the announcement of the re- signation of the French Ministry. The immediate cause was difference of opinion between Louis Philippe and M. Thiers respecting certaia passages of the speech to be delivered by the King at the opening of the Chambers. The following letter from the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle affords the most insight into the proceedings between the King and his Ministers- " I have already sent you, by special courier of this morning, the fact of 31". Thiers and his colleagues having tendered their resignation on Wednes.lay evening. Ministers bad brought the King a draft of the royal speech. Hu Majesty objected, not to the warlike wording of the speech in general, or to that of' any part of it, but to the announcement in one paragraph of the immediate levy of 150,000 troops more. This included the anticipated levy of the conscription-class of 1841. It seems that the German Powers have made strong representations against the increase of the French many; pointing out its inevitable result to be, not to settle the Eastern ques- tion, but to disturb the: peace of Europe. The King, therefore, objected to any such great addition for the moment to the military force of the country. Ministers immediately tendered their resignations. Whether they would be accepted by the King persisting in his objections, or whether lus Majesty would consent to the ummuncement, was to be decided this afternom, when a personage on behalf' of the Ministry was to wait upon the King at St. Cloud. The Bourse, however, and the Parisian public, had already decided the question ; and it was universally asserted that the King had accepted the re- signation of Ministers, and had already appointed Marshal Souk to form a Cabinet. Count Mold, it was said, would join Sault. Great efforts have cer- tainly- been making to bring the Marshal into an understanding with Count Mole ; but the combination did not at all seem to have succeeded hitherto." The correspondent of the Morning Post says it was the general opi- nion in Paris that a Guizot-Soult Cabinet will he formed ; " Guizot to take the department of Foreign Affairs, and Soult to be President of the Council and Minister of War ; Admiral 1)uperr6, Marine ; Derhatel, Finance ; Dufaure, Interior ; and Villemain, Public Instructions. 31. Pussy would also have a post in this Ministry." Sonic of the politkians in Paris are beginning to speculate on the abdication of Louis Philippe within fifty daysh—Fudge.
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