POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY.
The Paris papers of Thursday give the discussions in the Bureaux of the Chamber of Deputies, on the demand of an extraordinary credit of 200,000,000 francs, lately made by the Minister of Finance. The result of the discussion was favourable to the grant, and the Commissioners returned were all chosen from among the members who had most warmly supported it. Of the above sum, 110,000,000 are to lie ex- clusively applied (in addition to the provisions of the budget) to the expenses of the War Department ; and 33,000,000 to the Ministry of Marine, for the purpose of raising the navy to 225 sail of vessels;— viz. 20 sail of the ;line, (of which four are three-deckers,) 22 frigates, 43 corvettes and large brigs, 105 lesser vessels, and 85 steamers. The question of peace rind war was again agitated in the Bureau; but no new duct was elicited by the debate.
Marshal Soult has always been an advocate for a military system re- sembling the Prussian, which allows the active force to be small, whilst the Landwehr, or army of reserve, is immense. Marshal Soule, indeed, does not propose a Landwehr, but a system of reserve more adapted to French habits and wants. In his Committee, on Wednesday, M. Guizot promised that the Marshal would bring fbrward his plan of an army of reserve, and thus solve the great difficulty of the moment. viz. lar a European country to arm without menacing its neighbours.— Morning Post.
According to the Temps, M. Hamann had tendered his resignation of the department of Finance ; bat although some difference was said to have arisen between him and his colleagues respecting the propriety of raising money by way of loan, nothing calculated to induce his with- drawal from the Cabinet had occurred.
The intrigue directed against 31. Guizot (by 31. Thiers and Count Mold it was said) was not yet abandoned on Thursday, if a private let- ter before us speak truly. The plan for a new Administration reported
to have been laid down b th • tl t C t le 1 Id I Mi
y e •SN as, . oun o s - mster for Foreign Allams, and that 31. Tillers should have the depart- ment of the Interior. The Ministerial papers, however, reply to the HONE Y 'MARKET. assertion of the Opposition that the Ministry was still losing ground, by reference to the fact, that within a few days General Paishans and NI. de Maisonneuve, two stanch supporters of the Government, had been elected Deputies for Metz and Strasburg respectively, two cities, above all others, the most warlike in France.—Times.
The cold was still intense in Paris, but otherwise the weather was extremely fine. During the nights of 'Tuesday aud Wednesday the thermometer (Fahrenheit) marked 18 degrees below the freezing-point.
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