POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY NIGHT.
AN extraordinary express from Paris, this morning, has brought the news of the dissolution of the French Cabinet. On Thursday, THmes, MATSON, DUPERRE, PASSY, SAEZET, and PELET DE LA Lo- ner:, delivered their resignations to the King. The only particulars are given in the following letter, written on Thursday night by the cor- respondent of the Times in Paris.
" The dissolution of the French Ministry, which the Journal de Paris this night positively announces, would of course have been regarded at any time as an aflifir of no slight interest; but it assumes the greatest importance when considered in connexion with the present condition of Spain, because it is the known difference of opinion existing between the King and his 31inisters respecting the policy to be adopted towards that kingdom, which has led to the resignation of M. 'Driers and his five colleagues, whose names appear in the Journal de Paris. Fur several days past, it has been observed that the offi- cial intercourse between the Prime Minister and the King was not so frequent as heretofore had been usual; and this circumstance strengthened the genetal belief that the dissensions in the Cabinet were not permanently, but only tem- porarily, made up. This day a Cabinet Council, at which the King presided, was held at Nemlly, and the question of intervention in Spain was again de- bated. Notwithstanding the change which has recently taken place in the Government if Spain, and the sanction which the Queen Regent has found it expedient to give to the promulgation of the Constitution of 1812, M. 'niers still advocated the necessity of a decided and an imposing interference by the French Government in Spain; but as he was not able to bring the King over to that opinion, he and the other Ministers, who thought with him, flit it their duty to give in their resignations. The intelligence of the disulutioa has not had much effect on the Funds. The fact is, that the division between the King and his 31inisters was so generally known, that the breaking. up of the Cabinet has not taken anybody much by surprise."
It is supposed that the King must again apply to the Doctrinaires; and GUIZOT, DeenAret., MONTALIVET, and Mote, are spoken of as likely to form part of the new Cabinet.
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