It was 4lited in our second edition last week, that
the negotia-
tions of the French King with Sourer and for the con- struction of a new Cabinet, had been broken off; in consequence of Loris Piiimomes refitsal, when personally pressed on the subject by THIERS, to permit Ointasis BARROT ICI take the Presidential chair in the Chamber of' Deputies, or to aid the Queen of Spain in the same manner, though not to the same extent, as the British Government. Timms tendered his resignation, and the King, accepted it. Timm; then intimmed SQuaT, V1107,: appointment had actually received the royal sign-manual and been counter- signed by Kumla: the Chancellor, that Loris Pini.lera, though he had accepted their programme, would not fulfil his engagement : for his own part, he would not be Foreign Minister without the power of ordering a single cruiser to aid the Queen of Spain in the ha c of Biscay.
Thus, on the '24th of March, the King was without a Ministry to meet the Chambers on the 26th, the day fixed fir their reaa- semblieg; aml it was not without difficulty that Louis Piiimepu procured a Minister to go through the requisite form of counter- signing an or finance for proroguing the Chambers. Count Mor.i: said, he was; not only nominally, but de facto, out of office; and lie would not take upon himself the responsibility of the prorogation,
in the present temper of the :MOSTA LIVET also at first refused; but this personal friend of the King at length yielded ; and the A/or/item. of Monday published the order for prorogation to the 4th of' April.
• :'`'./...1V419,STVipi.tITE then applied again to Sourer ; and the old Mar-
- - stigleaddren: himself once more to 'FIBERS, PASSY, and their 'Irietultet.e#icy. 'fused to hold any connnunication with him on the subject. The uke DE BROGLIE'S assistance was solicited; but Ille•DUIce would lily promise to bring about an arrrangement be- ten Ttilmusa' teizor, and ()DILLON BARROT—he would not take of4cc. tiMseit: , The King promised to make concessions to a GUIZOT Ministry, which he refused to a Cabinet without that statesman. A new arrangement was nearly completed, embracing SOULT, TMERS, DUCIIATEL, and PASSY ; when a fatal dispute as to the election of ODILLON 11ARROT to the Presidency of the Chambers arose. Tintits insisted that it should be " a Cabinet question :" GuizoT and -his friends promised to vote for %tutor but would not pledge themselves to resign in case of defeat It tva a well-known eugagement between the King and the Doctrinaire:, not to make BAuitor's election a Cabinet question ; but Tun.- was bound to insist upon it ; and thus the GUIZOT-TBIERS Ministry in embryo was destroyed. The King suffered yet more in meter from the knowledge of his participation in the intrigue against BARROT ; and the same knowledge damaged the Door'. naires.
it was noticed that during the progress of these negotiations Loris PtillAPPE was in constant communication with Count DA. tam-, the Austrian Ambassador.
At length, on Wednesday, the King, having no otlit: i.neeseoeuprttead applied once more to TIIIERS ; and offered him a carte blanche both as to men and measures, with the Presidency of the Council. TittEns said that ten or twelve days ago he would the offer, but lie would not now undertake to form a :Ministry; though lie would take office with the ".Left Centre," as Foreign Minister, Soria' being President of time C e ouncil, and llmutog Pre. aident of the Chamber. Ile would not, however, even speak to Sou isr upon the subject. He put this statement in writing, and left it with the King. Several members of the " Left Centre" or Tomas pally then opened a negotiation with SOU LT. Should the Marshal prove manageable, the Ministry would probably consist of the fillowing persons- SOULT, President of Council and War Minister;
Trinsus, Foreign Minister ; DrrAunte Home Minister ; PAssv, Finance ; DCPIN. Minister of Justice, (he offers to accept without 1 IrsiAaNg DUPERItE, Marine ; SA leaser, Commerce;
Palm. DE LA 1.0Z ERE, Public Instruction.
This \MS the state of afildrs on Wednesday afternoon. The accounts from Paris represent the public as discontented, and the trade °lithe country very bad. There were numerous thiltires it; the provinces; and the disasters were generally attributed to the mismanarment, obstinacy, or treachery of the King. A corrc. sposehog of the Times says- - I am iz,stiv.,41, from a quarter from whence nothing, like misrepresentatior can he apprelan.ied, that the very hest and the very nvatest friends and comm' lii i i are beginning tu be seriously alarmed for the consequouw of his Aiaje,ty's firlIIILCSS, or obstinacy—for it is differently called or considetol dilik.;Tiit parties."
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