POSTSCRIPT.
SATERDAY MORNING.
The pamphlet of M. de la Gueronniare, it is clear, has put the official as well as non-official world in deep commotion. Rumours arrive from Paris, the gossip of society and the Bourse, which testify to the general uneasiness, and they combine with the reports put forth earlier in the week to give some alight show of probability to the latest on dits. Thus the Morning Chronicle Paris correspondent says-
" A great excitement reigns in our political circles. Many rumours are afloat, and the result has been a decided baisse at the Bourse. I must relate to you what these rumours are, praying you to bear in mind that they are but on dita, and must be taken with due reserve.
"A total ministerial change is to be made. Count Walewski gives up, so says rumour, the portfolio of the Foreign Office. He will be replaced by Count de Persigny, now Ambassador at the Court of St. James's. If. Roul- land, now Minister of Public Works and Worship, will be replaced, some say, by Monseigneur Cceur, Bishop of Troyes; others say, by Monseigneur Menjand, the Emperor's Chaplain and Bishop of Tours. There is a rumour to the effect that M. de la Gueronniare will replace M. Roulland ; but as he has by common consent been named author of the brochure that has caused all the agitation, I should say this was a mistake. M. Billault is to retire from the Ministry of the Interior, and be replaced by either M. Pietri, for- merly Prefect of Police, or by M. de la Gueronniere. M. Billault succeeds M. Delangle at the Ministry 'of Justice. To continue the changes—MM. Fould and Magne, Ministers of State and of Finance, are to resign. Rumour has not as yet named M. Fould's successor, but arranges that Prince Napo- leon will resume the Ministry of Algeria and the Colonies, as well as be- coming henceforth Minister of Marine. He will have the title of President of the Council of Ministers, and will act as such during any absence of the Emperor. M. de Persigny is still here. His not returning to his post in London gives a semblance of truth to the rumours I have just recapitulated." On the other hand, the Paris correspondent of the Morning Herald says— "It is reported that the Ministerial team which the Emperor has always found so docile and treatable is turning restive. At the Cabinet Council yesterday, it is stated that the protest of the Bishop of Orleans was the sub- ject of a very.animated discussion, and a proposal having been made to pro- secute the right reverend prelate before the Council of State all the Ministers, with one exception, tendered their resignation. I believe there is in all this not one particle of truth ; and I do not think that any of the Ministers will, under any circumstances, lay down their portfolios, unless specially invited to do so. Count Walewskchowever, has so far compromised himself by his assurances to Austria' the expelled Italian princes, and King Bombalino, that he .gan hardly sit in Congress to support a policy dia- metrically opposed to that which he has been advocating. M. de Persigny's prolonged stay in Paris is, I am assured, not unconnected with the present uncertain tenure of office by M. Walewski." Telegrams from Paris and Rome makes these statements— Parts, Friday Morning.—" The Council of Ministers has resolved upon not giving any official denial to the pamphlet, The Pope and the Con- gress. As the Maniteur, the only official organ of the French Govern- ment, has not mentioned the pamphlet, its publication is to be considered as a home affair (affaire inteneure), which Foreign Powers cannot notice in their diplomatic intercourse with France." Borne, Thursday.—" Cardinal Antonelli had a long interview with the Duke de Gramont today. The French Ambassador has received, by a courier who left Paris on the 24th instant, some explanations destined to reassure the Holy See on the object and bearing of the pamphlet Le Pape et 18 Congres."
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