The Paris public have been amused' for the last ten
(lays by *reports of negotiations-to terminate- the transition Ministry. m. Odilon Barrot accept:el the task of forming a Gabinet His plan is understood to have been to bring about a coalition of the Mode- rate Republicans and the Legitimists with the supporters of the Elysee. Both parties were willing to promote the reelection of Louis Napoleon ; but the lispublioaos-insistetE upon.stasamplishi* this object by a repeal or revision, of the electoral law of May, Ms Legitimists by an evasioni of it. Unable to reconcile such discoiall ant elements, M. Barrot resigned hic mission; and am Tuesday-111e lifoniteur announced, that "the various Ministerial combinations which the President of the Republic was endeavouring to realize have definitely failed." M. Baroche was next tried ; but the idea of reestablishing that Minister in power excited such a commotion in the majority of the Assembly, that it was speedily abandoned. The latest accounts bear that M. Barret had consented to make another attempt; ani that the Thiers party had summoned him to give an explanation of his conduct. In Germany, the prospect of a reestablishment of the Diet under the joint auspices of Austria and Prussia appears more remote than ever. The only thing in which the German Governments display unanimity and promptitude of action is in prosecuting the newspapers. In -Vienna and Berlin the prosecutions appear to be distributed with laudable impartiality alike among the Ministerial organs of the press and their opposites. The state of Cassel is de- plorable. The Elector speaks and acts with a degree of brutality that almost looks like afibetation. Not long ago, he rebuked the officers of a regiment for allowing the populace to cheer it when marching intotown ; and on being asked how that could be pre- vented, replied by ordering the men to strike the mouths of the mob with their muskets. ills subjects, however, miss no oppor- tunity of expressing their sentiments of regard. fins, a jury was lately summoned at Fulda to try a man accused of having de- clared that "the Elector was not worth the rope that would hang him" : the jury found, by a majority of 9 to 3, that the man had uttered the words laid to his charge, and by a majority of 10 to 2, that he was "not guilty." The Piedmontese Chamber of Deputies has voted by acclamation the first reading of a bill to impose restrictions on the facility- with which young people have hitherto been admitted to take the mo- nastic TOWS. The vote was opposed by Ministers, on the plea that the entertaining of such a measure at this moment would embar- rass them in their negotiations with the Court of Rome. The largeness of the majority, however, combined with the known strength of the Government in the Chamber, leads to the belief that Ministers are not in their hearts hostile to the bill.
