The official programme in France is said to be arranged.
If the Ministry does not resign before, the Chambers will meet on the 28th inst., and M. Ferry will demand a vote of con- fidence in the Ministry. If that is refused, as it is believed it will be, the President will send for M. Garabetta to form a Ministry, in which M. Jules Ferry will take part as Minister of Public Instruction. The "great Ministry," so long expected, will then be formed. The correspondent of the Times endea- vours to awaken M. Grevy's.distrust and jealousy of M. Gam- betta ; but he is a persistent representative of Orleanist wishes, and on Friday admits that he has been wrong throughout. He even believes that the Ministry will resign before the Chamber meets. It is, of course, improbable that M. Grevy, after his long life of Constitutionalism, will refuse to summon the nominee of the Chamber, and more improbable that the Chamber will. refuse to indicate with whom the majority rests. Besides, im- patience counts for something in France, and everybody is sick of petty Ministries which last till M. Gambetta hints that they had better go. France wants her strongest man to try his own hand, and exercise his power with responsibility.
