NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE result of Louis PHILIP'S new feats in Cabinet-making was .announced officially in the Moniteur of Wednesday.
Count MOLE is to be President of the Council and Minister
of Foreign Affairs.
M. PERSIL Minister of Justice and Public Wor-
ship, and Keeper of the Seals.
Admiral DE ROSAMEL Minister of Marine.
M. DE GASPARIN Minister of the Interior.
M. GUIZOT Minister of Public Instruction.
M. DUCHATEL Minister of Finance.
The office of Minister of War will be offered to SOULT, and its duties in the mean while will be performed by Admiral de Rosa- mum. DUCHATEL is to act as Minister of Commerce until that appointment is filled up. Count MONTALIVET, whom the King would gladly have retained, but whom GUIZOT objected to, is ap- pointed Intendant-General of the Civil List, in the room of Baron FAIN, removed to the Chief Secretaryship of the King's Cabinet. Count D'ARGOUT reassumes the post of Governor of the Bank of France; Baron DAVILLIER, who was never more than a provi- sional holder of that office, being made Honorary Governor. GISQUET is to leave the Prefecture of the Police, but his suc- cessor is not named.
• Of the members of this Administration it may be remarked, that MOLE, the nominal Premier, is the mere tool of Louis PHILIP, and that the foreign policy of France will be in future, as heretofore, under the complete control of the slippery and faith- less King; that GUIZOT, GASPARIN, and DUCHATEL, are Doc- trinaires; that PERSI L goes beyond the Doctrinaires in his zeal for an arbitrary system of government; and that ROSAMEL is no politician. The general policy of the Government will undoubtedly be that of " resistance " at home, and discouragement of Liberalism abroad. We observe that the Morning Chronicle dwells much on MOLE'S Russian predilections, and infers that hostility to England and a -closer alliance with the Northern despots will be the result of his appointment to the Ministry of Foreign affairs. But the Chro- nicle itself furnishes sufficient proof of MOLE'S pliability, to render it unsafe to reckon upon any change in the foreign policy of Rance because he happens to have its nominal direction. That Louis PHILIP will continue to play fast and loose with England, we have little doubt ; that he will break up the alliance and attach himself to Russia, we do not fear.
The consequences of recurring to the Doctrinaire system in the internal government of France, may be very serious. The ap- pointment of PERSIL, the" furibund Chancellor," as he was called, is symptomatic of fresh attacks on the press, and on the little liberty which still remains to the French people. It was only a few months ago that the King and the Chambers found they had been drawing the strings of authority too tight, and supported
41r- \MFRS in a more Liberal course. Has any thing happened since the 22d of February to shake that opinion ? It will be answered that plots have been discovered, and the King's life assailed. But were not conspiracies formed during the administration of Da BROGLIE and Guam? We suspect that the plots which ex- ploded under TRIERS were laid under GUIZOT.
It is probable that the majority of the Chamber of Deputies
will refuse to support the new Administration. In that case, will the King dissolve the Chambers ? We should think that a statesman of GUIZOT'S temperament would not have taken office unless he bad secured Louis PHILIP'S support to that extent. Would new elections change the state of parties in the Chamber a Deputies? If so and the Doctrinaires should find them- selves triumphant, a popular explosion would not be the 1" lately to occur. Even with the prospect of getting rid sent men in the course of a few months, weque.•• 01 the pre- . ...awn wh the 1Cinc, will find his subjects very submi..0. or etherthis we are
. . assured, that to govern France permanently on the Doctrinaire system of suspicion and repression, will be impossible, and that the attempt must, sooner or later, provoke a rising fatal to the Orleans dynasty.
