M. Dufaure's Cabinet is at length formed. He is to
remain Minister of Justice, and to be besides President (instead of Vice- President) of the Council,—a deviation from the recent practice as regards the Marshal's Prime Ministers. The Duc Decazes keeps the portfolio of Foreign 'Affairs, General de Cissey that of War, and M. Leon Say that of Finance. M. Ricard, a sound and thoroughly Liberal Republican, takes the Interior, with M. de Marcere, a follower of M. Gambetta's, as Under-Secretary ; and M. Waddington (a Protestant) Public Instruction, while he hands over Public Worship to the Prime Minister. M. Christophle, the special object of M. Buffet's most virulent attacks,—the late Prime Minister having declared, that whatever happened to him, he would never become M. Christophle's ally,—is made Minister of Public Works ; Vice-Admiral Fourichon takes the Marine, and M. Teisserenc de Bort, Agriculture. Vice-Admiral Fourichon is• the only Right-Centre man, but even he is so little of a party bigot, that he acted under M. Gambetta at Tours. Moreover, it was clearly a great sacrifice which the Marshal made when he -consented to part with Admiral de Montaignac. On the whole, the Government, though a very moderate one, is sincerely Republican, and most Liberal of all in the department where Liberalism has the most important effect,—the Interior. Mar- shal MacMahon's loyalty to the Constitution has been severely tested in the course of its formation, and it does great credit to his intelligence and statesmanship that he has conceded so soon and so frankly what he has conceded.
