M. Le Royer, the French Minister of Justice, has resigned,
apparently because he is too strongly against the amnesty of the remaining political convicts, and it seems likely that before long the French Government may be recast in a rather more radical form. There has been talk of another dissolution, but it is understood that M. Ga.mbetta is opposed to this, and that -there will certainly be no dissolution before the time for the revision of the Constitution comes on, in 1880. The crisis, if it comes, will probably be a very trivial one, and result in a Govern. anent exceedingly like the present French Government; in a word, in such a change as took place in England when Lord Aber- deen's Government gave place to Lord Palmerston's Govern- ment, consisting chiefly of the same members, in 1854. The fuss made about the instability of the French Government by Englishmen is truly absurd. If Mr. Hayes were changing his Cabinet in the United States, we should hear nothing about it ; and yet that is nearer what a change of the French Ministry,---- the President remaining uuchanged,—would mean, than even such a modification of an English Government as that to which we have referred.
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