The French Home Secretary, M. Lainbrecht, died this dee , week
at Versailles, While dressing, from aneurism of the heart. lie was a civil engineer by profession, and politically a moderate who knew how to be courteous to opponents ou either the Radical or the Mon- archical side. He has been succeeded by M. Casimir Perier (the son of Louis Philippe's celebrated minister, who died in 1832). M. Casimir Perier was a diplomatist under the Orleans reilinte, and reached the post of French plenipotentiary at Hauover. He sup- ported Prince Louis Napoleon in revising the constitution after 1848, but disapproved the coop d'eot, and was one of the deputies sent to Valerien, whence, however, he was soon released. During the Empire he was a good deal in retirement on his estates in the Aube, and now he is once more come to the front, giving a 6till more Orleanist colouring to M. Thiers' regime, but lending it 'the name of an honest and honourable, if hardly a distinguished politician.
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