NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Tim King of France has lost no time in procuring successors to the Doctrinaire Ministers, whose resignation was mentioned last week. At first he endeavoured to reconcile the disputants, but this was found to be beyond his power. He then applied to Marshal SOULT to resume the Presidency of the Council, while at the same time he commissioned Count MOLE to form another Administration of the same character and pledged to the same system as that which had just gone to pieces. Count MOLE applied to TRIERS and his colleagues in resignation, but without success ; and, after twenty- four hours' labour at Cabinet-making, gave up the attempt. In- trigues were set on foot in all quarters. Louis Plume is said to have been exceedingly indignant at the conduct of his refractory Ministers ; who on their part seem to have been playing the same game as the old Duke of NEWCASTLE was in the habit of resorting to in the reign of our GEORGE the Second. They deemed it im- possible for the King to construct a Cabinet without their assist- ance; and though TRIERS might be resolved not to yield to GIIIZOT, and GUIZOT was equally mortified at the idea of being controlled by TRIERS, yet it seems never to have entered their thoughts that the King could dispense with the services of both. ButLouis PHILIP determined to have both, or neither ; for he has excluded both from his new Cabinet, which was organized without difficulty in the course of a few hours, as soon as the Doctrinaires were definitively laid on the shelf. The following are the names of the new Ministers, with their respective offices— The Duke DR BA SSA rro, Minister of the Interior and President of the Council. M. PERSIL remains Minister of Justice.
M. BRESSON, Ambassador at Berlin, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Lieutenant-General Baron BERNARD, Minister of War ; who will also Ml tie functions of Minister for Foreign Affairs until the arrival of M. BRESSON. Baron CHARLFS Dorm, Depute' Minister of Marine. M. Taste Depute, Minister of Commerce, who will be Minister of Public Instruction ad interim.
M. PASSY, Depute, Minister of Finance.
M. SAUZET, a distinguished advocate of Lyons, has been offered the Ministry of Public Instruction; but it is uncertain whether lie will accept it.
PERSIL is the only member of the late Cabinet who retains his place. Admiral JACOB, the Minister of Marine, did not resign ; but was unceremoniously displaced, to make way for CHARLES DIIPIN. To console him for this treatment, he has been made Aide-de-camp to the King Only fancy Sir EDWARD CODRING- TON First Lord of the Admiralty and a Cabinet Minister, then turned out of office, and soothed with the compliment of being made one of Wittiest the Fourth's Aides! As for Admiral Iwo% he is treated as well as he deserves to be. He must be a poor-spirited creature, or Louis PHILIP would not have ventured to insult him so grossly. What sort of a reply would he have re- ceived to a similar offer from the elder Duairs ?
We may safely take it for granted, that our readers are gene- rally strangers to the public services and reputations, if not to the names, of the majority of those who compose the new French Cabinet. Even their own countrymen seem to know exceedingly little about them, and that little is not of the best kind. They are, however, well-selected for " responsible listeners, not respon- sible advisers ;" and, as such, 4ro generally despised in Paris. 1Ve refer to the spirited and entertaining Letter of 0. P. Q. for n brief account of the " antecedents" (to use a convenient French term) of the new Ministers, and also for a statement, more at large than is given above, of the real cause of the break-up of the late Cabinet. The time for the assembling of the Chambers is altered from ine 29th to the 1st of December. It is said that an effort to gain PoPularity is to be made by proposing a legislative amnesty for political offences. DUPIN, the President of the Chamber of De- Puties, in return for the nomination of his brother to the Ministry a Marine, has promised, according to report, to give the new
Cabinet the aid of his oratorical talents. They Will sorely need some such aid; for, with the exception perhaps of SAuzEr, whose acceptance of office is by no means certain, they have not a good speaker in their ranks.
