Although no deed of much moment has been done in
France, Paris politics have resumed their position as foremost in interest among foreign affairs. The old dissension in the Cabinet is un- derstood to have been much widened and exasperated by recent events : M. Guizot's virtual defeat in the matter of the Swiss in- tervention has emboldened his hostile colleagues to disparage him ; and his resignation has been daily expected. Nor would it be re- gretted in England now, as it would have been a year ago. That these rumours are not without foundation, is rendered probable by the sudden change in the tone of his newspaper organ, especi- ally on Swiss affairs, from confident arrogance to reasonable mo- deration. Meanwhile, the Government is incessantly prosecuting some newspaper or other : King Louis Philippe and his Ministers seem to be incapable of remembering or applying the history of Charles the Tenth and Polignac. The politics of Switzerland remain nearly unaltered. Nothing further has been done in the Neufchatel dispute, except that the Diet has modified the form of its demand so as to make it simply one for money ; and the King of Prussia is said to have admitted that the necessity for mediation has died away.
Naples is once more the theatre of disturbance, so general in ita character that in the first reports it was called a rebellion.
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