Rumours and speculations respecting changes in the French Ministry occupy
much space in the journals of Paris. It is said that Louis PHILIP sent for GUIZOT, and desired his advice and assistance ; but that the experienced Doctrinaire declined to offer any opinion on the present state of affairs. TRIERS also, it is supposed, has refused overtures from the Court. There seems to be, for the time, a sort of understanding among public men ofeminence in France, to refrain from taking office as long as the King adheres to the policy of interfering personally in the administration, and using his Ministers only as puppets. In the mean while, they are not slow to subject the Ministry to humiliating defeats. The railroad proposition of the Government was rejected by 196 to 69. The anger and mortification of the Ministers were not concealed. The wicked Churivari publishes a squib in the shape of a de- spatch from ABD-EL KADER'S agent in Paris, in which the African is made to assure his master that be has been all over Paris in search of the French Government, but has not yet found it. Considerable augmentations to the garrisons on the French Northern frontier have recently been made, and large bodies of troops moved in that direction. The object of these demonstra- tions is not precisely known. The correspondent of the Times says, mysteriously, that the " danger had passed away."
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