Marshal SOULT has been compelled to give way to a
committee of the Chamber of Deputies on the subject of his military budget. He is to have 310,000, instead of 370,000 men. By this reduction, a saving of a million and a half sterling will be made. Some members wished for a further reduction to 1184,1100 men; but SOULT declared that if this was insisted upon, the Ministers would all resign. A discussion has taken place in the Chamber on the subject ofallowing the fugitive Poles to remain in France. The subject was got rid of by the Minister, who moved the order of the day ; but it was understood that no opposition would be given to their continued residence in that country. Pensions have been awarded to the widows of Generals JOURDAN and Dec .1EN, but refused to those of DAUMESNIL and GERARD, because it is al- leged the latter officers had not rendered distinguished military services to their country.
It appears from an article bearing an official stamp, in the Journal des Debuts, that the French Ministry are not disposed at present to relax their prohibitory system of foreign commerce. On the contrary, an elaborate defence of the existing policy is set up. No very sanguine expectations have ever, we believe, been entertained that much would be done this session. But it was not supposed that Ministers would deem it necessary to defend a policy which M. THIERS at least is known to disapprove of. It is, per- haps, only a part of the small trickery common to practitioners of the " Juste Milieu" ill every country. M. RAYNEVAL will, it is said, be recalled from Madrid; to ba replaced by the Due DE CAZES; though RAYNEVAL, to save ap- pearances, will be allowed to remain for a few weeks longer. The members of the Cabinet, not in the secret of Louis Pitt LIP'S fo- reign policy, consider themselves ill treated as respects Spanish affairs. Time Paris correspondent of the Times says- " Thiers is very warm on the Spanish business, and seems to think the Cabinet ill-treated, and kept a stranger to the true march of foreign policy. This iS the old accusation against Louis Philip, and I believe a very tine one. But it is at the same time probable, that but for this supereherie, this active interference and management of that very clever personage the King—the ,oily wan who has suite, svstem, and continuance in his ideas—the foreign polities of France would have led, long since, into a slough. " How the scene has changed within a month In the first days of the dis- cussion of the Address, the Minister not only seemed, but were stronger than ever. In the latter part of that discussion, they undid all their goial work. The recantation of M. de 13roglie, forced upon hint either Iv his colleagues or the King, in order to content Foreign Powers, was very ill-received IT the Chamber ; and M. de Broglie's decline dates frinn this moment."
We are glad to find that the Ministry have gained nothing by their late paltry display in the Chambers. They made themselves essentially contemptible in the eyes of all Europe ' • and their in- fluence cannot long survive. Louis PHILIP must look out for a fresh set of tools.
