The Paris papers of yesterday contain no news beyond the
statement by the Journal des .Daats, that M. Corbin refuses to accept the office of Minister of Justice, to which he was appointed while absent from Paris.
By the Humboldt steam ship, from New York on the 18th October, we have news of the solution of a Colonial Cabinet crisis. The Canadian Lafontaine-Baldwin Ministry had, after long increasing signs of decay, resigned ; and the following new Ministry had been formed. President of the Council, Dr. Rolph, of Western Canada ; Inspector-General, Mr. Hincks, who held the same office in the defunct Ministry, and whose differences with the late Premier caused the break-up of the retired Cabinet ; Provincial Secretary, Mr. Morin ; Postmaster-General, Mr. Malcolm Cameron. The Attorney-Generals for Canada West and Canada East are Mr. William Morris and Mr. W. B. Richards ,- but it is said that these officials are not in future to have seats in the Cabinet. It is an- nounced that Mr. Louis Joseph Papineau is resolved to retire from pub- lic life.
Letters from Alexandria say that a Government engineer from Malta is "exhuming the prostrate column known as Cleopatra's Needle." They add, "it does not seem that he is very sanguine of its condition justifying him in recommending the outlay necessary for its removal to England."
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