It is asserted, on fair authority, that the Emperor Napoleon
has resolved to meet his Legislature with a new Ministry, in which M. Emile 011ivier will be Premier. He would take the portfolio of the Interior and bring in with him M. Buffet,—a man of whom Englishmen know little, but who enjoys to a remarkable degree the confidence of the dynastic Liberals—and three other followers. M. Forcade de la Roquette would remain in the Cabinet, but retire to his old position as Minister of Public Works. M. 011ivier, it is affirmed, will introduce a new Electoral Law, a new Municipal Law, and a new Budget, and then,dissolve, in order that a Cham- ber may be elected without the intervention of authority. That is a fair programme, but it must not be forgotten that M. 011ivier is deeply distrusted by the Liberals, who, in a free Parliament, may come to the top.
