As yet there is no clear sign of the Marshal's
future policy. He retains his Cabinet, and has given a sort of semi-official hint that he means to retain it till after the second ballots on the 28th October and the elections for the Councils-General on the 4th November. On the 7th November the Senate will meet, and it is conjectured that that will be the fittest occasion for an act of concession, if the Marshal is not too obstinate to concede. In all probability, the Senate will give some clear indication that, having authorised the appeal to the country, it expects the Marshal to abide by the result of the appeal ; and as he has always left himself this loop-hole,—that he will not act without the Senate,—such an intimation would be the fitting moment for him either to submit, and take a Republican Cabinet, or to resign. The correspondent of yesterday's Standard states that already it has been decided for the Ministry to give in their resignations on the ,5th of November, and this may very likely be a true report.
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