Paris has been in a state of great tension and
uneasiness during the past week owing to the immense difficulties en- countered in the formation of a Ministry. After, however, many failures, an outbreak of furious personalities, and an immense deal of coming and going—including the return for a day of M. Bourgeois from the Hague—a Ministry has been formed by M. Waldeck-Rousseau,—and a very remarkable Ministry it is. M. Waldeck-Roussean, who is an avocat with a great practice, becomes Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, with the Socialist, M. Millerand, as his Minister of Commerce, and with General de Gallifet as his Minister of War. General de Gallifet is the great soldier who put down the Commune, and who, though he re- mained always a Monarchist and an aristocrat in feeling and associations, rallied twenty years ago to Gambetta and the Republic. The other Ministers of chief importance are
M. Delcasse, wbo stays at the Foreign Office ; M. de Lanessan, who goes to the Marine ; and M. Decrais, who takes the Colonies.
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