Louis PHILIP has made his favourite and Aide-de-Camp,General BERNARD, Minister
of War. The General is known as the author
of the plan for surrounding Paris with detached forts. He is on that account very unpopular, and nearly all the Paris papers con- cur in denouncing his appointment to the War Department. It
certainly does appear, that a Ministry more distasteful to the Li- berals than that of Count MOLE, could not have been constructed. It remains to be seen whether the privileged order which elects the Deputies is better satisfied with it. If such be the case, and the King continue to give it his support, it will stand as long as the King himself, in defiance of the Liberals and Republicans. But there is danger to the Orleans dynasty from a quarter in which the main reliance of despotic Sovereigns must always be placed. We allude to the army. It is said that the sub-officers are disaffected, almost universally. It is certain that many of them have been recently arrested, and several at the camp of Compiegne, which the King was expected to visit about this time. A correspondent of one of the Morning Papers says, in reference to the tampering of the Republican party with the sergeants and corporals of the French army- " The sections of the Society of the Rights of Man have been notoriously zealous and active in practising upon the soldiers and sub-officers, ever since the result of the insurrection of the 5th and 6th of June 1832, proved to them that the concurrence of the army was necessary in effecting another revolution. A new or modern edition of the same society is the Association de la Famille. These also work upon the army, and with an effect well known to, and very properly dreaded by, the Government. You saw, for example, in the prods monslre, eight sergeants of Cuirassiers (of different regiments, recollect) in- culpated in the conspiracy of April 18:34, under the category of Luneville : and since then, you have seen dozens of the same class degraded and sent to serve in condemned regiments (or compagnics de discipline) in Africa, for treason or sedition. More recently, you have seen the sub.officers of the Fourteenth Re- giment of the Line subscribe en masse for -the Detenus d'Avril (the prisoners of April 1834); and later still, you have seen a banquet given by the sub-of- ficers of a regiment of the Line to the sub-officers of the Fifteenth Light Ia. fantry, in honour of their late comrade Alibaud ! (who had served in that—the Fifteenth Ilegiment of Light Infantry). In conclusion, I saw at the funeral of the late M. Carrel (editor of Le National) a few weeks since, two sub- officers, said to have been a deputation from a certain regiment of the Line in garrison at Paris." The King is known to be perfectly aware of the extent of the disaffection in the army, and to be resolved on rooting it out. He much desired the aid of SOULT ill executing the measures he meditates.
M. LATOUR MAIMOURG is to go to Madrid as French Ambas- sador; not General GUILLEMINOT, who was named for that em- bassy last week. An article in the Revue des Deux Monde:, written by M. Louis \TIARDOT, on the conduct of Louis PHILIP towards Spain in 1330, has excited a good deal of attention is Paris. M. VIARDOT asserted that the King sent General LA- FAYETTE, by the hand of Count Moss, 100,000 francs for the Spa- nish refugees to aid theta in their attempt to overthrow the Go. vernment of FERDINAND the Seventh. The Journal des Debalt unwisely contradicted this statement, which was intended to bring the present conduct of Loutsj PHILIP into discreditable contrast with his proceedings in 1830. But VIARDOT returns to the charge, and strengthens his case against the King. He asserts that the latter sent the money to LAFAYETTE, though possibly not by Count MOLE ; and adds- " The Journal des Debuts concludes by saying that 'the French Govern- ment neither provoked nor favoured this enterprise in any manner.' May I ask, in reply, was it favouring the cause of the Spanish exiles, to send orders to the frontiers and to Calais to admit them into France without passports, to let them pass through Paris, and form armies at Bayonne and Perpignan? Was it favouring this enterprise, to order the Prefect of Police to grant collec- tive passports to many hundreds of individuals recommended by the Society Aide.toi, who traversed the departments in companies, and received military rations? Is it favouring this enterprise, to have added 100,000 francs to the subscriptions of the Committee ? I gave these facts to justify, and at the same time warn, the Spanish Constitutionalists. I had no other intention. But now, those who once gloried in the part they had taken, deny it as a calumny. In that case, I have calumniated the King's Government. Let me be ac- cused. With written documents in my hands, and with living witnesses to prove the facts, the revelations on this sulject may be completed."
Suppose all this to be perfectly true, we think that the Parisians are making a great fuss about a matter of very little moment. Everybody now knows that LOUIS PHILIP was acting a part in 1830, which it suited his purposes soon to lay aside.
There have been some disturbances among the workmen of Nantes; which, however, were soon quelled.
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