Minister of the Interior. Minister of Justice. Minister of Finance.
M. DE LA LOZERE Minister of Public Instruction. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is to be held, for the present at least, by TRIERS. Thus, DE EROGLIE,GUIZOT,DUCHATEL, PERSIL, and HUMANN, have been turned out of office by the votes of a Chamber which six weeks ago appeared to be as subservient to them as any Rotten Borough Parliament ever was to Purr or CASTLEREAGH. THIERS was very independent in his tone when addressing the Chamber of Deputies after the formation of his Ministry. He professed his deter- mination to persevere in the system of the Juste Milieu, and declared that he was ready to resign on the first hostile vote of the Cham- ber. He made no allusion whatever to the Five per Cent. question. There is considerable doubt as to the stability of the new Ad- ministration. The state of parties is rather complicated. If the friends of the dismissed Doctrinaires join with the men of the Eitreme Left and the Carlists, TRIERS would find himself in a Minority; but he reckons upon the votes occasionally of all three parties, and hopes never to find them united against him. There seems to be very general satisfaction out of the Chamber at the downfal of the Doctrinaires, especially of PERSIL. It is singular that, although TRIERS was implicated in all the violent proceed- ings of the late Ministry, he alone should have escaped unpopu- larity.
The French Ministry has been reconstructed, after the usual in- terval of' uncertainty and intrigue. TRIERS has shaken off the Doctrinaires; and the ci-devant editor of the National is now Prime Minister of France. The other appointments are as fol- lows—
M. MONTALIVET M. SAUZET M. PASSY
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