The French Chambers were prorogued on Saturday. The De- puties
assembled aboutone o'clock, but the MinisterSdelayed their appearance till nearly two. The nature of the ordinance, Which it
had been announced was to be read to the Chamber, is said not to have been even guessed at:by the DepUtiei; a fact which; if true, speaks but little fOr their sagacity. Every thing was done that was required of the 'Chaiiiber,' and they had nothing left but to part. The reports of M. PERIER'S health are very contradictory. The only fact certainly known is, that he is still incapable of attending to his duties,- SEBASTIANI is said to be equally so. Under such circumstances, a change, or at the least a modification of the Ministry, seems inevitable. The Standard of last night gives two fists. At the head of the first is DEC AZES, and of the second GUIZOT. The other offices are thus filled— Minister of Commerce M. D'ARGOUT M. D'ARGOUT.
Minister of Marine- M. DE RIGNY M. DE RIGNY.
MiDider of -Justice M. Duns- - M. DE VATISMENIL. MIRIAM' of Public Instruction.. M. TESTE or SA LVERTE...M. ROPER COLLARD.
Minister'of Foreign Affairs M. Mots. M. DE BROGLIE. Minister of War • M. CrAusEr M. GERARD. Minister of Finance M. Ilumnics M. ST. Carce.
We need not say that these are reported lists merely, and that, after all, M. PER.IER may triumph over boTh the Cholera. and the Mouvement. For &SAM AN1, it is cOnfesSed that no return of strength is to be anticipated.
The Cholera has. sensibly deClined in Paris ; but its ravages, both in the capital and in the provinces, are still fearful. The
report for Paris,- of -Wednesday gives 281. deaths. -The entire number of _persons more or, less severely attacked has heen stated, in some accounts; as highas 50,000. The exact number of deaths-, is not known; it cannot be 'much, if at all, short of 15,000. It is remarkable, among all the sickness, that only three English. resi- dents at Paris are reported. The last persons of rank attacked were General LOBAU and Count D'ARGOUT; they have both re- covered. • " The Constitutionnel of Tuesday had a long. rigmarole article on the subject of the Warlike preparations of Austria.
" Thg roads," says: this portentous announcement, "are covered with mili- tary transports. The Tyrol is crowded with troops, as also are Styria and Carinthia. Sixty or seventy thimisand men are posted between the Isonzo and the Adige, having, as an advanCed guard in the Legations, from fifteen to eighteen
thousand men more. The garrisons of Mantua, Peschiera, &c. are put on the war footing. Twenty thousand men are in Milan. Seventy-five to eighty thousand men are encamped and cautoned between Milan and the Tessin ; and a camp of thirty thousand is funned between Sesto, Calenda, and Bessalora."
Strange as it may appear, not a tittle of all these preparations was known to the French Ambassador at Vienna; nor, we believe, to any one else, until the intelligence issued from the bureau of the journal. Their object is, of course, the restoration of the Bourbons- " The bases are a third restoration, not in favour of Henry the Fifth, but Louis the Nineteenth, with France restricted to the limits of the days of Louis the Thirteenth. Charles the Tenth has renewed officially, with all the Courts,. his abdication in favour of the Duke of Angouleme ; who, in his turn, has re- tracted that which he made in favour of the Duke of Bordeaux. Supposing, however, that the decision may be favourable to Henry the Fifth, the regency is not to be given to the Duchess of Bern, but, by express convention with Holyrood, consigned to M. Blacas, as President ; and Messrs. De llamas, De De Latour Maubourg, De Pastoral, De Monthe], De Peyronnet. The Eniperor of Russia is in favour of Henry the Fifth, and rejects the Duke of Augouleine. Imitating his brother Alexander, he pretends to magnanimity, and demandsonly a reimbursement of his expenses for the expedition he is about to make in favour of legitimacy, and the gratitude of Europe for his last ukase respecting Poland ; which, by the way, has given rise to some serious difficulties at Vienna. England is considered by Prince Metternich as quite out of the European system, but Austria must go slowly with her."
This warlike bulletin seems to have fallen still-born. It created a smile even on the Stock-Exchange.
The Ancona expedition is at length amicably settled, by an ar- rangement between Cardinal BERNETTI and Count ST. AULAIRE. The French forces will evacuate Italy, and simultaneously with them the Austrians will retire. The peaceable termination of this puzzling affair is a very good comment on the warlike announce- ments of the Constitutionnel.
