The French Ministry is now complete ; Baron d'Haussez has
been appointed to the Marine. His qualifications for the office are little known in France, and less in England. The clamour of the French Liberal journals has in some measure subsided. M. de Chateaubriand has returned to Paris, whither he was led by his fears of the dangers that he foresaw must arise out of the recent changes. We do not know if it be to the noble Viscount that we owe a scheme described in the Journal des Debuts as seriously entertained by the late Ministry— to assist the Russians in their present contest against Turkey with all the influence of France, on condition that the Czar should assist France in dismembering the kingdom of Holland, and once more uniting the Netherlands to her dominions. The Journal speaks of this infamous and unprovoked act of wholesale robbery in the most complacent terms imaginable. If any plan so monstrous was really entertained by the late Ministry, the honour and interest of France equally required that they should be chased from the station which, even in thought, they were capable of so shamefully degrading.
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