NEWS OF THE WEEK.
IMMEDIATELY on the passing of the Constitutional Laws, the President of the French Republic requested M. Buffet, Presi- dent of the Assembly, to form a Ministry. Some delay was caused by the appearance of an ill-advised Note in the Journal (*del, stating that Marshal MacMahon would be as conservative as ever —a note probably emanating from the Ministry of the Interior,— but this was got over, and M. Buffet accepted his task. Up to Friday afternoon he had not, however, performed it. The rumours as to the hitch are endless, but those best-founded point to a determination of the President to include the Right Centre in the Cabinet. To this M. Buffet objects, he wishing to select all Ministers from among the majority which voted the Constitutional laws. The President, it is stated, has given way, and if so, the Ministry will probably consist of M. Buffet, President in Council ; General de Cissey, Minister for War ; the Duc Decazes, Minister for Foreign Affairs ; M. L6on Say, Minister of Finance ; M. Grivart, Renault, or Dufaure, Minister of the Interior ; M. Andral, Minister of Justice ; with smaller men for the remaining posts. Nothing, however, can be pronounced settled, the Left is excluded too completely by this arrangement, and at the last moment, every name but the Premier's may be changed. Nothing is certain, except that M. Buffet, of whom we give a sketch elsewhere, will do his utmost to form a Cabinet which the majority can suppork---
