NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Tsg French Cabinet was completely broken up on Tuesday even- ing, by the simultaneous resignations of THIERS, GUIZOT, &MANN, Da RIGBY, and DUCHATEL. These Ministers surprised the King by going to him in a body to resign, within a few hours after they had transacted business with him in the usual way, and without hinting at their intentions to retire, if indeed they had any and the resolution was not a very sudden one. The only Ministers who remained in office were PERSIL and JACOB; but it is supposed that PERSIL, who was not at home when his late colleagues called upon him on their way to the Tuileries, would resign in the course of the following day ; and that JACOB merely holds office as a matter of form, as one Minister is required to countersign the appointment of the new ones. The pressing cause of this Ministerial fracture was the inability of the Doctrinaires to procure a President of the Council, who would answer their purpose—whose character would stamp the Cabinet with something like respectability, and who would yet consent to be led by his colleagues, and wink at their political ter- giversation, and stockjobbing practices. The difficulties they had to encounter were forcibly described in the Letter of 0. P. Q. which we were prevented by press of matter from inserting last week. In that letter—written, be it observed, on the 29th of last month—our sagacious correspondent, who seems to have had a clear foresight of what was about to happen, says in reference to the comments of th! Journal des D6bats on the Ministerial diffi- culties— " The Journal des Debats is in an agony at these refusals, doubts, and de- lays. It says that they diminish the strength of the Government, and take env from the respect which is due to it. But the Debats is not ignorant of the fact, that it is next to impossible to find an honest man, or a decent-charac- teed man, or one who is not spit upon by public opinion, to join this charac- taless and principleless Administration. Such men as the Duke DECAZES, whose bus of exchange sell openly in the market at seven and ten shillings in the pound, nay be ready at all times to accept whatever may turn up, and feel grateful for the smallest donations :' but men who can show their faces abroad its mid-day, ud who are at least honest citizens if not anti statesmen, are afraid of being edged by the company they may keep, and are therefore afraid of joining a buns and Gurzwz Administration.
" You perceive, then, that the pool. Doctrinaires are in a state of great em- barrassment, and know not which way to turn for help and succour. The list ot. public men in France who will consent to thin their own characters and com- nut suicide on their own reputations is very nearly gone through; and when there shall be no more Ministers capable of securing a majority in both Chambers, then, not only the men, but the principles of the Government, must be changed. And, as good" luck will have it, these embarrassments of the Doctrinaires have come upon them at a moment when they are already sufficiently teased and tormented by the march of affairs."
The actual state of the case seems to be fairly described in these passages : the Doctrinaires have been "turned adrift without a character." The question now is, by whom will they be replaced ? It is to be feared that Louis Pump's partiality for some of his stockjobbing managers of the telegraph will render him desirous of patching up his new Cabinet with some of the old materials ; and that TRIERS, will ba warmly patronized by him. But at all events, the character of the Cabinet must be improved; Mid if, as seems likely, the Tiers Parti should succeed to the Doctrinaires, we may be tolerably sure that men of common honesty will administer the affairs of France. The King, it is said, has commissioned Count MOLE to form the new Ministry ; hut of his arrangements, actual or even probable, no intelligence to he depended upon has been received up to the present time.
The .Times correspondent says that these Ministerial changes are viewed with apathy by the great- body of the French people, and even by the Parisians. He utterly denies, however, that this is to be taken as proof of their satisfaction with the manner in which the Government has been for some time administered. " That a great part of the people of France (he observes) are ready enough to Stand by the present Government, no one who has been attentive to what has k'etl passing for the last three years can deny. But that only shows that the People of France are tired of convulsions, and wish for rest. It is no proof of lay Particular affection they bear either to the reigning family, or to the policy. gr .dually assumed by the Government under the inspirations of its real chief, anal of which policy the Doctrinaire organ of the Cabinet (the Journal.des Debate') seems so anxious to give the whole credit to its immediate patrons." .
The Earl of DURHAM'S speeches at Glasgow, more especially the on in which he dwelt on the commercial relations between France and England, have excited unusual attention in Paris, and indeed at Brussels, and other cities on the Continent. The Restric- tionists are angry and alarmed at it ; and on the day before his resignation. THIERS contributed an article to the Journal de-s Debuts, which is characterized by the Times correspondent as -an " ill-advised and foolish, tirade against Lord DURHAM." But 0. P. Q. has taken up this subject ; and we refer our readers to his Letter in another column. It is the first of a.promised series on the most important and interesting question of our foreign policy.
