POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY.
There is no additional intelligence as to the reconstruction of the French Cabinet, though it is said that TRIERS was the first person applied to by Count MOLE: but the following account, extracted from the Constitutionnel, of the circumstances that immediately preceded the resignation of the principal Ministers, will be read with interest.
" Immediately after Marshal Gerard's resignation, which was aim act whereby the Ministry was placed in a far more critical position than when he was in the Cabinet, his ex-colleagues felt the necessity of closing their ranks and making a truce with their long divisions, in order that the breach made in the Cabinet might be repaired. A sort of league was concluded between the five Miuisters who have now resigned ; who, in every combination which was proposed, invariably agreed that Messrs. Jacob and Persil must be sacrificed. Al. Thien proposed Al. Alide ; and even went so far as to say that lie had taken upon himself to snake sonic overtures to that gentleman. M. Guizot flatly declared that he would not sit at the same Council-board with M. Mole. The peremptory refusal of that gentleman arrived at this crisis, and cut the matter short. "M. Guizot, in his turn, proposed M. de Broglie; with whom Al. Thiers de- clined acting, observing, that the rejection by the Chamber of Deputies of the project of law on the twenty-five millions of indemnity to the United States of America rendered his return to the Ministry impracticable. Then it was that Al. niers, in conjunction with Messieurs De Rigny and Duchatel, proposed (on the morning of the 4th instant) Marshal Soult ; but AL Guizot remon- strated energetically against his return to the Presidency of the Council; but seeing that this measure was almost decided upon, he sent in his resignation. "Iii a fresh conference which took place at three in the afternoon, M. Guise complained bitterly of-the petty acts of treachery of M. Tide's, and called to his recollection what he (M. Tillers) had said at the Council-board against Marshal Soult, announcing at the same time that he had sent in his resignation ; which WU immediately followed by that of M. Humours, the Finance Minister. Then AL Thiers, foreseeing the insurmountable obstacles that were opposed to the return of the AIarshal, finished, by sending in his resignation also ; which brought on that of AIM. de Rigny and Duchatel, who were engaged with him in the plan for the re-entry of Marshal South. As to MM. Persil and Jacob, when pressed to explain their intentions, they plainly stated that their colleagues had always treated diem with so little ceremony, that, verily, after having kept aloof from their intrigues, they dial not consider themselves obliged to make common cause with them as to resigning."
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