The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-08 00:00:00

THE NEW MINISTRY.

TILE only addition to the members of the new
Cabinet, whose names were announced yesterday,
is that of Mr. AUSTIN Barrel, who has been
appointed to the Home-office. The appointment
of Mr. Justice O'lLiosre to the Lord Chancellor-
ship in Ireland is reaffirmed. Mr. CoLEiunoz,
who, in the first instance, declined the
office of Solicitor-General from purely per-
sonal motives, has been induced to forego
his objections, and will appear in Mr.
GLADwroza's ministry as one of the law officers
of the crown. Rumour assigns the office of Post-
master-General, or Los d-Lieutenant of Ireland, to
the Marquis of fIARTINOTON ; that of President of
the Council to Earl Ds Guy and RIPON ; and
of Privy Seal to Lord KIMBERLEY. No less than
half a dozen peers are spoken of for the Lord
Lieutenancy of Inland. Mr. Vitalist,. Mr.
Gomm', Mr. FORSTER. Mr. STANSFELD, Mr.
COWPER, Mr. LATARD, and Mr. Iry _.....ATCIIBULL-
HucEssEN arc, of course, mentioned in connexion
with various offices. Lord MosTYN, Mr. ATRTON,
Mr. °TWAT, Mr. W. H. GLADSTONE, Mr. nit-
cor.v are also spoken of as probable recipients of
office. The principal offices to be filled up com-
prise those of Vice-President of the Educa-
tion Committee, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan-
caster, First Commissioner of Works, Vice-Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade, Financial Secretary
of the Treasury, Secretary of the Admiralty,
Under Secretaries for Home, Colonial, Indian, and
Foreign Affairs ; the Lords of the Admiralty,
Lords of the Treasury, &c. Her MAJESTY will
bold a Privy Council at Windsor to-morrow,
when the late Ministers will deliver up their seals
of office, which will then be banded over to their
bUeeOSSOTS.

THE RE('ENT PANIC'.

TuE absurd panic which seized the money
market on Saturday afternoon may have been, like
so many other panics of the same sort, nothing
more than an unscrupulous operation for the fall,
by some person or persons unknown. But it
must be confessed that the French Government
had done its best to justify by anticipation the
malignant credulity of those too eager speculators
who are always ready to believe in the probability
of a catastrophe. On Thursday last Paris sud-
denly awoke to find itself in a state of siege. One
of the principal cemeteries in the suburbs was
closed by authority early in the forenoon, and
undertakers waiting to perform their dismal rites had
to be accommodated " provisionally " elsewhere.
Several brigades of urgent* de rifle encamped and
bivouacked amidst the tombs in the forbidden
enclosure, violating at once the liberties of the
living and the repose and sanctity of the dead.
All the approaches to the cemetery were lined
with troops. Cavalry and infantry occupied the
principal thoroughfares. Twelve batteries of ar-
tillery were held in readiness at Vincennes. Three
ambulances were prepared for the reception of the
wounded. In short, every preparation was made
for a terrible fight. But as there must be two
parties to a fight, and here was only one, Paris
was happily spared a revival of the scenes of seven-
teen years ago. The sergents de vile, for want
of anything better to do, laid their hands
upon a few impudent street boys and a few iimo-
cent passers by, including, it is said, some English
visitors to •• the capital of civilisation." A
police magistrate has been highly complimented
for sitting up all the next night hearing caeca and
discharging prisoners. On Friday the troops were
again consigned to barracks, in heavy marching
order, with a double ration of wine and biscuits to
cheer them for the coming battle. Thanks to the
prudence of the independent journals, which bad
warned their readers against falling victims
through an idle curiosity to these odious measures
of provocation, no greater harm was done by all
this display of armed force. and all this apparatus
of civil war, than to show Europe of what ma-
terials the vaunted strength and stability of the
Imperial Government is really composed, and con-
sequently, of course, to make neighbouring go-
vernments and nations more than ever anxious to
enter into close and intimate relations of alliance
with a dynasty so remarkably identified in senti-
ment and in interests with the great nation which
it rules in this striling and agreeable manner.