The National Register.
London, England, 1819-01-03 00:00:00

cessful. The promulgation At the names of the new
Ministry, together with the p t of a speedy sale
by the Treasury of the Itoya=eats, and the conse-
quent absorption of 10 or 1.'2 millions of rentes, is said
to have had the effect of raising the French Stocks to
67 on Wednesday last, and they were weetad to
advance still higher. asor
Thu following are all the particulars Which we are
at present able to give respecting the four new
,hers of the French Ministry:—

M. Dessolles, Peer of Prance, was, in 1814, cam-
mander of the National Guard of Parikr.when he eon-
ducted himself so as to acquire the perfect confidence
of the King, and was raised to the peerage in June of
the same year : he is a Lieutenant-General of the
armies of France, a knight of St. Louis, and Grand
Cross of the Legion of Honour, and was, previous to
his present exaltation, a member of the Privy Council,
and a Minister of State.

M. de Serre was President of the Chamber of De.
puties during the last, Session, and was within four
votes of obtaining the alma dignity this year: he is a
Knight of St. Louis, and of the Legion of anions, and
was, before his new appointment, one of the Council
of State, and a member of the Committee of Legis.
lation.

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was Minister of Finance in 1814, being
one of the Administration of which•M. Telleyrand was
at the head : he is a Grand Cross of the Legion of
Honour, and a member of the Chamber of Deputies;
be was also a member of the Privy Council, and a
Minister of State.

M. Portal is an Oliker of the I.er;im of iiontrdr,
anal a Member of the Chamber of Deputies ; he has
also been one of the Council of State since May 1814,
and has beim for two ytatrs past, intrusted with the
direction of the Colonial Brunch in the Department of
the Minister of Marine, over the ;:hole of which he Is
now appointed to preside.

One of the last :els of M. Leine, late Minister of
the Interior, was to present to the King a report on ,
the internal condition of France with report to its gee
ruins institutions for Ow regulation of the ism, and fin-
the punishment of climin.ds. The most important
feature in it is, that he nteonizes the principle now so
generally approved in this count:). of the absolute ne-
cessity of climification in prisons. Ile stater the in.
erease of crimes brought to trial in the years 1816 and
1817, to be (1,8.17 in the first, and 9,183 in the List
year ; an increase considerabl:; less than appeared in the
official statement to have occurred in Englund, among
a smaller population, during the same period ; fitr the
difference here was as 13,934 to 9,091 ; but, per7iaps,
the machinery necessary for the aceniate production t."
the proper returns does not work so well in Fra:-.,t
in this country, where it has been longer in use.
The )10:e of Glocestcr arrived at Paris, on S.inc:ay
last, and alighted at the Hotel do (Empire, rue d'Ar.
toil, No. 13, with his suite, composed of Cul. Cotton, .
the Hon. Major Curz.m, and Nlajor Sir— Murray,
with four valets de chambre.—lt is stated, that Prince
Leopold of Saxe Coburg intends to stay with Ws titiniiy
at Coburgh. till Mareh next, when his Royal ilighucss
proposes to rsitirn to England.
It is to be noticed, that although there will be four
eclipses this pair, neith:r of them is visible to us ; they •
will no doubt excite much astouishm.at owl fear in the
rousts of New Zealmul, New holland, Guinea, Cali.
furnia, and Japan, and especially in Mathyasear, u,, the
3.1 October, where the moon will rise eclipsed, and
the Sandwich Iltntls it will set eclip.ed ; it will have
the some appearatwe in Persia, the Caspian Svc,
we:it of Poland. IVhatever appearances the wawa evcr
assumes, they are always interesting to the Ii lowers of
Alalioawt.

The .Imerican l'operg inihrtus us of an important
raet with rvApect to the Northern 'kit':!try line ne-
t when i'itaistia and the United States Ti:, for: b.ai:t
on Rouse s roint by the Anterivans since the peace, h s
been tit:L.:mined by the C,neutiaac.n h. on c
Mite of the line. 'rids is inticod an imporal.t
pk;ve of inteligence ; as the posacuoiun of Fort Itimse
Maass in our bands the key of etnutuitnis,.ion het we: n
Cannot', and the United sates oil the teicerst of I..tke
(luny ; and in eas,. war, seem es ,o us al.
terr,.140., c, uw.x low that Lie.
'hie new iron britlp intruded to be thrown liver L!:4
N1t.....0-sulo,t, in Notes, watt hte t,OOO trot to length,
b..tween two r.,ck:, A the 1.:1.W
SI• •4, •••••• • ;IL, •ts fa. 4; 44. Li.t. al4.i•