The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-04 00:00:00

And in another article the same Journal says—

Certainly, if the aim of authority was to place its im-
prudence under the protection of ridicule, it completely
succeeded. It would be difficult to give an account of the
stupefaction, mingled with pity and laughter, with which
the entire capital, without distinction of opinion, greeted
its new —. What shall we call this unaccountable
work ? Shall we call it a Cabinet ? The Moniteur pre-
vents us, for it says, in announcing this collection of seven
surnames, "the negotiations commenced for the formation
of a Ministry have not as yet obtained any result." We
have no Ministry, and all the porteleuilles are occupied.
(From the National.)
So at last we have a Ministry, or at least something
which do as•well in the ridiculous ceremony of the opening
the session. We wonder that the mountain has taken a
month to bring forth such a miserable mouse abortion as
this. What a glorious thing is representative Monarchy
—how much better is it than an absolute Government !
With a stroke of the enchanter's wand we Lave Montebello
in Richelieu's place—Gasparin to defend the electoral ma-
noeuvres, which Mirabeau, with his transcendent powers,
failed to justify. At all events, it is something new all
this. These phantoms of Ministers, these men of straw,
are the worthy representatives of the Court faction; but
they can't last long, thank God—their hats arc placed on
the Ministerial benches only to show that the places am
are kept in order that no one may presume to seat himself
there. M. Montebello has obtained an enviable notoriety
by his expulsion of Louis Bonaparte and the Conseil af-
fair. In this respect he has rather the advantage over his
colleagues, who have, in spite of their efforts, been unable
to emerge from their pristine state, which was some dis-
tance below mediocrity. Let us not be told that this pic-
ture is overdrawn—we defy even the warmest advocates
(if, indeed, there be such) of the present Ministry to show
one redeeming point in the present set of effigies.
(From the Constitutionnel.)
It is as we suspected—the Mole Ministry virtually open
them a on by ommision.

Lot us, ho.Wever, examine the spirit cf the Administra-
tion, and not its component parts, for they are beneath
no.ice. This denoument of the crisis has produced a de-
plorable effect throughout Paris, the Departments, and the
Chamber. The statu quo system is to be adopted, end
the Cl:amber ought to remember that the responsibility
of the new Cabinet rests with the Isth of April. Let us
adhere to the Charter—let not the King meddle with the
attributes of the Chamber, and the Chamber will nut in-
terfere with him. It was not enough for the Ministerial
crisis to separate men into different parties, but the Cham-
ber is thrown into such a state of anarchy and confusion as
will put a stop to its assembling for any legislative purpose.
(From the Temps.)
It is the affsir Conseil, it is the police of the Chateau,
hick triumphs in this Cabinet. Its first acts complete
that series of ordinances which latterly has pillaged the
public Administration to make room for fallen Ministers,
or for their agents who are most compromised. In conse-
quence of the deplorable powers which have been given to
the Crown for a year past, public opinion has been
slighted, and to chide it recourse has been had to a system
of passive resistance, which it flatters itself is without dan-
ger. By going resolutely to the Chamber with a provi-
sional Ministry, it is hoped to induce the Deputies to aban-
don their prerogative. The King is deprived of his power,
and forced to remit to the Deputies his incontcstible right
to choose his Ministry. We are about to see a Cabinet
come out of the scrutiny. The Chamber will be a Con-
vention. The future Ministry will be a Government Com-
mittee. Royalty exists to more but in name in France.
The Royal power created by the Charter is abolished by
this event.

(From the Courrier Francais.)
Seven Ministers have been found who have willingly
countersigned the interim, what the Moniteur calls a Mi-
nistry of transition. They will continue the Ibth of April
system, of which the Court will only disembarrass itself at
the eleventh hour. We agree with the Journal des De-
bats, it is a great proof of devotion. Let us only remark,
to diminish its merit, that there are people who would not
think any price too dear to have the honour or pleasure of
being Ministers, if only for a moment. Whoever would
have thought of M. Tupinier, or M. Parent, and of
M. Girod (de l'Ain), except as an an interim, As to
General Cubieres, who is neither Peer nor Deputy, he
is at least known by his administration at Ancona. Coupled
with the insignificant names of the new Ministry, we meet
with one which is, however, but too significant; we speak
of M. de Montebello, whose unskilful and violent diplo-
macy has-twice all but embroiled us with Switzerland.
M. de Montebello has neither the consistency nor the ex-
perience of M. Mole ; he is altogether blindly devoted to
the Court policy, so devoted that he encourages espionage,
and is implicated in the affair of Conseil. Perhaps he
will furnish the Chamber with some occasion to exact from
him an enlightenment on that ignoble affair, which has no
yet been thoroughly sifted. In the meantime royalty wil
be undefended, and the throne will sink in the esteem of
the country. In the midst of these awful dangers let us
fervently hope that tragedy may not succeed the farce.
(From the Quotidienne )
It has been said that, in consequence of the Court not
having been able to form a Cabinet, the Session would be
opened by Commission. This proj,ct, which had been
received by the public with incredulity and contempt, has
been realised, for we must be permitted not to consider as
a Ministry the men named in the Moniteur. They are
there to open the Session, not for any other purpose, and
they will retire as soon as the Chamber has made known
its sovereign pleasure. The only difference which exists
between the original project and the present Act is that
instead of five Commissioners there are seven ; instead of
Marshal Soult, the Duke de Broglie, MM. Hmann and
Duchatel, the Honiteur has published the names of M.
Gasparin, the instrument of M. ec Montalivet in the affair
of the spy Conseil ; of M. de Montebello, who has so skit..
fully seconded the clever policy of M. Mole in the
Swiss question; of NI. Cubieres, the right arm of General
Bernard ; of M. Tupinier, director of the posts under M.
Rosamel ; of M. Pareat, the alter ego of M. Bantle ; of
M. Gauthier, sub-governor of the Bank ; and, finally, of
M. Girod (de l'Air), whom every Ministry has found do-
cile and complaisant since Casimir Perier. In every-
thing which passes, there is such a forgetfulness of political
usages—such a contempt for the constitutional obligations
of the representative Government—that we are induced to
ask, what are likely to be the results of such blunders, and
what fatal risks the party of aide-de-camps has decided
upon incurring ? Men who trace effects to their causes
must at last understand that it is the revolution itself which
contains the germ of its own dissolution, which we now
see approaching with such frightful rapidity.
(From the Journal des Debuts.)
Was it possible to make a solid and durable Ministry,
in which great talents and noble names should figure ? It
was possible, and the King wished it; but all his attempts
to concoct this Cabinet have been frustrated.
What was then to be done ? There remained one re-
source, an ad interim Ministry, which should be self.evi-
dent was intended only to be ephemeral, a Ministry which
should neither decide upon nor compromise anything, but
should only keep the places for its legitimste successors.
Such is the Ministry which has been formed,
The crisis is not, therefore, yet finished, but it has been
shorn of its dangers and evils, and the Chambers will
lend their influence to its final extermination.
Such are the opinions of the Paris Press respect-
ing the new Ministry. In a day or two we shall
be in a condition to Inform our readers the convic-
tions of the Chambers upon the subject. The little
news there is in the French Journals of Tuesday
will be found in the subjoined extracts:--
The preparations fur the Royal sitting of Thursday,
which is to take place on the 4th instant (this day) in the
hall of the Chamber of Deputies, have been for some days
entirely terminated.
The Deputies are to hold a preparatory meeting on Wed-
nesday, for the purpose of installing their temporary board,
and receiving tickets of admission to the ceremony of
Thursday.
On Friday the Chamber will commence its labours under
the presidency of the senior member. It will afterwards re.
tire into its Standing Committees to appoint their respective
Chairman and Secretaries. After their organisation those
Committees will proceed with the verification of the powers
of the deputies, and name, agreeably to the new form in-
troduced into the regulations of the house, under-commit.
tees to inquire into the merits of contested elections.
The reports of the committees are to be read at the
public sittings of Saturday and of the following days.
Those indispensable operations will be followed by ballots
for the choice of a President, four Vice-Presidents, four
Secretaries, and two Questors. The members will sub
sequently meet in their respective standing committees to
elect the Commissioners of the Address.
The Chamber of Peers, in conformity with its usage,
will name, on the first day, the committee charged with
drawing up the address.—Journal des Debals.
The King's intended journey to Fontainblcau had been
postponed until the latter end of April. King Leopold is
also to repair thither to concert with Louis Philippe res-
pecting the mode of delivering up Limburg and Luxem-
burg to Holland. The King of the French, however, does
not expect to be able to leave his capital before the com-
mencement of May.—Courrier Francais.
The Pilote of Caen states that a number of soldiers
who had just returned to their families on indefinite fur.

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loughs had been suddenly ordered to join their regiments,
which arp in garrison at Paris or in its immediate neigh.
bourhood.

The Siecle affirms that there are at present two batteries
of artillery, and three siege pieces, with their caissons,
placed under a large shed, in a court of the military school,
on the side of Grenelle. The same journal adds, that
two new regiments of infantry, and two of cavalry, are to
arrive in Paris for the opening of the session.
The Echo du Peuple of Poitiers states that two aqua.
drons of the regiment of Lancers garrisoned in that town
had been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to march
upon Paris. The horses had been bridled and saddled, in
the anticipation of an immediate order of departure, and
the Colonel had proceeded to Tours to receive his instruc-
tions.

Admiral Duperre, President of the Subscription Com-
mittee for the sufferers of Martinique, has addressed a let-
ter to the Tribunals of Commerce in several large towns,
soliciting the aid of the mercantile classes in favour of the