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THE SUN.
LONDON, THURSDAY, OCT. 16, 1862.

Whatever truth there may or may not be in
regard to the exact character of the
Ministerial crisis now agitating Paris—there
cannot remain an instant's doubt in any
mind as to the course several of the
EMPEROR'S Ministers had to pursue if they
retained any regard at all for their own con-
sistency. Admit that the Roman problem is not
yet to be solved, that the French army is not
yet to be embarked at Civita Vecchia for its return
homewards, that Northern and Southern Italy are
not yet to be brought together—and there were
members of the present Cabinet in Paris who could
not but at once tender to the EMPEROR
their resignations ! There is the Financial Minis-
ter, M. ACHILLES FOULD, for example. There is
M. DE PERSIONY, the Minister of the Interior.

There is M. THOUTENEL, the Minister for
Foreign Affairs. There is M. ROULTER, and
there is M. BAROCUE. Which one among these
administrators could with anything like consis-

tency, or for that matter with the maintenance o
any shadowy sense of self-respect, continue to hold
his portfolio meekly with all the old policy to which
they were all respectively more or less decidedly
pledged, either set aside altogether, or at any rate
postponed indefinitely to some epoch as remote from
the view of the present as the Greek Kalends
or the Millennium ? It is significant in an
extraordinary degree that the first minis-
terial resignation about which we were first the
most confidently assured, about the reality of
which there could scarcely remain a moment's
doubt, was the resignation of the Foreign Minister
—namely, that of M. DE TIIOUVENEL. And not only
has M. Dr. THOUNENEL'S resignation, it would
appear, been at once accepted, but it is understood
that his successor has already been appointed. The
new Minister for Foreign Affairs being M.
_
otYN DE L'HuTs. The change in that depart-
ment is more like in reverting to the old state
of DROUYN DE L'HuYs having before
held, for several years, the Foreign portfolio in
the Emperor's
Cabinet. It is not, however, by
arly means the resignation of a solitary Minister
that has just occurred, or is just now
occurring, in Paris. _
Voeether with M. DE THOU-
vENEL, there go out
IiAItOCHE, ROUIIER,
PERSIGNY, and (the most
important perhaps of all)
M. AertiLLE FOULD. Ho
confidence will be
maintained 91 the Bourse we shall not
have
wait in order to recognize. The political
long to
barometer
of the Funds will show the result forthwith
in no
unmistakeable characters. As to the Italian q'
tion itself—not the Roman question merely but the-
whole Italian question in its complete
integrity—
that
may be left With implicit confidence to the pa.
t
triotisna of a great people newly awakened from
-the silence and subjection of centuries, un-
der the guardianship of Divine Providence,
The question that now forces itself more distinctly
and imminently upon our consideration—coming
nearer home to us, affecting, directly and profoundly,
the political situation throughout Christendom
—is the question as to the manner in which the
Ministerial transformation now being witnessed in
Paris will influence the loyalty of the French people
in regard to the Imperial Government. The EM-
PEROR is at last playing a bold and open game,
upon which the whole fortunes of his dynasty will
do staked. Whether he is doing this at the in-