The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-25 00:00:00

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.

If we are to trust to the information of the Cour-
rier Francais, King LOUIS PHILIPPE is getting
alarmed at the unwonted energy exhibited by M.
GIIIZOT in preparing to at once carry out his
protest against the annexation of Cracow, and that
a Mole Ministry may shortly be expected to be inau-
gurated in office. Count MOLE has hitherto been the
staunch advocate of an intimate alliance with Russia.
Such an alliance we believe would now be scarcely
.tolerated by the people of France, after the contempt
which Russia has shown for French interests and
French feelings in the affair of Cracow.
The following is article from the Courtier Francais
to which we allude
We are, it appears, in a decided Ministerial crisis.
On reading this single line in the Portcfeuille—‘ Count
Mole had yesterday a long conference with the King'—
we sought information, and learnt that the pacific M.
Guizot, in order to meet the accusations of Lord Pal-
merston, wished to commit follies—to take Laudau,
fortify Haninguen, pass the bridge of Kehl, and so go
on. Then it was that Count Mole was called in, as M.
Guizot was ao longer a possible Minister either for the
north or the west; and it was found most convenient
for maintaining the system to change the Ministry. Will
Count Mole go towards England or towards one of the
Northern Courts? It is said that the visit of Lord Nor-
manby to Champlatreux may have changed the opinions
of Count Mole with regard to England. But what will
become of Poland between Lord Palmerston and Count
Mole?"

It is evident that a Ministerial crisis is at hand in
France, and if Count MOLE should come into office
upon the pair a tout prix principle and sacrifice, not
only Poland, but the rights which France has just
acquired by the violation by the Northern Powers
of the Treaty of Vienna, he will find himself
in precisely the same position in which he was
placed in 1840, opposed not only by the great bulk
of the French people, but by all the great
leaders of party, by M. GUIZOT, by M. ODILON
%lino; and last, though not least, by M. TRIERS.
The following article from the Constitutionnel, which
is, according to report, from the pen of M. TIIIERS,
and may be looked upon as his programme of policy,
is valuable, not only as being .the manifesto of the
chief of a great and influential party, but as showing
to both France and England the terms upon which
an honourable and safe alliance may be constructed
between, and maintained by, the two nations :
" The resolution of the three Northern Powers to
act," says the Constitutionnel, " without our consent in
the affair of Cracow has caused astonishment to our
Cabinet. For our own parts we have felt no surprise
at the inflexible antipathy manifested towards us by
the absolute powers. We have never deceived ourselves
as to the aversion with which revolutionary Franca has
inspired them. The fact, however, much it may be to
be regretted, has always appeared too evident. The
efforts which our Government has made to extinguish
a liberal spirit in France, and the half success of which
it boasts, have rather encouraged then weakened the
hostility of the Northern Courts. They only see in us
a revolutionary Government ashamed of being so ; but
that shame does not efface the crime. With regard to
the question of Cracow, we can comprehend that Aus-
tria, desirous to realise, by the acquisition of that city,
her pretensions of 1815, may have forgotten the reasons
she had for mistrusting the solicitations of Russia, who
will make her pay, sooner or later, a hundredfold, on the
lower Danube. But Prussia ought to know that any-
thing which tends to strengthen the Muscovite power in
the Ducky of Warsaw hastens the day when Russian
ambition will become threatening to Prussia herself.
The complete annihilation of Poland was not necessary
to maintain the peaceful obedience of the Grand Duchy
of Posen ; for in the last insurrection the Poles were
seen to throw themselves voluntarily into the arms of
Prussia, who appeared to protest against the massacres