The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-04 00:00:00

PARIS CORRESPONDENCE.

MONMAY.

The. list of the new Ministry has given, as you may sup
pose,Vrery general satisfaction. The difficulties which
beset ..I-he path of M. 011ivier have, by some means
or another, been removed, and the long hoped-for
combination of the Right and Left Centres is
actually accomplished. Just when the public disappoint-
ment and anxiety were culminating, and we were
threatented with a Cabinet so mediocre and unsatisfactory
that there could be little hope or expectation of its per-
manenee;,came the welcome intelligence that the new
ministersowere not to be chosen exclusively from one party
and that the most reactionary. The Journal des Dads,
in felicitating M. 011ivier on the concurrence of MM.
Buffet and Daru, considers that his majority in the Cham-
ber is now secure. The Constitutitonnel thinks that
nothing remains of the Empire, and Parliamentary
Government is fully established with all the guarantees
of the most advanced countries. By the alli-
ance between Parliamentary Government and liberty
with universal suffrage, France regains the position she
took in 1789, while the Imperial Government is stronger
than ever for the protection of order. The
Liberte says that the new Ministry effaces the
line of demarcation between the Right Centre and the
Left Centre, and is the best that could have been formed.
Its true title should be, according to M. de Girardin,
"The Cabinet of the 12th July.' The Pat d'ie, of course,
rejoices, and affirms that the first expression of the public
gratitude is due to the Emperor for the sincerity and
courage with which he has accepted the parliamentary
regime. Other journals speak the same language of satis-
faction and encouragement. So far as the leading journa-
lists are concerned, M. 011ivier will have a fair trial.
Almost the only malcontent is the Slide, which finds
matter for discontent in that very fusion of
parties which gratifies most other politicians.
The two Centres cannot, says the writer, have united with-
out one side making concessions. Which has yielded ?
The members of the Left Centre cannot, as much from in-
terest as from honour, have agreed to enter the Cabinet with-
out the dissolution of the Chamber being guaranteed and the
prompt convocation of the electors, which may accordingly
be looked for as the only consideration of importance in
the matter. The forthcoming elections will be to the
Empire what the elections of 1827 were to the Restoration
—they will place it between a Favre-Picard and a Rouher-
Polignae Ministry.
The Paris correspondent of the Incleyendance Belye
gives currency to an awkward rumour. The Emperor, it
is said, in receiving the Deputies on Sunday appeared
careworn and even suffering. Ho said a few words, which
we must bope were misunderstood, to the effect that he
did not intend to surrender altogether his personal
power, but only to share it with the Corps Legislatif.
The events of the last few days seem to contradict this
story. We must hope that the old play of Imperial
vacillation and uncertainty, giving with one hand and with
holding with the other, will not be enacted over again at
this momentous crisis.

M. de Forcade La Roquette has left Paris for the Lot-4.
Garonne to see after his candidature. According to the
accounts that have been received, the election of the late
Minister of the Interior is not doubtful.
Troppmann has received several visits from the Abbe
Croyes, the chaplain of La Roquette, and has held long
conferences with him. Until recently he has slept
well and eaten with a good appetite. He complains
of being obliged to wear a strait waistcoat. He begs the
governor to have him executed with the least possible
delay. He still declares that he has accomplices; but to
denounce them now would, he says, be useless, and would
only create fresh trouble. He is anxious to spare them on
account of their families.

Upon the re-assembling of the Corps Legislatif, three
vice-presidents will have to be appointed, on account of
the acceptance of office by MM. de Talhouet, Chevandier do
Valdrome, and Daru. M. Jerome David is now left the
first vice-president. The new vice-presidents are supposed
to be M. Brisson-Billault, who previously obtained 104
votes, and MM. Bournat and Martel. These last deputies
are now secretaries, and their places must be filled by new

corners.
The protest which Troppmann has presented to the
Minister of Justice will be sent immediately to the Court
of Cassation. It is thought likely that the Criminal
Chamber of the Court will examine into the case during
the week. M. Bozerain has undertaken the defence of the

appeal.
The Constitutionnel remarks that the official list of the
new Ministry has not yet been received, but that ono
thing is certain, namely, that the Emperor will remain
firm in his resolve to act the part of a constitutional
sovereign. He has accorded to M. 011ivier the permission
to form a Cabinet in conformity with the parliamentary
situation, and M. 011ivier has nothing to do but to con-
sult that situation. The importance of this fact
is so great that only a secondary interest can
attach itself to personal subjects connected with
the Ministry. A sure proof of the change that has
taken place in politic -d. affairs is afforded by the circum-
stance that the leader of the majority in the Chamber has
been charged with the duty of forming a responsible
Ministry. The Constitutionnel believes that Franco is in a
fair way of realising the most favourable schemes of pro
gress, and that she is already in advance of other European
nations on account of her adoption of universal suffrage.
The Liberte declares that of the Ministry of the 31st of
December there only remains M. Emile 011ivier, whom
the Emperor has appointed Keeper of the Seals. M.
Magna has stipulated that ho will not remain Finance
Minister unless MM. Buffet, Daru, Segris, and de Tal-
hou'cit may join him in the new Cabinet. Meanwhile the
last-named gentlemen have said that they cannot take
office with 31. Magne.
It is said that some of the difficulties which M. 011ivier
has encountered have arisen from the objections that the
Emperor has raised; but this the Constitutionnel emphati-
cally denies, affirming that the Emperor has given every
possible facility to M. 011ivier, and has respected all his
wishes. The cause of the duration of the crisis is that seven or
eight of the chiefs of the two centres to which M. 011ivier
addressed himself refused to join him. But they appear
likely to reconsider that refusal to-day. It is therefore in-
correct for the Temps to declare that the Emperor was
with great difficulty persuaded to accept one member of
the Left Centre.
The _Francais, which is believed to be the organ of 31.
Buffet, the head of the Left Centre, has an article on
the Ministerial crisis, in which it states that M. 011ivier,
knowing from previous conversations that the chief members
of the Right Centre, and notably MM. Segris and de
Talhouiit, were resolved to make their entrance into the
Cabinet subordinate to that of members of the Left
Centre, asked M. Buffet to assist him in vanquishing
their scruples, informing him at the same time that
there was no question of calling any member of the Left
Centre to office at the moment. 31. Buffet agreed, and
begged these politicians to enter the Cabinet without
him, but they refused. M. 011ivier then, accompanied by
DI. de Talhouet, went to M. Buffet and offered him a port-
folio. M. Buffet, on hearing that M. Darn was not to
receive a similar offer, refused.
The France says that the Ministry of the Fine Arts will
be shortly suppressed, and that the Prefecture of Police
will have the surveillance of the ordinary theatres. The
Imperial ones will be directed by a committee, with Vis-
count de Laferriere as chief.
According to the Presse, M. Casimir Feder has pre..
sented himself as a candidate for the Fourth Ciscumscrip-
tion of the Isere, left vacant by the annulling of M.
Marion's election. Several journals state that M. Armand,
Chef de Cabinet to the Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, has
been made Minister Plenipotentiary.
Troppmann is no longer at the Conciergerie. He wa s
transferred on Friday last to La Roquette. At first he was
much depressed, but after a night's rest he seemed to take
courage, and asked for his breakfast, exclaiming while
they brought it, " I shall soon undo all this." He intends
to appeal to the Court of Cassation, and has had an inter-
view with his counsel, 31. Lachaud, after which he seemed
to gather confidence, and regained his old assurance of
manner, contrasting strongly with the dejected attitude
which he has assumed since the last sitting of the court.
The journeymen bakers of Marseilles have struck work.
They want an increase of wages which shall give them in
all sf. 50c. per day. If their employers do not agree, they
intend to set up in business for themselves, and sell bread
at an intermediate price between that of the bakers of the
town and the general boulanaerie.