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London, England, 1851-04-14 00:00:00

macy should be rendered permanent. She aspires I
herself to constitute the directing Council of the Diet.
She wishes, in short, to place Prussia and
her associates in a minority, and to render
that minority perpetual. Against any such
decision as this, of course, the Cabinet of Berlin
protests with all imaginable emphasis. This protest
is backed by that of various minor principalities of the
Confederation. Among these Coburg, Oldenburg,
end Brunswick have rendered themselves prominently
conspicuous, and simultaneously, or almost simulta-
neously, comes forth a rather significant letter from
the King of WURTEMBERG, in which that monarch
enunciates truths of a very liberal tendency, truths
radiant with the light of a generous and enlarged be-
neficence. Opposed to the Confederates siding with
her rival, Prussia, Austria brings forward as her sup-
porters the Sovereigns of Bavaria and of Saxony, and
incited by their coincidence of opinion, appears dis-
posed to stand firm by the ultimatum of Prince
SCHIYARTZENBERG. Rather than consent, however,
to any such concessions as th ise rendered inevitable
by the accceptance of that ultimatum, the opponents of
the Viennese Government seem to be ready to accept.
even the old " used up" Diet as a really
Preferable alternative. From this the extent of the
antipathy entertained by Prussia in reference to the
proposition of Austria muy be conjectured; and some
adequate notion may be formed of the magnitude of
the obstacles standing in the way of any comprehen-
sive reconciliation. It would appear even that Ger-
many is as far removed as ever from the gratification
of her hopes—that the probability of beholding her
final union into one compact nationality is more dim
than it was before FERDINAND was driven from
his capital, before FREDERICK. WILLIAM fastened the
German tricolor on his helmet, before BLUM wes de-
stroyed by a legalised assassination, before Frankfort-
on •the-Maine was again selected as the site of the
Federal Parliament.

Whether the realization of the cherished wishes of
the German multitude be delayed for a brief or a pro-
tracted interval, it remains for time alone to demon-
strate. Conjecture would be worse than idle upon a
question which has baffled the judgment alike of the
most astute and the most experienced. All that the
Germans themselves can do is to follow the recom-
mendation of the American poet, by learning "to
labour and to wait"—to labour in the diffusion of li-
beral ideas throughout the length and breadth of the
confederation, and to wait for that blessed epoch
which, sooner or latter, in spite of every adverse cir-
cumstance, must arrive at last—the day when the
Baltic and the Adriatic shall be the northern and the
southern limits of their united Fatherland.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
They, none of them, with the exception of the or-
gans of the Elys6e, express approbation of a confi-
dence in the new Ministry.
The Debats says :
" The President might have made, and parties might
have afforded, a better choice. Not that we have any
objections to any particular Minister, but it must be felt
that the Cabinet, as now formed, Is in some measure a
decapitated one. It is an assemblage of bold and per-
fectly honourable men; it is not a political combination.
It is, we admit, much more than a transitory Ministry,
but it is not yet a redly Parliamentary one."
M. DR LAMARTINB, in the Pays, promises the new
Ministry a qualified support, but it is evident he does
not yield to it his entire confidence. lie says :
" We will not make any opL.osition to the Ministry.
It appears to us dangerous to stretch too much and often
to break the bond between the two powers. We will
serve, if our conscience permits us to do so, the narrow
system of policy, and we will wait for the coming of the
grand. There are men in the Ministry able, sincere,
and of great consideration from their past fervices. We
will speak f them with the respect due to their talent
anti their devotedness. If they take in the crisis the
large and imposing place which we have just desig-
nated, we shall be proud to second them. It they dare
not assume it, we shall r.gret it for them and for the
country, and we will second as fir as we can the coming
to that place of men of more high political views and o;
greater resolution."
The Opinion Publique is d,cidedly dissatisfied with
the composition of the new Ministry.
The Assemblie Nationale considers the re-appoint-
ment of MM. FouLD and BAROCHB as an act of defi-
ance, and declares that a Ministry of defiance can
only lead to impuissance.
The Ordre also considers these re-appointments as
an act of defiance.

M. GIRARDIN, in the Freese, regards the Ministry
as a proof of the determination of the PRESIDENT to
support the electoral law of 1850. H., therefore, at-
ticks both the PRESIDENT and the Ministry. The
.National calls the new Ministry a Cabinet of provo-
cation, and says the Assembly has disgraced itself by
the vote of Friday, after having previously declared
that some of the members who compose the present
Cabinet were unworthy of its confidence. The Re-
publique has an article in the same spirit. The Siicle
expresses its disapprobation of the new Ministry, and
says that, although it had a majority yesterday, it is
destined soon to fall like its predecessors.

The Committee on the Budget was, on Friday,
called on to give its opinion on the fortifications of the
roadstead and port of Cherbourg. It expressed its
advice as to the urgency of commencing the works of
defence of the roadstead and the fortification of the
breakwater, but stated that, from the state of
the finances, the fortification of the Roule should be
for the present postponed. The report of the Com-
mittee on the Bill demanding a credit to continue
these works has been presented.
The Parliamentary meeting of the Rue des Pyra-
mides on Friday renewed its monthly bureau. M.
DE BROGLIE was unanimously elected President, in
the room of M. LEON FAUCHER, since become Mi-
nister; and M. DARISTE was chosen as Questor, in
the room of M. TOUPOT DE BEVAUX, who goes out
of office by rotation. The bureau is now composed
es follows :—Presidents—MM. BEUGNOT, Admiral
CECILLE, and DE BROGLIE• Questors— MM. BOU-•
VATTIER, GIRAUD, and DARISTE. Treasurer—M.
I.£IEUT.

The illoniteur publishes a decree of the PRESIDENT
of the Republic, appointing M. DE ROTER, late Mi-
nister of Justice, to be Attorney-General of the Court
of Appeal in Paris. Another decree names Admiral
VAILLANT, late Minister of Marine, to be Governor..
General of the French West India Islands.
BUStNESS 11):)N1' IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 12.
Boulogne and Amiens, 934 - East Indian, 15L4—Namur
and Liege, 7 3/,, —Northera of France, 151 —Orleans and
Bordeaux, 4—Paris and Strasbourg, 11 - Rouen and Havre,
103y—Sambre and Meuse, 4—Tours and Nantes, 61A—West
Flanders, 2%.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the Bth hive arrived.

The Cortes were dissolved before coming to a divi-
sion on the measure for regulatini the public debt.
The elections are to take place in May, and the new
Cortes are to meet on the 2d June. The Ministry of
War has not yet been filled up, but it is supposed
that it will be given to either GONZALES BEAvo,
DONOSO COTES, or the Duke of IttrAs.

LioLsA, APRIL B. rhe Three per
Cents. were done at 34/3 ; the Five per Cents. at
15/ ; Coupons, 7i ; Dent without Interest, 5 15.16
paper.