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sons from:whoneto expect acts of such apparent disinte-
restedness, nor is the KING, in the sunshine of whose
royal favour these statesmen bask, likely to encourage
such appeals to the unbiassed opinions of his people.
To us, therefore, it appears certain that the rumoured
changes in the French cabinet are altogether unfounded,
although we can readily believe that the vote of Mon-
day has given them a very considerable share of
uneasiness. Were they prepared to stand or fall by
the vote itself, the public may rest assured that they
would have taken a very active part in the discussion.
Their not having done so is quite sufficient to show
that they entertain no idea of a voluntary retirement
from office. It cost them too much to obtain their
places for us to expect that they will relinquish them of
their own accord. That for the attainment of which men
abandon their principles, they are not likely to sacrifice
to a feeling of disappointment, or the exasperation of
unexpected opposition. To become confidential ser-
vants of Louis PHILIPPE, M. THIERS, and some
of the ablest of his colleagues, have ceased to he pa-
triots ; and, having made this sacrifice of public
character and virtue at the shrine of place and
power, it is too much to expect that they will cheer-
fully retire to the shade of private life, for no ()tiler
reason than because the reprcscfilatives of a
mighty nation think pror#:r to oppose their mea-
sures, and condcraP, ineir policy. The adoption of
31101 a str.P.:ightforward manly course, is only compa-
with the notions of antiquated Statesmen, foolish
enough to suppose that no Minister should remain
longer in office, than he can render his services avail-
able to the well-being, and in accordance with the
wishes, of his country—a system long exploded in the
grave Councils of France. Formerly it was received
as an axiom, that the first duty of Ministers was to
serve that country faithfully whose servants they were ;
but now Cabinets are only troubled about serving
themselves, satisfied that if all parties in the State
adopt a similar line of conduct, all the ends of Go-
vernment will be wonderfully well answered.

A Bourdeaux Journal states that Lord SomEtts
' has arrived in Madrid, and obtained an audience of the
QUEEN-REGENT. The object of the Noble Lord's
mission is stated to be the negotiation of a marriage
between the eldest son of Don CARLOS and Queen
ISABELLA 11., as the only means of putting an end
to the civil war. The Madrid correspondent of this
Journal (the Election) does not state in what spirit
the QUEEN-REGENT received the proposition of the
Noble Lord, but this matters little, as the decision does
not rest with her MAJESTY. For our own part we
think such a proposition highly commendable, and
that the most vigorous means should be adopted to
compel Don CARLos to agree to it, rather than per-
mit the dreadful scenes of carnage, famine, and disease,
which now depopulate the Basque provinces, to con-

tinue longer to disgrace the kingdom of Spain.' Even
wcre we to admit—which we neither do nor have done
—that Don CARLOS was the rightful heir to the
crown of Spain, no abstract right centering in an in-
dividual can be justly supported at the expense of in-
nocent blood. This is a proposition which none will

question who have studied the science of political go

vernment.

Halifax papers have been received at the North and
South American Coffee House to the 27th January,
from which we make the following extract :