The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-07 00:00:00

as is repotted (and which I do not implicitly credit).
M. (Makin Birrot is determined not to abandon hi.
brethren of the colt' gauche, and that he is ple aged
to accept (Ace only unconditionally,. in that ca..
the present Cabinet may not be intmedtately dissolved;
but ,hat it cm go on for a long period is impossible.
attempt to patch up another Administration with su.l:
miteria's as your Thiers, Humanns, Guizots, de Broglies,
D,:cazes, &c., would be much such an undertaking as were
youri King to call to his Councils, n. lieu of those who
now sit there, the pimphleteering portion of the Members
who fill the Opposition ranks in your two houses of Par-
liament. On the other hand, the accession of an un-
mixed mourement Government to power would be fraught
with danger to the peace not merely of France, but of
Europe; yet into ti.e arms of this latter party the King
must eventually throw' himself—l mean, unless he pro-
ceed, and without less of time, to the construction of a
new Administration. Every moment that this measure
shall he delayed will be one of hazard. I repeat, that it
it is—in the estimation of every man capable of judgitfa—
impossible that the present set can carry on the affairs' of
the country; the sooner, therefore, that 'something like a
permanent character be given to the Government, the
more safe will be the condition of France and of Europe.
You will have received long since the telegraphic de-
spatches, published here by Government en NVedneedav
last, announcing 07. e occurrence of a Carliet revolt at Mar-
seilles, and its immediate suppreetion. You will be sur-
prised to fi-Jd that to that meagre announcement Govern-
ment has only since added that " up to yesterday after-
nnn Marseilles remained perfectly trarter".l,'i and that
t' the intelligence from every other part of Prance is equally
satisfactory." Stranger still is the fact, that no private
accounts from Marseilles, with the details of the extraor-
dinary occurrences that took place here on Monday last,
have yet reached Paris. The Marseilles journals of Sun-
day last (29th), received by the ordinary conveyance,
contain only one paragraph that appears connected with
this subject—namely, that a strange brig, without any
national colour to indicate to what country she belonged,
wax seen in the offing. That the affair at Marseilles eras
only a branch of some plot of the Carliste. cannot be
doubted—indeed, the projected landing of the Duchess of
Berry on the Mediterranean coast of Prance is said to be
also beyond doubt, and that Marshal Bourmont was to
have concurred in it is equally a general impression ; yet
are we completely in the dark respecting the particu-
lars. As far as we yet know, the revolt at Mar-
seilles was of a piece with your Cato-street rebel-
lion, except that Colonel Laehland—the Tbistlewood
of the Marseilles insurrection—was a man in whose
good sense his friends in Paris still continue to assert the
utmost reliance might be placed. How any men of such a
character could have been led into such a mad undertaking
as this appears to have been, is, from the data before us,
incomprehensible ; and particularly at Marseilles, at a mo.
ment when, unlike all the rest of France, that city enjoyed
a state of commercial prosperity greater than at any other
period within the memory of man. Enveloped as the
matter is in mystery, one knows not what to make of it;
hut, once for all, it may not be inexpedient to repeat that
no Carlist plot or revolt can, or will ever, lead to conse-
quences more serious than perhaps a useless or desultory
civil war in Brittany or La Vendee.
On this subject I do not feel it necessary to say more
than that the Government, yielding to necessity, is deter•
mined, at length, to act with something like vigour agains
the rebels.

Same disturbances were expected to occur here to-riay,
it being the anniversary of the death of Napoleon ; but, hi.,
therto, nothing appears to justify the apprehension. This
consolatory fact is, however, ascribable, in a great measure,
to the presence of the cholera morbus, which has abated
the taste of the Parisians in general for enzeutcs, and more
worthily occupits a leading class of them—the medical
students.

Respecting the pestilence, I need hardly direct your at-
lion to its rapid decline in Paris. Some persons in the
upper ranks of life continue, nevertheless, to be attacked by
it—among whom must be reckoned the Due Decaz .0 : he
is, however, considered cut of danger.

ALLEGED ATTEMPT UPON THE LIFE OF THE
KING OF FRANCE.
COUR. ROYALE OF PARIS.
On Saturday last M. Ferdinand Berthier de Sau-
vigny appeared before that Court, under the charge of
having, if not attempted the King's life, at least meant to
offer him a public insult by driving his cabriolet close by
him, and threatening him with his whip.
The Court, presided by AI. Hardouin, met at ten
o'clock, when M. de Berthier was ushered into the bench
of the acccused, escorted by five gendarmes. A consider-
able number of distinguished persons of both sexes, be-
longing to the Royalist party, crowded the hail, among
whom were the Dukes of Dino and Fitz•Jatnes, who
seemed to take a particular interest in the case.
On being questioned by the President as to his age and
profession, M. Berthier stated that he was thirty years
old, had been an officer in Charles X.'s army, and was
now the director of a board of correspondence for the de•
partments.
The prisoner was then told to sit down, and the Re-
corder of the Court rose to read out the act of accusation,
from which it appeared that the King and Queen, his
sister, Madame Adelaide, awl Colons I Mathieu Dumas,
were walking, on February 17th, across the Place du Ca-
rousel, when a cabriolet, which was going in the direc-
tion of the Pont Royal, suddenly wheeled round, and came
on the King and Queen, who were obliged to move out of
its way. The cabriolet then got into the Rue de Chartres,
wbere the driver is represented to have stopped in order
to wait until the King came up, and was then driven at so
furious a rate towards his Majesty, that the horse fell
when within about twelve yards of him. The cabriolet
then drove off, and it was only three days after that M.
Berthier was discovered to be the owner of it.
After the Recorder had concluded, M. Berthier, being
examined by the President, admitted most of those facts,
but denied having the intention of molesting the King in
any way, and said that be did not even know him until
be came up the second time ; that his horse being res.
tiff, and rather unmanageable, he cried out Bare, and even
added sacre nom de D***, when he found that the four
persons walking before his horse did not get out of his way.
Four witnesses were examined in the case : Antoine,
the cocker of the cabriolet, who stated that his master
was (hiving at the time of the occurrence; Felim, a gen-
tleman who was present on the Carousel, and saw the
prisoner seize the reins from the hands of Antoine, turn-
ing back, and driving at a furious rate towards his Ma-
jesty; a police agent, Buffet, who was following the
King at a distance, and perceived M. Berthier make a
motion with his whip, which.he thought was meant as
an insult to the King; and Colonel Mathieu Dumas, who
was giving his arm to Madame Adelaide.
The latter related the circumstances, as already stated
in the act of accusation, but rather softened the deposition
he had before made in the presence of the Judge of In-
struction, as to the intention, ascribed to the prisoner, of
molesting the King.
The Attorney-General afterwards recapitulated the
above charges, and persisted in the accusation. After an
able defence from M. Berryer, the prisoner was acquitted.

(From the Times private Correspondent.

PARIS, MAY, 5.

The latest accounts from Marseilles, received yesterday
by telegraph, state that tranquillity had remained un-
disturbed since the evening of the 30rb, and that no ap-
prehension was entertained of its being again endangered.
In the absence of particulars, however, respecting the late
foolish affair, all kinds of rumours have prevailed. It
has proved a kind of God-send to stock jobbers and vehe-
ment party-writers, who, having lately disposed of the
ministerial arrangements, and settled the Belgian and
Duch question for the present, had begun to feel at a loss
for means of excitement on the public mind and at the
Bourse. It would be mere waste of time to repeat any
of the reports which were yesterday circulated in the
last-mentioned place. Some timid holders of stock, however,
thought proper to sell, and hence arose a variety of fluctna •
tions in the prices of the funds, which continued all day.
In the salons reports have been current of another
kind. New Ministerial modifications are there 4aid to be
in contemplation. The resignation of General Sebastiani
is again said to be at hind. There is every reason to be-
lieve that it will take place as soon as a fit person is found
to fill his place. A few days ago his physician reported
to the King, that the General's days would he infallibly
abridged if be continued any longer in the toils of office.
Proposals were consequently made to the Duke dc Bas-
sano, who declined the portefeuille of foreign affairs on
the plea of ill health, and consequent inability to attend
assidiously to the duties of office. The Duke de Bas.ano
was several years Napoleon's Minister of Foreign Affairs,
in which capacity be was conspicuous chiefly for his blind
devotion to the person of his imperial master. On the
arrival of the Bourbons he suffered proscription. Since
his return, during the restoration, the Duke has been
living in retirement, and was never known to take an in-
terest in the passing events. He is a well-meaning man,
but a complete cipher in the political world ; and nothing
places in a more evident light the embarrassment of the
King for the choice of men to fill up the Ministry than
the application which has been made to him. It is
added, t hat the King accompanied the proposal to the
Duke with the offer of his good offices to bring about a
reconciliation between him and Prince Talleyrand, with
whom M. de Bassano has been on bad terms ever since he