The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-10 00:00:00

PARIS, JAN. 7.

(From the Times Private Correspondent.)
The Perier Ministry has received its death-blow. Every
event proves it to be equally incapable and powerless. Dis-
content and revolt break out in every point of the terri-
tory. The maledictions of the suffering and irritated po-
pulation are no longer confined to the Ministry, the pnblic
censure takes a higher aim. The Crown is affected by
the unpopularity of the system of the Government. But
in the midst of this alarming state of things, what do you
think the Ministers do? They haughtily assert that every
thing is going on well, and fancy that the remedy for evil
is to deny its existence.

The following scene, the truth of which I can warrant,
will give you some idea of our situation :
On his visit to Lyons, the Duke of Orleans was sur-
prised and alarmed at the little enthusiasm which he ex-
perienced in the course of his journey. In some places
dissatisfaction was even manifested by signs more obvious
than mere silence. He wrote a letter to his father, in
which he expressed his apprehensions.
The King is warmly attached to the system of the Ilth
of March. He regards it as his workmanship, and loves
it as his own offspring; but when there is danger, he is
willing to compromise.

Ile sent for M. Perier. " I have bad news to tell you.
My name is getting unpopular, and the people cry Down
with the Ministry.' Is your system right ? I begin to
have doubts." The Minister, with an indignant air.—
" There is my portfolio (throwing it on the table). You
may take it. They call for my head, and you may give
it them; but do not believe that it will fall alone! It is
not I alone : you also are the object of their spite. But
whence comes your information? It is false. None but
revolutionary journals speak in that way. I have the
whole country on my side. The wicked press wishes to
ruin us; but patience! . . . None but a jacohin
could give you this information."
_ .

To have an idea of this scene, it would be necessary to
have seen M. Perier. His contracted visage—his harsh
voice anger—nay, almost fury. The astonished King,
thus urgently and repeatedly called upon to tell from whom
he had received his information, drew from his pocket the
Prince's letter, and handed it to the Minister. "Ah !"
exclaimed lie, in a paroxysm of rage, " the Duke of Or-
leans ! why refer to him ? He is surrounded by anarchists
and revolutionists. I know it long. I have made his
conduct be observed. I well know his good disposition,
and do justice to it, but he is led astray, and will ruin
every thing." M. Perier all this time kept walking with
rapid strides about the King's cabinet. " Yes, yes : he
cannot remain here ! he will ruin every thing ! We must
save him from bad principles."
In fact, since this the Minister has been planning the
sending of the young Prince to Algiers. The expedition
of Oran and African glory are the subjects dwelt upon,
and it is very possible that the Minister, to make his reign
more peaceable, will get the Prince removed from France,
as he already has several times removed him from the pa-
ternal roof.

This influence of the Minister over the King must be
astonishing to those who do not know its cause. The truth
is, the object of Louis Philip and of M. Perier is one and
the same—nimely, the re-establishment of the system of
the restoration and its aristocracy.
When M. Perier entered the Ministry he brought with

him elements of power and permanency which few Ali- I
sisters could possess. He was the King's choice and the
Chamber's favourite. For this he was indebted to the op-
position he made to the ablest men of the Restoration, his
popularity. and reputation, more or less well founded, for
ability. Besides, his speeches and apologies had obtained
for him a great character of frankness.
On this account he was chosen. The name of M.
Perier was to the Camarillo and the Doctrinaire party a
fine deception, upon which they could long work to their
advantage. It was in fact known, that under the appear-
ance of liberality, M. Perier concealed a secret attachment
to those antiquated doctrines which France can no longer
endure. The Doctrinaire party put him forward with the
view of afterwards overturning him, and putting up M.
De Cazes, who is much better informed and more capable,
M. De Cares would in the first instance have occasioned
alarm : it was therefore necessary that a popular man
should smooth the way for him.
But M. Perier has gone to work too hastily, and per-
haps his Ministerial life will not last long enough to en-
able his friends to profit by his death. He is now fairly
seen through, and ca❑ hide nothing behind him.
Liberal principles were attributed to him ; but who can
be deceived now, after his speech in the Chamber of De-
puties, and more particularly in the Chamber of Peers on
the Peerage question.
Much has been Said of his talents, and yet it was his
want of foresight that caused the disturbances at Lyons
The disclosures of M. Bouvier Dumolard, who was Prefect
of that city during the events, deeply engage the public
attention, M. Perier wished to sacrifice the Prefect to save
himself. M. Bouvier Dumolard has taken a severe revenge.
In this affair even the moral character of M. Perier has
been seriously implicated. It will therefore be no longer
in his power to boast of his frankness. He asserted in the
Chili:ober that the Prefect bad made no report from the llth
to the 25th of October ; but the Prefect proved that the
Minister had concealed a report dated the 15th ; and the
brigading of the workmen ! What an example did he
give of his good faith, when be vindicated the police from
the charge of hiring them. There is one thing nothing is
known in England, nor any where else; nor, perhaps, even
in Constantinople ; and that is, the manner in which the
police is managed in France. For the maintenance of
order, the Government has a powerful army—the National
Guard, the Veterans—in a word, there is no want of sol-
diers. You would suppose, then, that the Ministry might
be content. By no means : they have not enough. They must
pay men collected from the dregs of the working glasses,
and turn them against citizens whom they choose to call
disturbers of tranquillity. You may be passing through a
street, going quietly about your business; that matters
little. A police agent happens to fancy you an enemy of
public order (that is the consecrated phrase), and insti-
gates some workmen to fall upon you and knock you down.
If you go to complain, instead of being listened to, you
may be thrown into prison, and a Procureur-General,
named Persil, would be quite ready to prosecute you. This
`"wicked system has been disclosed in a court of jus-
tice, and proved by a solemn investigation. France blushes
at the discovery ; cries of indignation are raised on every
side. The ministerial papers alone remain silent. They
have not even ventured to report the trial. But M.
Perier displayed more boldness in the Chamber. He
maintained that the police, of which he is really the
chief, had nothing to do with the regimenting of the
workmen, and when he was asked how it happened that
no one had been punished—that even several of those who
committed the assaults had received rewards—that neither
the workmen, nor the agents who were the authors of the
disorders, had been prosecuted,—how do you suppose he
replied? He made his centres vote, and stifled the dis-
cussion.

Nevertheless, this affair has been a severe stroke to the
Ministry. On the other hand, the King has great diffi-
culty in putting up with M. Perier, whose character is
disagreeable to him. I repeat, the Ministry has received
its death-blow. Its agony has begun.