The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-11 00:00:00

CHANGE OF THE FRENtH MINISTRY.

PARIS, AUG. 8.--The French Ministry is
changed. The Prince de Polignac has been
charged to form a new Administration. The
Ordinance is to be signed to-day, at St. Cloud ;
it will appear to-morrow in the Moniteur. I
can state with certainty that Prince Polignac is
Minister of Foreign Affairs ; M. de la Bour-
donnaye, Minister of the Interior ; and Admiral
de Itigny, Minister of the Marine. There are
persons whom this sweeping change will sur-
prise, especially as the Ex-Ministerial Paper,
the IWessager des Chnrawes, had denied, in
the most positive manner, that any change was
to take place. The Ex-Ministers themselves
made the same statement so late as yesterday.
The Royalists, as you well may suppose, eve
Overjoyed at the triumph of their party, for such
they consider the change to be, as all the new
Ministers belong to the right or the centre-right..
The Royalists have been much in the habit of
styling the old Administration, I mean that
which existed yesterday, the Ministry a le Gode-
rich, and of maintaining that it would. come to
the same end, and be succeeded by a tort Mi-
nistry. I may observe, en pass Ant, that this op-
position Tory is likely to become quite French,
for the Royalists seem much disposed to take
it to themselves. They have then, at least, as
they say themselves, a Tory Administration. It is
to be honedp that they are not deceiving them-
selves in their expectations the good it will
prodlice, both in France and out of France.
I send you with this an article extracted from
the Gazette de France, the organ of the Tory
party in France. This article is nothing more
or less than the Manifesto of the New Ministry
—it is very important, as it indicates very clearly
the policy, both foreign and domestic, that will be '
followed by Prince Polignac and his colleagues.
There is no idea that the new Administration
will make any attempt to encroach upon the
Charter, as some persons have asserted would
be done, were the Prince to come into power.
It is thought in the country that the new Mini-
sters will begin their career by some measures
calculated to insure the liberties and rights of
the people. It is thought that they will do
away with the odious monopoly of the Univer-
sitv, and make it lawful for any one to teach and
to establish schools—in fact, every one will be
allowed to educate his children without any in-
terference on the part of Government.
It is thought that the age of admission to the
Chamber will be reduced from forty to thirty
years, and that the number of Representatives of
the people will be rai:.,:ed from 430 to 650.
My time is short, and I shall close my letter
by observing that the change of the Ministry is
considered as a total discomfiture of the Russian
party. There is now no danger whatever of
France joining the Muscovites in their projects,
'whatever they may he. The Constilutionnel
has been labouring hard to prove to the good
people of Paris that the success of the Cossacks
was essential to the existence of French liberty ;
but this new discovery of the love of his Impe-
rial Majesty for charters and liberty will be of
little avail now—at least such is the Opinion of
the beat informed persons. Ido not pretend to
give you any opinion of my own on the subject.