Star.
London, England, 1831-03-17 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

SlR—The new ministry has been a text for general con-
versation in Paris for the last two days, and a mark for all
the journals to fire broadsides at. It appears to give very
little satisfaction ; and as a proof that not much forbearance
will be exercised towards it, out of all the liberal journals
which appeared yesterday morning, only two—Le Temps
and the Journal des Debats—have declared for them :
all the others, amounting to eleven, declaring contra,
excepting the Constitutionnel, which is neutral, or, to
give it a better name, will wisely give them a trial be-
fore it passes judgment. The new ministry, is formed of old
ministers, who have been tried in the balance and found
wanting, as a new house built from rubbish, and they ex-
pect no solidity or union from it. It is easy to perceive that
there is a determination not to be pleased with them ; nor
will the French nation—or rather the people of Paris—who
influence the whole nation, in a most astonishing degree,
ever be satisfied, till the war party have the reins of power.
There is no truth in the report of the King going to the
Chamber, to make known the principles of the new mi-
nistry, which he has chosen.
Since I last wrote you, all has been tranquil, both among
the students and the workmen. I was yesterday on the
Place du Pantheon, and there were about 30 workmen as-
sembled. One of them was haranguing his fellow labourers,
and stating that although he did wear a leatheniapron,and had
not a sous in his pocket, it was not a thousand francs that
would bribe him. This fellow seemed so strenuous in pro-
mulgating his disinterestedness, and, like Fag in the Rivals,
told so many voluntary lies to support the first, that I very
much doubt if he was not laying himself open for a bribe ;
and it leads one almost to turn a willing ear to the reports
which are broadly spread, that the workmen in the late con-
flicts with the students, were paid for the animosity they
displayed upon these occasions. One of these days, the
truth will out!

It is currently rumoured that a camp is about to be formed
near Paris. Two regiments of cavalry have arrived, and
others are expected—it is said—for the purpose of ma-
nceuvring. The cavalry of the National Guard is about to
be increased to two thousand ; and in order to induce mem-
bers to enter it, the Government proposes to those who
cannot afford to keep a horse, to provide the necessary
provender.
No fresh intelligence has arrived from Poland, since my
last letter ; but all accounts agree, that the Poles are still in
a situation to hold the Russians at bay ; and that their cause
is far from desperate.
The news from Italy is still cheering for the cause of
liberty. MARIA LOUISA issues her proclamations in the
true absolute vein, that one would think she had been
brought up in the school of the Emperor Nicholas.
A retort has reached Paris, but wants confirmation, that
the Pope has fled from Rome, and that his Holiness was so
pressed that he had not time to look to his temporals.
During the " piping days of peace" that the Parisians
seem destined to enjoy, they are luxuriating in the wonders
of Paganini, the famous violinist. Enthusiasts in every
thing, here their enthusiasm knows no bounds. When next
I write, I will—if time admits—give you a description of
this wonderful man, who under a form completely devilish—
'so much so that several ladies at the opera screamed at his
first appearance—possesses such astonishing powers, that
he drives his audience to a state of frenzy. He
plays only his own compositions, and often composes as he
plays. Many of his audience, on Sunday evening, were
tearing each others hair with rapture ! and I heard of one
gentleman, who actually nibbled away the whole of his hat 1 !
Yours, &c. J. L.
P. S.—Lafitte has returned into the bosom of his family.
Ever since Sunday his house has been crowded with the
friends, whom he never abandoned. No more a minister,
he retires as a private citizen, followed by the esteem of all
parties.
FRANCE.

BIOGRAPHY OP THE NEW MINISTRY.—M. Casimir
Perier was very far advanced in the good graces of Charles
X. who preferred him even to M. Royer Collard, for the
presidency of the Chamber of Deputies. It is Charles X.
who decorated him with the cross of the Legion of Honour,
to recognise the reception worthy of a consummate courtier,
who had made his royal majesty the plebeian proprietor of the
mines of Armin. The name of Casimir Perier figured upon
the list of the new ministry which Charles X. caused to be
proposed at the Hotel de Vile, after the events of July.
M. Baron Louis formed part of the coterie of statesmen
Iwho intrigued in favour of legitimacy, under the pro-
tection of foreign bayonets. For the price of these
services he had, during several years, the finances
under the Restoration. Count d'Argout, Prefect of Louis
XVIII, in 1815, ordered to be burnt, by the hands of the
common executioner, the tri-coloured flag; emissary of
Charles X. in 1830, he negociated with the Representatives
of the people for the preservation of the legitimate throne.
Vice Admiral de Rigny owes to the Restoration his ad-
vancement and his celebrity. M. Polignac believed that
he had power to reckon upon him, to form part of a ministry
of his own making. If the ordonnance of the Bth of Augueti
did not comprise his name in the list when it appeared, pub-,
lie opinion has attributed his refusal to other motives than a
political conviction. Messrs. Barthe and Montalivet have been
four months in the ministry, let them rise or let them fall,
'they are judged. Honour to the brave Marshal Sault!
He knows his duty towards France ; for her, he submits
to such associates. Within, Messrs. Desmortiers and
Persil, judges of Charles X. or worthy to be so ; without,
.Messrs. Talleyrand and Mortemart, Ministers, Ambassa-
dors ordinary and extraordinary of Charles X ! Ah 1 gen-
tlemen, you wished unpopularity to govern, you hare got
it! Patriots of Paris, patriots of the Departments, the hour
of the crisis approaches ; associate to assure the indepen-
dence of France, and the perpetual expulsion of the elder
branch of the Bourbons.—La Revolution.

A Committee is formed at Paris, and has ordered the
following act of association, to be presented for the signa-
tures of the patriots of the department of the Seine. The
act is deposited at the Constitutionnel, Courrier Francais,
the National, Journal du Commerce, and the Tribune.—
The first list of signatures will be speedily published. " Con-
sidering that the revolution of July has made the national
Sovereignty the basis of our public right ; that already, in
1789, the triutnps of these principles had armed against us
the greater part of the absolute Kings of Europe, who did
not lay aside their arms until after having twice established
a government founded upon the right divine; considering
that it is natural to fear that the same interests will dictate
to the Kings of Europe the same conduct in regard to France;
considering that the new coalition will endeavour
to attain the end of again raising the throne
of Charles X. or the partition of France ; consider-
ing that in 1815 France, delivered to foreigners by the fact
of treason, or the cowardice of some depositaries of power,
had not sunk if there had existed in each department centers
of action to rally all citiaens ready to perish to save their
country from invasion—the patriots of the department of
the Seine, applauding the sentiments which has dictated to
their brothers of Moselle, the patriotic association of
Moselle—they order : Art. 1. An association is formed
in the department of the Seine, to assure the independ-

ence of the country, and the perpetual expulsion of
the elder branch of the Bourbons. Article 2 Ail
those to be members of the society, who have in.
scribed, or who may inscribe, upon one of the lists
deposited at the journals indicat‘d above. Art. 3. F.,„1,
associate is engaged to pay an assessment of 25 centiutei
per month. Art. 4. All associates to engage, upon lir,.
and honour, to combat, by all personal and pecuniary sae„_
Sees, foreigners and the Bourbons, and never to associate
with them, at whatever extremity the country may be r(.
duced. Art. 5. A first list of signatures will be publislitd
immediately. The ten first signatures inscribed at each of
the journals above named will unite, on a day indicated by
the committee, to consult upon the best means of propagating.
the Society in the Department of the Seine."
The country expects from the new ministry the solution
of the principal question of the moment, that of peace and
war ; for it is time to quit a situation which is neither mu-,
nor war. It is not war—since the armies are not oppn.ed
to each other ; it is not peace—since there exists betucen
France and certain Governments certain grievances e ithout
any project of reconciliation—since, on both sides, they arm
and take positions. This equivocal state is intolerable for
France ; obliged to support the charges of war, without
power to calculate the chances of victory, and who dare not
confide in a future full of stormy presages. There exist.
not in France what can be called a war party : every both
aspires for peace; but there exists a party who believr
that power would arrive by the way of arms :
there is one which would attempt the way of trea-
ties. Both can support their opinions upon solid ground.
But between the two parties, there is a third, the least rea-
sonable, the most imprudent of all, the party of stutu qua :
that which can promise us no result either honourable or ad-
vantageous. The public right of Europe has reposed durin.„
fifteen years upon the treaty of Vienna. The allied cabinets
have founded a system of coalition in which France was com-
prised, or rather imprisoned ; she broke from it violently by
her revolution of July. Who doubts that she has shaken the
system ; France cannot be denied the good faith, that in
chasing away the Bourbons, she protested against the
humiliating treaties to which those Princes had subscribed
in her name and against her wish. It would be in vain
for her to deny, this ; she would lie without deceiving any
person, and without deceiving the enemies which her revo-
lution has made. There are those who would constrain her,
under the penalty of perishing, to re-enter the system ; and
she would herself perish, if she were to re-enter it. This
reciprocal situation of France and the allied Cabinets, is
a state of perpetual collision, incompatible with peace.—
If the Cabinets do not dare to avow it, it is to the in-
terest and honour of France to acknowledge it freely.
A Government worthy of itself must declare that
it is not its intention to submit much longer to
the condition of a conquered people ; which intends to
retake in Europe the rank from which it has fallen ;
If the Powers consent to treat with us upon the basis de-
posited in the name of France, then we shall have peace.
and we shall enjoy it. No more causes of defiance, no
more conflicts, a general disarming, revival of industry, re-
establishment of benevolent relations between governments
and between nations. If these propositions of France are
rejected, if all amiable accommodation is impossible, war to
conquer peace; war rather than state quo without solidity
and without honour, rather than a beggarly respite, at the
cost of continual sacrifices ; rather than an armistice troubled
by alarms at all hours.—Le Constitutionnel.