Star.
London, England, 1829-11-14 00:00:00

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

From the Times.
PARIS, Nov. 11.

The sport of the dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies daily
gains ground. It is undoubted that Ministers have sent to their
nem la isuersetions with reference to this event. which sonic per-
sons think probable, others certain, but which, in the opinion of
many, isimpossible. Will this dissolution take place after the ad-
dress.if it should appear too hostile, thus making trial of the
Chamber, where, say our present able Ministers, they may find a
majority which the =skilfulness of the preceding Ministry could
OM attach to itself permanently ? However, a sadden din.
missal given to the representatives of the nation, because
they uttered an unbiassed opinion with respect to men and
things. would rain discontent and excite public indignation to the
highest degree, if it had need of being more excited than it is at
present. The Ministry would thus render its situation most cri-
rice,. Should the act of dissolution precede the expected meeting
of the Chambers, it would be more convenient, but not more pro-
fitable to the combinations of an Administration so unanimously
condemned. The Royalists, divided under Wilkie's Ministry, are
united under that of Bourdonnaye ; and from this fact the latter Mi-
nistry draws the consequence that it can depend on othet results. M.
de la Bourdonnayc confirms, by this speculation, the opinion which
ins been formed of hint since he has been placed at the helm of
affairs. The ignorance which this statesmao, so vaunted by a
party, daily displays respecting the condition of the country, is a sub-
ject of astonishment to all persons who have occasion to transact
business with him. Whatever he may do, and whatever care be
may take to knead the electoral matter, it will still remain the
same ; and it is from amongst 16,000 of the greatest tax-payers in
the kingdom that 80,000 electors, the greatest tax-payers after
them, will select the deputies of the departments. Within three
years the Chamber has been re-elected, and each year, by the na-
tural progression of time, the electoral colleges have seen disappear
from amidst them old prejudices and old regrets, to make
way for now ideas and new hopes. The liberal aad constitutional
force is augmented by all the extinctions of the emigration, of La
Vendee, and of the old Gun. We shall see what the elections will
produce under the auspices of the liberty of the press and the law re-
specting electoral frauds, and under the direction of M. de la Boor-
donnaye, in the midst of Parislan,Normandy, and other associations.
However confidently ft may be spoken of, Ido not believe Minis-
ters will hazard such an experiment : not that I believe its result
would be fatal to the monarchy, whkh then, as now, would be in
no danger ; but because it would establish the necessity of adopting
without more evasion, all the consequences of the principles conse-
crated by the charter. The measure with which the present Cham-
ber is menaced is therefore far from alarming the constitutionalists.

whose hopes, on the contrary, it raises, and whose triumph it se-
cures. Persons who carry their ideas further, say that if this
were to happen, and in case the Chamber did not fulfil the ex-
pectation of the Ministry, it is resolved that in a Congress
of Sovereigns the King of France should declare the necessity
which exists for his re-possessing himself of the pewee which his
ancestors exercised, and that be should call upon the whole of
Europe to support him, by its assent to this proposition, against his
subjects, if they attempted to defend their rights. and refused to
bend anew beneath an absolute sceptre. These assertions are a
libel upon the King,—a pious and loyal Prince, who wishes to
be faithful to his oaths. It is more probable and beyond a
doubt in my mind, that before the approaching Session a mo.
difieation of the Ministry will be attempted. Already, for
some days past, it has been said that M. de la Bourdon-

'aye will retire upon a peerage, and that M. de Bourmont
will be made a Marshal of France. It would be curious
enough to see in the list of our Marshals M. de Bourntont
by the side of his Grace the Duke of Wellington. Your
other correspondent, the echo I know not what remnant of the
Villele administration, imagines he has found the solution of the
problem in the recall of that statesman. He thinks that he will
find Mends in the Chamber which generally recognised in him
sagacity, and the principal requisites for an able man of business.
From some attempts made towards the close of ion. at a union
between M. de Vißele and M. de Lau', Casimir Perrier.

M. B. de Lessert, and others, be concludes that now this
Minister would not be disagreeable even to the Liberals. This
is, in the first place, attaching too much Importance to
the unauthorised proceeding of M. Flandin, an old Com-
missary of War, who introduced himself to the Minister
so cleverly as to make himself believe, without confessing
any thing, that he was the bearer of a proposition : and, in the
next place, it is overlooking the result, which tells against the
theory that your correspondent favours. In 1827, it is said, Al.
de Wick entertained strong confidence of creating a majority in
the Cabinet of the Constitution or Liberal party. He brought into
this Administration the Royal confidence ; he accepted all the basis
of the treaty. So many advantages must have darxied the new
allies that he expected to make ; and still, notwithstanding, he was
repulsed. M. Flandid thus threw away kis intrigue, and Vii.
lel, his credulity ; and when a vote so solemnly condemnatory
had branded the Administration to which M de Vilkie had
given his name, when the least understanding with this
statesman or his friends was sufficient to stamp with to popularity,
and to cause the rejection by the electorial colleges of thaw who
were suspected of having entered into the alliance, to persuade not
that M. de Vilkle would obtain a majority in the Chamber of
Deputies, is badly to examine the ground—is to make the most
strange illusion. I should not be astonished that such a combina-
tion should take its rise in the Cabinet of Prince Pagan, who
certainly is one of those Frenchmen who know the very least of
the essence of affairs, and the opinions of kis country.
Our external relations ban generally been for some time past in
the bands of men, respectable, doubtless, in many points of view,
but who, by their previous history, their recollections, their regrets
their habits, their hopes, entertain sentiments which are no longer
those of the nation, and who carry in their mission the spirit
which animates them, and which renders them strangers to our

new institutions. Their correspondence and their diplomatic saes

have necessarily been impregnated with the colour of their minds.
They see through that medium, and foreign cabinets, misled by
this prism, have never well appreciated France and those new in-
terests which the recent period has created. They have retro-
graded, while we have been progressing. The movement of the
country is onward; our diplomacy marches behind, and the same
spirit often directs our internal affairs. The consequence is, that
with regard to foreign countries we remain in a state of weakness
and insignificance, whilst our internal divisions are still strong after
15 years of the restoration.

It was remarked that the King and the Dauphin gave a kind re-
ception to hl. de Martignac. The friends of this Minister assure
us that twilling would induce him to enter the Council,—tbat, with
his heart full of vexation, he would still prefer his present lot to any
combination which might bring him into the new Cabinet.
The trials instituted against the pre's are about to recommence.
Already the war declared against the busts of the young Napoleon
is in full activity, and the Prefect of Police waiting for something
better to do, has become an iconoclast. Yesterday an unexpected
leisure took place at the shops of all the gunners, of arms de-
scribed as prohibited. This qualification was applied to arms ex-
posed for many years past to the view of the public; and sack a
sudden inroad of the police spread a lively dissatisfaction.
The Court of Naples and the future Queen of Spain are travers-
ing our southern provinces, and are received with the greatest ho-
nours. The Court of Naples, it is said, will visit Paris at the time
of the Carnival; and the Authorities are pressing forward the
works of the Palate Royal, that this residence, now remitted so
sumptuous and so brilliant, may be altogether worthy of the visit
of them illustrious persons. The King of Naples will be able, oe
Ms travels, to takes lesson on Representative Government. May
it, in exciting his recollection, suggest to him a good thought,
not coming from M. de la Boardman* and Company.
Already a great number of deputies whom, the winter has
brought to the capital, are assembled here. The Ministry has no
ground for planing confidence in their disposition towards than.

FOR THE STAR.

ON ALDERMAN CROWTHER'S BEING ELECTED