The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-10 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS, FEB. 4.—1 really cannot longer refrain from noticing
the alteration iu public op,nion in France during the last two
mouths. When first the news of the appointment of the Dukeof
Wellington to the post of Premier pro ten pore reached France,
the merchants, bankers, and manufacturers hung down their
heads, and said his nomination amounted to war against France,.
and the re-establishment of a holy alliance. The funds went
down, public confidence was shaken (I speak of Paris and.
France,) and real fears were entertained by capitalists and
wealthy men over the whole country. But all this has now
disappeared. The much dreaded tories are now much loved—
much confided in—and much praised. Now, the duke "is the
only man whocan settle all the questions which agitate Europe."
Now, " the duke is the only man who is capable of bringing
to a speedy termination the Spanish and the Belgian affairs ;"
and finally, now, " the duke is just the man required in the
present state of Europe to cause the Continent to return to a
state of repose, peace, and prosperity." I supply you in these
phrases with the very words of our Rothschilds, Foulds,
Oppeuheitns, Hagermaruns, Deiesserts, and indeed of all who
may be said to have :influence, capital, and weight in this
country. What is the consequence of this? Money is abundant,
the public funds are all rising, bills of exchange are discounted
at two and two-and-a-half per cent., the manufactories are all
alive, and even the Parisian National Guards, who belong to
the middling classes, are finding out " that the tories are not
such dangerous and violent men" as they had stupidly imagined.
Of course the mass of the French shopkeepers lavish their
praises on Sir Robert Peel. They will not praise the Duke of
Wellington, because of the battle of Waterloo; but they can-
not find words strong enough to express their admiration of
Sir Robert Peel, and of his speech at Tamworth
Fria. s.—'The Gazette de France says, that the French minis-
try is in a state of dissolution. This 1. know to be an exaggera-
tion on the part of the Gazette, though it is a fact that ars in a
most unsettled and wretched state. _ _

The Natiunal says, that it is reported that M. Sebastiani has
positively refused to become President of the Council. This
well-informed journal still thinks, that when the claims of Ame-
rica shall be disposed of, M. Sebastiani may be disposed to alter
his mind.

The Coast;tutionnel is much more circumstantial in its narra-
tive of what has passed, and is passing, by way of negociatious
for a change in the French ministry. It says, that the first plan
was proposed hy'M. Guizitt, and that his plin was simply that
the Duke de Broglie should be President of the Council and
Minister of Foreign Affairs; and that M. de Rigny should be
Minister of War: The second plan proposed was, that Duperre,
the Minister of Marine, should be President of the Council; De
Broglie Minister of Public Instruction; and the other portfolios
be distributed differently among the present ministers. The third
plan was, that M. Thiers should be Minister of Foreign Affairs,
and General Guilleminot Minister of War. _

There is a fourth rumour afloat more likely than either—and
that is, that M. llumann will consent to be President of the
Council, on condition—let that Marshal Gerard shall be Mi-
nister of War ; and 2d, that a general amnesty shall be granted.