By a private letter from Paris, we learn that the
ministerial modifica- tions announced here a few days ago became daily more probable. "It is considered certain (and I have it from a well-informed source) that a decree not yet published, was signed on the 6th of this month re- establishing in the person of Prince Napoleon the dignity of Grand Admiral, which had been abolished, as you know, during the revolution of 1791. Immediately under the Prince's authority would be placed several Secretaries of State, two of whom arc said to be the Baron de la Render° and Admiral Jurieu de la Graviere' the former for Algeria, and the latter for the Admiralty. The present Minister of the Marine Department would be appointed Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour, instead of the late Duke of Plaisance. As a confirmation of these reports it may be stated that Madame Hamelin, at a recent soirée, accepted with marked modesty the compliments paid with regard to her future position."
Later private intelligence from the French capital states that Lord Cowley is the bearer of proposals to the Austrian Government, "the ac- ceptance of which will satisfy the French Emperor, and which are not considered extravagant by the English Cabinet. Before leaving, the Emperor commissioned him to assure her Majesty's Government that he had never thought of war, and that he could not understand the alarm
felt by the public ; his lordship himself asserts that the warlike prepara- tions of France have been greatly exaggerated!"
A letter from Vienna of the 20th, in the Augsburg Gazette, states that "the Austrian Government has obtained from the Holy See a promise that Cardinal Brunelli shall proceed to Paris to request the French go- vernment to state in clear and precise terms the reforms which it wishes to sec introduced into the States of the Church. As regards the occu- pation of those States, the Austrian government, as already stated, is ready to withdraw its troops from Bologna and Ancona as soon as the French troops shall evacuate Rome and Civita Vecchia. But it will not in any case abandon its right to occupy Ferrara, Commaehio, and Pla- centia, in conformity with treaties. Such is the spirit of a communica- tion which the Imperial government has sent to different courts, and it is the basis of an arrangement which it is desired to bring about between France and Austria."
An official order recalling the men on furlough has at length been issued by the Austrian Government. The order states that the measure - is solely defensive' and that it has been adopted in consequence of the proceedings of Sardinia.
The Second Chamber of Hanover has unanimously resolved upon re- questing government to obtain from the Federal Diet resolutions cal- culated by their unanimity and energetic execution, to avert the Lea- telling danger of war, but if necessary to repel with united Federal power attacks on Austria or Germany. The Bavarian Chamber, on the motion of M. Lerchenfeld, has de- clared a resolution forbidding the exportation of horses to be urgent.
Peace is gaining the ascendant in Paris, coupled with the belief that the views of the Emperor himself are most likely to be realized.
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