It was supposed in Paris, on Sunday, that Louts PlumiTE
had at length succeeded in procuring a Cabinet ; and on Monday the morning papers published the following list, as that finally deter- mined upon at the Tuileries— "SL Dupin, Minister of Justice ; M. Tillers, Minister of Foreign Affairs; M. Passy, Minister of Finance; Mashal Maison, Minister of War ; Admiral Duperre, Minister of Marine ; M. Dufaure, Minister of the Interior; M. Sauzet, Minister of Commerce and Public Works; M. Pelet de la Lozere, Minister of POP^ Tr.:=::."
In the afternoon' when the new Ministers were expected to take their places in the Chamber, and officially announce their appoint- ments, the Cabinet was suddenly broken up.
" I went to the Chamber of Deputies," says the Paris correspondent of the Courier, "in order to gather the latest reports. From the window I could
perceive Thiers, Dupin, Pasty, Marshal Maison, Sauzet, Dufaure, Pelet de la Lozere, all the members of the Cabinet in a word, discussing in the open air, like the Franks their ancestors, a few minor circumstances previously to their departure for the Tuileries, where they were to assume the insignia of office.
It was obvious from their manner that they were all perfectly good-humoured, for ninny a loud laugh was heard. At length a loud and general peal seemed to announce that something peculiarly humorous had suggested itself to ono of the honourable precurs. Almost at the same instant, they shook hands, and advanced towards their carriages, which waited at a short distance in the garden, and, having established themselves therein, drove off. ' They are going to the Tuileries, to have the ordinances of their instalment signed by the King, exclaimed a frank, round-Owed little Deputy, who stood beside me : 4 Dieu en suit loud! we shall have a Ministry at length." Don't be too confident of that,' observed one of his colleagues, who had entered, that moment from the garden ; the Combination is broken up, broken up completely.' "
The merry discussion in the garden of the Chamber of Deputies had reference to Duvix's refusal to act as President of the Council, on the ground that the King had resolved not to give the Ministers
substantial support, but to treat them as men forced upon him. PASST would not agree to make TRIERS President, and to nobody save Doers would TIHERS yield precedaittss,known that Dum had been in frequent consultatiistliwith thedait$, who, it was supposed, had once more cajoleteNthe wiTyard.nuil.tidgety lawyer. DUPIN hillISCIf, ill a random.-4eech in the Chether of Deputies, declared that the King was-dot to blame, for per-
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ceiving the Ministry would not receive sufficient support from the Chambers, he had himself put an end to the new combination. It is perfectly well known that if the King would support 'NIERS honestly, the Ministerial difficulties would vanish; but Louis PHILIPPE is resolved upon forming a Cabinet which shall rely upon himself; not on the Chamber of Deputies, for existence.
The French fleet in the Levant is to be augmented by six ships of the line.
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