Private correspondence from Paris on Monday, and the French papers,
concur in representing the probability of a speedy change, or at least modification, of the Ministry. The correspondeut of the Times says, that Count Mold had arrived in town, and had had an interview with MM. DaCaure and Passe, who proposed to have the support of the Centre Gauche ; lan the Count declared that he (lid not think that the time had arrived at which he ought to resume office ; and that at all events he could give no positive answer to the proposition until Ire should have consulted M. de Lamartine. The latter, it is said, also thought the present was not the moment for a change, which might im- pede the march of the negotiation on foot for the settlement of the Eastern question. The 'Rows says, it NV a 3 confideutly reported on Sunday, that M. Guizot and M. de Villemain were about to retire from the Ministry, and were to be replaced by MM. Pussy and Dufiture.
The Toulonnais of the 23d states that an order front the Minister of the Navy to Admiral Hugon enjoined him to anchor his Sleet in Toulon roads, mid to take in provisions and storea as quickly as possible, in order to be ready to sail on the first signal from Paris. The squadron was to anchor dose to the Goulet ; whence it could sail at any moment that circumstances might require.
A letter in the Commerce, dated Toulon, November '25th, states, that " the Minister of War, by a despatch dated the 21st instant, ordered that all the fortifications of Toulon and its environs should be placed on a war touting. The saute despatch mentioned that orders had been sent to Strasburg and Tnulouse to forward one hundred pieces of artil- lery to Toulon to arm the coast of Africa. Every one at Toulon asks what is the meaning of these warlike measures, after the pacific nature of the King's speech at the opening of the Chambers. The Commerce adds, dna on receipt of this despatch the authorities immediately com- menced exceutiug the orders contained in it."
'Ile Notional, describing the military preparations made in Paris to prevent au detente during the discussions on the address, says- " Dorine the last ten day s, Paris has resembled a strung place invested by the enemy. The entire day, the 40,000 men guarding the capital are con- signed to their barracks ; the po4s are doubled, this rounds of officers of the Staff continual, and at night the streets are traver,ed hy patrols, and cries of 'Quti vii-:? ' are heard in every direction. The Chatham assumes towards nightfall the aspect of a besieged citadel, and the allele of its gruund-iloor is converted into a sort of camp."
The state of public feeling in some parts of France may he collected from the fact, that the National Guard of Carcassone proceeded, on Friday lest, to elect a Chef de Batainom The ballot showed that, out of the forty-two officers who voted, thirty-two had given their suffrages to Armand •Barbes, the leader of the insurrection of Paris on the 12th of May last year, and who had been sentenced to death for that crime by the Court of Peers, but which sentence the King had commuted into one of banishment or imprisonment for life. The Minister of the interior having announced the fact of the election in a report to the King, his Majesty issued an ordinance by which the National Guard of Carcassone is dissolved.
The Memorial Iles Pyrenties mentions that a tumultuous assemblage of persons took place on the 15th November, at Nay, in the Lower Py- renees ; and that on being summoned by the Commissary of Police to disperse, the rioters exclaimed, " The Republic for ever!" Some pri- soners were made ; but they were immediately afterwards discharged.
H. Dessessart, editor of the Revue Wmocratigne, who was condemned by default, by the Tribunal of Correctional Police, to five years' hn- prisonment and 680 francs fine, for a seditious article in that periodical, was tried on Monday by appeal before the Court of Assizes, and sen- tenced to three years' imprisonment and 6,000 francs fine.
The Gazette de Dauphinic according to the Gazette des TrilatAan.r, has beets aroseented for insinuating that the Duke de Chartres, the new-born son of the Duke of Orleans, is named " Robert," not because that was a name used in the house of Capet, but after "another person who has rendered the name of Robert very remarkable at the present period "—meaning Robert Macaire.
In consequence of some declarations unele by Darmes, says the Ga- zette des Tribunaux, four persons had been arrested—Xavier Consi- dere, a collecting-clerk, formerly condemned to five years' imprison- ment for the conspiracy called the Plot of the Steeple of Notre Dame, and pardoned in 1837 ; a joiner ; a cabriolet-driver, who was arrested in June 1839 ; and a female. The Paris correspondent of the Times, however, denies the truth of the statement, so far as it concerns Dames.
It is said that Louis Philippe had a considerable sum in the hands of Messrs Wrieht, the London bankers, who have recently failed
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