The quarrel in the French Cabinet was not made up,
nor was a new Ministry brought together when the last accounts were des- patched from Paris. On Monday night, it was universally be- lieved that the Doctrinaires were "out," and MOLE triumphant in his place of Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs, with SOULT in the War Department, MONTALIVET in the Ministry of the In- terior, BARTHE Chancellor in the room of PERSIL, and HUMANN again at the head of the Finances. But on Tuesday morning the publication of the Moniteur was delayed, and in the meanwhile the Doctrinaire Journal des Debars assured its readers that the list of new appointments was not official. The Moniteur appeared with- out any notice of the completion of the Cabinet ; and it was soon discovered that GUIZOT had prevailed upon Louts PHILIP to break up arrangements which had actually been completed. It is said that Guam represented to the King, that if, as he supposed; the apanage project was to be aban- doned, the course of any Ministry was easy ; and that, in justice to the Ministry which still nominally existed, an opportunity should be allowed himself and Motu to go on till the end of the session. Louis PHILIP admitted that the apunuge was not to be pressed, and that GUIZOT had a right to retain his office, if he would. Thus, all parties are at sea again ; for nobody imagines that MOLE and GUIZOT can continue
to sit in the same Cabinet together. The irresolution of the King is the subject of general remark in Paris. He cannot be relied upon from one day to another.
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