The Demetian Mirror

Eatcst ItxtelUgntce. THE FRENCH MINISTRY. M. Guizot, immediately on his arrival yesterday, waited on M. Thiers, by whom his presence in Paris was announced to the King. In the course of the afternoon M. Guizot had interviews with Marshal Soult, the Duke de Broglie and M. Duchatel. At nine o'clock M. Guizot was received by the King, and remained in conference with his Majesty upwards of two hours. The result of this conference has not transpired. (From the Constitutionnel.) Although a report was spread yesterday evening that M. Guizot had accepted the portfolio of foreign affairs, under the presidency of Marshal Soult, we do not learn that the honourable hesitation of our Am- bassador to the Court of London has been overcome. M. Guizot was to wait upon the King in the course of the evening. It is stated that Marshal Soult, who appears indefinitely to have undertaken the task of composing a new Cabinet, has been actively engaged. If we are to believe report, he has overcome the re- sistance of M. Dufaure, who wished to have the port- folio of the Interior. He is said also to have applied to one of the leading members of the Conservative party, M. de Lamartine, who, after Isome objections, resigned himself to take his share in the burthen of public affairs. The following are mentioned as like- ly to form part of the new Cabinet: Messrs. Duchatel Passy, Martin (du Nord), Villemain, and Teste for the latter a ministry of Public Worship would be cre- ated, the seals being given to Martin (du Nord). Be- fore the arrival of M. Guizot, and in the doubt of his accepting office, means were thought of for substitu- ting another person, and in this case it was proposed to give the portfolio of Foreign Affairs to M. Villemain. (From the Temps.) It was rumoured last night that an arrangement was thought of which would give M. Guizot a place in the Ministry of March 1, re-constituted as it was eight days ago, minus, perhaps, one or two of its former members; and such, it was asserted, would be the solution of the present crisis. (From the Courier Francais. The Russian Embassy contradicts formally the ac- count which we given of the departure of the Rus- sian fleet. If we are correctly informed, M. de Pahien has acknowledged that the Imperial Government is or- ganizing the Baltic squadron, and getting it ready for sea: but this squadron will pass the winter at Revel, where it will not be affected by the ice. The Journal des Debats and the Presse continue to defend the conduct of the King in the difference with M. Thiers on the subject of the speech from the throne. From the {Presse.) The Ministerial Journal pretended that France was excluded from the Conference. The diplomatic documents, which were so long kept back, show that she withdrew from it of her own accord. If she was excluded there wa r insult, serious insult, which we are bound to avenge a tout prix. If she withdrew, there was merely difference of opinion, which was not of sufficient importance to warrant a war, in which France would be alone, against all Europe. It was for the Chambers to say which of the two versiom was the true one. We never had a doubt in our minds as to the real state of the case, and we have less doubt now, if possible, than ever, for we cannot allow the assertions of the Ministerial Journals to weigh against official documents; but the national susceptibility has been so much excited, and public opinion so much wrought upon, that the vote of the two Chambers was anything but certain. In this state of things was not the King right in desiring that the Speech from the Throne should not compro- mise the future, and leave the country at liberty to pronounce upon a subject, in which it is far from being proved that the Powers who signed the treaty of London had intended to wound France in her honour, or attack the equilibrium of Europe; and which, in short, involves the question of war, in which France has everything to lose and nothing to gain ? Where, then, would have been the inconvenience of speech, the vague terms of which would have given a full latitude to the Chambers ? and can it be made a ground of just complaint that the King would not consent to allow words to be put into his mouth, which the Ministry would not have failed to have laid hold of, to influence and mislead the Chambers? If the Chambers have ground for complaint, it is not of the Crown, but of the Parliamentary Ministry; for the Crown, in desiring that the speech should not prejudice the question, left the Parliament the supreme arbitrator on the question of the national honour. Who desired that the case should be otherwise ? The Parliamentary Ministry ?" The Debats asks why M. Thiers was desirous of mentioning new armaments in the speech from the Throne, and says- The situation of things did not require such a de- claration. If, indeed, a week previously there had been any decision, any aggressive act on the part of the Four Powers, we should conceive that new arma- ments might have been spoken of from the Throne, and we do not hesitate to think that if, in the interval which must occur before the opening of the Session, any news of this kind were to arrive, the King's speech must announce that France is about to arm anew, no matter how the Ministry may be composed. But we are not aware that any news has been received by the Ministry. It is not, then, the state of our fo- reign relations that requires the announcement of new armaments in the King's speech. Is it the state of the interior ? Armaments, however, are not to be made merely for the purpose of gratifying the turbu- lent impatience of the singers of the I Alarseillaise.' The armaments announced by the Throne are serious and expensive things."

ifflarrteD On the 19th instant at Bramcote, Nottinghamshire, by the Rev. Thomas Wilkinson, John Taylor, Junior, Esquire, of Coed-du, Flintshire, to Harriet, youngest daughter of Henry Enfield, Esquire, ofbi-aincote, On the 22nd iust., at Lampeter Pont Stephen, Samuel Da- vies, Esq., Surgeon, of that place, to Miss Susan Martin, of Glasebury, near Hay, Breconshire. Utcir, On Friday night, the 30th inst., after a lingering illness, aged 30, Eleanor, relict of the late Mr. John Lloyd, Draper, Pier Street, Aberystwith. Printed by JOHN Cox, of No. 30, Pier Street, Aberyst- with, at the Office of him the said John Cox, 10, New Street; and Published by the said John Cox, at his Library, No. 30, Pier Street, Aberystwith aforesaid. Saturday, October 31st, 1S40.

Thou great supreme thy arm divine, When Nature's realms dejected pine, In iiinter's dreary hour, Can chase deep'ning gloom away- Unveil again the glorious day- Or curb the tempest's power. 0 grant us what we humbly ask Grant us to ply our needful task In safety on the deep There, toil and peril oft we find, Whilst others born to fortune kind On downy pillows sleep. "Yet do we not thy will arraign, Nor of thy Providence complain, Or bounteous gifts despise: Even unto us is good dispens'd And all our hardships recompens'd By blessings that we prize '"Health's grateful tide rolls thro' our veins And peace within our bosom reigns, That peace without alloy, Th' exalted great ones rarely know- Of whom the cares, and oft the woe, Corrode the brighter joy. From Thee our blessings all descend, Of high and low alike the friend; To THEE we lowly bow, And ask, while on the awful main We launch in quest of humble gain, Our barque may safely plow." Tis heard—the clouds disparting roll Far off towards the distant pole- The azure skies appear- The sun around his radiance throws- The distant mountain brightening glows— And lulls each rising fear. Thus oft through life, when ills arise, And hope within the bosom dies Or sorrow rankles there He who upholds vast nature's frame, To cheer the drooping breast will deign, Or banish thence despair. And when life's many storms are o'er, Nor pain, nor sorrow then shall more Amict the virtuous breast: Clsang'd at the final trump's last sound The soul shall rise with glory crown'd, And triumph with the blest. Was it to make the sound an echo to the sense, that the author left the chasm in the verse ?