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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 761, 17 November 1852, Page 3

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[From the Illustrated London News, August 7.] Some further modifications of the Ministry have taken place/ M. de Casabianca having retired from the office of Minister of State, (the premier of the Government,) and been replaced y the eminent Jew banker, M. AchilleFould. M. Casabianca and M. Turgot, ex- Minister for Foreign Affairs, have been nominated members of the Seriate. • The following appointments have also taken place in the Council of State and other constituted governing bodies, viz. : M. Allard, Councillor of State, fs. nominated President of the section of Waif arid Marine in place of Admiral Leblanc, who resumes the active duties of- his profession ; M. Boudet, Councillor of State, is named President of the section of disputed matters ' in the Council, in place of M. Maillard,' whose resignation is accepted ; and Mi Villefroy, Councillor of- State, is appointed, President of Public "Works, in place of M.^ Magne, the nevtfy-named Minister of the same' Jkjm^ent^^J&/j2e^L. 4e^Qo£mema, rCo-j r Co-j cfieTet, Hilagri'e (Bdra'und,/ 'Arrighi, Marquis de Padua, are named Councillors of State : and MM.: Pages, de' Miosiera,' Count Napoleon Caraerata, Leon, and de Chamblin, are named Masters of Requests of the first and second class ; and M. Charles- Giraud is appointed Inspector-General at the University, in place of M. Eugene Burnouf, 'deceased. Rumour attributes the resignation of the retired members of the Council of State mentioned above, to the compulsion arising out of the dissatisfaction of Lotiis Napoleon with these gentlemen for having- given a vote at the late trial in favour of the claims of the' Orleanist Princes to be reinstated in their property confiscated by the organic decrees of the Prince President last winter. In the nominations to the Council of Statethere are two which have attracted much no, tice, and excited comments not of a favourable character to the gentlemen referred to, viz., the Viscount Cormenin and M. Persil. The latter was at one time Minister of Justice under Louis Philippe^ and was hitherto believed to be a decided Orleanist ; M. de Corraenin has passed for a Republican, but is believed to be at heart a Legitimist. He is well known as the author (under the name of " Timon ") of the Orateurs, and of various political pamphlets, particularly one on the dotation of the Duke de Nemours, which created a great sensation at the time of its publication. It is said that -General d'Ornano is to be Chancellor of the Legion of Honour, in the place of the late Marshal Excelmans. M. Pelletier has been appointed Chief de Cabinet of the Minister of State. - Petitions in favour of the re-establishment, of the Empire, are so frequent of late, that it is inferred (seeing the movement is not checked ' by the Gave^ment)^^: in* a very short tim£ a change iv the existing form. oKthe Government will be proposed in the Senate. The elections for the Provincial Councils are going on throughout the departments, and in almost every instance, the Ministerial candidate is successful, owing in * a great measure to the unscrupulous interference of the Piefects of the Departments. The public, however, regard ;the proceedings- altogether with the greatest apathy,' in many cases there Hot being a sufficient number of votes recorded to make the election legal. • It is understood that the grand review of the National Guards, which was to have taken place on the 15th instant in the Champ de Mars, land to be accompanied:' with a presentation of eagles to each corps~of the civic force, as was done in the case of thepregiments of the regular army on the 10th of May last, has been abandoned.; Various reasons are assigned in the rumours of the day for this sudden change, the most prevalent being, that the cries of the civic troops— the index of the popular feeling —-on the occasion' might be such as to create embarrassment to the head of the State. The death of the Count d'Orsay, so well known in England for his accomplishments as an amateur artist, is announced. It took place at Paris, on ' Wednesday, -after a long illness, the fatal termination of which was hastened by a cold caught while in a boat"at Havre. Inmat