The report which we had on Saturday afternoon that Prince
Paul Esterhazy was coming over to this country on an " extra- ordinary mission," was, as our readers will see by what we have said in a separate paper, based upon good foundation ; and should the Prince arrive there cannot be the slightest doubt that he will be charged with a mission even more important than many that seek the public light. But he has not yet come. We do not know whether the delay has occurred because counsels have changed in -Vienna, or because Austria has not yet made up her mind to offer the terms rendered necessary by the events since the fourth, or because the mission is frustrated by its disclosure.
Russia has taken a step which can scarcely fail to influence the proceedings of " Germany " : a circular has been addressed by Prince Gortchakoff to the Russian representatives at all the Ger- man Courts, denying the right of the German Confederation to interfere in a quarrel concerning one of the non-Germanic pro- vinces of Austria, and somewhat more than hinting that to do so would vitiate the treaties of 1815. We might suppose that of all Governments in Europe the German would the least like to have their title and tenure under those treaties called in question ; but the Germans are imaginative and obstinate.
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