The events which have engrossed French politicians are not of
the most momentous kind. Explanations have been extorted from M. GTIIZOT in the Chamber of Peers ; and he has duly explained that the Queen of England declined to receive the Duke of Boit- DEAnx, and that the British Government have undertaken to revise the Slave-trade Treaties of 1831 and 1833. The Times says that the promised revision is a mistake ; so that what M. Gutzor really knew, or understood, or meant, or said, or was understood to say, is Mill a matter of doubt : which is convenient, as it furnishes more food for political controversy than the simple explanation. The other matter remains uncontradicted : Queen VICTORIA did, then, refuse to allow the young gentleman in question to press her carpet or to handle a knife and fork at her table ; and France feels all the more honoured and safe : which is gratifying. Moreover, that influential class the schoolboys have expressed their approval of M. LArrrrrn's oddly-timed philippic against the Government ; and would have decreed honour to M. BERANGER on his general merits, only the immortal poet was not at home. The students were lucky enough for some eight or ten of their number to be arrested : 'which attests the political importance of their order. Such are among the most formidable sallies that engage attention in France just now : whence we may infer that, upon the ,whole, the country is tranquil, and disposed to remain so.
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