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• It is stated on fair authority that the Emperor

of the French is trying to summon a Congress of the Powers which have not rejected his summons. It is added that Prussia has recently inclined towards the idea of a meeting, and that the Czar, despite his demand for a programme, may be induced to accede. England and Austria would thus be left out, or forced to reconsider their resolution's. It is more probable, we conceive, that the Emperor, whose object is, above all things, to gain time, is amusing his people by appearing not to see that the project has wholly failed. A Congress of the Continent might be a grand spectacle, but its effect would be to leave England supreme arbiter between the parties certain to arise in its midst.

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