Although the movements with which Surope continues to heave are
as momentous and as pregnant with danger as they have ever been, the events of the week are not of a decisive kind.
The French expedition to Rome remains in its anomalous,posi- tion ; but some agency seems to have been used, not unsuccess- fully, to convince the Romans that the French are not really enemies. Meanwhile, envoys have been despatched by the Re- publicans to claim the mediation of Great Britain.
In Paris, the interest in the Roman expedition has faded ; and the elections are not yet known. But it is known that M. Leon Faucher had committed a very serious breach of decorum, by using his official position to indicate to electors in the departments what Members of the Assembly Government would like to see re- elected. This was a piece of Gallic intrigue not to be expected from the Anglicized and somewhat supercilious Leon Faucher. The Assembly passed a vote of censure on his conduct, and he resigned.
Germany continues as distracted as ever ; insurrections and military suppressions succeeding each other so rapidly that it is impossible to define the boundaries between order and revolt. Prussia has withdrawn her Deputies from Frankfort ; the Frank- fort Assembly calls on the Regent—who cannot govern, and will not reign—to enforce the authority of the Central Government ; and the Regent sneers at his faithful Commons. Denmark has listened to Lord Palmerston's invitation to new negotiatings : but what Russia is doing on the borders of Hungary, or where the Hungarians are in their unvanquished career, or what the Aus- trians really mean to do—are questions as obscure as the identity of the Iron Mask.
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