21 SEPTEMBER 1861, Page 1

The correspondents of Tory papers continue to assert that the

King of Sweden is anxious, on the principle of nationalities, to re- annex Finland, and that the Emperor Napoleon, in return for a maritime alliance, has promised him the aid of France. There is not much to object to in the report, except that the Finns are not Swedes, and never were, that they have expressed no wish of the kind, that France could not invade Russia for Swedish purposes, and that for Sweden to execute her design, she must conquer sixty millions of people with less than five.