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small n its events, negative in its indications. In France, for example, the Foreign Ministry has gone begging, and is at last conferred on General de la Hitte, an officer of Engineers, un- known in politics. He is reputed to be a Legitimist. The dis- missal of M. Pierre Bonaparte, for leaving a tnilitary command in Algeria to attend his duties as Representative in Paris, if it does not indicate the continuance of disputes in the Bonaparte family, is likely to renew them. At the same time, a Bonapartist Club once more struggles into existence ; but it is joined by M. Thiers and others usually counted among Conservatives ; so that its ostensible object is probably not its true one, or plans are on foot to effect a diversion. Meanwhile, the National Assembly is the scene of scandalous squabbles; in which M. Dupin, waiving his neutrality as President, appears as the partisan of the Right —the insolent and domineering captain of a truly "tyrannical majority," exasperating all sections of Liberal parties to the verge of endurance.
Germany still awaits its Central Power; and the Archduke John, who was to have been its Regent, is going about like a venerable knight-errant who has retired on his fame, paying complimentary visits, baptizing primval trees, and indulging in other intellectual amenities.
The Piedmontese are by no means cowed under the victories of Austria: even now the Turin Legislature hesitates to complete the treaty of peace until the rights of certain Lombardo-Vene- tians, who once hoped to be Sardinian subjects, shall have been defined and guaranteed. Poor Pio Nono is always going back to Rome, but never gone. It is said that new difficulties em- barrass him, brought about through the meddling of the reac- tionary party. Naples is accused of taking part in the House- hold coup d'etat at Madrid, which was to have transferred power from Narvaez to the priest-ridden King Francisco : Narvaez dis- covered the complicity of the Neapolitan Bourbon, ally of the Pontiff, and in retaliation withdrew the Spanish expedition from Rome; leaving the reactionaries to fight for themselves. Some months ago, the defection might have had serious consequences ; as it is, it is said to have alarmed the Pope.
