The Inde'pendanee Belga publishes what purports to be the whole
of the protocol of the proceedings in the Paris Congress on the 8th. A portion relates to the Principalities ; then follows Count Walewski's " discours." When the Count had concluded, Count Buol observed that he had no instructions on the special points mooted. " Lord Clarendon, in regard to that which concerned Belgium, declared that the institutions of his country did not permit an intervention in the sense indicated by the first Plenipotentiary of France ; although the Government of Great Britain was the first to deplore, wherever they might occur, the excesses of the press." No decision was had upon the subject.
The Journal des Dam's of today also contains an article on the dis- cussion that took place in the Congress on the 8th. The Debits does not say one word of the section of Count Walewaki's speech touching Bel- gium, but gives prominence to the Italian question. It confirms previous statements, that some proposition was made to the Congress, originating with Sardinia, but brought' forward by England and France, recom- mending lay government and the Code Napoleon for the Papal States. The practical result of the discussion, says the Debate, was a kind of declaration, " which will have a salutary influence on the airs of Greece and Italy."
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