26 FEBRUARY 1859, Page 2

The joincipal news from Paris is the mission of Lord

Cowley to Vienna. The French, capital is indeed big with expectation of many kinds ; but at the present moment the sending of Lord Cowley, the English Ambassador at the French Court, on a special mission to the Austrian Government, looked so like a joint communication from France and England, such as Austria is said to have invited, that the hopes of the peace party were at once strengthened without any detriment to the amour propre of any party.

At first the distribution of Count Buors Circular to the Ger- man Governments appeared to have been arranged with a select- ness of a peculiar kind—excluding Prussia. But it is explained that Prussia had previously been consulted ; and if that is true, it implies a greater union than we had imagined between the Prussian and Austrian Governments. The explanation, it is to be observed, comes only through circuitous and unaccredited routes !