NEWS OF THE WEEK.
/THE German papers, the German correspondents of the English .1. papers, and two French journals, allude to a scheme for the paci- fication of Northern Europe which is in itself probable. England and France, it is said, have agreed to give up the treaty of 1852, and the German Powers have consented in return to discuss an arrangement of this kind,—South Schleswig, divided by a line just below Flensburg, to be united to Holstein, and the two trans- ferred as a single Duchy to Germany, under an administration not defined—North Schleswig to be considered conquered, but sold to Denmark for the Duchy of La,uenburg, which though entirely German likes King Christian's rule. We have considered this arrangement in another place, and have only to remark here that no English confirmation of this plan has yet been received, the English people having throughout the negotiations been kept in an ignorance which may be politic but is certainly contumelious. If it is not their affair what business have their representatives to be devoting themselves to its arrangement?. We do not advocate open diplomacy, but there are degrees, and as matters stand the nation will have to pay either in European status or in money for a policy of which it is kept in ignorance.
