The uneasy feeling on the Continent is justified by the
actual events. Notwithstanding reports constantly repeated, that there "is to be" some kind of " amelioration" somewhere,—an am- nesty in Naples, an O'Donnell programme in Spain, a Western declaration on behalf of the Italians,—we see none of these promised boons. The Neapolitan amnesty is still in the future, and. is now only expected to include some few obscure individuals, reducing the concession to a burlesque. The Neapolitan note has been disavowed, but we have no evidence that the spirit of the Government is any the better on that account. There is to be a Congress-, it is said, on Italian affairs ; but it is, we believe, only one of the baseless figments of the day.
Meanwhile, the one public fact on the Continent, pending the coronation of the Czar, is the suppression of the National Guard in Spain by the Dictator O'Donnell.
