Abroad the journals represent a good deal of stir, but
at present it has assumed no more substantial shape than rumours, without any tangible result. Thus, a Russian army—fifty thousand of the Imperial Guard—is said to be marching upon the Prussian frontier ; yet King Frederick William is opening his new Cham- bers, and talking about his negotiations to form a Federal State of Germany, as if no marching were ; and Hungary is still as con- tumacious as if no Russians had entered Transylvania. Austrian troops have entered Ferrara, on the pretext of local quarrels be- tween citizens and soldiers of the garrison, though probably with an eye to ulterior schemes not local ; but the city has been eva- cuated with a motive as little apparent as that for the occupation; and meanwhile Turin, Florence, and Rome, continue their new saturnalia of Nationalism and Liberalism. France is watched with anxiety, and her Ministers are shrewdly suspected of con- templating an alliance with Austria and the Pope ; a step which would blow up the bubble of French Republicanism. Perhaps President Bonaparte has communicated his embarrassments on that head to the Austrian, and begged off hasty proceedings like the one at Ferrara.
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