Though not momentous, the foreign news is various, and not
un- interesting. France has been garnering the laurels reaped in her African wars, including the parasol of that princely commander the Em- peror's son of Morocco, whose ow n name nobody seems to know. By the by, some indiscreet English editor nearly provoked another
popular declaration of war against England, by calling the said pa- rasol an umbrella. As it cannot be upon etymological grounds, since parry-sun and little-shade mean nearly the same thing, it
must be that the French consider the umbrella as a privileged and
sole attribute of Louts PHILIPPE; not being aware that the word is generally used in England as applied to the Oriental luxury,
and that parasol is almost exclusively appropriated to the delicate species carried by ladies. Call it umbrella or parasol, that and the colours—which we will not call " bits of bunting "—and other spoils, were marched about Paris on Sunday, blessed by the clergy, and lodged in the chapel of the Hotel des Invalides. The King of Prussia after an absence of some weeks since the attempt to assassinate him, has made his public entry into Berlin; with no end to cheers and tears, anthems and addresses.
Spain, Portugal, and Italy, are as well as can be expected, con- sidering their very diseased condition.
The Indian mail brings back Sir HENRY POTTINGER, and Lord ELLENEOROUGH'S reason for regretting his departure from our
Eastern empire ; and that reason is, it seems, his excessive love for the army ! His affection appears to be of the nature of love at first sight, and to be as intense. He declared his passion at a dinner given to him by the officers of the Calcutta district, in a very unre- served style: not a word of anything else—the wants of India, its civil government, the advancement of its natives. He also made
the startling declaration that Sir HENRY HARDINGE would go on
just as he himself did ; which, we hope, is to be taken with a dif- ference. There are indeed rumours, that a formidable conspiracy between the Afghans and Sikhs, to attack the British territory,
may provoke Sir HENRY HARDINGE IO war ; and he may be unable to withstand the usual fate of Governors-General : but the question
is, will he wage only inevitable war, or will he, like his predecessor, manifest such delight in the pastime as to make him suspected of creating opportunities for indulgence ? The long-delayed packet Peterel has arrived from Brazil, with rumours of a new treaty between the Governments of Rio de Ja- neiro and St. James's ; but too vague and misty to create much satisfaction.
Some occurrences in the United States exemplify the respect for law which obtains in that republic. A great armed crusade has been got up in States round the little one of Rhode Island, to in- vade it and break open the prison of Mr. Doan, who is under sen- tence of perpetual confinenrent for attempting to seize the govern- ment of the State by a revolution. His original project was one of the maddest and most frivolous ever entertained ; and we guage the
general respect for the law when we see a new insurrection against it in behalf of such a person, especially after he had repudiated that clemency which his friends bad sought for him. The "pluck" of the insurgents, however, was not equal to their wickedness ; and on finding the authorities really prepared to uphold the law by force of arms, they retreated. Another illustration of the same kind is the avowal of Governor FORD, of New York, that if he were to call out the militia to seize the murderers of JOE Sierra, who was shot by rioters,breaking into his prison, that posse condt‘dus would very likely take to rioting themselves in more extensive fashion, and would assault the whole Mormon city of Nauvoo. Such are the political morals of the great republic: you cannot evoke the agents of the law, lest, instead of seizing its infractors, they should utterly overact it
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