The effect of the event in foreign countries cannot as
yet be fully seen, because the papers are fettered by useful conven- tional rules, but we believe the following will be fotind to be near the truth. In England, there is distinct regret for a great misfortune to France, modified by a hope that the Egyptian problem will now be more easily solved. In Germany, there is
a strong sense of relief, tempered among the statesmen, and especially in the mind of Prince Bismarck, by a belief that a re- vival of Monarchy is more probable in France, and that Monarchy makes armies more formidable. In Austria, the Court misses a possible ally, but popular feeling is confined to the Magyars, who regarded Gambetta as a patriot, and as the enemy of German ascendancy. In Italy, there is a decided sorrow, cooled among the governing class by an impression that G-ambetta expected and wished to see Republics accepted in the three Latin countries. In Greece, there is bitter and universal sadness, for Gambetta was, next to Mr. Gladstone, the most sincere of Philhellenes ; and in Turkey, for the same reason, there is exultation. And finally, in Russia, opinion is undecided, there being traces of a desire to express less regret than is felt, and to assume, with a sort of bounce, that, Gambetta or no Gambetta, France must always be friendly to St. Petersburg.
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