been included in the integrity of the English Monarchy in
King William the Fourth's time. But whether the Prussian interna- tional arguments be valid or not, the utmost doubt is thrown upon the case in which so strong an element of the untrue is introducer]. as Lord Palmerston has ",-tised into his Anglo-Danish case by tire pretence that Prussia acquiesced. Two important questions are suggested by this deceit, and the answers would be interesting,— What is the actual position of Austria, whose Charge d'Affaires was absent from the signing of the second protocol? did. Lord Pal- merston lay before the other parties to the protocol this protest by M. Bunsen ; or did he "happen to receive it too late " ?
President Bonaparte has been making a popularity-hunting tour to the South, imitating "Le Petit Caporal" with a musket, and otherwise courting "La belle France " : but the device has failed as signally as the Boulogne eagle or the Strasbourg boots. After all, Louis Napoleon, in these coups de theatre, does not rise above the level of Gomersal and stage properties.
The Transatlantic news is pointed by a telegraphic despatch an- nouncing the failure of Mr. Clay's Compromise Bill; the object of which was to compromise or postpone the Slavery question as it was raised by the admission of new States to the -Union. The ex- act manner of the failure, however, is not explained, and we do not yet know whether it involves the fmal abandonment of the mea- sure or only a delay. Scarcely less attention had been excited by the pledges which had virtually been exchanged by the President, to remain neutral in foreign politics, and the A'nghsh Ambassador, not to encroach in America -under the guise of "protecting" mi- nor states.
