We hear it said that the tacticians who support Mr.
Bright in the- North intend to give a side-wind assistance to Lord Derby, by declaring that his continuance in office is necessary to the preservation of peace ; and that with the advent of Lord Palmerston would come an outburst of war ! Is not this to adopt the tactics of the taproom ? We have been no adulators of Lord Palmerston, we have no prejudice against Lord Derby ; but whatever may be the opinion on some measures, of the late Premier, it is perfectly ridiculous to represent him as the lWar Fiend„ or as any thing but an English gentleman and a patriotic statesman.
We hear the same thing from Paris that we heard last week. The, Government is using language that leads to confident anticipation of peace ; at the same time the entourage of the Emperor is as confident for war.
One of our best informed Paris correspondents states an important fact which has the additional importance of confirming the report of the dis- position of Austria to yield to the public opinion of Europe. "I am," he- says, " enabled to inform you that Austria will not oppose the wishes of Prance on the question of the Danubian Principalities. A Berlin correspondent intimates to us the probability of an early ab- dication on the part of the King of Prussia. It is supposed that a politi- cal amnesty, prepared for publication at the christening of the infant Prince, will be published on the accession of Wilhelm I, the future title of the Prince Regent. The Prince and Princess Frederick William wilt be styled Crown Prince and Princess.
The German journals obscurely hint at a quarrel between the Austrian and Prussian Minister at Frankfort. The latter has pointed out how- unjustifiable the conduct of the Cabinet of Vienna was in endeavouring to provoke war by calling on Germany to adopt aggressive measures. This view of the question was warmly opposed by the Austrian Minister, and the result was a public disagreement. A private letter published by the Daily News, gives the following version of the affair. "M. de Rechberg [Austrian] had induced the military commission to' adopt measures for arming the Federal fortresses. The commission went beyond its powers, and M. de Bismark [Prussian] stopped the proceedings, The result was a violent scene, unheard of among diplomatists, and one which, it is feared, will give rise to a hostile encounter between those two personages."
A summons has come hero from Count Cavour to General Ulloa, the defender of Venice, to take service in the Piedmontese artillery. It is stated that General M'Mahon is to command the Piedmont army as Generalissimo.—Globe Paris Correspondent.
Mr. George Bowyer has been abusing Poerio and eulogizing the King; of Naples—in the Univers.
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