NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE condition of Europe is not changed since last week. The Emperor has been received, not only at the camp at Chalons, but at the camp at Lannemezan (in the Hautes Pyrenees), with great enthusiasm by his soldiers, who seem to be on the qui rive for a military demonstration ; but he has given no sign,—saying only to his Generals at Chalons that whatever he said it would be inter- preted by the papers as a war speech, wherefore be would simply keep silence. Of course, that has not saved him. The Paris critics think silence more warlike even than speech. The King of Prussia has told the Holsteiners at Kiel that he expected peace, but added that he expected it the more because he knew how ear- nestly his subjects would fight in defence of their country,— which is, after all, far from reassuring. It seems certain, however, that neither Prussia nor France are making any of the final pre- parations which must precede war,--nay, that they are osten- tatiously dismissing men to their homes in order to prove their pacific intentions. The Italian Government has denied having demanded from France the recall of its army at Rome ; and, on the whole, the situation is certainly not more perilous than it was last week. But M. Guizot's sly eulogium on the " modesty " of the Emperor's desires, will scarcely tend to secure M. Guizot a favourable answer to his petition for a substantial reduction of the French armaments as a pledge of peace.
