Although the grand commotions which are agitating to large a
portion of the Continent are not subdued, their outward manifesta- tion has in some degree subsided for the week, and our " say" in this place might almost be a repetition of What it was last time. Louis Napoleon, fatigued with his hunting at Compiegne—but not assatsinated, as some reports said—has dismissed hisSenate for a
s, after getting from it all he wanted; and he continues
121;1 . ticts undisturbed by the Italy Alliance of
North hi, who have been concocting some special rein- foreettie e Old and only genuine Imperial intetest, in rivalry
to the • cli polish that threatens to disturb their trade.
The Ed r Of .Austria has returned home without meeting his brother of- Mafia; leaving the affair of joint credentials in the trusty hands of Frederick William, and returning to superintend the diplomatie gossip between the keen officials of Vienna and the weary " fanatico per la inusica" who embodies official England, about the persecution of an English newspaper correspondent, impri- soned amongst the malefactors and political victim of an Aus- trian police. Protestantism has undergone a severe check in the withdrawal of the "Civil Marriage Bill" by the Sardinian Government Not only does the Government flinch before the opposition of the prithAhood and a small majority in the Senate, although supported by the Lower Chamber, but it permits an extraordinary outburst of insolence on the part of the Pope and Franzoni, who are put- ting forth in all the churches denunciations against the secular policy of the Government.
From more distant parts of the world the week's news possesses little novelty. The French have occasioned some talk by a sup- posed acceptance of the peninsula of Samana, ceded by the little Republic of Dominica, which is anxious for protection against the absorbing Emperor Soulouque. American Non-Europeanism is in- dignant; and the came is added—with the revolt of the Mexican Sonora under a chivalrous Frenchman,, now confirmed—to the list of occasions for American vigour. In the extreme East, on the slow Rangoon, General Godwin is sleeping for a few months, while his troops accumulate sufficiently to outnumber the dreadful Bur- mese, and so enable a British commander to approach them with- out apprehension.
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