NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE aspect of affairs through the week has not been reassuring. We have recorded the signs of coming trouble elsewhere, but must add here that the popular impression in all European countries except England is that war is at hand. The Prussian King's speech was followed by a rattling fall on the Berlin Bourse, Austrian securities have fallen heavily at Frankfort, Italians have touched 46, an almost inexplicable price, considering that Church property alone would pay half the Debt, Rente has declined 1 per cent., and large purchases are being made in Consols, under the usual idea that England is out of the scrape. As a rule, men on 'Change never know anything, but a simultaneous fall on every Bourse in Europe shows great disturbance in the public mind: The German and French journals are both getting angry, every rumour of war is greedily believed, and the King of the Belgians is flitting about on railways, now in Paris and next day in Berlin, like a marten before a shower. Whether the storm conies or not, the air is clearly loaded with electricity.
