Foreign affairs are not without interest, although they need no
protracted comment. In France, while the officials are getting rap the votes for the prebiseite, L0111.11 Napoleon's Government ?id>. Rehm the manifesto of Henri Cinq between two revolutiomwy documents, and advertises a " redaction " of the army by thirty thousand men. Let us see which men are reduced. In Belgium, the public are protesting against the new rinse law. Russia osten- tatiously celebrates the anniversary of the retreat of the French from Moscow. Austria permits its journals to recognize the Emu& Empire, while they deprecate a genealogical right in the new Emperor ; and the Government at 'Vienna withholds from the funeral of Wellington the countrymen of Haynau,—whether in memory of the unmannerly brewer's men, or in awe of Louis Na- poleon, is not explained. In Turkey, the Sultan is trying to get some money, from which he is debarred by Russian scruples. At the Cape of Good Hope, General Cathcart is rather making head against the Caffres. In Burmah, the expedition proceeds deliber- ately, as if with an eye to securing annexation unopposed. In Australia, more gold is dug up. At Buenos Ayres, trrquiza, who deposed Roses, is in -turn deposed. In the United States, Franklin Pierce is elected President, by an immense majority, say his friends—but the actual numbers had not been received when the mail left New York. Free-trade, Democracy, and energetic national policy, are understood to be advanced by his election.
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