K Drouyn de Lhuys' circular on the Schleswig-Holstein ques- tions
has been published, and is certainly not less offended and offensive in its mention of England than we anticipated. The Emperor intimates that, had the Congress been general, the German Diet would not have objected to appear at it, and discuss its own particular difficulty ; but that it has more than once refused to discuss this single question with European Powers, and without the consent of the Diet the Emperor cannot give his own. It was a most lamentable mistake, says M. Drouyn de Lhuys, that the Diet was not asked to ,concur in the arrangement of 1852, and he roundly characterizes the London Conference of 1852—Lord Palmer- ston'a achievement—as " an impotent work." Clearly there is not at present much love lost between the French and English Cabinets.
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