The most interesting bits in the Foreign news of the
week are certain rumours.
In Paris, there have been rumours that King Louis Philippe was to abdicate in favour of his grandson, in order that, before lily demise, he might give the Duc de Nemours the benefit of a little practice under paternal supervision : and in the North, there has been a rumour that King Louis Philippe was dead. Obvious probabilities act as a premium on the circulation of such reports. They also show the uneasy state of politicians specula- ting on contingencies in the event of Louis Philippe's departure. From Greece there are reports of a new and more formidable revolution, headed by Grivas. The Indian papers contain a rumour that Lord Hardinge had suggested the removal of the seat of Government from Calcutta to Simla. As yet this report is very apocryphal ; we doubt even whether it amounts to so much as a " feeler. ' But, at the very first mention of such a project, we would advise that it should undergo very deliberate consideration. Simla is a central p- tion, and it may be desirable that the Governor-General should be there on occasion ' • but it is most important that the chief Go- • vernment should be on a site readily accessible from England, which Simla is not.
From the Cape of Good Hope we have the compound news, "bitter-sweet,' that Sandilla has submitted, but that the Kafirs have made a new irruption across the border. It seems now to be placed beyond doubt that the military force is too feeble : to save the cost of employing double the number of soldiers for a certain period, we have had to employ a paltry force ten times as long as we needed. Such is the economy which consists in no earnest desire to spare the public burthens, but in sheer fright to face the Commons with augmented estimates.
