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That remarkable Frenchman, M. Regnier, the M. N. of the

Bourbaki intrigue, has turned up again, and has again seen Count Bismarck. He made an offer to the Chancellor, which is vaguely described, but means, we imagine, this,—that if the Germans would assign him some one department near Belgium, he would set up a Government—probably by collecting the old Corps Legislatif — which would be obeyed. Count Bismarck, believing him appa- rently to be an agent of the Bonapartist party, received him well at first, but finding that he meant to appeal to the nation, that is, probably, to take a plebiscite, roughly dismissed him. The Count knows that while the Bonapartea have a party which might aid him, the nation for years to come has done with them. He only uses the threat of a restoration.

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