A word or two about affairs in more distant quarters.
Reports as to the state of the Italian negotiations are contra- dictory. According to some, Austria will accept the mediation of France and Great Britain, if a direct arrangement between Radetzky and King Charles Albert be not amicably settled. According to others, there is some hesitation in Vienna to accept the mediation of revolutionary France, and the army of the Re- public has had orders to cross the Alps. An insult to the Go- vernment at Paris would unite France to avenge it, and looks too impolitic to be probable; though the attitude of the French Government does grow threatening. Indeed, shuffling ought not to be permitted. Austria ought to be called upon to take one course or another.
The armistice of Schleswig-Holstein, so much debated and so precarious, has been renewed with a chance of final settlement. The victories won by Lieutenant Edwardes against the contu- macious Moolraj of Moultan are confirmed by the week's mail : the Native insurgents fought with obstinacy and effect, but per- haps only suffered the more signally and fatally.
The accounts from the United States teem with Anti-Anglican rubbish from Irish Yankees : a very nest of Euimetts has been raked up, and the threats of subverting the power of England are terrible. It might be advantageous to some of these gentlemen to be told how certain Yankee sympathizers who ventured into Ireland lie under arrest. By the by, those same sympathizers would be released under any " amnesty,"—a point to be con- sidered, if there is a shadow of truth in the reports of so absurd a measure.
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