In the present feverish and unsettled state of Continental Eu-
rope, the prospects of the harvest are canvassed with even more anxiety than here in Great Britain. Hunger often creates and always aggravates tumults. In France, all the provinces being taken into account, the harvest appears to have been §r fair average one ; a slight deficiency in the North being more than compensated by the redundance in the South. It is also understood that the stock of last year's corn in hand is still considerable. In the North of Germany, on the contrary, rust and mildew have prevailed to an extent that creates serious apprehensions, increased by reports of great damage done by the potato-rot. Of the harvest in Russia and Italy no reliable accounts have yet been Aceived. The harvest in America-appears to have been sufficiently ample to supply all European deficiencies. The political news from France is of little moment. A majority of the Councils of Arrondissement—according to some, a majority of no less than two thirds—have decided against any revision of the Constitution. The counsel of the political prisoners, whose trials by court-martial at Lyons is in progress, have, on the hun- dredth day, " thrown up their briefs,' as we would say in Eng- land, on the ground that they have no hopes of obtaining fair play for their clients. The court was expected to name other counsel for the defence ; but the prisoners, it was understood, would refuse to accept their services. As far as can be gleaned from the volu- minous and irregular proceedings of the court, there are several mauvais sujets among the accused ; but the plot, if not altogether of police manufacture, appears to have been shallow and contemp- tible in the extreme.
The King of Prussia has not been slow to follow u his signi-
ficant hint to the newspapers of his dominions. vial notice has been given to the Cologne Gazette—an organ of the Constitu- tional Liberals—that its publication will be suspended unless its tone be lowered. The proprietors have resolved, in consequence of this intimation, to confine themselves in future to the publica- tion of news without comment. The King has been consoling himself for the dissipation of his dream of German empire, by re- ceiving the homage of his new subjects in Hohenzollern and Sig- maringen, two of the smallest of the small German principalities, which he has purchased for more dollars than the Prussian trea- sury can at present well afford.
The Emperor of Russia has declared himself hostile to the in- corporation of the non-German territories of Austria into the Germanic Confederation. This would seem to indicate that the Autocrat still clings to his project of a Pansclavonic
