NEWS OF THE WEEK.
17RE is little news this week from Paris, but we see reason to elieve that the French Government is a good deal preoccupied with Spanish affairs. The German Government is urgent, not to say peremptory, in its demands that the French frontier should be closed, and Marshal MacMahon has no reason for wishing success to Don Carlos ; but with almost the whole Spanish frontier in Carlist bands, the difficulty of watching, through un- willing agents, hereditary smugglers, who know every pass and are Carlists to a man, is almost insuperable. The tone of the German Consuls, too, is said to be a little difficult to bear, as are the hints, probably unfounded, but stall constant, of heavier demands yet to come. The Bidassoa frontier is a dangerous point when the mouth of the river is guarded by boats neither Spanish nor French, and the shores belong to both nations, and altogether, Versailles is required to show a very exemplary patience. The Marshal's position is not less perplexing if, as we more than suspect, the Carlists would rather see_ Germany inter- vene than not, and so acquire the credit of being the Most truly " national " party of the three.
