The Augsburg Gazette contains a pretended letter from Con- stantinople,
which the Tory papers quote as indicative of the alarm and distrust produced on the Continent by the return of the Whigs to power, and more especially of Lord PALMERSTON to the Foreign Office. In consequence of the dismissal of the Tories, the letter profoundly observes, " there prevails a certain malaise, which acts unfavourably upon intimate communications, and the tone of confidence which has recently existed ,n our diplomatic circles has vanished." We can easily believe that this is true. The Tories are popular, as Mr. GISBORNE observed, in Vienna, Berlin, and St. Petersburg, though they cannot secure the return of one Member in London, Dublin, or Edinburgh. The Tories are the fellow accomplices of the Continental Despots: but Lord MELBOURNE and his colleagues make those worthies uneasy ; and they would be unfit Ministers for this country were the case other- wise. The Tory newspapers may rely on it that the Liberal Cabinet receives no damage from such articles' as the German journalist supplies for quotation in England, at METTERNICIeS command.
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