15 FEBRUARY 1862, page 13

Mr. Seward's Diplomacy.

I T any misanthrope wishes for a mournful spectacle "of human hopes defeated and o'erthrown," let him read Mr. Seward's correspondence on foreign affairs, laid before Congress......

The Revolution In Russia. T Here Is A Political Thaw In

Russia, and the ice is bending and cracking in all directions. The stream runs swiftly underneath, solid as the surface appears, and since the first great breach the whole mass......