The only authenticated fact of the week which bears upon
the Russo-Germanic question involving Prussia and Austria, is the " ideal° note" to which the Governments of Saxe Weimar, Saxe Meinengen, Saxe Altenberg, and Saxe Coburg Gotha have agreed, declaring the opinion of those Courts that the Germanic Confedera- tion is injured by its passive attitude, and signifying that the Courts in question will stand with Austria. In one of his notes to the Government at Vienna, Baron Manteuffel hinted that the minor German Governments were with Prussia; so wording the allu- sion as to imply, that all such Governments had that feeling, and were rather pressing Prussia forward in the course that she had adopted. Prussia is said to have made a last appeal to the Czar, with a re- quest to Austria for time. The reply of Nicholas is reported to be, that Russia will assent to the four conditions if Prussia will guarantee that the Western Powers shall ask no more. All these are rumours. It is also a rumour that Austria is halting the march of her troops on the frontier, because she halts in the course that she has hitherto pursued ; and that while Austrian officers domineer in the Principalities, the Government of the Emperor Francis Joseph has prevented Omar Pasha from entering Bessarabia to relieve the pressure upon the Allies in the Crimea. In the intervals between the publication of authentic statements respecting the relations of Austria with the two Powers, we have always these rumours of Austrian treachery ; and heretofore they have been as unreason. able as any expectation of chivalrous devotion in Austria to the principles of the West. The truth is, that Austria stets under the pressure of necessity ; and hitherto she has shown heeself able to understand that her real necessity should make her faithful to the West. The ascertained fact of the " identic note" which we have mentioned, and the occurrences of the week, only seem to show that Prussia is as contemptible as ever, and Russia as arrogantly obstinate ; her arrogance only being converted from that of exult- ing triumph to that of desponding malignity.
