The Continent is less tranquil than might be supposed from
the generally uneventful character of the news. Turkey is suspended, not settled; its army occupying Grahowe—and dying with cold and hunger ; its officers insulting the parting Lavalette and truck- ling to the coming Menzschikoff ; its Cabinet undergoing a new crisis under the triple pressure of internal bigotry, state bank- ruptcy, and foreign bullying exercised upon a Government too feeble to be thoroughly reactionary and Turkish, or European and reforming. The Emperor of Austria has been ehurched after re- covering from his wound; and Milan still submits to military
But new complications arise. The Swiss Canton of Ticino had expelled certain Capuchin friars, exactly on the grounds which induced the expulsion of the Jesuits—their interference with edu- cation. But Ticino also was suspected to be the hiding-place of Italian conspirators. In retaliation, probably in punishment for the suspicion, the Austrian Government expelled all Tieinese from the Lombard territory,—a measure tantamount to a sudden ex- pulsion of all Irish from England. Crowds of miserable wretches filled the roads from Lombardy into Switzerland. The Federal Government, indignant, represents that the reprisals are not just, for the Ticinese labourers were harmless people, and the Capuchins had been compensated ; and it demands a retractation of the Im- perial order. The Federal Government of Switzerland is said to have been asking the support of France, and to have received in answer the suggestion of a dilatory policy. Louis Napoleon has sent a new diplomatic messenger to Rome, to urge the Pope to visit Paris in order to crown the Emperor; which will probably be done. But meanwhile, Louis Napoleon's foreign policy is a dead secret, known only to his own breast. Let him get crowned, and then ?—Why then, perhaps, Switzerland may have her answer ; the castles of the Dardanelles may pipe to some new dance ; and the kaleidoscope of Europe may understand what new pattern it is to take.
