The news from the three great regions of movement on
the Continent is important, but of a nature to awaken rather than satisfy solicitude.
France has witnessed another scene like those familiar to the old Revolution, but with a difference due to the better intelligence of the present time, and tbebetter condition of tie likenekreople. eta parties disappointed at thiezeneral election, the ultra Republicans and Communists, read@ es violent eilimpt le seize that power which was denied ttwthem By the people's suffrages : they found active leaders in several of the more reckless demagogues ; and it appears certain that they found abettors among connexions of the Government : General Courtais, the Commandant of the National Guard, turned traitor, and permitted an irruption of the mob into the National Assembly ; Louis Blanc labours under grave suspicion of connivance, and of cowardice in disclaiming complicity after the attempt had failed. Recovering from the first surprise, which succeeded for the moment through treachery, the Government vigorously suppressed the outbreak; the Execu- tive was effectively supported by the Assembly and by all Paris. On the whole, order seems to have been tested rather than weak- ened by this extraordinary display. The men of violence have proved their incapacity and their weakness. And it ought to be remembered that France has at this moment no permanently or- ganized government : it is only managed by a committee pending the labours of the Assembly in organizing a constitution, and is therefore strictly in a transition state. In Northern Italy, Charles Albert has made a movement in advance, with brilliant success in the field, and a corresponding move back again, with disastrous consequences to his military repute,—opinion, in both cases, jumping to exaggerated con- clusions. The ; iffect is, that matters are pretty much in statu quo. So it is at Rome : the reports that the Pope was in the Castle of Sant' Angelo are not borne out ; but the compromise which his new Ministry seem to be labouring at, between the abstinence from a formal declaration of war and the more active promotion of military measures, has little influence in allaying the popular impatience.
Germany continues most unsettled ; and a proposal in Prussia, to recall Prince William from England—his adhesion to the new opinions being presumed—has provoked unpleasant proofs of the Prince's general unpopularity.
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