The Foreign news is of no great mark—more personal than
political. - From India, the most startling announcement is, that a gallant officer is under arrest for one of those daring acts of chivalry that have done so much to establish the prestige of British arms in Hindostan. Colonel Wallace led a regiment and ordnance down a precipice, and through a mountain-pass, in pursuit of the enemy, and succeeded in a decisive coup de main: lie did it in excess of orders—orders received too late ; and his success has stultified the reasons why he was forbidden to attempt an "im- practicable and " visionary " achievement. The scene of the exploit (as with some of the feats ascribed by tradition in Scot- land to his great namesake) has been named after him ; and if the sentence of the Court-martial cannot be anticipated—so in- scrutable are the ways of courts-martial in India—the judgment of posterity is foreshadowed in this instinctive fixing of the new tradition to the spot. In France, the principal subject of conversation is M. Guizot's i illness. It s influenza, or a bilious attack—it is trifling, it is dangerous—he is better, he is worse—such are the fluctuating re- ports. The want of Guizot would be a serious inconvenience to uLouis Philippe just now, if not to Europe ; but with such a man, chagrin at the public inconvenience is merged in regret at his own suffering. All the world will be anxious to know how he does, till he 18 out of the doctor's hands.
Switzerland is still ruled by a Council that can come to no con- clusion; and the troublous aspect of affairs is illustrated by the report that the Federal Republic is about to multiply its family by a kind of fissiparous propagation—splitting itself into two dis- tinct republics, Catholic and Protestant.
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