The Dresden Journal states that the Five Powers may be
regarded as having agreed to the preliminaries of the approaching Congress. The day of assembling will probably be the 30th April next, but the place of meeting is not yet settled. Our own information leads us to believe that the Dresden Journal is right in all its statements, except that fixing the period of meeting. An ,extreniely well-informed . Pane correspondent tells us that the Russian loan is well received, and that the whole sum demanded will be procured. Such is not the happy. lot of Imperial Austria ; the unfortu- nate negotiator, Baron Brentano, after useless attempts to raise the wind at Frankfort? has returned to the market of the world, and is there pur- suing his negotiations with equal want of success : we believe the bank of Darmstadt is the solitary institution that retains a lively faith in Austrian securities. If a country gentleman with 20,0001. a year, spent 40,000/. and set up a pack of stag-hounds, in addition to his fox-hounds, we all know what must be his fate, sooner or later ; and Austria cannot expect people to believe in her power of paying, until she cuts down her armies at least one-half.
A new bank has, in Paris, put forth its claims to public favour. It is styled "Societe Generale Anonyme de Credit Industnel et Commercial." The subscription is open in our own Stock Exchange as well as in the Paris Bourse. Our Pans advices, however, tell us that the Bourse says the Bank is not wanted.
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