Sir Francis Head has published a letter in the Times
which he has re- ceived from his imperial " friend " the Emperor of the French, thanking Sir Francis for his championship of the imperial cause. The Emperor plaintively regrets that ho who has been so firm a friend of England should be so much misrepresented in our country. We shall give the letter next week. The Moniteur of yesterday says that the report in the Constitedionnel that the Emperor has Ocdemd his troops to evacuate Rome "is at least premature." The official gazette of Venice says that "as soon as the notification in writing of Cardinal Antmelli shall arrive here, it is self-understood that the evaeution of the States of the Church by the Austrian troops will follow ; because, in this, as in the entry of the troops, the desire of the Holy Father is decisive."
At a dinner given by the Princess Mathilde, last Saturday, it was ob- served most of the guests were Hungarian, and that after the dinner they were presented by the Princess to the Prince Napoleon. In Berlin they are full of wrath at the part which Russia is taking. She opposed the union of the Danubian Principalities, she is now sup- porting the policy of their union. It is reported that the Seventh Prussian Corps d'Annee of the Rhenish province are ordered to be in readiness, and that the fortresses on the Rhine are about to be furnished with provision stores as if for war.
We have advices from Frankfort and from Berlin. From Frankfort on the 1st instant, they write that the feeling daily grows stronger that Germany is in danger and ought to unite. It is said that amongst the questions which occasion difficulty is the demand that Austria shall con- sent to demolish the fortifications of Piacenza.
Several papers have stated that the Rothschild* had taken the Russian loan of 6,000,0001. ; we have good reason to know that nothing is yet concluded, and, though overtures may have been made to that firm, it is much more likely that the loan, which is of ten and not of six millions, will be brought out by the Baringa of London, the Hopes of Amsterdam, and Stieglitz of St. Petersburg ; these houses being the regular agents of the Russian Government. We may add that the loan was determined upon before the 1st of January.
The Bourse, of course, has been very considerably agitated in Paris as well as Vienna. The early reports were, that Lord Cowley had met with considerable difficulties, and the rise of prices which had taken place on his departure, subsequently underwent a considerable reaction. In Vienna, however, while the reports are equally confident both ways, there has latterly been a decided rise in the Bourse, and Ministers are said to have assured their friends that things had taken a pacific turn. The fall in French Rentes has exceeded 1 per cent since the let of February.
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