Continental politics continue to be of minor interest. The fuller
accounts of the proceedings in the Assembly of States Com- mittees at Berlin show the Assembly destitute of any thing of a legislative character. The mode of consulting the several States, however, upon the real benefit, or otherwise, which they are likely to derive from measures intended for their advantage—such as reductions of particular taxes, and great railroad schemes—is so obvious and so useful, that it is a wonder how the Government could heretofore have got on without it.
France is busy about little angers ; one being the dismissal of General PAJOL—a veteran of greater reputation for daring than for discretion : but the move looks arbitrary enough. Another standing anger is England ; for which the War-faction always have a pretext. The latest is Lord ABERDEEN'S letter to the Admiralty, checking certain proceedings of our slave-cruisers in Africa ; because, forsooth, it evinces our dread of war ! The National dreams of coalition against England, of France with Russia, or with Prussia, or with Austria, or with the second powers of Europe, or with the United States. Why, it only lies with England to cry "Monarchy in danger!" to drag all Monarchical Europe into a crusade against France, with some of her own parties to join the crusaders. But we may leave the War-party to the care of LOUIS PHILIPPE; who knows that war with England, or any great war, would only be the preliminary to another outburst of military revolution in France, toppling down the new dynasty in the first brawl. Let it be added, that con- temptible and wicked as is the French war-jargon, we are not with- out a similar reproach. What is the Irish Liberator's gloating over England's difficulties, with hinted aspirations for war on all sides? what has been the theme of the leading Opposition journal in London for the last eight or ten weeks ? The only difference is, that here we have among the people no real War-party to give a shadow of justification for the frothy rhetoric of paper Caesars and hustings Buonapartes ; which in France they have. As there is a War-public in France, there will always be a demand for War- papers : here, the criminal incitement is a gratuitous absurdity.
The Porte has " recognized " the new revolutionary Government of Servia, and ratified the rebel appointment of the Prince. Russia, with apparent reluctance, acquiesces. Perhaps the next best thing to assuming possession of the province, which would just now be very inconvenient and very odious, is to have it shaken a little looser from Turkey, and occupied by a stopgap Government rather less consecrated by vested rights than the last.
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