NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE despotic rulers of the Continent appear to be much alarmed at the turn the world is taking. We mentioned last week, that the Emperor NICHOLAS and the King of PRUSSIA had been con- ferring together at the fortress of Thierensstadt. Their Ministers, in the meanwhile, held a diplomatic meeting at Toplitz, near Dresden. Both these meetings have been rather suddenly broken up, in consequence of the wish of the Russian Monarch to meet his brothers of Austria and Prussia, in September, at .a regular congress at Troppau, attended by their Ministers, and the pleni- potentiaries of as many subaltern Princes as they may think it ex- pedient to invite. King-WiemAm'of Holland, the enthroned pro- fligate of Wurtemburgi and the Pope; will no doubt be duly re- presented there ; but it will be scarcely worth while to request the attendance of any one on the part of that fallen star of Legitimacy, the luckless Don MIGUEL.
The close alliance subsisting between England and France the main cause of the disquietude of the Despots; and hence it that so much interest is taken by them in our domestic There can be no doubt,,that were the Duke of WELLIN
Lord ABERDEEN once more the &deters of our foreign policy, the friendship of France would he exchanged for that of Russia, and Conservative instead of Liberal principles on the Continent would receive the patronage of the British Cabinet. As long, however, as the present state of things endures, none need despair of the cause Of liberty. All the cunning of METTERNICH and the dra- goons of his patrons will only retard for a time the emancipation of Europe. Every week brings accounts of the dissatisfaction and revolutionary spirit which pervades by far the greater portion of Germany and Italy. Severe measures for its suppression will pro- bably be decreed at the ensuing Congress of Troppau. It is to he hoped that they will not provoke the Liberals into premature resistance.
