The Week.

drawing-room of the season took place ; ivhich was fully and brilliantly attended . On this occasion Her Majesty received the annual deputation from Christ ' s Hospital . There was afterwards a state dinner , and an evening party , at which Mr . Albert Smith gave his entertainment . Two Haytian envoys had an interview with the Queen on Saturday , to announce to Her Majesty the establishment of a republic in Hayti . In Paris the momentous question appears as remote from solution as ever . Every day seems to add it fresh complications and uncertainty . People who hitherto have clung to the belief that peace would not be disturbed ,

are now disposed to look upon war as inevitable . Cabinet councils are of almost daily occurrence at the Tuileries . Om- advices from Paris still speak doubtfully of the result of the present crisis , although it is stated that on Sunday there was a decided prevalence of pacific symptoms . The French journals do not any longer refrain from noticing the military and naval movements that take place in the country . The Marseilles journals register accurately the arrivals of troops from Africa , and those of Toulon mention the name of every ship , be it a man-of-war or a transport which is fitted out for service . ' A camp has been prepared for African

corps near the railway terminus at Marseilles , where they are quartered until their departure for the camp of Sathonay . At Havre an order has been received to call out the marines between tiventy and forty years of age , in the proportion of a tenth for each quarter . In AVednesday ' s sitting of the conferences on the Danubian affairs , the representatives of Austria and the Porte , on the reading of the protocol of the first sitting , demanded certain modifications , by reason of which a third meeting AA'ill take place . A great sensation has been produced in Italy by a speech made bCount Giulay to the troops at MilanAvhich may be described as

y , equivalent to a declaration of war . In Lombardy , Austria's military preparations , instead of being slackened , are rapidily increased . At Vienna there is not- the slightest belief iu the preservation of peace . The Emperor Francis Joseph has expressed his resolve not to be the football of the Emperor of the French . Great complaints are made of the want of good faith of the French Government ; the Paris Cabinet advised Count Cavour not to disarm , and subsequently proposed that

both Austria and Sardinia should withdraAV their forces from the frontiers ; the proposition ivas made by one of the mediating Poivers to Austria , who rejected it , but at the same time expressed her readiness to disarm , if France and Sardinia would do so likewise . Austria has positively refused to become a party to the Congress , unless it is preceded by a general and simultaneous disarmament . Letters from Turin state that Garibaldi is the most popular man in Piedmont among certain classes . It is said Cavour ' s day is past , oiving to his many political failures . Notivithstanding the popularity of Garibaldihe cannot win his Avay

, with General Della Marmora , who refuses to receive or recognize him , or to have anything to do with the revolutionary bands of volunteers under his command . It appears the different governments around Piedmont welcome the departure of these hot-headed volunteers from their respective states , even Austria shutting her eyes to their emigration . The Cavaliere Massimo d'Azeglio left Turin on Thursday morning for Paris , charged with au extraordinary mission to the governments of France and England . On Tuesday the Archduke Albrecht of Austria , airived at Berlin

, and on AVednesday the reigning Grand Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha , on his way to the confirmation of . the Princess Alice , at AVindsor . The official Prussian Gazette states , that there are still hopes that peaee may be preserved , and announces that its government has , during the negotiations for mediation , neglected no steps which could enable Prussia to fulfil the duties imposed upon her by her position towards Germauy and Europe . The ' Austrian government has obtained the approval of that of Prussia to its late conciliatory position . The Dresden Journal alleges its acquaintance with the fact that the Congress will

assemble on the 23 rd inst . at Carlsruhe , and will commence operations by resolving on a general disarming . The official Winrtemlcrgisdher Staatsanzeiger publishes a royal decree calling in the landwehr . The first bands are to be composed of those soldiers who have left military service ivithin the last tivo years , and the two junior classes which have not yet begun military service , are summoned for the 1 st of May next . In the Dresden Journal we find there is a statement to the effect that England supports the proposal for a general disarmament in a manner