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ake of conciliation , to lay before the Diets of these countries both tlie Diploma of October , 1860 , and the . Patent of February , 1861 . In other words , be now submits to the discussion and decision of these Diets tbe whole constitution which hitherto he had insisted on their accepting . If however , thoy should in any way modify the constitution , the alteration must he

submitted to the judgment of the other parts of the empire . During these proceedings the operation of the constitution through tbe present Reichsralh remains suspended . The Government will act on its own responsibility in the interval . AA e need hardly point out the importance of this unexpected concession to the resistance of the non-German provinces .

The Moniteur knocks on the head all the rumours about changes in tlie personnel and policy of the French Government to begin on the 14 th of October . However tlie report got abroad , there can be no doubt that ifc took strong possession of the journalistic mind of Paris . Our correspondent in Paris several times warned our readers to put no faith in it , and the

Moniteur now confirms his warning . A new Austrian loan is , it appears , to be contracted for . We should think the success of the loan can hardly be assured until Europe learns what the decision of the Hungarian Diet is likely to be on the oiler of conciliation which the Emperor has thrown out . Some foolish Englishman , ifc appears , has been writing a threatening letter to

Count von Bismarck . At least the Berlin papers are authorised to publish a letter signed "A . Briton , " bearing the London postmark , and dated " 15 th Sept ., " which threatens the Prussian Prime Minister with " a thrashing " should he ever show his face in England . Silly practical jokers forget that a son . of capital is made out of such follies by the person to whon . they are addressed . Lord Russell would put a stop to a weary and perplexing controversy if he would tell the

world at once whether he did or did not write tho circular on the Gastein Convention which has been attributed to him , and on which we all commented . The Nord insists that the published text is a mere invention ; other Continental papers as firmly maintain that it is authentic . AA ' e at home can only wonder and wait . ' Some German papers sec in the Emperor

of Austria's manifesto only a scheme to get rid , for the present of the inconvenience of constitutional government in Austria itself . The Ministry had hard work last session to get tho Reichsrath to come to any terms about the budget , and it is urged that they would be very glad to have a short interval of arbitrary rule to pull through their difficulties without

awkward questionings and objections . But though this theory is quite worth mentioning , we are not disposed to adopt it . The manifesto appears to us to have been issued in good faith—with the hope of bringing about somehow a compromise absolutely necessary for the stability of tho empire . Should the negotiations fail it is helieved that the

constitution of the western provinces will he allowed to remain intact . The Madrid papers state that it is believed that that city will wholly escape the visitation of cholera . Explanations on the subject of the new Austrian loan have been published . The King of Prussia is about to pay a visit immediately to his new province of Lauenhurg . He is to ho accompanied by his

guide , philosopher , and friend , the Count \ -dn Bismarck . The Roman Minister of AA ar , Mgr . de Merode , has made the death of General Lamoriciere tlie subject of an order of the day to the Pontifical army . Tha ordor is of course a panegyric , but it states that Lamoriciere was only awaiting a favourable opportunity of again offering his life in the Papal

cause . We really , pace Mgr . de Merode , can hardly credit this . From Rome we have received , and we publish , some alleged official documents to prove the complicity of the Papal

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Government in the brigandage system . A \ c do not doubt the complicity , but we do doubt the authenticity of these documents . The King of the Greeks has announced his intention to dispense with a third of the civil list , in order to relieve the embarrassments of the Treasury . Spain and Peru have formally renewed their diplomatic relationship . The Spanish

Minister was received by the Peruvian President , and the Madrid papers publish reports of the courteous speeches interchanged on the occasion . A strange story of Prussian police government in Posen is published . A little boy of nine was formally charged with having spoken slander of the Police President , and was arrested , brought before a police magistrate ,

threatened with incarceration and the stick if he did not confess , and treated generally as a mature if culprit might be by a Turkish Cadi . The child ' s father has addressed a memorial on the subject to the Prussian Minister of the Interior . Lamartine is publishing a " Life of Byron" as a fev . illelon in the Consiitutionnel . Two chapters have already appeared .

Thus far the style seems turgid and weak . Remarking on Byron ' s early years , Lamartine tells that tho poet fell in love when a child of eight , and adds that Dante conceived his immortal passion jfor Beatrice at eleven , and that he himself—Alphonse de Lamartine , was similarly affected at ten years old . This is characteristic—Byron , Dante , and "myself . "

AMERICA . —The Africa has brought an item or two of American intelligence , her dates being to the 14 th inst . President Johnson has given a public assurance to the Southern States that he will adopt a conciliatory policy towards them ; and ifc is clear , from the order which is about to be given—to withdraw from the South all troops except those which are engaged in

^ - > rrison duty—and from the restoration of the civil authority in uV- yiatters save those affecting the status of the negro , that the President ; is determined to exercise the utmost clemency consistent with the re-establishment of order and the abolition of slavery . The Peruvian , with dates from New York to the IGth inst ., has arrived . Tho Massachusetts Republican

Convention , with Senator Sumner at its head , had declared strongly for the exclusion of the Southern States from Congress until the negro had been invested with the suffrage . According to the British gunboat Urgent , the Atlantic cable buoys have disappeared from the place where they were anchored .

IXDIA , CIITXA , & c . —Sir Harry Parkes , the new Minister in Japan , is establishing his legation at Ycddo . Another telegram informs us that the traffic on the East India Peninsular Railway has been stopped by floods but is now resumed . Direct intelligence from Now Zealand confirms the report that General Cameron has resigned the command of tho troops in

that colony . AVilliam Thompson , whose surrender was reported a mail or two ago , has petitioned the Queen to send out a commission of inquirv .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

: > : V * All communications to be addressed to 19 , Salisburystreet , Strand , London , AA \ C . E . V . Received with many thanks . F . C . Your communication is unavoidably postponed till our next . J . S . —St . Alban formed the first Grand Lodge in Britain A . D . 287 .

M . M—Thanks for your poetic effusion . We shall he happy to hear from yon again . S . S . —The Earl of Zetland was elected and installed as Grand Master in 1841 .