airs seems to indicate that he will be continued in
office in some shape or other.

The Bishop of Chartres, in a pastoral letter, attacks a late circular of
the Archbishop of Paris, recommending the clergy to abstain from
politics, and to yield obedience to the laws of their country. The
bishop considers that when destructive principles are advanced, the
clergy should be found ready to oppose their progress; and he sees no
reason why the ecclesiastical body should be enjoined to take no part in
public affairs. The archbishop, in reply, denounces the conduct of the
bishop, as an unwarrantable interference with his jurisdiction, and as a
breach of the respect due to him as metropolitan: and refers the
bishop's letter to the provincial council to be held during the present
year at Paris.

The Professors of the College of France held a meeting at the Sorbonne
to take into consideration the tendency of the lectures of M. Michelet,
which were considered prejudicial, in a moral and political point of
view to the students. He himself declined to attend, but defended
himself in a letter stating that his lectures were blamed only by the
Jesuits and the enemies of French nationality. His colleagues, by a vote
of 17 out of 21 decided upon a vote of censure against him, and that the
minutes of their proceedings should be transmitted to the Minister for
approval. It is said that M. Michelet his resigned his chair.

GERMANY.

The German mists grow thicker. All that can now be affirmed with
certainty is, that the Dresden Conference has been no more able to
improvise a German Empire than was the Frankfort Parliament. A month
ago, and it seemed that Austria had outgeneraled Prussia, and made
herself absolute mistress of Germany, and was in a fair way to become
ruler from the Rhine to the Alps. The petty states of Germany were in
alarm; the kingdoms of the second rank began to see themselves in
danger, and to talk of a central power, from which the constitutional
element was not altogether excluded. It is now said that the King of
Prussia is again ambitious of playing the first part on the German
stage, and has refused to sanction the concessions made by his minister.
It seems probable that Germany will fall back upon the old Frankfort
Confederation. In the mean time, we present the following, as what seems
to us the condition and designs of the principal parties; premising that
the very next intelligence may present them under an a