What the weather is to Englishmen the Eastern Question is to diplomatists.

For their sakes, let us hope that it never will be satisfactorily settled.

Diplomatists, like many other apparently useless beings, must live.
_January 15th._ Yesterday we were made comparatively happy by a report that the Prussian funds had fallen 3 per cent.

at Berlin.

To-day we are told that Bourbaki has gained a great victory, raised the siege of Belfort, and is about to enter Germany.