CONTINENTAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 523, 7 December 1861, Page 2

CONTINENTAL.

The Press has lately published what it terms important revelations, communicated from "an authoritative source," to the eifect that, during the recent visit of the King of Sweden, a s-corc! agreement has been come to with the Emperor Xapolcon, by virtue of which the Finng are to be j encouraged to agitate for reunion with Sweden, the Emperor undertaking to assist them if necessary, with the same chivalric disinterestedness which marked his intervention in Italy. Tinintrigues to this end have already commenced, for the. Pays a few days since informed us that " the deputies Rent from Finland to Stockholm, I to demand its peparatiou from Russia, have been j arrested by the Russian authorities on a charge jof treason." Other sign* are not wanting to show •that there is a growing alienation between the I Governments of Paris and H. Petersburg. A .or respondent of the Morning Chronicle Ft*tce that, in a recent conference with Prince Gorts'chakoff, the French ambassador dropped some 'hinte to tho effect that llu.-»ia would do well to ! give up Poland, on condition of receiving territorial concessions elsewhf.ro. The politic prince I not only deip;ne<l~no— ro«-K< ¥ — but - he— affected not even to understand what was said. la Poland and the adjacent provinces tho nsP"ct of affairs becomes every day more gloomy and dangcrons On the 4th inst., at "Wilna, there |wisa sanguinary collision with the troops. At ; Cracow, on the 16th, perilous demonstrations took place. At Poscn, on tho 12th, the agitated condition of the town led to a temporary declaration of a state of siege. While at Warsaw, on the i 7th, being the anniversary of the Emperor's coroI nation, and consequently an official fete, about : 100,000 persons assembled in the different ! churches, to attend a funeral service for the Poles [who died, armi in hand, in defendiug Warsaw layainet the Russian army in 1831.