To every observer of the political events of the present day, it must be evident that there is an overruling providence, or a restraining influence, which is preserving so general a quiet among the nations of the earth. It is well known that the peace of Europe depends at this moment on the life of Napoleon III, of France. An attempt was recently made upon his life: it failed. The chief conspirator, Orsini, was arrested, and executed in Paris, March 20th. From a brief memoir of his life we learn that under his auspices was consummated that organization which spread the elements of revolution throughout Italy and Europe, in the great outbreak of 1848—a movement which we have reason to believe would have resulted in a time of trouble such as never was, had it not been, as every one admits, as strangely and mysteriously quelled, as it had been set on foot. He has not been idle since that time. But his schemes have failed, and involved him in the loss of his own life also. In him the revolutionists have lost a busy head and active arm; but the principles are still working; the masses are still chafing under the iron heel of their oppressors; discord is still fermenting; and when those objects are accomplished for which they have thus been held in check, then they will take at the Lord's hand the cup of his fury, and be moved and be mad, and drink and "be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which he will send among them." Jer. XXV. We will refer to one event in our own land. The Lecompton bill, entailing slavery upon Kansas has been defeated. But suppose it had not been defeated; suppose it had passed both houses of Congress, and Kansas been admitted as a slave State; civil war in Kansas, and perhaps not alone in Kansas, is the result which was everywhere predicted to hang upon that contingency. But this bill, upon which was suspended such important results, could not have been carried by the Republicans alone. Says the N. Y. Tribune, "But for six votes from the slave States the bill must have passed." A quieting hand seems thus to be laid on the discordant elements now working in the world, which shows us that not quite yet, has the time come for the angels to loose the winds, and discord rage in fury over the earth.