The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-07 00:00:00

THE. DAY'S NEWS,

The Eastern- question is on thela.)26..again. It
wag' placed in the backgrOhnd h 7 the :German
question, and since the failure of 'the -last-it has
come .to light again. It is said that.the great
-naval force of France is to keep Eigla!id quiet,
and to leave the .settlemint. of the Oriental ques-
tion to Russia and France. It conjectured that
Austria . may. play _hi Constantinople the, part
which the Prince Regent of Prussia acted in
Baden-Baden.

Vermany ought to feed really thankful to Mons:
E. About for his :ingenioes pamphlet " La:
Pruisie en 18$0," and eliOit her most fervent
appeals to ProvideuCie;kgian't her a few more-of
' theis welceme Looliing • -at. ilia
• happy result of thi;ini-abliFyeiselesign of the
inspired pamphleteer-1--mereover, considering the
wonderful reoniiiiii-i*.the causes and effe4ts of
friendship and enmity- visible in the overfl+ing
sympathy existing ''between` Fraute on the, one
hand, Sand, England; Piedmont, and Switzeelatid
the' other, in the dreaded antipathy of the
first towards Rome and Naples, and in the recent
turn of events betivieii 'Austria and Prussia, we
that the. Old English
adage has beeomeOmpletely revolutionised,- -and,
that herteSfOrth vve shtill he forced to use it in-
`a sense enemy fri need is
:friendindded. M. About'a chief aim in .itisittg
Ailtria and in flattering. end-criticising Prussia
war: to stimulate a conflict between the two
leading powers of Germany. In the just wrath
of a free and independent citizen of France he
upbraids Austria for political crimes which are
foreign to iivin free =Miry.. Sheie rotten to
the core—a despot who cannot face the povfrer of.
the public press; Whose PeOpie":ll4'tii the
privilege to flatter and admire whatever is done
by hifi itiprerne will. And how could you
btfild the eermanio edifice such a
foundation ? All the it'ailiefti of th'eubiverse
would geese you of imprudence.".,'
. .
rebuke, coming from a French sontce, is really=
amusing. But the Viennese take-ibiliberty. to
remind M. About that the French architects have,
not alWiyi 'been sticeeSsfel. Once. before, on ,at)-L
insposing'tbzindation,-soinewhat analogeitts to that 7•
of the; preSelit day, n .tiflencnd edilee had been
built up, yet it did not last 10fig. of to:
induce the truth-loving pamphleteer to show mein'
courtesy towards foreign architects. He calcu-fi.
lated . too much ear the .digestive organs of the
Germans, which proved not sufficiently developed
yet to swallow the tempting prescription. Thus,
•
instead-of widening the breacb:between Austria
,
and. Prussia, he •b m eetight em :neayertt, to each.,
other, for whicheniiinent service nerititiettiiotight
to express lei deepest gratitude; ,!-
In Naples coduSien eiistrreveryWheretblit
fact is evident and teMediehlei arinti:iiiat:isl ,
immense relief Which every one hie deriVed from
r the extinction of the PoWer of the Thaf
frightfulineubus has at last been-throvin.eff,- and,
men breathe more freely and ipeak
From Ponza;Capri, and Santa Marie. Apparente,
,the Vioariaraed many other: places, sufferers for
thought or-speech only and Some for i 2 years, have
met togther and walked the streets of NapleS as
free m_ en.- '"I felt 'afraid and stunned at first,"
Said one poor -fellow, " but' I a,m getting the
-better of it,. andshall be accustomed to it shortly.".:
This liberation cf the political prisoners, and the
consequent blow to thepower of the police, is, in
_ehort, the 4lly'satirfactery symptoniin-its.pregent:.
position. In- other respects the people are full-of
distrust ; and a longing"'-for annexation to Pied-
mont, -as presenting .an, honest solution of the
difficulties, has Obtained great hold on the public
mind;
A 'correspondent from. Naples says have
spoken of slight indications of resent Merit against
the police, expressive of-a 'deep-inextinguishable-
-hatred of that body of miscreants,-but it was not
until the morning of the 27th
_that the feeling
burst forth in its strength ; but, when it did, it
carried • everything before it ; and all the
eommissaires were attacked one after ihe.other,
the ..furniture turned out and burnt,- ae well
as, the official papers, and the windows broken.
Alas . for. those unfortunate sbirri who were
found ! Many were , soundly 'beaten. Two, 17
ant told, Were killed. The chiefs of the body
managed to escape, as Manetti, Morbillo, Cam-
pagni, and many others, who hays been scourges