The North-Carolina standard., 1847-10-06
'r From the Albany N. Y Argus.
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The European Continent. es ..r
What with the thrilling details of the glorious
,.beyemenis Of our arms under the walls OF
Nexco, and the usual press upon our columns. we
lave not been able to devote that attention to the
nws received by the recent arrivals from Europe
,,ich we could have desired, and which It's I'M
rrtance demands. =! i'm.
1t is in political point Of view that the affairs
Europe present the most interesting aspect. and
ever more interesting at any period in our ePoc
IAN at this time. Clouds are rising above the
oIiticaI horizon, and those deep mutterings are
card in the social elements, which are the pre-.
,rsors of some terrible convulsion. The old
.lastes are already tottering with the weight OF
use and corruption that has accumulated upon
bpm, and the slightest shock would seem sufi-
.rnt 10 crush them. In those lands particularly,
where the iron. hand of despotsm has been most
IernIy felt, do the People at length TO awall
10 to sense of their rights, and to be preparing
br their assertion and vindicution.z The seeds
pWn throughout Europe by the French Rcvolu-
Loo are beginning TO gerIninate and bring forth,
md fortunate indeed will it be if they do not rival
bloody fruit the parent plant A mighty
md alI-pervading struggle-ineviably tending, it
rouId appear, to the strife of arms and bloodshed
in which the Genius of Freedom and of Lib
sasm, and the fell spirit of Legitimacy and
: Dcspotism are the antagonists apparent
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yay NAV be tracked through scenes of bIoodshed
md devastation-for is the death struggle of an
tent abuse and priviIege-who will doubt that
be progress of the Free Principle of the Rights
# Man, will in the end be triumphant one2
1t is in ITALY, the land of story and of song,
With her children as ardent and as fiery as her
mn unclouded sun, that this Struggle is the most
lpparent. The good Plus TX, in carrying out
Is pnIIanthropic efforts reform and nriiorate
4 L l.. L.,
b alarm and apprehension of the great high
nrst of absoIutism, Me,ternieh the prime minis
sr of Austria Dreading the effects of the exam
le thus placed before the Austro-Itulian states,
arer irksome under the yoke of the Barbarian, he
las exhausted every means of persuasion to IN
uce the Pontif1 to abandon his noble efforts. But
ne Pope, resolved IN his purpose, was inscnsble
% this influence Then, the Austrian resorted TO
one of those willy intrigues with which he IS so
hmiIiar He sought 10 excite an insurrectlon IN
The Eternal City, in the hope, under the prttext
IF aiding in its suppression, Of Introducing an
Austrian garrison This done. he hoped that by
,,crbine the outbreak to the reforms OF the Pope,
he might be enabled under the plea Of their dam
.srous tendrncy and with the aid OF his troops,
lsecure their effectual suppression. Failing IN
Ill this, however, as he did, the next step of the
a1strians was 10 advance their battaions into the
Hpal territories, and to occupy the city OF terrara
lis Infamous act of aggression, 90 far from in
.nida.ng the Pontif or dshcartening his people,
las had directly the contrary effect His energy
h.ing with the danger, the Pope, seconded as he
/ too by the enthusiasm of his people, announces
is discrimination 10 resist the invasion, and is
we2aring his territories for defence. An army of
Voluneers, already some $4,000 strong, was as
embling at ForIi, and the monks and members of
The religious orders even, had formed themselves
into military bodies. Indeed, such is the indigna-
Ion of the people against the Tedcseh1, as they
Term the Austrians, that arms cannot be found
n sufficient quantities to supply them, and an
Oder had been despatched to France for 10000
nuskcts. In the stand thus taken, The Pope IS
seconded by the King of Sardinia, who had en-
ared an energetic protest against all Austrian IN
lsVenton in the affairs Of the independent sover-
dgntics of Italy, and as is said, offered the Pope
he cooperation of his army and fleet, in case of
lnher aggression on the part of Austria. II was
nmored also, that the same offer had been made
10 the part of The King Of Naples, but the last
sry was not credited. France, II is said, sides
nh Austria in the insane hope Of Louis Phillip
p, forgetfui of July 1880, to sustain his dynasty
iy rallying around it the dcspotism of the conti-
Nent Not with troops does it aid the AustriaHs
but by taci approval of their acts. The knowI-
edge of this fact, tits stated, has induced The B r
ah Government 10 order a fleet to Ancona, and
eren to Land there couple of regiments from the
Ionian Isles. 1t is in this way that the sudden
disappearance of the British feet from the coast
d Portugal is accounted for. A happy change,
so; but evincIng how little desire for the tri-
umph Of the Free Principle has: to do with this
matter. In Portugal, it was the IberaIists il was
operating against and an imbecile despotsm it
vas maintaining. 1t is the " balance of power"
only that is sought to be adjusted. No one can
a0ubt that the syma:hies Of the British people, and
even of the government, are with the Liberals of
both countries, but the interventionsis is always to
maintain legitimacy. rather than to aid those who
are contending against it. This end, as was the
case in Portugal, may be the better attained by
nquring Welding OF a point or so on the part
Of The government while The latter itself is pre-
served intact 1t would be singular, if after all,
as great device of that assembIage of autocrats,
-he Congress of Vienna-for the maintenance
legitimacy, should result in the enfanchise'
aent of the people. land SO it inevitably will il,
's.t Ssnot impossible, general war should be the
'@a!t Of these movements.