The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-05-30

France the West are operating to make CONFUSION
worse confounded" by hostile Intervention in favor Of
Austria and the Pope Referring to this state OF things
the London Times expresses its apprehensiOns in the fol-
lowing article:
The three great events 4" Europe-Ths Engiish view
| Of the crlsas ths Continent
| From the London Times May 10.
In the present crisis of the affairs of Europe the rapid
transmission OF persons and OF intelligence, the unre-
srcted activity Of the press and the common interests
which have sprung up in thirty four years of peace have
rendered the revebeaon OF each successive explosion
all but instantaneous and concentrated in the action and
reaction OF few days those impulses and results which
in former times suspended in their operation by dis
tance secrecy and the snuosy Of political art In con-
sequence OF this decided change in the mode OF conduct
ing all human afs, every incident is added with in
slant rapditv 10 the total OF political motives and has
its visible effect on the next result that to form
rect estimate OF the general causes which bear most close
~ on the peace and freedom OF the world 1t IS necessary
to embrace the eoc complicated subject from Jutland
TO Palermo, and from Paris to the Dardanelles In all
this vast and intricate it is scarcely possible to af
rm that any one point is OF paramount importance over
the rest we have not to deal with any single evil like
IN una, e, s military genus OF when scared
rope; the phenomena we witness are infinitely various.
and yet they closely connected together that il is
scarcely possible to consider them apart from each other
Three great evens however, claim at the present
our chef atteniionthe advanes Of the Russian troops
into Hungary. the approach of French army to Rome,
erising governments of Germany and large Of the
people. already pledged to risk everything IN defence of
national unity and democratic institutions We believe
that IN this country these events unanimously
garded by of all parties with serious apprehension
and sincere regret They bode good to Europe to
the times we live in. They menace the world with
day by day. is impossible to deny that the chances of
any rational compromise adjustment OF these differences
dimnsh and they are left more and more To- the arbiira
ton OF the sword Yet even when this conflict has been
fought and won, the victorious party, whichever may
be- will be alike embarrassed to restore the tranquility Of
society and the authority OF government either by the
Of mi hv NJ nil tod
democracy.
Our intention is not to recriminate upon the errors
which may have been committed by ministers OF this
country, under circumstances OF such novelty and diff
Guilty as TO embarass the most candid and enlightened
judgment But we at least are completely innocent OF
them. We do not ascrbe to any British minister abso.
lutte control such events; for the prudent neutrality
to which England is resolved to adhere leaves her rep
esenatives abroad with very diminished influence and
we blame no man for mschances which fell out beyond
his reach power But matter Of fact. we observe
that il the unhappy debility of Austria which has given
the Russians their present footing on the Danube and has
given the French their present footing the Tiber Ii
any Engshman has contributed, directly indirectly, TO
proong the embarrassments to increase this debility oil
Austria, he has likewise and thereby contributed to these
but one, that know Of, when this catastrophe might
have been averted. II was about this day twevemonh
when Austria supplioated England TO effect peace with
Sardinia the basis OF the cesson OF Lombady II that
proposition had been vigorously acted upon the greater part
of northern Italy would have been independent the armies
oil Sardinia and Naples might have defended the Italian
being divided between foreign and a domestic war,
would probably have terminated the latter before the
ungarans had had the time to organize their present
army or the arrogance to propose conditions incompatible
with the existence of the empire The fact that the Aus
tran empire is helfaogether by little more than the name
of sovereign ami the discipline of army-the fact
that OF its chief cities dsaected, its incl
ted one against another, and that it's kingdoms OF Hun
gary and Lombady have repudated the impera! author
by her natural allies and assaled by strange combna
ton oil democracy and imperialism, all inconovet
BILE But is precisely because this power has been re-
duced to condition far beneath her ancient dignity
and the place she has hitherto filed in Europe, that we
sec the Russian and the French armies in their respective
positions on the frontiers of Germany and in central
Italy; for although both these nterventons have been
undertaken against the revolutionary principle OF the
Hungarian insurgents and the Roman demagogues, we
not the less sensible the blow which they cal
cuated to inhct on the political independence of the
Austrian empire.
Whatever tends to weaken or disunte the forces OF
central Europe. which are represented by the Germanc
confederation and the Austrian empire, tends in the same
proportion to increase the relative power, and TO awaken
the ambition OF the great military nations of France and
Russia That is the plain and ncontTovertbe principle
which apply TO the great OF the present
time, holding to bea fundamental proposition OF British
policy that our interests are opposed TO the ascendency
progress OF either extreme whether hoist the banner
of the French republic or of Russian absolusm. For
this we have deprecated and depore, the poli
cal contest which threatens to divide and dismember
her to the condition of federal republic under the pre-
text OF federal empire For this reason we lament the
division of the of the Austrian empire against
itself, which has left the ministers of that crown no
better expedent than to accept the succor OF Russian
army, and has ended in the resolution OF the Magyas
to depose the House OF Hapsbug Lorraine; for. even
ii the Hungarian campaign were successful, the dth-
Guilty of recognizing the government OF that country
will remain extremely great the dssenson between Pesth
and Vienna Is nca,aDy deep and not only Austria but
en auxilares which have invariably played impor-
tant part in the defence of the whole Germanc terrific
ry. For the same reason, we regret to md that the
French expedition TO Rome is calculated TO raise the
gravest suspicious, and that the soldiers sent by the
President to restore the Pope are enoned by the Assem-
bly, to raternze with the Roman republic. Whilst Rus
enabled by these events TO turn her FORCES with
greater effect and less resistance against Eastern Germany
Turkey France may gradually avail herself OF SINH
lar advantages and opportunities against Western Ger
present state of division into actual civil il is by
improbable that the two great contendng principles
of eastern and western Europe would long join in the
mortal conflict on German soil.
These practical results of the present state OF affairs
presume, equally distasteul to every class OF
pouse the revolutionary with ardor and con-
hdence which do not profess 10 feel console them
selves with the reflection that these evils may be avert
ed by the triumph of the -Germanc convention at
Frankfort-by the creation of powerful Polo Magyar
kingdom nterposed between Russia and Germany-and
by the erection of equally powerful kingdom OF Upper
Italy, prepared under the house OF Savoy TO- resist the
influence of France eifectualy as that OF Austria
These the three great schemes which, il under
stand their policy ALL Lord Pamerson and his admirers
would oppose to the triple danger of German anarchy,
Russian ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, and French ascendency over
Italy II these projects likely to be realized, and if
were easy to Ieorganize Europe as is to write
diplomatic notes, We not prepared to contend that
some such views might not conduce to the advancement
and freedom OF the nations principally concerned in them
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