New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-24
The Stnte Of Europe.


The State Of Europe.
The News from Europe which we this
morning publish is full of instruction for
all who know how to seek it. Though no
one of the various interludes which togeth
er occupy the great stage of the Continent
has arrived at final catastrophe, they
have all entered upon new phases and are
nearer their end
In GERMANY the contest between the
Elector of Hesse CasSel and his people,
headed by their magistrates, is carried for
ward with such ORDER spirit and efficiency
on the part of the latter that the Prince
and all his efforts appear simply ridiculous
Unless a foreign interference soon takes
place the offending Ministers and their few
agents will have been duly tried and pun
ished, q fate which would surely meet the
Elector himself were he not covered by
the Pigment of monarchical possibility.
For the rest we do not believe there will
be any military intervention in the Elector-
ate; Austria will not dare and Prussia will
not care to try such an application; the
whole difficulty will be automatically set
tied and whatever face is put upon it by
the jugglers the triumph of the Constitu-
ton and the people can hardly be avoided
In ScuLEswIG- HoLsrEIN the belligerents
continue to pay equal disregard to the pro-
tocols of the great powers and the resolves
of the Peace Congress. The war is pros
ecuted with unslackedsfury, and though the
Duchies have received a serious check be-
fore Friedrichstadt, they have filled up
their army and keep the field with
show of undiminished resolution. But
the day of final decision cannot be distant ;
as soon as the winter has fairly set IN, Gen.
Willisen will improve the advantages re-
sultinp from the freezing Of the inlets and
bays and the forced cessation of marine
operations, to risk general battle If he
is defeated the war will virtually be at an
end; the people will have to submit, and
Germany, after all her loud words and
small and Sinking conduct, will have to
bear it as she may. 1t is to be remarked,
however, that Germany, OF rather the Ger
man Governments, could not do otherwise
than abandon the Duchies to Denmark and
Russia; for should the instruction prove
successful, what would be gained except q
new triumph of the democratic spirit and
new embarrassment Of the question Of
German Unity for the Courts that have
only too many embarrassments of that sort
ON hand already J
In FRANCE the complication increases
the folly Of Louis Napoleon is pushing him
toward the third and last act Of the farce
whose first two acts were performed al
Boulogne and Strasbourg. For our part,
we hold it to be morally impossible that he
should ever gain that poor hight to which
stupid ambition drives him; he cannot be-
come Emperor ofthe French, nor President
for life or even for ten years. Where i;
the party that is to support him! The
army, do you say We take it that the
army is even less likely to declare for him
now in crusade against a Constitution
which he has sworn to support and which
has bestowed on him its highest honors
than when, bound by NO oath and no oft re-
peated promises, he came as an exile to
reclaim admission to his country, and to the
throne of his uncle whose dazzling though
false halo of glory the incapacity of the
nephew had not yet destroyed. If he could
not succeed with the army at Boulogne, he
will not at Paris. Moreover, it should not
be forgotten that both Legitimists and Or
leanists are against him, as much as are
the Republicans and Socialists; better, they
say, the Republic as it is than such usur-
patton. And as to the revision or abroga-
ton of the Constitution now SO much dis
cussed, we trust that the wiser opinion will