The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-11-25
TIE STATE OF EUROPE.


Oar Rone Corresponaence.
ROME, October %, 1881.
The Pre,eu Position Of haly-7ne Hopes Of the
Rey~Ainms-Tas Effect Of the Change IN The
FsewoA MiwiStry.
Events ct France, the past fortnight, have caused
strong sensation in Rome. /, has been said that
not stens can fall h Paris which is not felt in
Italy; and the saying is very enineny true, 80 far
Rome ia concerned, just at this present writing
On tie continuance of the present order OF things
in France, depends that of the present order 81
things in the Pontifcate Remove the 900 French
man Who hold Rome, and Plus Ninth will be in full
aisht for Gseta in twelve hours. Republicanism-
,edism-is not dead in the Eternal City; it only
sIeers The volcano is smothered, but il RACES as
Gercely a. ever in its profound depths, and may at
any moment burst forth There are no conservatives
A0e-there no moderates-there is ne middle
party. All are on the extre ne right or the ex-
t1eme left-absolutists or reds. There is, without
questien, a strong republican organization here
and il only awaits events to demonstrate itself
Correspondence with London is constant and active
A letter from Mazzini, yesterday, says-"An goes
well. would not have the recent decress Of for
tune other than they are" The resignation of the
French ministry would seem to be viewed as favor
able by these men. At all events, almost any
change is viewed by them with hope-precsely as
it IL viewed by the Pope and his supporters with
apprehension.
Pins Ninth is by no means o strong man. When
he asce nded the chair of 81. Peter, he made con-
oessions, which demagogues took advantage of and
strove 20 push to extremes Plus then started
back. aghast; and, Clearing to think on what he
had done" like the guilty Thane after the murder Of
his King, rushed from Scylla upon Charybdis. The
result was inevitable Plus fed to Gaeta. Then
came Gen Oudinot, one fine night in May, with
5000 Troops and few cannon, from Cvita Veccha;
and approaching the Porta Cavilaggieri, close by
So Peters, thought 10 arch straight into the city,
and put every thing "to rights" But, to his utter
amazement, he was greeted with such warm well
come that he turned and "ingloriously fed" leav-
ing some hundreds of his troops on the field.
Wisely enoampiDg, he sent of for more troops,
and soon Rome was invested by $4,000 sen.
Meantime the ....;;-.myirste within the walls had
not been idle, and the Commission of Defence, ap-
pretending an assault on the side of the Puician
hui, aver OF everything that interfered with theiE
puIpose-whole forests Of beautiful pineS in the
grounds Of the villa Borghese, and even whole
ssructures pertaining TO the villa Albani, not ex
eepted. Indeed, the property Of refugee princes
and mi}ionaries is said to have been demolished
with very especial JUNCTION.
Al length, the Fren,h commenced operations
anew on the side Of the gate Of PANORAMA; and,
having completed their parallels on the nights Of
the 18th and Both Of June, effected breach in the
bastions, and on the lst of July entered the city
Any one who visits this section of Rome, even now
sitkough two years have passed away, and nature
and art have been busy IN healing the wounds and
eonce alipg the ravages OF war-wil give ready
evidence 10 the rectas OF brave and bloody deeds,
and of the awful slaughter witnessed on that spot
That the assault and the defence were both most
irtrepidly maintained, no one viii doubt who sur
vsys the devastated grounds Of Pamhla, Doris, and
The battered walls Of the villas Spada and Corsini,
AID hose Of The churches Of San Panoramic and San
Pie.re. in Montorio-to say nothing Of the gate
and hss,ions Of San PancraIia, and al the
structures anywhere near.
Well. Rome was taken, the triumvirate hed, the
Pore came home, after some months Of oxpatria-
ton, and some Thousands Of French troops-horse,
foot, Dragons, sharpshooters, and artillery-be-
came domiciliated in the Eternal City; and now,
every morning, Rome is reused by the reveils and,
every noon she ia saluted by the trumpets OF the
musterng guard and every night she is sent to bed
by the deAfening roll OF an hundred drums Every
where you see the French uniformed pants ana
blue frock everywhere you behold sentinel, even
~ St Peters and in the Coliseum and every
where glitter bayonets and rattle saores but
Rome is not rigidy in q state OF siege-under mar
tial law; and II il wepe, the French not Aus.
TRANS, and General Gimeau is not Chevaer Count
Gorsko -sky, Governor Of Venice; and 60 Rome
does not witness public executions, as does Venice
because OF Mazzini correspondence. BY the bye,
the Emperor Of Austria would seem 70 be striving
TO ob,erate the effects Of recent severity, by par
tial mnesty 10 light political Offenders but this Is
. mere r,4ss, by which nobody Is deceived
Kossuth's release seems likely to annoy Louis
Napoleon Q little more than anybody ese. The
unhappy man would gladly resign all his old shoes,
and his old boots into the bargain, could Austria
and Russia have contrived TO make the Porte keep
the great Hungarian safely at kutsyah. His pre-
sence must necessarily proiuc serious influences on
France and the refusal Of the French President to
suffer him to traverse the republic, on his route TO
Southampton, and the letters and addresses TO the
exile, and his exciting replies, must aud will affect
the May election in ls52; and, doubtless many Of
the movements witnessed are so designed
~ 1lash and
those Of al Europe, just now, are full Of hossuth,
his character, and career-his past and his present
favorable and the reverse. some mystery seems
10 hang over his move ments IL 10 thought-but
you receive all the European journals, and can tell
your readers yourself what 10 thought and what
they contain. One thing, however, they may not
contain, and that Is that the release OF hossuth,
and its influences, are viewed by statesmen here
rs calculated to exert more effect upon denocra-
cy in Europe, this winter, than any and al other
Influences Put together r.