Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-02
THE COMING STRUGGLE IN EUROPE.

have reached this country for some time. Il
| is affirmed that an instruction has taken
| place at Milan, and that various parts of Austria
are on the verge of revolution. Two Proclama-
tons have aPpeared-one attributed to Mazzini
aud the other to Kossuth, and it is stated that
these leaders have united their forces, and are
prepared to act together in the struggle for Ital-
ian and Hungarian liberty. The details are not
sufficiently formal, to enable US to speak with
confidence as to the extent and character of the
movement, but it is quite certain that much un-
easiness prevails at NIL the despotic Courts The
address of Mazinni has an air of authenticity,
and is an eloquent and thrilling appeal. Iturges
the Italians to rise in all tn cir strength says that
the patriots "have friends even in the rank sof TIE
armies and that 'there are entire peoples
whose aarum cry will answer to theirs" The
National Democracies of Europe from, it is al
legged, one organized company, and the word
'insuri ection' is put forth the rallyiug cry
kossnth, in less eloquent, but not less deter
mined spirit, says that he has made an alliance
with the Italian nation, that the moment of in
surrection is at hand, and that every Hungarian
is ready for the war of liberty. But both Procla-
nations may be fctitious-the trick of despotism,
or both may have been promulgated prematurely
The next advices will, therefore, be looked for
with the deepest interest. In this connection
we invite attention to the following extract from
letter dated Paris, and addressed to the Iude-
pendent. 1t alludes to the re-organized empire
OF France aud to the recent marriage of Louis
Napoleon, and says:
at Is considered a certain thing, that Prus-
STA, Austria and the whole of Germany, have
acknowledged the Empire with SO MANY restric-
tons, explanations and CONNIE nts, that their DO
slt1on before it is almost hostile Bonaparte is
said to be perfectly mad against all Europe
The contempt with which he is looked upon by
tha DpI ,.oJ1y h,,
most openly encouraged his crimes against free
dom, is known to him. aud he dreams of revenge
He is still an adventurer; he loudly speaks of
peace; and he is preparing for war. The moneyed
men, the nristocracy of France, who were uni
ted with him in his conspiracy against the Re-
public, are turning silently against him, as we'll
as the monarchs of the North. You may expect
some great outbreak before long, the part of
that strange man. Be not surprised if you hear
that one day, suddenly, he has put "A new and
heavy tax upon property, income, &C., and de-
clared war on some neighborng nation Taking
money from the rich would please the ignorant
masses, and lend to Bonaparte their help in n
war in which it would be easy to engage that
powerful s}adow-national honor"
We may also add that an article recently APP
peared in German paper published in New
DIRK, which affirns that the organization of the
revolutionary party in Hungary and Italy, is the
most fearful, the most complete, aud in every
respect the best arranged conspiracy that the
world has ever known. The writer says:
''Ihe fact that such an organization does exist,
extending Its ramifications vast territory,
standing in the most intimate communication with
every separate part of the great whole and that it
has gone on SO long, under the very eyes OF so
watclfula government, without being discovered,
cannot fail to awaken astonishment. This circum-
stance, alone, proves what intellectual power is
possessed by its leaders. That it does really exist
is shown by the of emissaries taking place
almost every week, In regular succession, and the
disclosure of petty portions of the great plot.
In Italy these things and the executions which
follow them are instantly known, but in Austria
and Hungary, the silence of the Church-yar ests
over all that happens Scarcely can one hear by
chance of the shooting Of ''robber," without
thinking that this "robber' perhaps belonged to
the noblest families of Hungary and that his Of
fence was of nature very different from what the
Austrian oppressors alleged. One need only travel
through the country to become convinced, from
the measures taken by Government of the pre-
sence of vast and deeply laid organizations Ar
rests constant. A man is, in the night time
snatched away from the bosom of his family, no
one knows what for-dragged to prison. Moth
ing more is heard of him. The prisoners are
forced, by torture, to confess what they know, and
are then shot in the prison yard or flung into DUR
geons, where they rot, without word more ever
being heard of them. The spy system has been
carried to height that would incredible
to any stranger. Ne-one dare venture to speak
of forbidden things, even in his own house; before
servants. there is no conversation at all.
No Hungarian speaks to a stranger in public;
he must avoid him as he would the plague. All
letters sent by post are broken open, and travel
lers are searched for revolutionary writings. The
cities crammed full of soldiers. and patrols
range the streets, both day and night, two by
two, with loaded carbnes. During the night
guards stand at every corner, and demand the
word from all who pass. No one can say do
aught but exactly what is permitted him. All
this shows how intense is the fear entertained by
Government However, in the midst of all this
irritation and suffering, the Hungarian people
wait patiently and unrepiningly for the signal
Hundreds of thousands of gallant men, resolute
unto death, are united in iron organization, and
the whole laud waits for Kossuth. No agitation
is needed to prepare the nation for instruction,
but the task is to restrain it until the favorable
moment has arrived for the state of things is
such that death itself were more desirable than
such an existence. Yet with the most i'm
plicit reliance on their great leader, do they wait
for his commands. The reverence of the peo-
pie for Kossuth rises to the height of religious
fanaticism. A Hungarian nobeman remarked
to me one day, that had better be careful in
what might say of KossutI, lest should put
my life in peril, "for." said he. ''they look upon
him as second -" You will divine the
attachment OF brave and generous nation to their
suffering and exiled champion. This gentleman
did not himself belong to the partsans of Kossuth
but was one of the old Conservatives, yet he spoke
of the former with profound respect"
The foregoing possesses marked interest, in
connexion with the news by the Arabia. But
we must not conclude the subject, without re-
minding our readers that by recept steamer we
received intelligence that French surveyors had
been employed to travel aud make observations
in Piedmont and Lombardy. Such fact. If
true, is significant for it cannot be supposed that
their operations were unknown to Louis Napo-