The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-08-19


The advices brought by the Africa furnish
no positive light on the great question wbeth. |
er Europe is now to be involved in general
war; OF the state of the negotiations be- /
tween the allied powers and Russia, we know
nothing, and nothing that can be relied on as
true has transpired as to the nature of their
propositions to the Gar The confidence of
the money-dealers Of Europe still seems to
be strong in the preservation of peace: but
on the other hand, it is certain that the
Russians are strengthening themselves in the
Canubiar Principalities, while they have also
established a special army in Finland, as ifI
with view to future operations against
Sweden. 1t is very clear that Russia is the
only power in Europe that faces the emer-
gency with unfinchDg courage, and is fully
ready to go to war to sustain its policy. This
fact, in addition t. the general skill of it's di-
pomatic management, and the vast number
of secret emissares employed in doing its
work In every country on that continent,
renders it little less than certain that, from
the present complication, the Car alone will
come out with profit, provided war does not
take place. In the event of war, however,
it is by no means so certain that Russia
would prove the victor, any more than it is
that the map of Europe would be the same
alter the war as before.
We hear of revolutionary lamentations in
Italy and Germany. How far these are re-
ally true, and how far they are invented and
aggravated by Russian emssaries, it is i'm
possible to say. Manifestly every movement
OF the kind can only strengthen the despotc
party in the West of Europe. 1t is one of
the advantages of Russia that she is united
at home; while France, hitherto the boldest
of her antagonists, is daily liable to revolu-
tionary arrangement. We may hear by any
steamer that Napoleon has been assassinated,
and that the country is convulsed with in
ternal agtations in consequence. And
though such an event would, perhaps, ul-
timately render her action against Russian
encroachment more decided than at present
the moment for action might meanwhile have
, passed unimproved Such are the fatal cir.
cumstances which now encompass the move
ment of European politics, and lend powerful
; aid to the annexation policy of the Autocrat
A vertiable coup d'etat has taken place ir
Denmark. The Government have proroguet
the Chambers, and therefore abolished tn,
Constitution. The freedom of the Press il
done away, and the right to vote taxes and
withhold the supplies taken from the Legis
ature, while other changes of a similar ma
ture abrogate every useful feature of thu
constitutional system. The whole affair il
after the Napoleonic model, and animated b,
the Russian spirit, and is very probably ac
complished in view of the time when, thanks
to English & French dplomacy,by the natura
course of inheritance, the Emperor of Russia
will also be King of Denmark.
From China we have important intelligence
as to the progress of the rebels. They have
added the considerable city of Annoy to the
country in their possession. This place is a
seaport, some five hundred miles above Canton
and carries on considerable trade with the
island of Formosa, which lies opposite We
shall, probably, next hear that Ning-po and
Shanghai on the north, and Canton on the
south, have fallen into their hands. They
will still have to defeat the Tartar armies
which are to come from the north of the
empire, before the question of their entire
success is settled. Our present advices con.
firm the previous reports Of their hostility tc
Paganism, and their ferocity toward their con
servative opponents. Among the latter they
occasionally make dreadful slaughter, cutting
them to pieces long after they have laid down
their arms and cried for quarter. This ami.
able pee uliarty is decribed in lively rhetoric
by some of the Catholic missionaries in the
country who look upon the decidedly Pro.
testant and rationalistic doctrines of the in.
surgents as bad, and worth of condemnation
Still there seems to be reason to anticipate
that their triumph will prove blessing to
China.-N. Y. Tribune.