The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-07-19

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We publish elsewhere interesting decision o.
Judge Ipgraham's, in the case Of the Governors OIL
the Almshouse vs.. j. Woodman Hart The de
fendant was sued for penalty under the statute
against lotteries, and moved to be discharged from
arrest, which application was deniei by his Honor
| The New Arbtter OF the Destlnlcs OF Enropc-
Position OF Austria.
The instruments chosen by Providence TO
| work cut his ends are not always the strongest
or the wisest. AS if to mark the Instability OF
every thing human, VIC frequently find the most
| powerful combinations and the craftiest designs
defeated by the simplest elements, whilst on the
other hand accident will frequently supply the
deficiencies caused by the absence of inherent
strength or political sagacity.
There never was, perhaps, more striking
illustration Of the truth of this remark than the
position now confessedly occupied by the En-
peror Francis Joseph. An almost beardless boy
| without any very extraordinary mental quail
ties, and placed at the head of an empire ostcn.
sibly powerful, but intrinsicaliy weak owing to
its want of unity and cohesiveness, the IN
fedged and sucking politician of the Schoen.
brunn nursery may well plume himself upon
finding himself suddenly elevated to the digni-
| ty of stakeholder and arbiter in the great Euro
pean quarrel. The old diplomatic stagers have
been all this time playing only theoretical
moves on the chess board, to have their game
| disturbed, and the board itself kicked
over, by the Intervention of an nnrnly
| stripping. To the solicitations Of each
TO keep quiet, he has replied by in
trudipg himself into the game, and by replacing
the pawns to suit his own views Whilst watch
ing closely the play of his adversaries. he
steadily conceals his own until their mutual
ealousies enable him. by skilful manGuvr ;
to obtain the supremacy and to checkmate tn m
on every side.
Such according to the humiliating confession
! of the London Times, in the article that we
| published yesterday, is now the position
Francis Joseph-the boy -king-the fate u
whose dominions was so lately trembling in
balance But for him, confesses the proud I
gan Of the proudest nation in the world, the
whole force of the Western Powers could hard
| ly have saved the Ottoman empire from d, y
| truction, or averted the calamities Of war from
every part of the Continent. When we call to
mind the vain-glorious boastings Of the West
ern journals few months since, when in Il Z
first blush Of their pride at the "pomp and cir
| cumstance" of their naval and military prepa
rations, they talked Of eating up the Russian s
without salt, we cannot help contrasting them
with the remarkable humility of this late CO
fession. The object of it is plainly to he st
through. 1t has become necessary to aatter the
pride and selfesteem Of the self-willed youth
whom they have been so long trying to ensnare
in their tolls, in order to confirm him in
path in which they wish him TO travel lie
has, however, got way and q will of his ow l
and we much mistake If his Western Mentors
do not soon finl him boiling from their hands
and embarrassing them by the eccentricity ard
holiness of his movements.
There can be no greater proof Of the correct
ness Of this surmise than the singular fact at
tested to by our European correspondence, that
in proportion "a Austria seems to commit her.
self more decidedly to the policy of the coali-
ton the more confirmed becomes the impress
sion Of her meditated treachery. After alter
nately coquetting with the Western Powers al
u
position from which she will be able to secure
not only the only point of difficulty existing
between her and Russia--the free navigation
of the Danube-but to impose her views on
belligerent powers. There can be no doubt Il
she has been playing the same fast and loose
game with Russia that she has been carr ;
ing on with England and France; and thereto
the former power. equally distrustful OF her
intentions, withdravs her forces from wallachia
where they would have been exposed to the
allies on one side aud the Austrians on the
other, and concentrates her armies in Molda-
via, from whence, if necessary, she can fall
back upon her own territories withou. being ex
posed to the danger Of being attacked in the rear
by her quondam ally. This movement Is simply
measure Of ordinary strategic prudence, sug
eesied by the diff Guilty OF exactly defining the
intentions of the Austrian government. Al
though i unqucs tonably indicates distrust on
the part of Russia, we still adhere to the OPT
nion that we have previously expressed-that
the occupation OF the Principalitcs by Austria
ALL be rather favorable than otherwise to
Russian interests, and That its practical effect
vii be 10 ooicat the intention OF the allie
Towers to extori material guarantees from the
Gar in The event Of his being Obliged TO sue.
sumb Austria having obtained all that she
personally desires IN The clearance Of tie Da
nuhc, will take care that her further action
locs not materially interfere with or inlure
Ter late slis aIl oeaeiactor. Any attcnpt
therefore. ~ impose rp0l Gass'a sueh coar
lions as the pablie feeling Ia Ia gland AID