New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-09-22
THE STATE OF EUROPE.

TIE TRIBUNE Of August % is ust in my hands
with the splendid Characterization of E'partero
in whch you openly say that the Spanish revolu-
ton is not likely 10 have any useful result. You
are folly risht the moneyed classes, the so called
men of order, family, religion and society who
worship mammon and peculation, and who emf
crate when Morality and the Constitution
become the watchword Of the people have got
the upper hand in Madrid. Espartero promised
everything to the people, and to their Spokesman,
Oren.e. (the Marquis of Albsde) as long as the
power was with the people, and the heroes oithe
Exchange, the Generals ofthe Three Per Cents. aud
Admiras of the Public Debt, were panic stricken.
But ss coon as ODonnells troops were in Madrid,
some national guards were instigated to invade
the printing. Office ola republieanpaper to destroy
the presses, in the name Of order and property,
to protect Queen Christina in her retreat from
the Capital. The Juntas were dissolved, the
people disarmed, few barricades were erected
but taken by the soldiers and Orense- seeing that
he bad nothing more TO do at Madrid, and the old
government was to be reinst ated again went to
Valencs Whether the provinces will follow the
example OF Madrid, or whether they will nee again
in order to complete the revolution, remains to be
seen. The probability is, that the Spanish reyo-
luton will settle down quietly, aud that SPAN
will return to the same scsndalous mismanage-
ment to which it has been subject these last
twenty years. The revolution of 1854 began'
succeeded and fell in the same way as the reVolu-
tion of I.'9 in France. The people rose with
patriotic enthusiasm, and were betrayed BY their
leaders. the narrow. minded, selfish politicians.
In England public Indignation begins to find
its expression in public meetings. 10 Newcastle
upon- Tyne strong resolutions were passed against
tie policy of the Government, and it is surmIsed
that meeting Of Parliament in November Ia
scarcely TO be avoided. The destruction and
evacuation Of Bomarsund, which clearly proves
that the expedition to the Aland Islands was
altogether military mistake, which has not ac-
celebrated in any way the solution of the question
il distasteful to the English public. They had
expected other things from Sir Charles Napier.
Atlast TIE Anglo Franco Turkish expedition has
sailed from ysrna, Baltshik, Gallipoli and Con-
.tantinope. but it is not known whether it is in
deed the Crimea which is to be invaded, or Bes-
.arabia, where Odessa might furnish good winter
quarters for the armies, and annoy the Car at
the same time that it cripples tue trade OF
Southern Russis and becomes good starting
point for the conquest of the Crimea in 800.
But. while in the South some signs OF action
begin TO show themselves, We get strange tidings
from the Baltic. Bomarsund has been blown up
ard burnt down BY the Anglo-French division.
Ii is therefore beyond doubt that Sweden has
rejected the alliance Of the western powers,
backed as it was by the offer Of the Aland islands.
King Oscar has no! the nerve to face the Rus
slams, well aware that the western powers are not
in earnest, and DO not wish either to intilct
severe lesson upon the Gar, or 70 cripple his
power. The miserable resistance OF Bomarsund
seems TO have made great impression on the
Gar who believed his Notifications, built OF pen
taeonal graft blocks to be impregnsble. Tue
fort Of Gustavsyarn, therefore on toe islam OF
Hanpo Udd, has been evacuated By the Russians,
and blow up at the approach OF the allied heet'
But though the capture of Bomarsand mas clearly
shown II at the granite fortresses OF Russia, all
built in the same style of pentsgonal granite
blocks, are less able to Withstand the at
tack Of feet than works OF brick, we
are surprised at the announcement that the
French division under paraguay dHii-
iers Is Immediately to go back 70 France,
and that Sir Charles Napier, believing he has
done enough for immortality, is like wise soon TO
return to England with his fleet. We cannot
believe in so ridiculous result of so much Drag
gipc. and still expect an attack upon Reyel be-
fore winter sets in. An attack on Riga would
be, Ct course, more important on account oil
the reicbborho0d OF Poland, but it is not credible
that Lord Aberdeen could ever approve of such
policy, which would indeed strike Russia az
the heart, and threaten Austris. No, the citizens
of Riga can sleep quietly; their old fashioned
town is protected against any attack OF the
western powers. by the great importance of its
position. Lord Aberdeen would not SO seriously
hurt bis friend of forty years standing, with
whom he is only by chance and against his will
ST actual war.
The Emperor of France and Prince Albert have
met At Boulogne. No such meeting, emblematic
ofthe good feeling between England and France,
hss taken place since 1920, when Francis l. and
and Henry VIII. met at the Field of the Cloth
of Gold. between Cuisines and Arrss near Calais.
AT that time the greatest punctilio prevailed at
the meeting. The Kings left their quarters st the
anne time, which was notified by the firing Of