New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-02-18
Correspondence of the N. Y. Tribune. ]
The State Of Europe.

has been remarked, that as often as the
principles of Liberty and Ahsolutism enter into
open war on the battle-f fields in Europe, the
agitation of the Slavery question is regularly
opened again in the United States. America
must be domesGieally disturbed, or at least
occupied, that her attention would not be
too much riyeted on the struggles Of Liberty in
| Europe. As war is now inevitable in Europe,
cannot doubt that the Union will be again in
danger; and it is remarkable that Mr.. Douglas,
| the Senator who reopens the question by his
| bill on the Territory of Nebraska, regulating
the Missouri Compromise, comes just from Q
visit to st. Petersburg, fascinated, as is reported
from Russia, by the amiability, generosity,
wisdom and greatness of the Great Gear, the
Emperor of Emperors, and ideal ruler of the
Government organ at Washington. The more
extensive the war in Europe, the more bitter
will be the discussion Of Slavery.
| The Derbyite weekly paper, the Press, con-
| tains most interesting account of an interview
between an English Lord and the Emperor of
Russia, giving graphic description Of the State
of feeling at st. Petersburg, and revealing sew
| eral diplomatic secrets. For instance, the fact
| that Prince Menchikotf's proposals were pre-
vously known, and not objected to by the Ca
| binet of Lord Aberdeen, and that the French
ambassador Count Castelbajac congratulated
the Gar in the most seryile terms upon the VIC
| tory of Sinope.
|
from the seat of war, Prince Gorehakoff having
received orders to dislodge the Turks from Kale-
| fat at any price, while Gen Luders, with some
| 1000 men, has crossed the Danube at the last
bend of the river from Braila, between Matshin
and Isaktsha. This latter move is of no strate-
gical Importance, as the Dobrodas that is to
say, the narrow square plain between the
Euxine, the Danube and the wall of Trajan, is
| marshy, while the elevated portion of it, the
hills between Hisroya and Kustendje are occu-
| pied by a sufficient Turkish force. The Rus
| Sims will not be molested before reaching that
point
AS to the combined fleet, it is already arriv-
ing in the Black Sea, and the Gear is said to
nave sent orders to Sevastopol not to avoid
naval engagement, but to manage it so that
the allies should begin the attack. he wishes
to have hostilities come from England and
France, in order to give Austria fair pretext
for DESERVING the diplomatic camp OF the Western
Powers. Nobody now doubts that the answer
of the Emperor of Russia to the Vienna note
will be oyerbearing in its terms, declining the
good offices Of the Four Powers. He is nov
fully prepared for war, and does not require
any more conferences and notes, the Vienna
performances having given him all he required
time.
There cannot be any doubt that Russian in
trigues are on foot to excite an outbreak in
Paris the police is, therefore, more vigilant
and annoying than ever
The rumors of an Austrian amnesty, which
have lntely been circulated in Hungary, are
reported to be afoat in Italy also The COR
respondent OF the Times justly remarks that
the perfdy, duplieity and meanness Of the
Austrian Government are too notorious to allow
the hope of a really generous act. He points to
some instances of the most despicable meanness,
by which the amnesty granted to some Italians
has become illusory, but he does not reveal the
~. l.
Ii is nothing else than n new Austrian loan
Austrian policy and Austrian finances being
doomed to bottomless perdition, their schemes
for raising money become daily more and more
desperate.
In Sweden a serious agitation has begun
against the Court The Court journal, Soenska
Yideningen, lately contained an article in
which an alliance with Russia was warmly adj
gocated, and the Russians called the pioneers of
the future and of a new civilization. You know
this sort Of articles; they find their way into
the Swedish Court journal as easily as into the
Washington Union. But the people Of Stock
holm believe that these views are the views of
the King of Sweden, and the article in question
has been numerically assailed by the indepen-
dent press and the public, rousing indignation
against the reigning family, parallel to the
English feeling toward Prince Albert
A Geographic dispatch arrived yesterday, at
the Turkish Embassy, announcing that six
thousand Russians had crossed the Danube near
Rustchuk. AT Paris, the report was currentat
the same time, that they crossed the river at
Sill stria. This is the practical answer of the
Gar to the Vienna proposals, and to the en-
trance of the fleet into the Black Sea. We are
| assured, or the other hand, that the Car will
not take the entrance of the fleet for caSus
betit, and it has been ascertained that the delay
IN the sailing of the feet was not to be attribu-
| ted to the stormy weather, but only to the in
| trlgues OF the Prussian and Austrian Embassa.
doris IN Constantinople Those allies of the
Porte threatened protest and a rupture, and
succeeded in OBTAINING the feet for five DAYS
| And England yet adheres to such faithful al
/ lies, only because the funds of Prince Albert
| are all invested in Austrian securities This il
| the clue to the Government policy
Lord Palmerstons suppressed pamphlet of
| which / gave you some information several
months back--long before anybody had mention-
ed it in the English papers-has now oozed out
| by pieeemeal, with an able commentary in the
Advertiser, and the whole of it has appeared in
| the Times, which endeayors to show that it is
entirely innocent, and does not contain any
charges against Prince Albert. The ministry
are seriously alarmed at the increasing hostility
of the press against the Prince Consort.
Spain is on the eve ofan outbreak, or a eeup
dttat. General 0'Donnell was on the 18th
suddenly seized and transported to the Canary
isAaHuSt NeHeTal NunCHttI lHbe Odp6aiL GENERAL
OF Cuba, General lnfante and General Armero
were banished Some other Generals We're re-
moved from their commands and the Minister
of Finance dismissed. 1t was long ago rumored
that as soon as the Queen was able to attend a
Cabinet Council, severe measures of repression
would be carried out, in order to prepare the
| country for a return to Absolutism Whether
this can succeed in a country which is not cen
tralized, remains matter of doubt
w have received thp renly nr thn D;voy 10
| the last Vienna note, and now see that the Eng
lish Government has knowingly bamboozled the
public The renewal of the treaties between
Russia and Turkey was SO urgently demanded
by the Four Powers that sthe Porte consented
to it, openly declaring that it did so in defer
ence to the wishes of her allies. Such is the
perfdy Of the Western Governments, You will
remember the laundering leaders of the Tim,
and OF the Morning Post, the organs of Aber-
deem and Palmerston, congratulating the world
on ne rupture Of these identical treaties, by
the faet of the declaration of war. To speak
| IN different way at Constantinople and Lon
aon-to md wrong here what is asserted to be
right, Is called in common life, lie-with
statesman, diplomacy,