The daily union., 1856-10-18
BALANCE OF POWER IN EUROPE.

In the debates Of the British Parliament and the British
press there nothing characteristic than the utter
blindness Of the nation to It's faults and It's prurency
OF Insufficient intermeddlng with The imputed faults of
other nations.
England fun of ameniaton the oppressed nation
alies Of continental Europe such the Poles In suoec
ton to Russia and the iungarans Italians to Austria
AMI yet Of the inhabitants Of the British islands
consists Of nationality oppressed by the other hail.
which Is distinct nationality The saxons OF England
Wales Scotland and Ireland conquered the Celts of Eng
land Wales Scotland and Ireland, and from that day to
this have ruled them at the point of the sword There
does exist in Europe fragrant case OF irrecon
clabe contraeiy of race and of religion than that which
is presented by the hostile Saxons and Ces As bween
England and Ireland especially in their story the hor-
rors of foreign tyranny enoE greater anything
which has occurred in Pciald in Hungary or Lom-
hardy.
England is continually quarrelling with the imputed
msgovernment Of this the other country of Europe
Her text at the present time consists Of the
CANT e1aggeratons Of the alleged msrue of King Ferd
nand Of the Two Sicilies. II it had happened in Sicily,
recently happened in Ireland that Neapotan mis-
had produced chronic famine in Sicily Brit
sh misgovernment has in Ireland and driven oneourth
part of its population to starvation exile there would be
little for the systematic caumniaton which
British orators and writers apply to Ferdinand. If indeed
there be in the history of the human long nation
al tragedy it is in the wrongs inflicted by England upon
Ireland. We in this country, thronged it is with mil
lions Of Irish exe have the evidence continually before
eyes of the misgovernmeu Of England Bot we do not
sufficiently reflect upon the proracted period of time and
the immense extent of this deopulaon of Ireland by the
tyranny of England From the reign of William III to tie
present dayom the Sarselds and Walls of the first
half of the last century the MacMahons and the ODor
nels of the last half of the present centuryhere is not
battle field of Europe which has dishonored England
through the great achievements of exled Irishmen And
with what face the English prate of Spanish msrule
in view OF that series of of laundering oppres-
sion which produced the revolt and the independence of
the present United States?
England has been utteng oud cries these twenty years
about the alleged ambition and lust of dominion displayed
by the Russians although the conquered subjects of Eng
land count by thousands while those of Russia count only
by hundreds; and at the very time when Great Britain
was endeavoring BY of invasion TO cure the Rus
slams of the annexng spirit she herself annexing the
kingdom of Aoudh. And, certainly, if there ever was
spectacle of unsurpassed secontradcon and Of extreme
inconsequence it that of the English bowling for the
demolition of Sebasopol while they themselves held by
intrusion and by breach of treaty the ortresses OF Glib
ralrar and Malta, and the lonian islands
England is continually reproachng the United States
because of the existence of slave labor in portion of
them-orgetting that she herself has millions upon mil
lions of slaves in India landless but landbound se
whom she had stripped in the of property and indie
pendenoeby the right of conquest and the force of
her armesorgeng that the inequalities of condition in
the Island of Britain
Of equal right far greater than they are in the Uni
ted States. The Duchess Of Sutherland insaue with sen
mental sympathy for the black laborers Of the United
States utterly insensibe the agonies Of the vassas Of
her house. burnt from their ancient homes in Scot
instead Of and The ruthless prosecutors of
their vassas ft patrons of the Hbeous
Of Mrs Stowe
England for hundred and fifty years has been prating
about the balance OF power in Europe She cannot
rate standing army, and to keep up this false pretenee
she must needs pass new mutny act annually, repeat
ing in Its preamble every year the stale and silly or
"he preservation Of the balance of power in Eurspe
the reign c. Ann she pursued this phantom through ten
years Of bloody war; stupidy building up Austria the
expense Of France How scornfuy the great historian Sis
mond points the senseess inatuaton of England du
hausts hersefn the effort TO eSngush the dynasty Of the
Bonspartes In the person Of Napoleon and now with
the fury Of unnegence she has been deuging Eu-
rope with blood in order to renoyate that dynasty in the
person Of Napoleon Ill In word England s perpetually
intermeddng in the affairs Of other European states
their domestic administration in manner which
like the reckessness Of wilfu mischief making, but
which reoSncled herself by deusve imsgna-
ton Of her own exclusive virtue and Of the vices Of all
other people under the influence Of which she pursues
philanthropy as II 1t the very demon Of hate and
settles everything periodically BY way Of maintaining the
balance Of power in Europe
At The present moment fresh from the conferences at
Paris and all the parade Of psccaton and Of disinter
esness and all the ostentson OF international amity
by which those conferences characterised England is
taking upon herselfa contempt Of the law Of nations
with wanton meddlesomencss the Of true phnu
,hropy and in disregard Of the balance Of powto die
tate by force the domestic policy Of Naples and OF Greece
Under these circumstances readers viii readily
ceve how the journals Of London storm and rave at the
following new appearance Of Of the inevitable Gors
chskofs:
The following is the text Of the important circular de
spach addressed by Prince Gortscbsko to the representa-
tves of Russia at foreign 1t hears date Moscow
September q:
The treaty signed at Paris the 3Oth March, in putting
end TO struggle the proportions OF which threatened TO