Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1856-12-05


believed, and certain ex-minister ol
Louis Philippe is said to have recent.
ly offered TO wager q reasonable sun
that England and Austria on one
hand, and Russia and France on the
other. would soon be more openly
hostile"
The Times correspondent quotes a
letter from Munich, which says:
"England is by no means satisfied
with France, who seems indifferent
about requiring from Russia the exc
cution Of the treaty Of 3oth March ;
and England. perceiving this DISPOSE
ton. draws closer to Austria"
cat the risk (Daily News CORES
pondent) Of uttering what the Moni.
tuer may perhaps denounco rs an
"odious calumny," feel 1t an imper-
alive duty 10 say emphatically that.
instead of being in harmonius rela-
tions, the cabinets Of London and
Paris are at this moment almost at
daggers drawn. The difference be-
tween them on the question Of the cx-
eculion Of the treaty Of Paris is most
serious, and, as 10 what is to be done
with Naples, they are absolutely at
skies and sevens."
The Paris Journal des Debates also
processes itself aware Of the shifting
ground OF the alliance. II says:
European politics are now subject
to singular transformations. and the
execution of the treaty Of Paris pre-
pares for us each day some .freshsur-
prise. Ono Of the most curious is
the reconciliation that has been nc
complished between England and Aus
tria, which the journals Of the two
countries now confde to Europe
The memory is too full Of the bitter
and violent polemics INDUCED in only
short time ago by the English jour.
nails. with respect to what they term
ed the machiavelism and dupIicity Of
Austrian policy. But now every
thing is changed the most impor.
tant English joural (the Times OPEN
ly defends this very policy"
"S!raws show which way the wind
blows" while these diplomatic man
euvers have been going on, the gov
crnment paper (thc Moniteur) has
had the audacity to provoke quarrel
with, not only the English press. but
the English people. about the freedom
of the English newspapers in their
references to Napoleon ii has limited
the necessity Of restrictions in this
which would overtun the
Liberty Of printing in England, and it
threatens serious consequences to the
alliance il they are not adopted
England could hardly be struck in
more tender place. The London pa
pers are of course indignant, and re-
pei the insult manfully.
The history Of modern Europe hard
ly presents a more admonitory lesson
on political morals, than that which is
conveyed in the results of the foreign
policy Of England. from the days of
the first Napoleon to the present time.
She has been slow to learn it, and
seems about to be again reminded Of
it by new eDtanglements. II not retri-
buttons. Meanwhile, the suffering
continental masses. whose frequent
for reform and liberty she
has sacrificed to her diplomacy with
their oppressors, and whose extrava-
gances her cooperation might have
prevented, will probably have anoth.
er opportunity in the upshot of these
new complications. That is their ap'
parent tendency at least. Revolutions,
1t has been said, return. upon an av.
erage. every fifteen years, in Europe
the time for another seems not far of.
With their abundant evils. we believe
they do good, and are impulses for
ward to the masses. The religious
usurpations which have been made un-
der the last reaction. have, alone. be-
come intolerable. and need another
revolution to break them up. In this
respect, if in no other, all Christian
men should welcome another uprising
of the people Of Europe.