New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-01-26
THE STATE OF EUROPE

from OlT OWN NoTrespOndent
LONDON Tuesday Jan. Q, 1851.
The year Of frauds, as the last year has besa
most properly called, having ended with tho srros
Of the defaultiDg collector Of the City Poor
house UDiOn, ard with the cOmmital Of Rsdpssh,
the great railway account forger, the new year DO.
gins still more Ominously With the murder u %
Archbishop by the hand of priest: Monseigaoar
sbour, the late friend Of Cavaignsc, once tbs Dub
ward link between the Republic of the Paris
bourQeoisie and Roman Ultramontanism, soon afsr
he humble servant of Louis Napoleon, the first
born son Of the Roman See, has died q martyr 10
the new-faDgled dogma Of the Immaculate COncep-
ion. An eccentric priest 0f the name Of Verges,
O republican but fanatic, could not reconcile the
ew dogma with the Bible and with his own rea,oa.
and preached openly against the cherished addition
of Plus TX. 70 the tenets OF the Roman Catholic
Church. He was OF course suspended from ha
Office and lost bis living by the decree Of the Arch
bishop of Paris. Maddened by his blasted pros
pects az well 90 by religious fanatcism, Verges
bought a Catalan Knife and struck the Archbishop
at the heart just when he entered into the Church
of st. Stephen clad in full pontifcals, returning
patron Saint Of Paris. "DorH peith the godte0,'
exclaimed the assassin while stabbing the PreatA
Nulhuereax," replied SibOur, and died. The horror
inspired By this dark deed was never equaled 10
Paris. The Empress, who ia inclined to super
.titioD, was especially struck by the terrible taeI
she fell into Mysteries il taking this murder tor
most uDluchy forebOdlng Of other bloody deeds.
This tragedy would, indeed seem to be only me
.og. ha POI ~ Ia of ha Last
would seem to have engulted countless ships aud
lives The coasts of South Wales and Of the Es'ld
England are strcwn with wrecks zen the Begn
steam-packet carrying the daily msil betwees
Dover and Ostend was lost in the terrible GodWn
Sands with all hands, but the mailbag was saTed.
At Naples war-steamer has blown up, forty mea
being Killed. We DO not know as yet whether
tbs event is to be- Chased as an accident, for bu
not yet a i0rtngh. since the great powdsr-magr
zine Of the arsenal blew up in the same capital
not without suspicion Of design Coupling the 70
cent attempt on the life of the King with theet~
suspicious explosions il really seems as II me"
were something rotten in the State OF NaPoe
Public attention, however, ID no longer rlveted ~
Naples the abortiye threats Of England sas
France have been sufficiently ridiculed, while ~
King chuckles at the poor figure tho Western
Powers cut in their contest with him. He Is mo"
than ever imtued with the ideas Of the irrespoe
.ibility and divine right If kingcrsit, as thefe
scarcely sny doubt that the diplomatic ressueI
between France and Naples will DO recps'~
within the next six months.
Another difficulty, which for short momens ~
quiTed considerable Dimensions, the frontier qaev
lion between Russia and Turkey, has at last -
settled by the Conferences, which in their meeaas
On Wednesday were sgain closed with the 80, -.
ance on the part Of England aud Austria fns' -
army Of occupation and the feet will lssse
Prncipalitiss and the Black Sea before the S'S -.
March. As soon as the Commissioner
( Allied Powers, which signed tue treaty Oh To-
shall have ascertaihed the wishes OF the Moiaa' -
and Wellacbians as regards the future eos.s's -
Of the Prixcipaities, the Conferences vi. III.
more be- reOpcued 10 regulate the position "a.
dow ollschia in respect of Turkey as wen
rope. ..ssl
The Neufchstel question is Likewise soon J"
it's solution and dilettanto medistors are sp'-i
I'D everywhere. Mr. Fay had long aua %.,s-
Berlin, but the semi-oficisl organ OF the u, ,s;sc
ment denies that his intermedia'ion ha. ses %
right. The reigning Prince Of Coours an
Likewise anxious ~ get the reputation o. ,.s.;sl
ayoidable arrangement but his efforts arc l.
to be bafiied Napoleon and Pslmerston .:.. n,
teimined TO share the credit OF psclncauy al
clusiyely between themselves, and they ~ -
adult either Mr.. Fay or toe Prince OF Cooa W.,
partt eysbip. In fact they settled tnc
son ss Switzerland too& mp tho gauals0'