New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-02-18
THE STATE OF EUROPE
/. Correspondent

LONDON, Friday, Jan. 80 1857.
y,ave 10 chronicle an event Of the very highest
appearance which has recently happened at the
French Court, and which canpo. fail to interest
deeply society in America, as well as In Europe
71e Empress Eugtnie made her aRpcdva"oe last '0e>@
sstho asy erinoiine OF hoops and looked tue better
fsr it. Feminine diplomstisis predict now speedy
An Of the reign of hoops, though 1t not yet GER
Tain whether even French Empress may be able
10 succeed with such coup d'etst and to overturn
m ugly fashion BY her sovereign will. Louis Ma
poleoD, who was always opposed to the crinoine,
has made up bis mind to crush it, and, flushed with
success in the diplomatic line, does not doubt that
Es endeavors will triumph. In the Neufcha q!
question the BOnaparte ia not 40 certain Of favor
able result since the King Of Prussia jesuitically
tales advantage Of the credulity of Switzerland,
and, not being bound by any expressed engagement,
tries 10 back ont Of his expec ed renuuciatiOn OF
the sovereignty over Neutchatel. The Prussan's
pretensioIs are framed in such form that Switzer
lard cannot accept them, and since the revolution
AIRY accOmplices Of his Majesty have been liberated
m Difference to the advice Of England and France,
be does not care to leave the question in statu
su0 reserving to himself better opportunity for
enforcing his claims. 1t is the Prince of Prussia,
the heir-apparent TO the crown, who is at the bot
tom of the intrigue whose ultimate object is to ex
tend Prussan influence in the South Of Germany.
Baden has been secured for those schemes by the
marriage Of the daughter Of the Prince to the reign
ing Grand Duke. The acquisition Of the microscopic
principalities Of HOheDzolerD, which pushed Prus-
sian wedge into Wurtemberg and made step To-
ward t. G maintenance or ra,ber reestabllshment OF
Prussian sovereignty at Neufchatel is one import
ant link more for PrusslanlZlng the southwestern
xortinn NJ Cermanv Thpsp schemes prettg well
known at Vienna, though they remain in allegiance
during The life of the present unsteady King, whose
resolutions change with the rapidity Of weather.
cock but will reappear soon as his brother sue
ceeds him. This is the reason why Austria, other
wise sufficiently hostile TO republican Switzerland,
does not ion Prussia in her crusade for the egtI-
macy of the mOnarchical principle at Neuichatel,
and tries TO obtain the resignation Of all PIussan
claims in Switzerland.
The amnesty granted by the Emperor of Austria
10 all the Italian political prisoners and refugees
has made deep impression on the Mlanese Stu
IL could not remove the GOODNESS with which the
educated classes look upon the Government, whose
ayOwed tendency is to crush out the feeling of any
provincial nationality and TO create an Austrian
national consciousness in Italy, Poland, Hungary,
Bohemia, aud the German provinces. The Aus
fIian Ministers believe that such scheme can be
realized, and that Lombaroy, Galicia and Hungary
might yet become Germanzed thus as Alsatia, LOr
raiDe and Flanders have been Frenchied Still, the
feeling Of nationality is stronger with NeO Latin
and Taranian races than with the Germans and
we have as yet no example of any Italian or French
province melting into any other nationality, except
by overwhelming foreign immigration. Not even
Savoy has become Italian, though connected with
Piedmont for several centuries.
The overland mail brought ample details about
the capture Bushire, the most important among
them being the declaration that Bushire is hence
forth ia halon0 of Cuepn VIcturIa
and to be free port. The English have thus per-
manently occupied the key of the Gulf of Persia.
This is the first step for the gradual annexation OF
the Persian coast provinces The correspondents
have hushed up the atrociOus fact that Bushre,
though making a capitulatiOD was partially plum
dered, and that Outroges were committed persons
and property similar to those which stained the
character OF the English army at the occupation OF
Kertch. Though the Persian is eminently I'M
popular in England it is certain that the Govern
ment pursues a plan of considerable magnitude,
and has the intention of pushing the cOn4uests
more inland; for, not only additional force is dis
patched from Bombay to Bushre but Gen. Outram,
one of the most daring soldiers of the East India
Company g service, is TO take the command of the
expedition, and Col. Jacob, who has the reputa-
ton Of being the first cavalry officer now living, Is
TO lead the cavalry. 1t seems even probable that
another corps may be sent to Cabul in aid of Dost
MOhammed, There is another peculiarly worthy
To be remembered, cOfneclVu WIN lls ItISIau tA-
pedition, viz: the declaration Of war has emanated
from the Governor General of lndia-nOt from the
Queen, though the charter of the East India Com.
paDy expressedly reserves the right OF peace and
war to the Queen.
The Chinese war is by far more popular than
The Persian, the English merchants and mis-
sioDaries being anxious to get free access
10 all the points of the Empire. Accord
ing to the last dispatches, Canton, with it's
/. 600 600 inhabitants, was to be bOmbarded and
DESTROYED without mercy-Admral Seymour having
no sufficient force for garrisOning the town
after its capture. Governor Yeh having withdrawn
all the Chinese soldiers from the province ar con-
cebtrated them at Canton, the country was overrun
by robbers and by the scum of the rebel army
lowering in the neehborhood; all the rich country
seats we've set fire and plundered by thus rabbc,
and the devastation can only be compared TO the
inroad Of the bar6arians into the Roman provinces
at the time Of the Migration. The next move OF
the Englu will be the occupation and annexation
Of Chusan, and the blockade of the great canal by
which the rice and provisions for Pekin and the
coast are carried up from the middle provinces.
The Emperor Of China can by such blockade
easily be starved into submission. AS there Is no
doubt that the rebels will try to profit by the dis
comfture Of the Imperlalsts We may say tina.
the death-knell Of the present Tartar dynasty has
ALREADY sounded. A.PC
EUROPEAN GOSSIP.
From Our GosspiDg Couesp ondent