Smyrna times., 1858-04-08
A Coming Storm.

The old world is apparently once more upon
The lhresh"ld of mighty events. The skies are
nvercast,--and the distant rumbline of new re-.
Vn'uilOns fall upon the ear through the dense
atmosphere nt continental desputlsII, 10 France
and Italy. The recent insurrectI0nary move
ment at ChalO is pu down by the EmperoI's
journalists as an insignificant atiar-and 80 II
Was, IN Itself,-but, taken IN cunnpctInn with
the rapidly growing dIstrust and dsllfectlon
towards the government elsewhere ~ France
II was a sIgn Of the utmost sIgnlicance,-lndl.
eating, II does, the existence, under the
sm0olh surface of things, a combusIIbe mate
rial ready To burst forth Into a ba ZH the moment
The match is applied. That moment may not
cOne this week, tins month, or this year,-and
yet u would surprise nnuody IT IT had already
trinSpITed. An active, busy, intellectual, high
spirited penpe-lIke that of France,-wIll not
forever endure the iron heel of despot upon
their necks,-especIally a desput who has be-
trayed the generous confidence rep0srd in hun
by the friends of Law aud Order, IN Transform.
Ing what they intended should be mild though
hrnI. government, INTO the rankest desp poilsul 10
all Europe. Red Republics aud ReIgns of Ter.
rnr are dreadful possibilities of rebrlll0u,--buI
hIngs are c"n,ng now to such pass MS tu start
"h'th"r IN" tyranny of tire Mountain Gould be
mar" Ihloi"rhble than the dcspuiIsm of the Em-
pIr". Law and order, IIte aud property, mIght
-dt''r.-hut are not Ite aud property sufferIng
az "v-tnr one, by the cruelest proscrplIun
',IleS ami rxpaIrlhtiUns,-- he other, by the
'"rpr'nil phnIcs "XcIted by the uneasy condi.
int -"f the pIhlIc IN nd, ot Which the nfaiua.
I'd pOl.cy Of the Palace Is the Constant Cause
Al nHpr"SsInn r,pdly gaming ground, that
me next grand per0rmahce with which the
Emperor drslgus TO astnnsh the world Is IA war
NIIh Great Britain. A war with that power, u
Is cOnlrclured, Is thought to be necessary To
Sitlsiy the Cravings at hts personal ambI ion,
tnd, at the siiRe time, divert from mrschfev ous
schemlngs against hts life aud dynasty, the
c1nsp rn 'Ors whUse trade t'Is to perpptuoly piut
against his comfort at home,--but here we
thIuk he makes fatal mIscaIculat,on. For II
would not he "p.'rfdous Albion" alone he
would have to fight. If once he let slI Ip the dsgs
of war, hut all The Red Republicans oi Europe
| -irotn Paris to Rome. The British Lion, SIN
lie handed and al"ne, Il ,nust be- remembered,
was s1'nethIng more thnn IA match for Ills In.
terlal NJ 'j"siy's Illustrinus unclp, he Great
| Nhpneuu, HI u time when Red Republlcn nism
aud '' the Empire" were one. And + the LION
Is to be reused from his lar nnw--wiih these
fierce Red Republican. French aud Italian bred
Il cubs 81 his back, NIL burning for revenge and
r"ady &" spring mt the common enemy. we are
snnpe enough 10 believe that Naunleon the
Third would come out OF the cnnAIct-it he
came out of It at aIl-with realizing appre.
henson that he had embarked in an enterprise
\ The magnitude. cos audsperll ut which he had
n egregIonsly upderrateJ. .-s.
n A. for The people Of Grear Britain. so far a:
we can jndgs by lac tone and Ia agua go of then
journals--whch arc Irae exponents Of public