New-York daily tribune., 1859-09-27

and Bologna. Garnet remain without a echo al
over Italy; and however We may hate Napoleon for
his coup d'etat and despotism in France, We must
acknowledge that BY permitting the Couven'
tions of the Duchies 10 be held. he has done moro
for Italy and for democracy ali over the Continent
than any man in Europe.
The German world is still in the usual eaaouc
confusion. Liberal professors and booksellers sign
the declaration OF Eiseuach which makes Germany
over to Prussia; the Duke Of Coburg favors this
plap but finding no hackers among the reignins or
titular dukes and princes, nor even among tae
counts and barops of the several States, the Prince
of Prussia has not the courage opeuly to approve
of this scheme: the King Of Hanover, however,
threatens to his faithful town Of Emdeu, that if she
should listen to these insdious Prussiau allure
ments. he will prevent her getting a railroad and
harbor improvements, and Emden remains silent
What contrast with Italy where the middle cAsses
and the aristocracy have joined in enthusiasm for
the unity of the nation, where Victor Emanuel
openly opposes the anti-nationA tendencies OF
Austria. and Count Cavour has boldly undermined
the thrones Of all those petty dukes vino
stood in the way of italian unity, in spite OF the
divine right Of the princes. The Schwerins and
Schleinitzes of Prussia have not the pluck to
oct the same part in Germany; they wish for
German unity, and for Prussian supremacy, but
they do not want to oust the thirty princes from
their houses. They wish that the German popu'
lations would do it themselves and, having ex'
PEELED their princes submit voluntarily TO the STICK
of the Prussian non commissioned othcer; and
even then Prussa would not accept at once the
offered supremacy without stipulatlng for some
hypocrtcal concessions in favor of the princes, who
are instituted by God, and do not in any way de-
pend upon the good will Of their subjects. What
ever be in the abstract the superiority OF the Teu
tonic genius, we must confess that in 1883 the
Latin spirit of Italy has proved more practical, and
therefore more successful
The last telegraph dispatch from the East
looks serious. The Anglo French hotla which
was to carry the English ambassador up the
Peiho TO Pekip, has been Suddenly and treacherous
" attacked and defeated. Three ships lost, an Ad'
miral disabled, seven officers killed and seventeen
wounded, with total loss of nearly 500 men, indi-
cats severe fighting and such defeat as might
ruin the Epglish prestige, unless at once revenged
BY an expedition upon more extensive scale than
those which heretofore were sent to the Yellow
River. The last hour Of the Chinese Empire has
now probably struck. An understanding with
France about the division of spoils in the south
will not be impossible, while Russia cannot be pre-
vented from extending her possessions in the
North and West, both on the Amoor and the Mongol
provinces. For this time it is really against the
wish of the English nation that war Of conquest
is forced upon her, but we do not see how it will
be possible to abstain from conquest after such an
outrage.
The accident at the trial trip of the Great East
ern has profoundly veAed the English nation;
l.mentable as it is, it does not tell anything against
the nautical (though not yet commercially success
of the monster ship, which fulflls all that has
been expected from her, both as regards speed and
freedom from rolling. The departure for America
will probably be delayed for week, until the
traces of the accident obliterated and the dam
aged portion of the ship reftted. 1t is expected
that her average speed will exceed seventeen knots
an hour.