The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-01-27
From the New York Times.
THE WAR PROSPECT ABROAD.

The general uneasiness of feeling abroad,
with regard to the condition of political affairs,
and the consequent prospects of the CONNER
cial world is visibly increasing and this in
England as well as upon the Continent.
The agitation of the question of Reform in
the English press, and on what we should call
the platform" although it is prosecuted with
considerable vigor and thanks to Mr.. Buchan-
ans twaddling jeremiads) very largely at the
expense of these United States, does not divert
the attention of the English public from the
coming storm on the continent, which may
break upon Europe at any moment, and, when
it breaks, will convulse the whole system of
trade and finance far more thoroughly than did
the war with Russia. 1t is we'll understood in
London that the French Ambassador, the Due
de Malakoff, is urgently pressing the Govern
ment of Lord Derby to take up firm position
by the side of France in demanding from Aus
tria a complete reversal of her Italian policy.
During the whole of the past year, Austrian
agents in Italy have been exerting themselves
energeticaly to effect an extension of the in
luence conceded to Austria by the treaties of
1915 in the affairs of the Peninsula, and con-
hrmed to her in positive matter-of-fact way by
the conventions concluded in l847 between
Austria and the small Italian Duchies of No
dena and Parma. Under the premiership of
Prince Metternich, Austria in the latter year.
secured the right to occupy the military posi-
tons of these Duchies should her political Sit,-
alton make satch an occupation necessary The
events of 1913, We need hardly say, did make
such an occupation necessary; and the mis-
tress of the LombardO-V Venetian Kingdom is
now virtually sovereign along the whole north
ern frontier of middle Italy. She has never
withdrawn from Ancona, in the States Of the
Church, the troops which she sent there during
Al go ID Al,
ent object of her diplomacy is to conclude, with
Tuscany, Rome, and Naples, conventions anal
ogouS to those which she has made with Mo
dena and Parma. Should she be successful in
so doing, she would hold Italy, from the Alps
to the Gulf of Sicily, in a network of steel. But
France is quite determined that she shall
achieve nothing of the sort and while the
luOniteur cOldly but cOurteously dsclaims any
actual rapture with the Imperial Cabinet at
Vienna, no one attempts to deny the efforts
which the French Emperor is making to bring
the new Austrian policy to the test of the ar
rangements of 1915, and to compel the Aus
trains to recede not only from their attempts at
further domination, but from their occupation
Of Parma and Modena. In these efforts, Ma
pOleOn LII holds the underground of princ-
pies recognised by all the Powers which were
parties to the arrangements of 1876 and one
at least of these Powers-the Russian Empire
is fully prepared to support him in insisting
upon the practical humiliation of Austria, at
whatever risk of her authority over her prov
inces beyond the Alps. thus supported by
Russia, Napoleon III has put England into
very trying and perpleXing position; and has
virtually tied her hands from any action, eX-
cepting in favor of his own policy.
Austria meanwhile gives evident signs that
she understands her peril She has summoned
out the full CONSUMPTION of Lombardy, sparing
not even the widows only son, nor the elder
brother of orphan families, humanely exempted
from the ordinary CONSUMPTION of peace. The
force thus collected is marched as fast as or
ganized into the Sclavonic and German prov
inces, draining Lombardy thus of the flower of
her youth, and paral lying, as far as the Gov
eminent has power so to do her capacity of re-
volt. Nor are the Austrian diplomats idle in
Central Europe, where they are straining every
nerve to bring the influence of Prussia and Ger
many to bear in favor of the House of Haps-
burg, and in this connection an event which has
just excited much comment in Venice deserves
mention. The Augsburg Augemeiae ZeitltItg,
the most influential journal in Germany, estab-
lished in 1898, by Gotta, at Tubingen but since
removed to Augsburg, in Bavaria, is about to
be transferred to Frankfort on the Main The
AUgemeine ZeituRg has acquired great part of
It's influence as the semiOthcial organ of the
Northern Courts, and especially of Russia. Du-
ring the whole Of the Russian war, it was the
instrument through which Russia coquetted
with Austria and coerced Prussia, so long as
the cOquetry and coercion were of any avail
While issued at Augsburg, the Gazette has been
virtually under the influence of Austria, which
is paramount in Bavaria. To go to Frankfort
is to 90 to France, or rather to link France with
Russia overly in the eyes of Europe, and such
a movement on the part of such journal au-
ours i'll for the success of the Austrian ma
neuvring in Central Europe.
There is indeed every reason to anticipate,
at 40 distant day, far more serious disturb
ance of the peace of the world than has taken
place since the peace of l8l5-the war that
seems now imminent being acted out, not like
the war of l854-'5, on the distant shores Of the
Black Sea, but on the Mediterranean and along
the Alps and reaching thus the very centre of
civilization, commerce, and exchange.