Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-02-25
The war Prospeet in Europe

The news by several of the last arrivals has
been growing more and more warlike, and the
Tribune of the 23d says:
The news from Europe by the Africa is the
most warlike that we have received since the
New-Year's compliment of Napoleon III. to Ba-
ron Hubner first startled Europe and enriched
the whole gang of Bonaparast parasites by pro-
ducing an enormous and sudden fall in the prices
of stocks. The Speech of the Queen of Eng
land at the opening of Parliament, declares that
the British Government have taken all possible
measures to avert the calamity of war, but it
does not declare that these measures have
proved successful, and that the danger and pro-
liability of war have passed away. And yet
there can be no doubt that, had it been practical
bic to make snch declaration, it would have
been embodied in the Speech, and in the most
emphatic terms possible. We must then infer
that the British Government expect war; and
this inference is strengthened by careful peruss
of the debates on the subject in Parliament
Such, too, is evidently the inference of the gen.
tlemen of the European stock markets, where
prices seem to be in a state of chronic decline,
especially at London and Paris. "War in Italy,"
says the independence Beige, ais near at hand
unless diplomacy, by supreme effort, shall
succeed in arresting the danger, and rendering
useless the preparations for a campaign which
are going forward at once in Austria, Piedmont
and France" The Independence proceeds to
state, authortatively, certain facts taxing place
in France, which it regards as the symptoms of
a speedy commencement of hostilities. These
are the concentration of troops in the south of
France, sailing orders given to the squadron at
Cherbourg, the accumulation of vast numbers of
military beds at Marseilles, the activity forcel
upon the furnishers of the French army, the
preparation of extraordinary quantities of cart
ridges, the recent casting of $50 pieces of artil-
Iery, the purchase of unusual numbers of horses,
the sending to Marseilles OF 1000 Congreve
rockets, and the approaching arrival in France
of division of 5000 Algerian troops, already to
take the field at once, who are to form the nu-
cleus of the new army at Lyons
A fact which may, however, have great weight
in what our Belgian cotemporary calls I" the su-
preme effort of diplomacy" is the declaration
that England will remain neutral in the conflict,
and will insist on the faithful observance of the
existing treaties. As it is in the name of the
existing treaties that Napoleon Ill menaces
Austria, this position of England will not only
disappoint the expectations based on her tradi-
tIonal friendship toward that power, but must
be taken as at least moral adhesion to the
side of France. This leaves Austria in con-
dition similar 20 that of Russia during the recent
Turkish war, without an ally anywhere, unless
at the last moment Prussia should intervene in
that capacity. This state of isolation may lead
Francis Joseph to make the concessions de-
manded by Napoleon, or at least to refer them
to a European Congress. This is the only
alternative which we can now perceive for es-
Gaping settlement by the sword