Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-02-29
Desperate Condition Of Austria.

Desperate Condition Of Austria.
The Paris correspondent of the New
York Herald says:
The reduction Of tho Austrian militia
nv establishment has been suddenly
countermanded rcinforcemsnts have
been dispatched post haste to the army
i'm Italy, under the command Of Count
Megcnfcld, aud great efforts are being
made to recruit the exhausted exchequer
by loan; as a preliminary to which
considerable privileges have been ac
corded to the Jews, which up to the
present moment had been obstinately re-
fused. Tho most sensible course, in
deed, would be for Austria to retire vol
UNFAIRLY from country which she can
only hold at the price Of exertions that
utterly drain the resources of the en-
prc and are hurrying it to the brink Of
destruction but the pride revolts from
such an idea, and no pecuniary indem-
ity, however large it mightbe, and how
ever welcome to State on the verge OF
bankruptcy, will render it palatable to
her So long as she has foot Of ground
in Italy she will never give it up, until
driven from it vi ct armis. 1t is by no
means unlikely even that Francis JOS
eph may repeat his escapadc of last
spring, and bring matters to n crisis by
making desperate rush upon his enc
mics, il hc is not restrained by the conn
sells OF Prussia, with whom he is moving
heaven and earth to establish good un-
ders,anding. Any such act Of rsshness
on his part would deprive him Of all
prospect of succor from this govern
ment, whereas if he remains on the de-
iensive, and carefully abstains from at
fording Sardinia or France pretext tor
securing at least the moral support, and
eventually perhaps, the material assist
ance Of Prussia, by whom the policy of
Louis Napoleon is regarded with in
increasing uneasness.
AS yet no project for defensive al
lance has been hszardcd by Austria,
but it is reported that Count Karoby has
been instructed to inquire in coEtiden-
tial manner whether Prussia would be
inclined to station an army of occupa-
ton i'll hungary, to guard that country
against revolutionary outbreak, while
the Austrian forces are employed else
where. For the present | do not think
this inquiry will be answered in the az
firmative, as such an intervention would
be extremely unpopular here, and would
naturally be considered by the French
Emperor As An ipfraction of neutrality
that would Justify him in treating Prus-
STA as enc Of the belligcrcnt Powers.-
What this government might do if a
revolution should actually break out in
Hungary while Austria was engaged IN
Italy, is another question good deal
depends upon the attitude of England,
which, in its turn, is contingent upon the
continuance in office of the Palmcrston
Ministry. If Lord Palmerston is over
thrown by a hostile minority in the
House Of Commons, and his fall shout
lead to tie dissolution Of the revived en-
tente corC2idie between France and Eng
land, the reaction upon continental pol
itics will soon be felt, and it is difficult
to form an adequate estimate Of the re.
suits that may be produced by it, wheth-
CT for good or for evil.
A Truth WELL SrATED.-The fol-
lowing sensible remark is made by the
London Times in a recent well-written
article upon the morbid cxaggeration of
"Lord Breugham and the Veterans of
the old Anti-slavery Society,":
Their minds. says the Times, "are
still scared by those horrible stories
which were burnt in upon them in their
youth, when England was not only a
slaveowning, but even slave-trading
State. Their remorse is so great that
the ghost of black man is always be-
fore them. They are benevolent and ex-
cellent people; but if black man
happened to have broken his shin, and
white man we're in danger OF drown
ing, we much fear that real anti-slav-
cry zealot would bind up tho black
mans leg before he would draw the
white man out of the water.