Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-09-29
SPIRIT OF THE LONDON TIMES.


The LAST OF THE BoURBOSs-E Never was
dynasty less entitled to the sympathy of its contempora
res the compassion Of postey than that which has
just so ignomniously terminated its career. The
history shows cowardce in advefsity and cruelty an'
insoence in prosperity which only be accounted lo
by supposing in these Kings natural affinity .or every
thing that is base and degfadng a disinieres:ed, or j
We may express it. unsclhsh pleasure in human sui
ferng Many have been oand with consciences toe
weak with passions strong enable them 10 re-
sist the temptation Of committing great crimes when
great advantages TO be secured by them The pc
culiar namy of the Boubops Of Naples has been that
they persisted in torturiog their victims when torture
could longer the purpose of example and when
it little needed 10 prevent any further danger
from the Vaccinations OF men whom the famine, dark
ness h aud Secusion OF many years had ncapacitated
for the duties Of active life, and left other wish than 10
find calm and peaceful retirement in which to wear
the little life that the dungeons their Sovereign had
left them. To the Royalty on Naples must further be al
tributed the infamy rare in modern times but occasion
ally to be met with in the history Of Greece aud OF the
Italian Republics OF SAYING with mach deiheraiion aud
sincerity the Fallen Angel himself Evil be thou my
good" they made their people nexpressibly miserI-
be not because they knew not how to do better and
mistook their way in the attempt to make them hsppy
but because the public misery the end and aim OF
their government Their principle literally was "the
greatest misery of the greatest number" and they ap
piled it with the most unshrnkng logic
The habit of implicit obedience which the military pro-
esson ncucaes have rendered il almost uniformly the
obsequious instrument Of tyranny But what we 10
think OF Government which even the army which it
pampered ashamed OF defending and which fell not
from the strength of its atlantis but because nobody
could be found vile enough TO draw sword in Us be-
half? Yet there were in the slme Neapoian army per-
sons Of no very tender refined conscience; whose
hands were by no means SLOW TO shed blood; whose
sympaihes not strong in favor Of popular move
ment.
AUSTRIA AND RUssIA.-The grea. European drama
advances with and measured strides towards its
consummaton aud the entrance OF Gariball inio the
Neapoan capital has coincided with an event Of per.
haps equal Significance in the development of the spec
tacle. Austria and Russia more allies The
Emperor Alexander has announced his "sncere desire
for perfect reconciliation with the Emperor Francis
Joseph and measures We earn are 10 be instantly taken
for terminating the estnngement between these two
S)vereigns, which has become longer tolerable"-
But does the new alliance bespeak moth
ing beyond the resumption OF those erus of amy which,
il is discovered, ought 20 have been inter-
ruped!' Has t conditions arising cut of the pres
en state Of Europe? These questions of grave n
porance and naturally suggestive Of grave conjocturos
The first impression likely be produced the pub
lie mind viii be connected with the advance Of Garibal
di, and tho peril consequently impending the Ans
triau domui0ns The Italian Lberator is NOS only ex.
pected to give freedom TO Nene but is supposed to be
reckoning the iusurrecton Of Hungary in aid Of his
designs If Aus ria has the Italians her hands in tie
Venetian provinces, she cope with army Of pati
OTIS on the Theiss? Il is bat eleven years ago that Aus
ra though victorious in LOmblrdy found herelf utter
ly unable TO subdue the people OF Hungary who had
risen against her rule and il is reasonable TO infer that
what she failed to achieve then she would be incompe
tent under less favorable circumstances TO accomplish
now. But il will be also reco,eced to what cxpedent
when thus endangered the Imperial G0v5rnmen,
red The Court OF Vienna concluded Convention with
the Court OF s.. Petersburg In virtue OF which Rus
sian army marched into Hungary, and by its incrvcu-
ton preserved the fSr Stephen for tho Austrian
Emperor With 50 very modern precedent before u,
then it would b. bard TO a5od suspic that sudden
alliance between Austria and Russia provides anew for
being formidable TO the authority OF Emperor
by meaus agreeable to the traditional policy of the
other.
The appearances Of Russian army either in
Italy or Hungary ,coldRol Ie 10 The sasfdctioa ef Ea-
rope nor may safely add to the advantage OF Rus
sia herself The conditions OF the case are now
materially changed At the former period Austria had
Sardinia alone TO deal with the banks Of the Po She
has to face all Italy by Sardnias side, and Power
more formidable still behind Sardnias hack. The
sells Of the French Emperor nsCruable but it is by
certain that the Emperor Napoleon would pa.
enty submit 10 the interfere of another State in Se
Italian struggle and II the alliance Of Russia he
side is balanced by the hostility Of Francs the her.
it hardly be thought that Francis Joseph would gain
by the transaction.
simply policy Of nonntervention will be the best for all
States alike. The days are gone by for coalition
against France completely for Intervention
against Hungary Any such coalition that suggested,
unless it vigorously confined to mutual guarantees
against aggression, would end by placing France at the
head of Liberalism against Abso!utsm in war Of opn-
ions. ANY Intervention in Hungary would give an n-
definite and sanguinary extension to that revolution
which, with universal sympathy aud with little blood.
shed, Is advancing to It's end The only safe inter-
vention is that which Francis Joseph can Immediately
exercise on his behalf Let bin step betEeen his
Hungarian subjects and their msudgng governors let
him give Hung ry its national institutions,
and he may then his throne, await the shock
OF in venetA with the conviction that at any rate
he has little TO lose.