Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-09-26
spIRIT OF TIE LONDON TIMES.

balcony by ribbon The incident was very pleasing
one and as may well be supposed elected the most en-
thusastic cheers of thosepresent.-N. O. Picay'me.
SPIRIT OF THE LONDON TINES.
TmE FCrURE OF AUsTmA-Thc present situation an6
the future prospects OF Austria form of the mos
momentous subjects which the attention of Europe
can be fixed 1t has been discovered that thing
may be right although it has been pactsed il
the history Of the House OF AUSTRIA and that thing
may be wrong though il be embamed by tradition;
AS ancient the Thirty Years War The wal
with France showed the Cbinet of Vienna that from the
faithful Tyrolcse, who hid stood by the Grown in SO
many desperate emergendes to the Hungarians, whom
she had recently subdued by the aid of Russia the CEN
tralizng Government had no friends So now, year
and quarter after the calamity Of Soerino, the lmpe
rial Government determines give up the struggle for
absolute unity and compete uniformity and TO allow
more less of federal aud representative organization
TO each oil the subject naiionalies Nobody can say
that the resolutions is wrong aud certainly nobody can
say that t has been taken too soon. Admitting,
| as We do fully that this proceeding is one in the
right direction, regret that not on that
| account able 10 conclude with any certainty that
IFS effects will be to avert the dangers by which the
| government Of the Emperor is surrounded. Now,
Il does not happen that the caaker which eats away
heart OF all desposms the disease under whichfurkey
and Russia alike llnsuhiHg is busy at the vtas OF
the Austrian Empire Were her finances in good order,
Austria might possibly work her way she has 50 often
done before through the difficulties which surround her
but the state of her finances is absolutely fghiiu The
deficit for last year. occasioned by which she waeed
on her territory and waged cheaply If not glorious
y, since she failed to supply her soldiers with food med
cines, and hospitals, 2S S0OOO0OL revenue Of
about the amount. The interest on her debt Is
said TO be 1900 0O0l but then there is interest to the
amount of 50O0O0i more account Of extraordinary
outays since 1850. The deficit for the present year is
estimated and we may be sure not uuderestimated at
1000 O00L.
This would be bad enough in time of peace, but Aus
tra only count the peace which she enjoys from
week to week She is about, according to all ap.
pearanccs, TO put the finishing stroke to her ruin by
fresh She determined to hold agii.st all
the province of VeDetia, which is rapidly becoming de-
populated under her rule. We have repeatedly express
ed our opinion that, so far mere military cOnsdeIa
tons concerned il Is ia The power of Austria to DO
this We shall be surprised indeed il fnd that Gar
ibali is able force his way to Venice by the
tactics which have carried him TO MesSina and are
carrying him to Naples. Austria may probably resist
him successfully, but at what cosy AT the cost, as it
appears to u.s. of financial bankruptcy aud whatever that
may imply.
DOWNFALL THE PoPE.-There are characters well
known TO every novel reader whom part with in the
rst volume with the perfect certainty that we shall
meet with them again in the last. This is the part which
the Pope IS jus: now playing. He has got into back
water and is for the moment quietly put aside but
causes are not wanting which will before long
involve him in the eddy, and carry him into the main
stream OF events. w q must gamer up ana Keep Ne IN
hand The threads OF our history il would be prepared
to do justice TO the grand catastrophe of Italian politics
which cannot be very long deferred The Sandman Gov
evidently thinks the time has arrived remind
the Pope Of its existence Abstauing from any public
demonstration the eldest Sovereign in Europe has eyi
IDENTIFY come to the conclusion that physcA is a much
better thing ;han moral force. We hear little now
Of ailocutions and accommodations but great deal
about enlisting and drilling. Egrops has been
sacked for vag'bonds to shed their blood in the
cause Of the Sovereign PontiT General
lninorCerc has published an order in which hc notifies
he troops of the Pontfcal army to sack (saccdgcr)
every town which at the approach OF Glrhldi OF his
army ha rise 5 in RS%h S2 FTe rebels are banded
0y anticipation before their crime is committed to
be sacked in the Of Mother Church aud in the fear
OF God by that pious and exemplary band upon whose
hircng valor paid by contributions extoftcd in the
name of holiness aud charity, the Pope is reduced
60 depend We have read OF leader of Italian con4oi-
teri in the Middle Ages who inscribed upon his pennop,
Friend 10 God and enemy TO all mankind" Surely the
spirit Of this venerable mast after brief sojourn
in the body OF Of the soldiers of Alya have found
is way into the martial person OF the General TO whose
care the temporal interests of the Church without the
gates OF Rome are at this critical moment ntrus cd.
Meanwhile events progressing with speed which
almost battles the diligence OF those who strive to record
them Garibald is probably this day at Naple-; the
King has gone TO Gaeta only to consider whether he will
lily to Madrid or TO Vienna Naples is good lost,
ter that the temporal power of the Pope should de-
t has lived with in its hands surrounded by
age aud greedy mcrcenares, with threats Of punder
MURDER and violation its lips trusting hing TO the
love and veneraon Of mankind which it knows well
il has forfeited but everything savage and greedy
mercenares whose presence recalls the coincidence
between the highest period OF Papa domination and the
darkest calamities Of the Middle Ages.
FRENcn SIcOrHASCY.-It would be a calumuy to com
pare the able and vigorous Emperor of the French with
the refuse of the Caesars but his courtsrs hs Prfects
his Senator'S and his journalists necessarily recall the
times Of Doman as they are described by Juvenal.-
The couinns of the Moicur at present in a great
occupied with addresses to the Emperor from
the COuncils-icnenl OF the Departments aud the lau
guage which is used be supposed to be acceptable
u august The extravagant adnllton Of these oil
cial documents is at the time Cxplicabe and
more absurd when il is remembered that every prOvn-
cia and municipal mouthpece in France really uers the
inspirations OF the Ministry OF the lutcrio Private in
dividuas and the mass OF the population denied
the miserable satisfaction OF prosrating themselves in
their way at the feet OF power The most greedy
vanity would in ordinary life shrink from a compliment
which offered by servant, but the Imperial app
lite for itery has curousy contrved 10 bg itself Cf
any but menial nuriment The journals receive nstuc-
tous from the Ministers from the private See etary
10 Projects are the avowed organs of tne Govern
ent aud the eloquent and loyal Presidents ofthc Coun
c ls-General al! mere nominees. Ii
matters little whether BlLLAuTs aud MoRXYs cI.0rean-
lists, eN-kepuocans, ana nisceIaneOu' adVentuTers,
prostitute their offices TO the purposes Of vulgar adua
tion, but NJ. MICHEL CHEyALIEE, who is remarkable
among Senators and dgntares for personal merit and
eminenee has unfortunately lowered himself in his
speech President of the Council General of the He
raut the vulgar level Of his sycophanc colleagues
If his compliments to the Emperor hal been as jus; and
temperate they extravagant aud inflated the rep
resentatve of the Government iogets his dignity when
he publicly sppGuds the Sovereign from whom he de-
rives his commission. II is true that the Empe-
ror himself is deceived by the vulgar aery which
he ins,igles and demands; but his good only
be vindcaed the supposion that be wishes his
trymen to think like mbeces and to speak like slaves.
The usome reports OF the Savoy journey are not the
inventions of newspaper correspondents but the can't
ing alsehoods of subordinate uncoaares acting under
the direct instruction Of their superos If the present
system lasts the Emperor Of another age sharing in the
uniform degeneracy of despoc dyuastes. will probably
believe the vulgar achoods which bis ancestor had de-
liberstey placed in the mouths Of his subjects.