The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-28
THE WEEKLY DISPATCH.


THE WEEkLY DISPATCH.
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Probabilities of a General European war.
There never was a time in the history OF the
world--not even when the fret NAPOLEON
was tumbling kings from their thrones, ana
erasing time -honored boundaries from the
map, with as much apparent cooihess as d
farmer takes in a new field which he has asst
bsasht-in which events OF the most mo"eh-
TON. consso uences succeeded each other with
.uch astonishing rapidity, as they DO al pre-
.snt In less than four months. Kingdom OF
tar millions of inhabitants, with an army OF
,so 600 men, and a navy of seventy or eighty
.h,rs Ia. been overrun ara conquered by an
.sren,urer commencing his career with but
twelve hundred followers, unsupported (open-
" at least) by a single foreign power, with no
feet bat gle steamboat, without artillery
.sxs such a. he has taken from his enemy
without fighting pitched battle and without
undertaking a siege of weeks duration! So
far As we are able to recollect, there is nothing
parallel to this exploit recorded in the history
of the world. Yet we have hardly had time
to take breath, when we learn that other
events are occurring, which, at any other
stage OF moderA European history, would
have thrown the whole continent into con-
rnlsions The States of the Church in open
,n.urrection from Rome to the Adriatic, have
been boldly invaded, and the Pope perernp-
torily required to dismiss the foreign mer-
rsnsries which he has collected for the safety
of his throne. The King OF Sardinia, however
much he may have wished to avoid the issue
and there certainly are strong reasons why he
should entertain such a wfsh-has been una
HE 10 stem The torrent OF the popular willard
has pursued the only course by which ne could
bopa TO preserve his throne. The Italian
peopie, In fact, have taken the matter into
their own hands, and have evidently deter
mined that he shall either be King of Italy in
fact or no king at all. They will not be con-
tspted with manned dominion, but will
either exist as one great, united, Independent
people, or again become the slaves of foreign
dominion. They are evidently prepared to
risk everything upon a single cast and await
without apprehension the hazard of the die.
When we contemplate these transactions In
their gigantic proportions, and reflect how
often events occurring within the States OF he
Church have heretofore involved all Europe IN
war, we cannot but feel apprehensiye for the
consequences. Yet SO many speculatiors have
been hazarded Of late, by the foreign as well
as the American press, and they have SO often
been falsified by the event, that we feel espe-
eially reluctant 10 stake our reputation as
seers upon the Issue of any complication In
which the nations may be involved. Accord
ing TO history, Austria ought to have in ter
yersd long ago for the protection OF the King
of Naples But as she has not done so, as
everybody expected that she would, we are
not prepared to believe that she will even now,
Notwithstanding the concentration Of large
force at Borgo Forte ready, apparently, 10
cross the Pc, and although the sovereign whose
throne is now in danger be the Holy Father
himself Again, if the newspapers and for
eieu correspondents are to be trusted-and We
know of few prophets who so little deserve
the name-the Emperor Of the French is sadly
grieved at the invasion OF the Roman States
Besides that he professed himself equally
troubled about the annexation OF Modena and
Tuscany last year, it must strike every one
that he could not but have foreseen the con-
seq uences that must inevitably result from
the liberation of the Neapoiitan States. II
may fairly be inferred, then, that the protest
which he is said TO have made agaiustthe Sar-
dinian invasion, will not be followed up by
any very energetic action, and that the inva-
sion itself would never have been attempted,
k,io
ment.. To the same effect, and no more, we
cannot help thinking, will be the protest OF
RUSSIA and Prussia. Followed up by no mill
tary demonstrate whatever, il may be re-
earded a. mere brute thunder, and nothing
more.
We have already stated our be lief that Rus
STA will not interfere TO assist Austria in again
reducing the Italians to slavery. She has had
enough of Intervention in favor of Austria to
last her during the time OF her whole future
political existence. AT the request of Austria,
she interviewed in Hungary, and she left the
Huugarians beaten but not subdued, eager for
vengeance. and more irreconcilably estranged
than ever When her own hour OF trial ar
rived she found the Emperor OF Austria by no
mans disposed to return the favor he had so
lately received. But II Austria and Russia
should unite for The purpose of depressing
Italy. France must inevitably take part in the
struggle. Whatever may be the sentiments of
the Emil ~sr his people will not allow him q
sbojce Of alternatives. France will then be at
the head of Reat liberal movement, seeking
to snfrachise twenty-five millions of 1tal-
ians, and Russia will head the party which
seeks to restore them TO slavery. Ia such an
era a. that wherein we live, when public
opinion is the very breath in the nostrils OF
States and their rulers, the issue OF such a
contest could not be doubtful.
Upon the whole, notwiths landing the threat
ening aspect Of affairs, We are disposed TO
think the war Will not become general. Such
at least il our present opinion. But we say can
didly, that we have, In this matter, no conf
dence In our own judgment, and still less in
that Of the correspondents who swarm in the
newspaper foreign and native. The opinion
we hold to-day may be changed by the first
arrival from Eurore. And SO must the opin-
ion of all fuctuate, in questions where there
s so little chance of escertaining the truth
with regard TO the most Insignificant designs
OF the parties whose business il is to make his
tory, II is that of the journalist to write it.
Daniel Webster and His Traducers.
The New York Express administers q lust |
rebuke TO an aspiring political preacher by the
name of CUYLKR, who DETAINED the memory OF
DANIEL WEBSTER by stating that his life was
shortened by his " unhappy use Of alcoholic |
stimuants," and by the melancholy disap- |
pointment that grew out OF his fatal 9Th of |
March speech" The Express gives this cIeri- |
cal vampire" some suggestions which may |
make him unhappy and melancholy - for |
time, but which will q o him coed, if ne care
fnliy avails himself of them. One of these |