Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1861-12-24
Alarming Conditions in Europe
tFrom the London Chronicle Of November 2sth.)

Alarming Conditions in Europe.
(From the London Chronicle Of November 2oth)
The Prtssges Of q desperate riHter are
muihptythg Far and wide, upon the
continent, financial clouds gather over the
political and Industrial prospect The
New World conhagration threatens to
consume the materials of prosperity to
millions on both sides of the Atlantic
At home, the disastrous prelude las al
ready begun; torerunn n, we c,nnot but
anticipate a period Of general suffering,
In wiiich. naturally AMI inevit .biv, the
poorer clas Ses will endure the utmost bit
terness of the blight Nor is it possible,
Notwithstanding the sincere reports of
Sir Robert Peel, to doubt that Ireland will
be called upon to undergo another ordeal,
comparatively lenient perhaps, yet agra
waited by the diminished capacity Of Enr-
Ian | to relieve her We know that the
fair weather Pr phets are arg ling differ
entity; they subsISt, of course. upon artI-
fcial coaf ience; they are nothing if not
de claiming aboutthe unexampied fortunes
of the British empire. But all this Ihap-
sody will not set a single mill so NJ, will
brin. comfort to no Lancashire cottage
will neither open a cotton marke. nor ere
ate Il COtlfb supply cur = ilt- lt4t bitttl
arena of Europe, can it be honestly af-
firmed that the aspects of the season ar
cheerful There is no panic, but at the
same time there is no approach to a settle
ment o f e1iSting complications IN Italy,
| The French horizon is an all directions
dark, OnaiaouS and melancholy 4uS:ria
stands upoH the brink Of ciUil 'car, and
Russia is returning TO barbdrism. The
Fl nch nation, notwithstInd;ng CONNER
c!al treaties, is not buying of Us with any
particular enthusiasm. Turkey can hard
" be kept adoat; and, e'sea here, states
men must work incessaRtiy n the pumps
to prevent the peace of Europe from sink
ing in fathomless depths of slaughter
| In the United Kingdom matters are not
improving. \ humble test is affected in
the dullness of the statute fairs wages
/ havs fallen twenty per cent; Old men, in
the agricultural districts can scarcely Sc
cure employment at any price; the unhircd
multitudes threaten to be dismally :arrc
and to them the winter thr .atens lons
series of sore privations. AND then, what
of that mighty aggregate to which the cot
ton pod gives labor and li:e-that four
millions stricken by the curse of civil
war beyond the seas Their earnings
/ have withered from a livelihood into a
pittance; they are struggling with want );
/ soon they may have TO face starvatio for
them the times are hard indeed" half E
/ time Is " hard-times with a vengeance
/ Y ct we must not fiv away W tn the notion
that there IS no cotton within reach, or
that the stock Is nearly exhausted. We
! find difficulty in buying bnta still great
er difficulty in selling. The South sold
/ its raw materials and bought our manu-
. Tho lafoatnl 70 =
I Carlisle, who sputtercd himself into n
passion on the hustings, declared that he
understood the whole of the question -
/ Then why did he not explain it t. the
electors he said not n word about the
4 falling off in the demand for Manchester
/ goods, though in that lies half the myste-
/ ~ of the desolate haze which hang around
/ the forthcoIn NJ Christmas Exceptional
circumstances have, as yet, buoyed up the
money market: yet the influence Of the
! American conflict il not unfclt by the up
/ per ten thousand of the city They pre-
tend that, after short interval. we shall
have opened so many sour .es Of cotton
supply-in Russia, France, Spain Egypt,
India Brazil, and the Islands that an en-
barrassment Of riches may lie expected ;
but there are two considerations to accOn :
pany this boastful view Of affairs In the
first place, where are the new markets
/ In the second, that which nav be Il short
interval to a London merchant may
bring famine and death to the poor spin
/ nCr.
At Manchester, we are told. there is
4 scarcely business enough doing to test the
strength of prices vet the news from dia
is not unfavorable Add to this state of
things the depression Of the silk trade in
all parts of England, the prod aious ca
lamities which have ovcrtaken the fishing
trade. the results of the late storm. and a
( hundred other accidents presagin1 ere t
distress among the poorest of the poor -
1t is not for humanity to repine under the
visitations of God We must accept the
hurricane, the pestilence and the blight
from the Power that sent them; but the
one overwhelming cause Of all that we
suffer and shall suffer as the year darkens
to its end. Is the American civil war and
the American civil war has been rendered
doubly grievous to civilization because the
. North has blnckaded the South. That
/ blockade, Of course, is sham-it has
been broken again and again. and in ac-
I cordance with the law Of nations ratified
I at Paris ought no longer to be recognized
I Apart, however. from the inquiry whether
it should ever have been acknowledged
directly or indirectly, lies the question
whether the North. hy Its attitude has not
justified the resentment, and even the re
t,.liation, of Europe. In one sense it has
invaded Lancashire, and pillaged thou
sand English factories; in another it has
established a pirate law along the Allan
tic coast; in third its soldiers and police
have flibustere !. with amazing want Of
scruple, against British subjects supposed
to be under the protection of that which
is called American law. These spoiled,
overgrown, precoc Gus AMI staggering
sons of ours. have behaved to us as France,
as Russia, as Austria, as Prussia. as al
Europe together, would not have dared to
behave And. in the meantime. we arc
priyileging them to paralyze our looL's,
to starye our fellow countryInen, to com
nit q gross ani wanton outrage on cur