The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-01-25
Affairs of Europe.

The affairs of our own country have of late,
20 much occupied our attention that we have
little leisure to bestow upon those of the other
hemisphere. Yet there probably never was d
time when they were more deserving OF notice,
or when the signs Of the times more clearly
indicated the approach Of a CONFUSION. The
political atmosphere is, indeed, dark and
gloomy, and il is scarcely possible that it can
clear up without q storm.
The French Emperor seems slow in releasing
his grasp upon Syria. although he has been
melted rhereunto by the urgent and repeated
circumstances of England. Why he should
m lintlin so largo force in that country,
where everything, for the present, AT least,
seems 10 be quiet, and where his presence
seems 10 create so much e3siness, especially
Of time when we should suppose he would
need all his men NJ home, is not easily ac-
counted for, except upon the superstition that
he designs 10 annex ii TO his already large pos
sessions on the Mediterranean. Some Of the
American papers, few weeks since, preached
a theory which, but for the present attitude
Of England on the Syrian question, would,
il true, explain it readily enough. 1t was
said that there was an agreement between
the three Great Powers-France, England
and Russia--by which France was TO hold
advance to Constantinople. Austria was 10
resign Venetia for sum of money, and be in
IDENTIFIED by the Turkish provinces lying
next to Hungary, and Hungary was to be re-
conciled TO Austria by the restoration of her
ancient constituto Poland was to be re-
stored and the Turkish do1ninions Were TO
compensate the Emperor ALEXANDER. Prus
STA was to be kept quiet by constituting her
the head of Germany, substituting all the
minor States, and making the King OF Prussia
monarch of the whole. France was to extend |
her boundaries to the Rhine, and some thing
else, we forget what, was 10 be done. Ihis
reconstruction of the map of Europe, ac-
co1nplished with so much ease by IN editor
sitting in his sanctum, by mere dash OF the
pen, wanted one only ingredient TO make 1t
perfect, and that was practicability. 1t could
hardly have been dreamed of by the first ma
PoLRoy in the plenitude of his power, when
he was laying down the law at Erfurth, and
Kings and Kaisers were waiting, caps in hand,
in his ante-chamber II certainly transcends
any changes introduced by the Congress or
Vienna, although that Convention effected n
complete alteration in the face of Europe-in
a direction the opposite, it is true, of the edi-
1orial plan. The remonstrances of England
with regard to Syria prove that she, al least,
has no lot or part in the supposed scheme.
The impression seems TO be very general
that there viii be bloody war in Lombardy
and Eenetia this spring. An address by GAR
lBALDI TO some Neapolitans who invited him
10 Naples in November last, plainly indicates
that storm is brewing, and is almost ready
TO burst. He tells them that he cannot come
that his presence would be an injuIy-that
they are now freemen-but that Italians are
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his aid, and he hopes all Italy will unite with
him when he goes to render it. All Italy must
be united under the seeptre of the Re gallant
uomo VIcToR EMANUEL. 1t is impossible TO
mistake language like this coming from such
a man as is he who utters it. a few short
months he proposes to himself TO rest from
the fatigues of the severe service i'll which he
has been engaged. Those few months, we APP
prehend. are already nearly exhausted. King
VIcToR EMANUEL stands at the head Of 300, 900
Itahans-united for the first time since the de
struetion of the Roman Empire-ready to open
the ball as soon the spring shall have deci
dedly set in. To back him, see that the
Emperor Napoleon has already placed lac, 600
men on such footing that they are ready TO
march al an hours warning, and these again
are supper ted by l40, 600 of the National Guard.
There is little OF consequences from China
The difficulty Of disposing of the elephant,now
that they have him, is supposed to occupy
much of the attention of the British try.
" What shall we do with - is n question
not peculiar TO Sir E. LINTON BuLwER. JEo
MIrcHELL--a brilliant but erratic genius
solves the difficulty in late letter to the
Charleston Mercury, III his own way He says
China produces even now, six times az much
cotton as all the cotton States of the Union
put together. Three hundred millions OF per-
sons are clothed In the Nankeen which is
made Of it, The article is not Of the finest
kind, but very good and there is no doubt that
the finest kind can be grown in the enormous
alluvial vallies of the Hoan -Ho and Yang
tse- Kiang as abundantly as in the vallies Of
the Mississippi and Alabama. Hence, he says,
the war with China. Once in possession of
these Territories, the markets of Liver
pool and Manchester will be closed 10 Ameri-
can cotton. Labor is so cheap in China that
five Chinese can be supported on what would
not feed one negro. This is Mr.. MITcHELL's
mode of settling the Chinese difficulty. We
have seen no other solution that implied con-
tinued occupation by the English.
Manufacture Of FalSehoods.