The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-06-06
European Affairs.

The London correspondent Of the s. +. Bulletin.
under daIe Of April O., writes Signs and omeus
multiply, and all are omens Of evil. March Is past
without producing that outbreak 80 much feared !;
but under the peltjng showers rank weeds Of passion
seem to he growing mp, sure, in time, to produce i
crop Of misfortune. We are not, in fact, without
war now, for along the whole Turkish frontier, on
the Eastern AdrIatic, hosti.ites are raging Bosnia
i up in arms, aud the Moutenegrens are in pos
session OF the Herzegovina. Omar Pasha, whom
your readers viii remember as the General in com
maud Oh the Danube when the Crimean war broke
out, has been despatched 10 the scene of mischief TO
power Of Aiul MedIi.
Austria is iesperlJe-more desperate than ever
and II would seem as If Francis Joseph had made
up his mind To Try the Camrster's effort Of retriey-
lUg his luck by "a daring throw, or Of going down in
"a sea %; blood. The famous Quairilateral swarms
with tvOJys-AustrIaU batta,j.us line the banks Of
the 20 and the Miucio. Victor Emmanuel is not
behind hand in his preparations, for POO, 900 Ital-
ian s1ldiers-mauy @: them veterans. and all Of
them fired by q desire 20 engage with Austria in
behalf %: Neuet-t-ine the opposite banks Of the
two rivers just named, and II there l. not throat
cutt.Ig soon, il Will not De because the parties I now
alluie to are anyway disiucliuei 10 that Christian
amusement. Whether il is that Count Cayour
thought the revolutionary FIRE was burning too low.
or that he wished 10 give the lie 10 Austril's asSer-
tiSs that Gavibiidj was ia the thick Of the revolt
on the Eastern shores Of the Airiatic, Is more than
can be determined NJ present but this much j.
known, THAI the LiOeratOr has been summoned 10
Turin, and invited TO show himself in the Chambers.
The latter request he has not yet been able to COM
ply with, for he has been unwell. though not Sc
riOusly 50. That some work in his old line is ex-
pectei Of him, seems favored 10y the intimatiuu that
he IS accompanied by a number Of his old revolu-
tcuary officers.
What further impresses people with the convic-
ton that - storm Is brewing, i the fact that CONT
mental stocks are falling, and that Louis Napoleon
l. evidently getting all ready for an onslaught. He
has launched another OF his armor-clad ships, the
LUu.cible, and all the dock-yards in France are
actively employed. lie has began the review Of his
troops earlier than usual this season, and the first
division which he reviewed on Thursday, is already
under orders 10 proceed TO the camp in the east Of
France, while al the MarShals are summoned for a
council Of war on Monday. Frightfuily guupow-
derry, all this, II must be owned.
In the North Of Europe the " slight misuuder-
standing - between Denmark and Prussia seems no
nearer an arrangement than it Was some weeks ago,
even though the Prussian Chambers have passed "A
vote, with the view of impressing upon William l,
the duty of nou-interveuton
Hungary shows no signs of being inclined to
close with the offers Of Francis Joseph, and Poland
Is far from being satisfied with the limited concessions
that Alexander mas held out to the malcontent pop
ulation OF Warsaw rs payment in full of all de-
maudS.
In short, turn our gaze in which direction we
will the aspect OF affairs only looks blncker than it
did A tew weeks ago, and nobody seems. to have the
slightest hope that peace can be much longer pre-
served.