New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-28

accempanied with chart Of the countryside fret
instance OF illustration In all the % 600 numbers of
!ne Moxnen, Issued since its origin-was published
here that the writer whoever he il 4. IN. ,,n:t
capable American war correspondent tbat anv
European paper can boast Of lie has the tvyofola
quality Of competence by military education and NJ
impartiality. lie IL is whose American ls,,a.I y,
Dec. 3, beginning with, {" Burnside's moys,nent
seems to be failure," and going on to show that
Gen. Burnside could not, should not militarily,
cross the Rappahannock, published here the very
day that we received news OF his having crossed,
your correspondent lately quoted FROM ana, in cho-
rus with others, laughed over In the account re-
ferred TO- he makes no boast Of the accuracy of bis
provision deals little in and then not in
serious Tone but while lauding the bravery ofsoders
and officers on both sides without STINT recognizes,
along with superior advantages high degree OF
military merit on the part OF Southern generals II
il noticeable, however, seeing this apparent compe
tence Of Judgment in the case that this writer 60
far from utterng an e1 cothedra condemnation OF
Burneides plan of attack attributes It's failure IN
large part to incalculable fortune. And think
may cay that 30 far as opinion of competent crltcs
lutte in expression-it is much less condemnatory
to-day of Burnsides generalship than it was week
ago. Per CONTRA and must report it, not only has
Southern generaIship (which includes very much
more than mere fighting quality, bu. Southern
Statesmsnship (which iScudes very much ese than
"a.
nation, since the battle Of Fredericksburg.
Tie main and growing hope Of our unfrisnds in
Europe however, still looks for its frultion 70 the
feebleness Of our Government and the dissensions
of our Northern people, to the concentrated vigor
Of the DisunoDists and the dsunion Of ihe
Unionists.
THE GREEK QUESTION.
new effort is making TO induce the ex-hing
Consort of Portugal, Coburg Prince Ferdinand, to
foTego his retired ease and dignity and undertake
the ruling Of Greece. King Leopold OF Belgium,
his relation has just sent, at English relatives in'
stIgation an agent to labor with him to that end.
For if the Greeks don't choose the King We choose
for them, why then no Ionian Islands. And now
that England has wisely won the credit OF gener-
osity in giving up the IOuians who never properly
belonged to her, to the mainland Greeks whom
they were constantly saying they wanted TO Jon II
is not certain that the IonaDs do want to JOIN, nor
that The mainland Greeks want them TO Joln-unlees
on conditions which are differently qualified by either
party neither party, meantime, being permitted 10
join stop away on its own conditions. Iske into
view the variant conditions which the three fowers,
France, England, and Russia, have In mind; and
the additional conditions which Austria and Turkey
would imposes and The internal present party divis-
ious among Mainland and Island Greeks; throw
in the fact that nothing In The way Oh principe 10
yet settled between any wo OF the halt dozen parties
on whose cooperation any possible practical tempo
rary settlement of the Greek question seems TO de-
pend add all the irregular verbs in subJunctlve and
conditional future applications, and the remoest OF
your rural readers may arrive at as clear state
ment Of the probable solution OF that question as
your correspondent could possibly presume TO give
formula Of
THE REACTION IN PRUSSIA
The King of Prussia, backed by encouragement
from Paris, it is thought, is doing his possible TO
revive the middle ages or make a revolution. lue
historical movement in his realm is well worth fol-
lowing. The Emperor of Austria has been forced
into a comparative liberalism, into considerable
approach toward cons,itutIonalism, or say INTO
considerable retreat from the impossible arbitrary
policy Of 1889 Even the Sultan Of Turkey IN
dulges in the luxury Of Ministerial crisis Tbs
Pasha OF Egypt sends troops Of Darfoqr negroes to
Odd. tina, In the first year Of his Mexican war; Ma
poleon should seek black laborng auxiliaries from
he Upper Nile, while other Party Is perslstently
sacrificed TO ruinous stradtching aud tradegic spad
ing hosts of white soldiers black aeclmated forces
standing beside broad grin ill the Divine
comedy becomes an Inferno.