The Portland daily press., 1866-06-21
The European Crisis.
Foreign Correspondence of the n. Y. World.J
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Foreign Correspondence OF the n. Y. World.I
PARIS, May 25.
The shock of contending armies is still fur
ther deferred. Europe is kept III state OF
troubled expectation. Illusory hopes of some
sort of settlement by the pen instead of by the
sword are held out with the sole end OF gaining
time for the completion of certain military
preparations. Should peace meeting be held
In Paris, the name of conference" not con
gress," is bestowed upon it. Unlike The rose,
another name makes great difference in the
odor of political reunions. A congress hav-
ing once been refused can no longer be admit
ted. 1t is mystery to lockers on that hostili-
ties should have been SO long deferred; and as
Napoleon I'LL is the arch-strategist in Euro
pean politics at this time, their delay is as
cribed to some of his masked batteries which
he is not yet ready to bring into action. 1t
was believed in Paris that the first gun would
be fired ON Whit-Sunday 1.-THE 20th), on the
invasion of Saxony by Prussia, but this date
has gone by unmarked by the Anticipated
event, and no other has as yet taken its place
in the annals of prophecy.
Prince Charles OF Hohenzollern has by a
bold stroke for higher wages, added prodigi-
GUS weight to the mighty pressure upon the
crowned heads of Europe This young gen.
tleman, with his commission of sub-lieutenant
IN the RUSSIAN army and about $500 per an
mum, found the crown ofRoumania too tempt
ing the resolution of the conclave now in SEES
sion in Paris that he could no. accept the
bauble, he took the responsibility on himself
and marched off valse and umbrella in hand,
after the fashion OF Menelaus, in Offenbacb's
belle Helene" TO his new country. This
youthful escdpade is iraught with the most
disastrous consequences; in fact, evokes the.
nightmare of England-the Eastern question.
So that our excellent friends, the subjects of
Queen Victoria, will be forced TO quit their
neutrality policy, which has been their boast
for the past half century, giving u chance
of settling the fishery business at half price.
All the letters from Italy describe the war
enthusiasm to be at fever heat. All the higher
schools and universities are closed, and the
young men are fiocking to Garibaldi's stan
dard. A new hymn has been composed by an
ltallan maestro, Brofferio. which is said to be
as electrltying in its effects as the French
Marseillaise; all the INTERPRETATIONS, and the
streets of the cities resound with it,
Garlbaldi is in his element; he is reported
as maJestlcaly calm and full of hope of the
triumph of Italian liberties throughout the
peninsula. As the authorities are fully occu-
pied In their war preparations, brigandage has
sprung up with renewed energy. The Abar
lzzi, and all the country around Naples, are
dangerous ground. Canone, new bandit
chief, is spreading terror among the inhabi-
tants of the peaceful villages, and levying
black mail upon the great proprietors and
travellers. 1t is rather odd that the three
most redoubtable modern brigands should be
possessed of cognomens significant in a re-
markable degree of their chosen calling-they
are not mere mons dc guefre, but their actual
family name--Guera {war,) Fuoco (fire) and
Canone Cannon. There is something in
name in these instances, certainly.
Alexandra Dumas has gone to Italy to ac-
company Garibaldi during the war of which
he will write the history as a spectator. A
late letter from Vienna, which have seen but
in one paper in Paris states that the Austrian
troops for Mexico were actually embarked on
the Tampico, and would probably sail, not
withstanding the protest of the American
minister. They may probably be sent to fill
up the regiments of the French soldiers whose
term of service has expired An embarka-
ton of another of the 'fuss and feather spe-
cies, ten thousand natives of Austria, from the
same port, will not, however, venture to pre-
dict, meet with any serious opposition from
the most incorporating advocate OF the
Monroe doctrine, although their destination is
the city Of Mexico itself, and the country
which environs it. This reinforcement is un-
der the orders OF the Empress Charlotte per-
sonally, and is intended to supply a void long
felt in the enchanted groves of the Mexican
suburbs, whose voiceless denizens seem the
transmigrated ghosts of the Montezumas,
10th to quit the haunts of their former SPLEEN
doris. Ten thousand Austrian nightingales
will soon send up pecan in honor of the lat
est invader, triumphing over the present own
ers of the forest temples. Let us wish them
alonger lease of their new abode than we can
be supposed to wish their Imperial patrons.