The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-20
The State OF Europe.

England is now in a state of revo-
luton. Her Government, her Par
Lament and the press, have at length
been forced to confess this fact. The
Fenian movement, which their state
ments declared would amount to
nothing, has thrown the whole coun-
try into alarm and confusion. Out
breaks are dreaded in London ard
Liverpool as we'll as in Ireland; Eng
lish securities are depreciating while
American bonds are rising in price
In Prussia, the King has openly
quarrelled with the Chamber of De-
puties, and great discomfort exists
among the people. Austria and
Prussia are disputing over the
Duchies which they recently con-
quered, like La F"ntaine's robbers
over the stolen mule. In France.
the press, under pretence Of encour-
aging the Fenians, is really melting
all the revolutionary elements
throughout Europe. Prim's rebel
lion in Spain has been only tempo
rarily repressed. A successful revo-
luton has been carried through by
the people and the Legislature Of
Romania. The Italians, laboring
under heavy debt which they have
no apparent means to pay, still look
longiugly upon the Papal possessions.
In Belgium, one party is in favor of
an alliance with Holland and another
party in favor of an alliance with
France; and between them the new
King seems destined to be left out in
the cold. In word, careful review
of the condition of the leading
countries of Europe shows that every
one of them has on hand revolu-
ton, either present or prospective.
Whether any or all of these revolu-
tions will succeed we do not now pre-
dict. The year 1866 opens like 1880
and like 1S4S; but the revolutionists
now have much better chance for sue
cess than ever before. They have
waited patiently during our war to
see how this republic would come out
of crucial trials, and our victory has
produced its natural effects by en-
couraging the European republicans.
When the Southern Confederacy fell,
all the powers which had sympathized
and assisted it were irretrievably dam
aged. Tom Hughes said no more
! than the truth in Parliament, when
he declared that, if England had not
violated her neutrality, there would
have been no American Fenians.
During the same debate, Mr.. Glad
stone-his mind haunted with the
ghost Of the Alabama-ad1nitte that
the English Government had not made
any representations to this country in
regard to Fenianism, nor had neither
moral nor legal grounds for making
any. Mr.. Labouchere's appeal for a
reform in the English law of neu-
trallty, which was seconded by Mr..
Oliphant and others, was in the same
strain. When we published the firsS
account of the Fenian organization,
shortly after Lees surrender, the
London Times copied it and laughed
at it; but now this very ridiculous or
ganization makes all England trem-
BILE. The other revolutions in Europe,
which now appear as weak as Fenian-
ism once did, may have the same
effect upon France, Prussia, Austria
and Spain by and by. We know that
the European powers are leagued to-
gether to put down repubEcanism,
and that they have large standing
armies; but a simultaneous outbreak
will nullify all their alliances, and, in
course of time, their soldiers may be-
come disafacted.-Neac York Ne1rs.
WORTH INvEsTIGATING.-W have
heard, from various quarters. the re-
port that Gen. Toombs, who is in
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