, 1866-06-26

lies IS, perhaps, the most astonishing
fact of recent times. The world was
astounded when France and England laid
aside their hereditary enmities and shed
their blood together for the one cause.
But France and England had a common
civilization, and were separated only bv
an "ocean espaIande." The Turks and
Russians hate each other with proverbial
hatred. Their religion, ciyilisation, and
interests compel them to be enemies.
How is it, then, hat the Turkish GYM
balls clash in unison with the Russian
drums into the worry land which it cost
England seventy millions to wrest from
the Car and restore TO the Porte?
A Persian of old used to say that eve
ry mischief arose from a woman the
modern politician, when he hears of
trouble, looks to Paris. The Partisan
conferences settled or pretended to settle
many things. Among other matters they
regulated" the Danubian Principalities.
They were to be nominalIy subject 10
the Sultan, and to pay him Il small tri-
butte, but they were really TO be govern
ed by a natiUe Prince. The conference
of Paris cmphaticaliy ordered that the
ruler should be a born Moldavian, or q
born Wallachian otherwise, a Russian,
a Frenchman, or even an Austrian candi-
date for authority might agitate the rest
of Europe by his intrigues. All Europe
supposed that the Principalities were
content and even happy under the rule
Of Prince Couza, when suddenly it was
heard at the same moment hat the Prin-
CAPABILITIES had revolted, and that the re-
volt had been ended by the summary
expulsion of Prince Couza. Few saw
some weeks back that the riot at Bucha-
rest and the armlng of Italy had any con-
%neXion. They were, however, mines
laid by the sam head and fired by the
same hand. When all the stones of a
building fit accurately together we deny
hat it was the creation of chance and
in politics, when events concur at the
precise instant Of time when they ought
to concur in order to ensure a particular
result, we attribute the cause to an astute
and not over %scrupulous author.
France wants the Rhineland it is one
of the Iad6eS NapOkeOmienneS that the
Rhine should form the boundary of
France, and the nephew, with pious care,
endeavours TO work ont the uncle's aides
If Prussia is to Surrender the Rhineland
she must be recompensed elsewhere.
The Danish Duchies would only pay half
the price for a province so rich and glo-
rious at the RhineIand. Then, a dozen
smaller German States could be absorbed
and Prussia be made shapely. Tlle
power and influence Of Austria would be
diminished by both annexations. More
over, Austria is called upon to make a
further sacrifice. Italy demands Venice
and the Quadrilateral, and with difficulty
can be prevailed upon to wait the efforts
of diplomacy. Whence is Austria TO be
reoccupied? To hint that Bavaria, or
Saxony, or even Wurtemburg should be
annihilated as an independent power for
her ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, would doom her to
expulsion from Germany altogether.
Russia hangs on one frontier, Prussia on
another, Italy below; whittier can Aus
trla stretch her arms except in one direc-
ton, and that is towards the Principali-
ties, which, as they belong to a dying
man, may as we'll be apportioned before
his hour of departure?
Amongst the generals of Charlemange
was one Tharralo, Count of Zollern. His
successor built the fortress of Hohenzol-