The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-17
OH 4 RI EST ON
TUESDAY MORNING, JULY II, 1865.
A BIRDS EYE VIEW OF EUROPE.

reader, unlearned in the intricacies of CONT
mental diplomacy or German geography, to
keep pace with them. For his assistance we
propose to take brief and rapid survey of
what has been transacted on that theatre
during the past few months.
We will begin with Great Britain. Feni-
anism, that created such stir there last win
ter and spring, has entirely passed out of the
public mind. The outbreak in Ireland was
nipped in the bud. John Bull was badly
scared, but is getting slowly over it. The
spirit of discomfort, however, among the Irish
still exists, and must remain as long as the
Causes that have given rise to it. There is
reason, moreover, to think that the Fenian Or
ganization also is still in existence, and only
waits for suitable opportunity to make itself
felt. For the sake Of poor Ireland and her
worthy sons we could wish that oil idea of
such unequal, hopeless struggle was aban-
doned.
In England, tho Reform Bill has been the
uppermost public question during the past
season. To US it would seem o small matter
whether G5 or e7 shall be the minimum limit
emitting an Englishman to the privilege of
the elective franchise, yet upon this issue the
late Government was defeated in the House
of Commons and the Ministry compelled to
resign. The defeat, however, was by SO close
q vote that but small hopes can be entertain.
ed by Lord DERBY's new Cabinet of either @
long or an easy tenure of Office. Rumors of
popular agitation have reached US from Lon
don and other large cities, where the radical
element is predominant among the working
classes. These ominous warnings have been
given on the report that the new Ministry
will throw out the Reform Bill altogether.
Earl RUSSELL, GLADSTONE, and their ooadju-
tors, will form powerful opposition, even
though their own administration was weak in
the extreme. The foreign policy of England
undor the new. regime, it is thought, will un-
dergo considerable change, and be more
British and less imbecle.
Whether or not England is to enter the
arena Of strife, will in all probability be de-
termined by the course of her ally on the
trail. The Emperor in his recent letter states
that such is his determination, as long as the
war shall be confined to the present belIige.
rents, and provided that none of the powers
engaged shall receive any accession of terri
tory. The alternative is, of course, implied
that if any of the monarchs engaged in the
present war shall propose treaty of peace
incorporating large slice of what is now
somebody else's territory, the Emperor will
object, unless corresponding piece of ground
is added to the French side of the balance
ITO preserve the balance of power in Eu-
rope"
AS the war is for territory, NAPOLEON will
in all probability find an opportunity to set
up his claim. And when he stepsin England
will doubtless be ranged by his side. The
Thirty Years. War in Germany commenced
very much in the same manner as did the
present FREDERICK, King of Bohemia, has
his counterpart in the Prince of Augusten-
burg, the ostensible cause of the war. The
battle-ground, then as now, is chiefly in Sax
ony and Bohemia. Every power in Europe
was engaged in that memorable war, either
furnishing troops or subsidies, and we are in
fair way of seeing the same powerful Goa
litions once more arrayed against each other
If Russia joins Austria, this must inevitably
be the result. The WALLENsTErN and GUsrA-
vUs ADoLPHUs however have not been found
yet.
The preparations in Germany were long
and tedious. But Prussia, it would seem,
made good use Of the time spent in the conve-
nient delay Of diplomacy, and when she
struck, she did 30 simultaneously at several
widely opposed points, and with such vigor
that her armies thus far have carried eyery.
thing before them. The entire of Northern
Germany is now under Prussian rule. The
Hanoverian army was captured. Saxony,
Brunswick, Oldenburg, and the Mecklen-
burgs were either quietly occupied, or per-
sataded into an alliance with her.
The several engagements in Bohemia have
only been preliminary skirmishing. The op-
posite forces are still perfeoting their prepa-
rations, and marshalling their strength for
the great encounter of which We may expect
to hear any day.
Italy as yet has fallen far short of what
the world seems to expect of King V1croR
EMANUEL, assisted by GARIDALp1 and his en-.