The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-06-14
The Force under Arms in Europe.


Just before Niagara plunges down into the
gulf below, the CLASSY water looks smooth
and still all great torrents present this pic
ture. The tide seems to pause, as it were,
before it leaps into the abyss below-to real
ize, as if sentient, that in another moment it
will lose all control of itself and be dashed
upon the rocks, dashed into foam, and hurried
violently in the vortex This is fair image
of the present condition { { affairs in Europe
The great Powers, as thoy near the brink of
the precipice down which it seems almost
certain they must plunge "a the red torrent of
general war, seem to pause as the waters
do above the great falls; and they have need
of it. For behold the array oftroops! Aus
tria, 100000; Hanover, $4,000; Saxony,
$4,000 Bavaria, 100000 Baden, 49,
600; Hesse Darmstadt, 12,oOO Wurtemburg,
$4,000; SAKE Coburg, 1900; Brunswick, 5000;
Waldeck, 100; Lippe Detwold, 1900; Scham-
burg Lippe, Hombourg, 500; the Russ Dutch
les, 1900; Litchenstien, $50; ATTENDING, 1900;
SAKE Weimer, $500; SAKE Meningen, 1000;
Nassau, 5000; making total of 941, $50 of
all arms to which, it is estimated the house of
HAPsBURG could add 100000 more men, in
creasing the available force to ], PAL 150 Prus-
STA has, of her own troops, a force of 647, IA
to which the two Mecklinburgs add 5000;
the two Schwartzburgs, 1900; Hamburg,
2,000; Bremen, 800; Frankfort, 1900; Lu-
4ba A. ,o1f
burg, 4,000 and Electoral Hesse, $1,000;
making total of Prussian and Diet troops of
6S3,544
1t is estimated that, in emergency, 200. 900
more can be added to this force; making
grand Prussio-Germanic total of 8S3, 542; a
number less than that of Austria, by some
thing over the third of million
But the duel promises to be II 'engular, and
the available force of Italy, nc to go into
further details, is put by our Authority, (the
New York Mercantile journal, Il the 7th,) at
100000
This number, which our ON u experience
shows us, is not large out of population of
2S,000,00 added to the Prussio-Germanic
forces, changes the balance against Austria,
142,054 men; an army large enough to decide
the conflict, assuming the members of the
Diet, who have very little heart in the quar-
rel, to stand by Prussia with zeal and resolu-
ton.
Here is ample reason for the parties
to the impending conflict to pause
Nor is this all, Austria is VIGOROUSLY bank
rupt; Italy is even in worse condition; Prus-
STA alone is solvent. When we consider the
vast forces here arrayed-the complications
which promise still to arise, by Austrian ma
chination in Prussian Poland, and Italian ia
trigue in Hungary; by the craft of the Gar,
and the greed Of Napoleon the picture be-
comes mournfully suggestive of reason 70
Congress in the interests of peace, F or our
own part, we have but little hope ii any
solution, but that found in the grim al bitra-
ton of the sword
1t is Italy's opportunity to seize the golden
reality of unity, for which she has so long
painted. The enthusiasm of her people shows
that this passion is not shorn Of its strength;
and the conflicting interests, now exasp Grated
against each other, promises to refuse COM
promise; and the situation of affairs justifes
our smile, when we say that they pause
only in appearance, as the waters of Niagara
seem to do, before leaping into the boiling
abyss below. Heaven help those who float
upon that tide
Ethiopia Frowns Upon Erin.