The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-12-12
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IL, 1856,


patched up this year between Austria and
Prussia, after their small war Of week,
asamcre temporary truce: anda llthe Pow
ers, great and small, evidently regard
Il In that light and no other. Prus-
STA, by her rapid march, long pre-
pared beforehand, and by the acct
dental superiority Of her infantry arms,
has had her advantage, but was afraid to
follow 1t mp; and scarcely had the King
returned to Berlin, when he and his able
Minister announced to the Prussian Cham
bers that he was only at the beginning OF
his great task-the Reorganization Of Ger
many. In the mean time, Austria, which
Is not half so much weakened or humbled
now as she was sixty years ago by the
French, and which is the Power in all
Europe that has the greatest capacity OF
recuperation after defeat, is making extra
ordinary efforts both TO consolidate her
heterogeneous empire and re0rganize her
army. That army next year will number
SOC, 900 mon; officers and men being both
animated by the eager desire to wipe away
the disgrace Of Sadowa. But this time the
contest will not be between Prussia and
Austria alone. Russia is getting ready
she also has defeats to aveDge, and her in
terests in Germany and on the Baltic to
advance. The Imperial Government Is
even deigning TO relax the rigor
of its administration in Poland, that
the Empire may be strengthened on that
weak side. AS to France, all the world
knows that she is diligently perfecting the
Reorganization of her army, and arming it
with improved breech-loading guns, whe-
Their those Of CHAssEPoT or those of BONN
matters not-either of them being superior
to the Prussian ARMAND the Emperor, it
Is said, has invented new field-piece-a
breech- loading OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF
going everywhere that cavalry can 60, and
rendering the whole cavalry force Of the
Empire species of flv;rs "rtillery. More
ever, it is IN anticiroti :. 0f a general war
in Europe, and not in consequence of Mr..
SEwARD's notes, that the French army is
to be withdrawn from Mexico. France
cannot afford to take care of two CONT
nents at once and the French nation,
which never loved he Mexican expedition,
is now so heartily sick Of it, and Sc earnestly
desires TO see those veteran troops at home
again before the impending life and death
struggle in Europe, that not ali the power
and popularity of the Emperor can longer
oppose the general will. People at this
side the Atlantic are apt to imagine that
the perpetuation of that Mexican Empire
is point of honor with the French nation,
and that to abandon it will be to them q
bitter humiliation. Nothing could be more
erroneous they have lost sight of Mexico
altogether in presence Of the tremendous
events they see approaching nearer home,
and will certainly illuminate their cities
when their soldiers return. They all feel
that their army must be well in hand and
practiced in its CHAssEPoT manual before
the day when it will have marching orders
for the Rhine.
But how will the Powers be arrayed for
the grand struggled Who will be allies of
whom! The Baron De BEUsT, one of the
most skilful of diplomatists, is busy in try
ing to bring Austria and France to an I'M
derstanding- this may be very posi-
BILE, now that Italy is clear of Austria, and
q. hA,. Lot 10
1t was the interest of Italy alone that re-
strained France from declaring against
Prussia in this years war and as between
Prussia and Austria, the sympathies Of all
Frenchmen were warmly with the latter.
Now, a league of France, Austria, and Italy,
together with Spain, which scarcely
couuts,) would be an array Of the Catholic
Powers of southern Europe; and against
such an alliance on what could Prussia
relyi First, and chiefly, on Russia. Russia
nurses deep grudge against Austria; not
only for the course taken by the latter in
the Crimean difficulty, but still more for
the liberal concessions she has made to the
Poles in her Polish province of Galicia. 1t
does not suit Russia that the unhappy Poles
of her Poland should see on their borders
the spectacle of portion of their own ma
ton comparatively free and prosperous I'M
der Austrian rule. Against France it is
needless to say that the Gar cherishes the
memory of Sebastopol. BY the last tele-
graphic news, also, it seems as if Russia
already were preparing herself for the great
ANTI Catholic crusade by the side of Prus-
sia-for the Gar has suddenly put an end
to all relations between his Empire and the
Pope. If Russia, however, should ally her
self with Prussia, it will not be gratis.
There are large accounts open between
those two Powers, relating to Denmark, the
Baltic sea, and certain principalities of Ger
many which are specially connected with
the Russian imperial family-all those ac-
counts must be settled in favor of the Gear.
AS for England, she can scarcely be said
to be counted any more than Spain. 1t is
now a maxim with her statesmen that she
has no business with continental wars or
treaties, even wars that she has stirred up
LAS the Danish war;, and treaties which she
il bound to see executed, as one OF the
contracting parties. England's mission is
10 sit at home and spin. Yet England also
:. ,oaL;,,, a tho r,renSration she can,