Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1866-11-29
Austria and France,

tween Austrla and France that existed
during the 'seven years war; and he
will undoubtedly employ the same means
used at that time with so much success by
his distinguished predecessor, Kannitz.-
A late writer from Berlin, in noticing the
movements of Baron Won Buest saws:
sin spite of the Salic Law, female infu-
ence has always been omnipotent in France,
and, as in 1856, the Franco Austrian
alliance was brought about by Madame de
Pompadour, similar result is to be at
tanned now through the Empress Eugene.
Louis Napoleon is getting old and infrm,
and more than ever inclined to listen to
the suggestions of his fair and pious con-
sort. The Empress has never made a
secret of her leaning towards conservative
and Catholic Austria. On his late jour-
ney to Paris, Baron Beust has exerted all
his dexterity to strengthen this impression,
and his endeavors can hardly fail to be
promoted by the jealousy that has been
aroused in the French nation by the sud-
den, predominance of Prussia" The Me-
mortal DplonsGttque, the accredited organ
of Austrian opinion in Paris, also insists
Austria and France, as the only means of
preventing solution of the Eastern ques-
tion in a manner injurious to the interests
of these powers. The union of Prussia
and Russia is the point of danger recog-
nized by the friends of the Austro-F French
alliance, and as that event has occurred,
the designs of Baron Won Beuest will most
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French government.
The movement of Napoleon with refer
ence to the affair of the snational bounda-
ries" has alarmed Prussia, and made the
relations between that kingdom and Rus
sia more intimate than they have been
since the Danish war. That event
wedged those great powers asunder.-
Russia saw in the union of Prussia and
Austria for Northern movement danger
to her interests, and she at once stood on
the defensive. But that cloud has passed
over, and the presence of the Crown
Prince of Prussia at the recent nuptials of
the Czarewitch shows that the past has
been overlooked, if not forgotten, in the
necessity of preparing for the eventful
Eastern question and the Gar if he can.
He is an unscrupulous adept in that art,
and the tone of the official journals of
Prussia indicates that some willy diplomat
is guiding their course. They have,
doubtless, been instructed to draw the most
gloomy pictures of the state of things in
Turkey, to exaggerate the fabuloas sue
cesses of the insurgents in Gambia, and
to put forth the attempts of the Noaite,sr
to represent the rebellion as COM
plstely suppressed, and it is quite clear
that Prussia would have no objection to
humor the Gar so far as to cooperate
with him in reviving the Eastern question,
which she looks upon as the best means
of distracting the attention of France from
the affairs of Central Europe. Whether
she would assist him in fighting it out de-
pends upon the results of the efforts of
Baron Beust to engage France in cause
hostile to Prussia. Prussia's great inter-
ests are in the East. She is stretching
forth all her powers and resources to reach
the Mediterranean. The paramount in
terests of Prussia are in Central and
Northern Europe. She must watch the
Rhine, and look out for seaports, in order
that her manufacturers may reach the
markets of the world with their products
If, then, the Prusso- Russian alliance
should bring on contest in which France,
Austria, Italy, and possibly England.
would be on one side, and the two powers
first named on the other, Bismarck might
find it the interest of Prussia to abandon
the Car, and take care of her own inter-
ests in Central Europe. Such games
have been played before. England aban-
doned Russia and united with France in
the Crimean movement, and Bismarck is
not more heavily burdened with consci-
ence, or greater sticking for consistency
than the distinguished statesman who was
at that time the Prime Minister of the
English nation.
The game is an interesting one, and the
chief players are fully equal to the occa-
sion. Napoleon and Baron Won Beust are
competent to cope with Bismarck and the
Gar on any field of action The effort
of the Austro- French alliance will be to
push the contest into one between conser-
vatism and the onward march of those
powers which would disintegrate for the
purpose of annexing and absorbing. BY
this movement Napoleon and Won Beust
will unite the Latin Church, the old re-
ginae, and the conservative interests that
are represented by the bankers and traders
and manufacturers of Europe, with Eng
land also, in a solid mass against Prussia
and Austria. The people of England are
already becoming alarmed at the move
ments of John Bright. He and his fol-
lowers have favored the Prussian pro-
gramme, and will advocate the further
| development of that idea. But the great
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