The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-07-01
EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.

EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.
France is busy with her Exposition and al
the parades and splendid fetes that mark it
daily progress. The government is pursuing
its policy quietly, the opposition for the tim'
being dormant and, we think, very properl.
so. England has recovered from the Fenial
scare, to be thrown into state Of surprise, Il
not alarm at the enormous political revolnfion
she has undergone within the past few weeks
under the direction of Tory leader Oh 'ne
House of Commons. A Reform Bill oas just
passed, under the auspices of conservative
Ministry, far in cdvsnce of what the Lioeral
party vainly sndeavored to accomplish during
the two years preceding.
The Cretan revolutions is still in progress
though very near its end, if we may credit
what appear 10 be Authentic advices received
by the Atlantic Cable within the last few days.
oxEn PAsHA. the distinguished Turkish Cen
eral having e.ned signal success over the
Candiotes. htngary, having at last succeeded
in her demands SO long denied her, of an inde-
nendent Constitution, has celebrated her tri-
uupb in GORGEOUS coronation of the Emperor
FnAxc1s JosEPi and his august spouse, as
King and Queen of Hungary. The settlement
Of this old quarrel is surely one of the wisest
and greatest f,uts of Austrian statesmanship
the press has bsen called to record during the
present century, and cannot but be regarded as
a strong guarantee for the recuperation and
strengthening of that ancient monarchy.
In Italy, liberal institutions ore still in a
state of probation, and it will require strong
and a wise man at the helm to steer the ship Of
state through the quicksands, political and
ecolesiastioal, revolutionary and reactionary,
that are continually threatening her on all
sides. Whether or not Signor RArAzzr will
prove himself another CAvoUR, is yet to be
shown.
The Lu1emburg question, that 80 lately
threatened to involve all Europe in war, has
been amicably adjusted, and no longer COM
mands the attention of political circles. Hol-
land and Belgium are comparatively quiet
Spain is turbulentas usual. But this has been
the case so long, and her difficulties are so en-
tirely internal, and free from ell influence upon
other nations, that they pass altogether un-
needed, both north of the Pyrenees and west Of
The Atlantic.
In Germany we see the work of reconstruo-
lion progressing apace. The Constitution
adopted by the North German Parliament has
been ratified by allthe States that were repre-
,ented in that legislative body, and was pro-
claimed as in operation on the 25th Of June.
The North German Confederacy is now fixed
Fact-a commonwealth of thirty millions Of
Germans, and although the States of South
Germany are not yet tfully incorporated with it,
he preliminary step, have been taken to cover
hem with the agis d the Bund. The Consti-
;ution which hereafter will form the founda-
ion of political life in North Germany, and
loon Of the entire Teutonic nation, is
till far from perfect. 1t is very deficient
n many respects, aad even in the Prussian
Chambers, where youmight expect least oppo-
,ition, one-third of the members were opposed
o its acceptance. But with all its imperfec-
ions Germany still has reason to congratulate
lerself upon this Constitution, for here is a
starting point, at least. for the development Of
ull civil liberty, an opportunity now present.
ID for the first time. What has been done,
,ven though we regard it in certain sense as
merely provisional, is nevertheless adequate
o secure the further development Of the Ger
nun people against violent convulsions from
within, or assaults from without; yet, at the
,ame time, it is also sufficiently elastic to ad-
nit of improvement and further elaboration.
I has real and solid foundation, and therein
,aries from every former attempt that has been
made since 1915, for tie reorganization, the
of Germany; and on this material
,asis the unity of Germany has in fact been
.lready accomplished. The Parliament (Reiehs-
ao). elections for which will soon take place,
will have deputies from the South German
States, and although for the present they will
,nly take part in the deliberations on matters
# commerce and customs duties, this accession
II over ninety deputies from South Germany
8 nevertheless very important enlargement
# the sphere of the Reielstag. 1t is in fact
he first step to the representation of all the
states of Germany in her Parliament. In the
Conference of Ministers at Berlin few weeks
.po BISMARCK advised the South German
States to adopt the plan proposed in the North
German Constitution, hereafter to determine
IL matters pertaining to the Zollverein or to
he commercial interests of the several States,
" a majority of Parliament instead of as
heretofore, requiring the unanimous consent
II the several members composing the Zoll-
'erein. For this purpose it would of course
,e necessary to admit deputies from the South
herman States into the Reichstag This pro-
position was accepted by most of the ministers,
md Bavaria which alone asked further time
or consideration, cannot, even if she were SO
Inclined, keep aloof from the union; her geo.
graphical position, her commercial, economic,
md military relations all forcing her to COM
,liance.
Here then there is nucleus Of community
# interest for the entire nation, and around
his will no doubt be grouped and added one
,indred interest after another, till before long,
We hope, the little feudal prinapalities shall
,e all effaced and instead Of thirty-fve distinct
States and quasi sovereignties, the map shall
give us one country, inhabited hy one nation,
md swayed by homogeneity ofinterest, from
he Rhine and the Vosges to the Vistula, and
rom the North Sea and the Baltic to the Alps
md the Adriatic. There is now Que language,