The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-01-03
New Year in Europe.

how fast the storm ~ gathering, anu esPc'
ciallv with what rapidty the porten'
,ous Eastern Question is ripcning. Inc
Canadian instruction is raging as iiercely ~
ever: and il seems that it is not the o'o'
tans alone who are maintaining the '''"s-
gle. The Moniter says:
"Thc revival of the Cretah ,hsurfe c.'
il due To the insufficient hummer VI wv
man cruizers. The foreign asla'o.s "no
have created fresh tu'pai,cc ~ VIC
80 have been able to discmbark freely
w;,b ammunition and provisions. II now
anucars, however, that the aspect OF AFFAIRS
viii undergo change. since the Ottoman
cruiZers have been reinforced by certain
number of small steam gunboats."
| These foreigners are not merely the
Greeks of the Continent, but also Italians
in considerable numbers. Indeed, we read
in the New York Tribune that in the city
of Boston, city ever prompt to feel Tor
and relieve every case Of injustice and OPP
preston except, of course, in this wicked
South, ga meeting OF gentlemen was
"held last evening, and committee APP
"pointed to take measures in aid OF the
"Cretans." If we need to seek for any
other motive than the mere love OF free
dom and hatred of oppression actuatlng
those gentlemen in Boston, it is to be re-
marked that Russia, the dearest friend and
closest ally of the United States, another
Power which abhors oppression except, oil
roursr. in that tiresome Poland), Is also
friend 10 the Cretans aud the Greek ohriS-
tiaus everywhere. As for lnSIaha, sue
has been most anxiously "ecking ana
| REFRESHING the threatened uprising OF
the Greek nationality, and thr"uS"
her representative in Greece stalking
seriously" to that Government about
per,nitriuc bands OF Greeks to 60 over the
frontier into Turkey. The British Govern
mcnt, indeed. feels kccnly the Importance
Of preventing Ibis approaching eastern
war because she cannot deal with that as
she did with the late wars in Europe
wrap herself up in an undignlficd neu-
trality. If the question of the East be
rc0pcncd this year, the British Empire
must fight not only for its way to India,
but for existence among the Powers OF the
earth. Accordingly, the press of that
country is eagerly examining aud discuss
lug the English military system, which is
found 50 defective as to be almost null for
any great operations. Suggestions are nu-
merouS, but the chief of them is a plan for
calling into service the militia Of the three
kingdUmS-a plan very insufficient for the
purpose, and even dangerous, for it would
put arms into the hands of 80 900 or 10000
Irishmcn. In default Of an army of its
own, the English Government is, at any
rate, using all its art to keep at least
on the same side with France in the
intending struggle. So far, France has
adopted the same policy of discouraging
the Greeks, and threatening the Court OF
Athens. Perhaps neither of these Powers
wishes the contest to be prccipitatcd.
France wants it postponed till after the
Exposition, aud England would like TO have
adjourned sine die. Yet they both seem
ci that the crisis is coming fast, and
be upon them in any given month this
.r. In the mean time, 10y cOnqucSts IN
Central Asia, the Russian Empire almost
touches the English one in India and while
thus in the lartheSt east a struggle long
expected and long prepared for is almost
ready to begin, we find that Prussia and
Austria are at this moment holding the
same attitude towards each other which
they held month before Sadowa-that is,
each moving forward troops, and each ac-
cu>ing the other of aggression and provo
cation. We take from the Opinion Nation
ale, one of the Paris papers which has al
ways been most friendly to Prussia, this ac-
count Of the situation
| " Austria is at this moment directing on
| Galicia certain number OF regiments OF
cavalry and artillery. She is also sending
towards Bohemia some corps Of infantry for
| the service Of the new garrlSonS created on
the Saxon frontier. The PrusSian journals
are in high rage against Austria they in
sist that the Cabinet of Vienna is playing
now the same provoking and defiant part
which it played before the last war. Here
we may recall the parable OF the man who
saw the mote in his brothers eye. PruS-
sia has Just turned SaXony into an adj
vanced post towards Bohemia-she has
caused to be delivered up to her the fort
rcSs Of koenigstein," sc.
| 1t is needless to repeat, what every one
! knows, that France is engaged in preparing
greater army than she ever put in the
field before; and Russia has been arming
10 the teeth these five years. The whole
world, across the Atlantic, has grown COM
bustible and eXpioSlve-two hundred mil
lions otpcoplc are standing upon the crust
of volcauo-and they all feel that the
spark to set all ablaze may probably be
| lighted this mOllcMt in the little island of
Crete. Such and so cheerful are the pros
poets for the new year in Europe.
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The Cincinnati Gazette, leading Radi-
cal paper, declares that it is glad the