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

now Iast the stoih II ka'h''iS, 90" >'f~
cially with what rapidiiy the porten'
tous Eastern Question is ripening. The
Canadian insurrection Il raging as iiercely a.
ever: and il seems that il is not the ore-
tans alone who are maintaining the Strug-
gle. The Monite,r says:
"Thc revival Of the Cretan instruction
i due Ia the insufficient number of Otto
man cruizers. The foreign agitators who
have created fresh disturbance in the
island have been able to disembark freely
with ammunition and provisions. 1t now
appears, however, that the aspect of affairs
will undergo q 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, "a 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 actualihg
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, OF
course, in that tresome Poland), is also
| friend to the Cretans and the Greek ChrlS-
tiaus everywhere. A. for England, she
has been most anxiously checking and
REFRESHING the threatened uprising OF
the Greek nationality, and through
her representative in Greece talking
seriously" to that Government about
per,oittinr bands OF Greeks to go over the
frontier into Turkey. The British Govern
ment, indeed, feels keenly the Importance
Of preventing this approaching eastern
war. because she cannot deal with that as
she did with the late wars in Europe
wrap herself up in an undignfied neu-
traity. 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
ing the English military system, which is
found SO defective as to be almost null for
any great operations. Suggestions are nu-
mcrous, but the chief of them is plan for
calling into service the militia of the three
kingdoms-a plan very insufficient for the
purpose, and even dangerous, for it would
put arms into the hands of 80 900 or 40, 900
Irishmen. In default Of an army of its
own, the English Government is, at any
rate, using all its art to keep at least
OH the same side with France in the
impending 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 prccipitated.
France wants it postponed till after the
Exposition, and England would like TO have
il adjourned sine die. Yet they both seem
to feel that the crisis is coming fast, and
may he upon them in any given month this
wear. In tie mean time, by cUnqucSts IN
Central Asia, the Russian Empire almost
touches the English one in India ; and while
thus in the iartheSt 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
Galcia certain number of regiments Of
cavalry and artillery. She is also sending
towards Bohemia some corps OF infantry for
the service of the new SarriSons created on
the Saxon frontier. The PrusSan journals
are in high rage against Austria F.; they in
sst that the Cabinet of Vienna is playing
now the same provoking and defiant part
which it pl ycd before the last war. Here
We may recall the parable OF the man who
saw the mote in his brothers. eye. PruS-
STA has Just turned SaXony into an adj
vanced post towards Bohemia-she has
caused to be delivered up to her the fort
reSs OF koenisstein," 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
TO the teeth these five years. The whole
world, across the Atlantic, has grown COM
busti1le and cXploslve-two hundred mil
lions ofpeople are standing upon the crust
OF a volcauo-and they all feel that the
spark to set all ablaze may probably be
lighted this moment 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, u leading Radl-
cal paper, declares that it is glad the
southern States have rejected the amend
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