The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-27
Tho Europoan Situation,

tlo eoVo OOuBIeSs az Oen6Na, We bIabou w Vul
readers that, as the natural and necessary
result of that meeting we might expect very
soon to hear of fresh instructions or assassi-
nations in Europe. Sooner almost than we
expected facts have justified our fears. Riots
of serious character have taken place in Man
chester and in Dublin and mob violence has
robbed the law of its rghtful property. Carl
baldi, the king of flibusters, has put himself
at the head of his handful of liberators, and, in
the vain attempt to get up second Aspro-
monte, has landed himself in prison in Ales-
sandria. The Emperor Louis Napoleon, fear
full lest the Roman question should enter upon
a new phase without his Intervention, hurries
his troops to the aid of his ally and prOt6gG,
King Victor Emanuel. Bismark, chuckling
over the general confusion, and rejoicing par
ticularly at the prospect of seeing the hands
of his great political antagonist tied, bursts
out in language of open defiance, telling
Germany and the world that there is no
power strong enough to hinder the union of
the Fatherland and no power paltry enough
to make the attempt. The British police out
witted by Fenianism which was supposed to
be dead the Italian people, clamorous for
Rome, and Garibaldi in prison ior attempting
to give effect to their Wishes Napoleon threat
ening another occupation of the Holy City;
Bismark waiting to pronounce the unity of
Germany, and the Government of the Car
ready to revolutionize the entire East of
Europe-such is the situation at the present
moment.
The central dificulty-the focus from which
revolution is all but certain to radiate over
the continents Rome. Garibaldi has a
second time failed in making Rome the capital
of Italy. The hero of hundred fights, the
man to whom Italy and Italy's king I'VE more
than they owe to any other, is in prison; but
the Roman question, with which the name of
Garibaldi is now intimately and inseparably
associated, demands solution as loudly, nay,
more loudly than ever. The Italian Govern
ment has imprisoned the popular hero; but
will the Italian people give their consent either
to his continued confinement or to his trial
We have no sympathy with ilibusters in any
country or in any cause and Garibaldi, as we
have said already, is a tilibuster of the purest
type; but we do not forget that the cause
which Garibaldi represents, and in which he
has once again signally miscalculated, is a
cause which is populaB with all ranks and
classes of Italians, from the prince to the
peasant. We have never believed that Carl
baldi would be allowed TO take Rome; but
we have not been without good reason for
believing that there was collusion between
the Garibaldi party and the Government, and
that it was the fixed determination of the Gov
ernment to make use of the inSurrectio aary
movement and make themselves master of
Rome. Events have been miscalculated by
Garibaldi. They have, also, unless we greatly
mistake, been miscalculated by the Govern
ment of Italy. We cannot resist the convic-
tion that the SphynX of the Tuieries has out
witted them both. 1t is difficult to believe
that Garibaldi would have made the attempt
if he had not had some understanding with
the Italian Government. 1t is as difficult to
believe that such an understanding could
! exist, unless there had been a conviction on
the part of the Italian Government that Napo-
| leon would not interfere. Napoleon has inter-
fered, and the Roman ques ion presents itself
in new phase; but it is as full of difficulty as
| ever.
How this question is to be settled, or to
what complications it may yet give birth, it is
impossible to say. Napoleon has resolved to
send troops and war vessels to Italy ''to aid
the Kings Government" Does the King IS
| Government wish such aid What, if under
the guise of said to the Kings Government" "
we have another French occupation of Rome 2
Napoleon, it is to be borne in mind, can make
mistakes now. What if Italy should resent
such aid and openly and doggedly resist it ?
What if the alliance which proved so destruc-
tive to Austria should be resumed, and more
acceptable aid should be found by the Italians
in the strong arm of Prussia What if, in
the confusion, South Germany, which is by
no means unwilling, should, by little gentle
pressure, be constrained to enter the Northern
Union? What if Russia, impatient of further
restraint, should march her armies southwark
and settle the Eastern question at Once2 II
Napoleon, by armed force, interfere in the
affairs of Italy, it will, unless we sadly miscal-
culate, be the grandest mistake OF his life.
NapOIeOn's Intervention In the Roman
Question.
From the N. Y. Tribune.
IL
blow which threatened to crush the secular
power of the Papacy. But for this interven.
tion, the fall of the temporal power would
have been certain. large number of the
| Papal troops had been gained over for the
cause of Garibaldi, and the few volunteers
which are in the Papal service would GER
tainly not have withstood long the thousands
of volunteers whom Garibaldi, as he has
| shown ON many occasions, can call together al
few days notice. But for Napoleon's inter
vention, Garibaldi would never have been ar
rested, but the Government which accepted
from his hand the two Siciles and part o
the Papal territory as a present, which las
year gave him the command of an entire army
corps, which has frequently declared its inten
tion to annex the Papal States, would Ions
ago have sent Garibaldi at the head Of an arm
against Rome, could it have emaucipated itsel
from the influence of France.
France did not confne herself to ordering
the arrest of GaTibaldi, but, as the Atlantic