The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-11
THE SITUATION IN EUROPE.

anxiety, apprehension and dstrust. The Ire
nometer has pointed low, and bids fair 10 sink
still more There is glut of bullion in the great
money centres of Europe, and interest at rates
unprecedenedly low. Even speculation is at
stand still The crops have been short, pro-
visions are high, commerce and manufactures
languishing, and labor of every kind is over
stocked, and uuderpaid. Taxes are heavy,
conscript IN active, and the most Hupendous
armaments every where in preparation. In
short, everything is calculated to induce the
expectation of a general financial crash, to be
caused perhaps by the result of war but it is
we'll known that an anticipation Of war often
exercises even more prejudcial influence ON
business than war itself.
The sources of inquietude at present are
three. l. The Roman question. .. The Prus-
so-Gallic complications; and 8 The Eastern
question. Of these the first is the one now
uppermost in the minds of the civilized world !;
the second and third depending largely upon
| the conduct Of the chief actors in the first
As is necessarily the case in the accurately
balanced and jealously guarded system of Eu-
ropean statecraft, any one question of Cont
mental Importance must be intimately connect
ed and intertwned with every other Contnen-
tai question
The Eastern Questiou is chronic sore, at
present affecting only Turkey and: Russia, but
/ an important factor in every calculation of the
/ European balance of power; because upon its
bearing on this interest depends the status of
Russia in any given quarrel; and Russia being
one of the chief powers of Europe, if not the
very first of them all, her attitude always
merits serious consideration.
| The relations of France and Prussia have
undergone no change by any recent event.
Each of these two neighboring nations ID
in state of irritation against the other;
not because either has been, or is likely to be
materially injured by the other; but simply
because the egoism of the French has been
touched, and their boastful self-importance
threatened perhaps their relative power in
Europe lessened. The Prussians, on their
part, it must be confessed, have not borne
! their recent honors very meekly, and their re-
sentiment has just grounds in the presumption
of French dictation in the internal affairs Of
Germany but we deprecate the tone prevalent
in the Prussian press, and cannot disguise our
surprise that SO impassive statesman as Count
BISMARCK should think it proper to indulge in
the same strain, as he has done in his recent
circular to the diplomatic agents represent
ing Prussia at foreign courts. 1t may be that
the co-e1istence of the Italian difficulty has
increased the boldness of BISMARCK. Ger
tainly the two questions are becoming closely
connected
The Pope depends for support exclusively on
France, which is yielded by her in watching
the Italian Government, and compelling it by
moral force to observe treaty stipulations.
The Italian Government made public on
the 2lst the following declaration " The
Ministry has carefully watched up to tse pre-
sent the great agitation which, under the glo
rious name of Rome, is trying to force the
country to violate the International stipula-
tons consecrated by the vote Of the Psrlia-
ment, and the honor of the nation. The Min
istry regretted the injury which such agitation
would do to the tranquility Of the State, the
public credit, and those financial operations on
which depend the well-being and fortune of the
country Upt5 the present the Ministry have
respected the rights of all citizens, but now
that contrary to those rights, certain persons
would proceed to.thrsats, the Ministry feel it
their duty to preserve inviOlats the public con-
fdence and the sovereignty of the law. The
Government will remain faithful to, and tho
roughly carry out, the declarations laid before
and accepted by Parliament. In free state
no citizen can rise above the Law, or substitute
himself in the place of the high powers of the
nation, and thus disturb by violent means the
organization of the country and lead her into
the gravest complications. The Ministry has
confidence in the wisdom and love of country
Of the Italians; and if any one should fail in
Loyalty toward those national stipulations, and
should attempt to giolats that frontier for
which we have passed our word, the Ministry
will not permit such an act in any way, and
will place on those persons contravening this
order the responsibility Of whatever acts they
may provoke"
But this will deceive no one We would not
wish to be understood as doubling the sinceri-
ty of RArAzzI, and if there were any suspicion
of this kind, it should be dispelled by the de-
nunciation GARIBALDI launches against him in
one of his recent letters from his prison. But
RArAzzI is but the servant of the Italian peo
pie; and how soon the cry Of GAEIDALDI, "On
to Rome"-"Ialy cannot disregard the appeal
Of the Romans" will be re-echoed from sea to
sea, from Genoa to Messina, in Lombardy,
Tuscany, and Palermo, it is impossible to
say. As yet the revolutionary effort may not
be beyond the ability of the Government to sup
press; BIZ; from all appearances, it is highly
probable that such will be the case very soon.
The King has now 10000 troops TO guard the
Roman frontier, but accounts from all sides
agree in stating that lOO, 900 men would be i'll
sufficient to prevent the irruption; that young
men enter the Papal territory daily in large
numbers, and that any day we may expect to
hear that the army of the Pope either has
made common cause with the revolutioniss, or
has surrendered II is idle to suppose that
treaty stipulations can Withstand such an i'm
pulse. RATAzzr must endeavor to control the
storm he cannot avert, or he and his Govern
uent will be destroyed in the ..maelstrom Ii
may be- we overrate the strength and intensity
of this feeling for national unity-it is 30 dim
cu)t In ohtsin reliable information at this dis