Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-20
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xosi / ~ yaa 7io9 El,3 LONDON, Aug. I, 1868.
/ The political state Of affairs in Europe
is an ever fruitful field for speculation
among politicians, even in times of COM
parative dullness as at present. Great
Britain has thus far succeeded in keep
ing aloof from the questions which agi-
tate the Continent and her isolated geo.
GRAPHICAL position enables her to. pursue
that policy more steadily than the Com
tinental powers Besides the interests of
Great Britain do not lie in her European
policy and the support of a large army for
the protection of the territory as much
as in the integrity of her Colonial poses
sions and the protectioniof her commerce
and navigation in foreign harbors and
on the high seas. There are those. who
call the British Empire an Eastern Pow
er at this present day, and not without a
fair show of reason, for the Indian EN-
pire is still one of the main sources,
from which this Government derives its
wealth and prosperity. British home
manufactures are another such source,
but do not two-thirds at least 60 to nom
European countries and why should
Great Britain implicate herself in Cont
mental quarrels, by which she would be
anything but benefited 2 " u.-ea, d
AS it is, European politics are lying dor
mant, to awake perhaps with the first
crash of the thunderstorm, from which
the old world is never secure. Spain is
in insurrection and the Spanish question
of succession to the throne in the event
of Queen Isabella's death is alone sufi-
cient to disturb the equilibrium of the
Ibernian peninsula without the recently
discovered conspiracy against the exist
ing Government. France is a vast mill
tary camp and its inmates have to te
ready at an instant's warning to march
against whoever their august master may
think fit to lead. France has also an addi-
tional small debt of over four hundred
millions of francs on her shoulders in the
form Of new loan. France grumbles,
but she has to subside before the words
of command from the lips of His I'm
perial Majesty, Napoleon III. 1 = s-..
AS for Austria, she amuses herself dur.
ring the present Schuizenfest at Vienna,
but she makes rapid progress in the path
of reform under the able leadership of
her Chancellor, Baron Won Beust. The
Holy Father in Rome will vainly offer
resistance to the new laws and the abo-
lition of the Concordat. The tide of civ
ilization and the quiet of the age is
against him., and the wisest course the
Pope can pursue, is gracefully to submit
to what he cannot help. Hungary will
soon have their own army, commanded
by Hungarion officers, and the liberality
which the Government of Austria has
evinced in its relations with the Mag
yars is highly creditable to the leaders
Of the Vienna Cabinet, who have
brought about what was only a short
time ago considered to be almost an inn
possibility. The interests of Austria
and Hungary seemed to be so antago.
nistic that an understanding between
the Ministries of the two. countries
looked like nothing short of an impos-
sibility.
Bismarck is enjoying siesta in his
Pammerian country seat, to be ready
again for action, when the country will
require his services. There has been
considerable talk about an intended
entente cordiale between Prussia and
Austria, but no reliable news to that
effect has reached these shores. The
establishment of a new international
law providing for the better protection Of
emigrants is contemplated by Bismarck
with the United States and other foreign
powers. 1t is very desirable that this
plan should mature at an early date, and
be put into practical execution in such a
manner as really to, benefit the emil
grant. & -.4 "A ..S.
Italy, with her king, Victor Emanuel,
at the head, is passive; the latter at
tends to- hunting parties and tolerates
the presence of French troops in Rome.
The Sultan of Turkey, with all his bra
vado about reforms, allows his Pashas in
in Gambia and on the coast of Syria to
hang and otherwise maltreat Christian
subjects, and the Gar in St. Petersburg
looks at all these proceedings with GER
tain amount of satisfaction, for he knows
that the time will come when these
wrongs will be avenged, and he has no
objection to playing the part of the
avenger, provided he can thereby in
crease his power and appropriate to him
self as big slice of territory as posi-
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