New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-31

| prevent any other nation from gaining the
! alliance of her nearest neighbors by securing it
for herself. She has bitter and sulenly re-
yepgeful power on the west only waiting for
fair opportunity to attack; and on the east
there il a constant menace of disturbance IN
the unqualified greed of territory and the
arbitrary provincial administration of Russia
which so unfavOrably affects the German sub
iccts of the Gar in the Baltic provinces
Italy. even more than Germany, would find her
account in this arrangement She has seen her
efforts at the completion of her unity at one
time banled by foreign Intervention, and ut
another forwarded by the accidents of for
eign war; and now that through many de-
yious ways she has succeeded in browning
the e6ifce of her unity. she il naturally
anxious that the work should not be exposed
10 revision by the interference Of any other
Power. There is always danger that some
Government under strong Catholic influences
may find an easy way to popularity among It's
people by beginning new crusade In favor
of the temporal power of the Pope. lt,will
he very convenient for Italy to be provided
with powerful allies against such a con-
tingency.
France formidable to her neighbors in the
present condition of affairs in Europe, is the
possibility of an alliance with Russia The
developments recently made OF the lncoin-
plete movement of the Cabinet of st. Peters
burg toward friendly intervention in behalf
of France after the battle of Sedan, have turned
the minds of all European statesmen toward
the necessity of a rapprochement between tho
nations of Central Europe to guard against
possible coalition of the East and West. The
new troubles with ROumania afforded another
and most plausible motive for an attempt at
an understanding between the two German
Powers. That such an attitude OF Ger
many and Austria has been for some
time in contemplation has been already
shown in these columns In The
TRIBUNE of June 10 we published an
account of an interview with Count Won Beust,
in which the Austrian Premier asked our cor
respondent what would be the attitude of the
United States in case of coalition of
the two German Empires against the
Russian; adding that an assurance
of entire neutrality on our part in
that case would be very important to the
peace of the world. This question indicated
not only the general uneasiness which has
grown up in Europe as the result of our
superficial cordiality with Russia but some
what definite purpose to accomplish the cOalI-
ton referred to.
Ii is possible that the full understanding
arrived at between the three Powers may be
sufficient to effect its objects for the present
without a resort to arms. The news this morn
ing is that the Roumanian Government has
laid before the Chambers bill for the indem-
MITIGATION of the public creditors, and it is
probable that the Boyards may prefer to
tax themselves little to pay their
honest debts rather than to run the risk
of the extinction of their nationality. Prince
Bismarck would probably have little hesitation
in Offering to Austria the entire control of the
Lower Danube in exchange for her full adhe-
sion, and this would be a challenge to Russia,
which sooner or later would be accepted.
These Leagues of Peace are usually followed
by wars, and although we are told that
Russia is intended to be embraced in
the scheme of international amity, 1t
is difficulty to see what entertainment
is provided for her at the feast Of goodwill.
There is a possibility that the German states
men feel that the fight on the Danube between
the Goth and the Tartar must take place
some time, and that they are now preparing
for it. The respective attitudes of the Car
and the Kaiser form a strange commentary on
the cordial greetings of a few months ago.