The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-07-22

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The attempt to kill King AMADEUS and
his queen, made on Thursday night last,
shows that the propensity to kill their rulers
is still strong amongst the Red Republicans.
They add force TO that quotation which has
grown into Il prorcrb, Uneasy lies the head
that wears Il CROWN Yet it is very aston
ishing that, Notwithstanding the oft-rc-
pcatcd attempts to kill kings, they have
almost universally failed. Royalty seems to
be protected by charmed life. The
only successful shot aimed at it for
several generations was that fired at
| Prince ARTHUR in Australia few
wears since. and that was only partially
successful. The Prince was shot III tue
| back, and although sharply wounded ne soon
recovered. NIcToRIA, the exemplary ruler
| OF England, has not Eccn spared, and yet
| she has never sustained physical injury.
| The malignity which is 80 fcrocous as to
attempt the life of so virtuous and gentle {.
| lady must be brutal in the last degree. 1t IS
| wonderful to see how tenacious it Is. 1t
kills nobody, and its failures only seem to
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whct the appetite for royal blood.
There is critical state of politics III
Europe which tends either TO democratic
! government or TO il Strengthening OF ;rbi-
tlary rule. The weak POWcrs--thOSc over
shadowcd by their ncighborS-arc more en-
posed to the agitations of INSTRUMENTATION,
more liable to be reyoluipniZcd by the thCo-
rists and dcstructivcS, than the stronger ones.
| Spain is weak, and AMADEUS finds his path
besct with dangers. France Is still III Il
! dream, tlnrccovercd from the stunning
| blow she received from Germany. She
is in IN intermediate state, from which
she will emerge i'll some form nobody
can well forcsee. But there Is one thing
certain, and that is that the daslrc TOR con-
quest and expansion is rs strong III llnpcrlai
minds to-day us it WAS centuries ago, ana the
disorder and insubordination OF the peoples
Of States weakened by war and other cliscS
will be made the prcteXt for the conquest.
Imperial Governments cannot esc"ne dts
turbancc from anarchy on their borders, ana
they will protect themselves. we shall see
probably some strange things in the next
half century in the conflict between order
and Conservatism and Rcd Rc-
Observation-Disclosures and Republicans.
The world is as discontinued us it always
has been. Whether, in the course of time,
there ever will he formed Il government with
which men will he satisfied, and under Which
they will live without murmlrng, is Il qies-
ton which the. history of the past would
teach us will be decided in the negative. To
suppose people so happy would be to con-
ccive of Il state Of earthly bliss Incompatible
| with Providential DEGREES. 1t seems that
man is never to have his hope of that happi-
ness in Heaven which he sees through the
eye of faith turned to indifference by Il con-
dltion of uninterrupted peace and JOY on
earth. So, mankind is not likely TO sec
| perfectly satisfactory government and per-
manent peace-in other words, "ucaven
upon earth"
The balance Of power maintained by the
European alliance WAS disrupted by tue
Franco. German war. England has lost her
preStlSe as peace-tilu-po"iia"! Pi e''A wa -.
acouiesciDg in the partition of France; and
the SAME act lost her France us an ally IN the
preservation of the balance OF poWer-thc
only ally, indeed, upon whom she could lih-
plicitly rely. The field IS wide opcu and the
power and temptations 10 expansion are
fearfully increased. The kins-klllers ana III
terDational anarchists may set Il. Inss III mo-
ton that will possibly in no graf WINE
make serious changes in the map Of l. urope.
We are likely to sec the old story of pt "er
growing and increasing until it breaks 10
pieces of its own weight and is lost in alb /,
of Babel is continually rehearsed by men of |
all ages, and will likely so continue to the |