Year: 1869

Our special correspondents in Europe sup
ply the letters from London, Rome, Naples
and Athens which are published in our
columns to-day, embracing varied, sprightly,
accurate and most interesting elaboration Of
our cable kilograms to the 10th of December.
The writers take US from London to Athens,
touching at Naples and hating for o season
in Rome. 1t constitutes "a fine tour, the pic
turesque descriptions and force Of the different
authors almost obliterating the distance to
the eyes and mind Of the reader, and thus
enabling tho Imagination to realize, as it were,
the actualities.


It will DO seen that Premier Gladstone finds
Ireland the still chronic internal difficulty"
of Great Britain, and that the Cabinet Of this
very accomplished statesman is likely to break
up during the next Parliament on the
apparently simple subject Of the matter
and best mode of treatment of the active
chameleon-like radicalism which exists in the
sGreen Isle" The British tories forsee the
coming crisis, and have already commenced
their preparations for its party utilization by
naming the young Earl of Derby as their
leader; very judicious political step, appar-
emily, one by which they may reasonably hope
for victory under the old and well tried banner
Of the Stanleys, having its baronial motto and
device retouched little, SO as to read more In
conformity with the spirit Of the age, and thus
meet the exigencies Of the period more har-
moniously. From Rome we have a very in
teresting programme of the pontifcial rules and
regulations laid down for the conduct OF
the Ecumenical Council, with reports of the
arrival of many of the distinguished person
ages who had reached the Holy City during
the first two days of the assemblage. Pope
Plus the Ninth entrusted the custody of the
key of the diplomatic gallery in the council
hall to the French Ambassador, who was
named Dean of the diplomatic body for the
occasion. His Excellcncy was at the same
time duly instructed to exclude 'ladics and
their friends" AS Pope Plus the Ninth is
acknowledged to be very quiet satirist in his
way it may be that the Holy Father intended
the key arrangement as grand Papal contrast
with Che condition of affairs which existed in
Rome, and Europe generally, at the time when
Napoleon the Great carried not only the keys
and sword Of st. Peter, but the Pope him
self, off to France. Antonelli is vindictive,
apparently, in his mode Of humiliation by
ordering French gentleman to exclude ladies
from any place, no matter where, which they
wished to enter, and in ordaining the minister
merely as dean just as his imperial master
had come to regard himself almost as Head of
the Church. The attitude which the German
prclates may assume on the Papal infallibiity
question was not, to all appearance, exactly
decided on when our dispatches were written.
Italy was agitated on the Roman Council
subject, and our Naples letter is consequently
replete both with news and news gossip. From
Athens comes an exhibit of the actual condi-
tion OF the relations which exist between
Greece and Turkey, valuable and timely con-
tribution when we consider the somewhat
critical aspect of what Is broadly accepted as
the Eastern question. The special budget, as
a whole, furnishes vast deal of information
as to the state of affairs in Europe.