Storm gathering over sea.
--The
European news by the
Fulton (says the New York Express) scarcely attracted attention on Monday,--the merchants, as well as the general public being too much absorbed in the progress of painful events nearer home.
It is interesting to note, however, that the signs multiply, that
Southern Europe, the coming summer, as well as our own country, bids fair to be the scene of mighty (military) events.--
France and
Austria appear to be rapidly drifting towards another war, upon the many still unsettled points of the
Italian question, and it is not marvelous, therefore, that the correspondents write, that in most of the great commercial and financial circles on the continent a vague and wide-spread uneasiness exists.
A significant symptom of the inclination of
Austria, is, the rejection of the
Hungarian ‘"programme, "’ looking to the separation of the administration of
Hungary from that of
Austria.
There is the strongest sort of sympathy between
Hungary and
Venetia, and
Rome — and it needs but some
Garibaldi or
Victor Emanuel, to re-touch the electric spark which drove the Bourbons out of
Southern Italy last summer — to drive the Hapsburgs there, after them.
But this is not all. A war of the most formidable dimensions is looming up in Northern as well as
Southern Europe.
A correspondent of the London
Times, under date of
Copenhagen, March 28, writes:
‘
"We are rapidly drifting into hostilities with
Germany.
The last attempt of the
Danish Government to come to an amicable understanding with the Estates of
Holstein has signally failed.
The committee to whom the
Government proposals were referred, reported on the 16th unanimously in favor of their rejection.
The Assembly itself will, it is known, act with like unanimity in adopting the recommendation of its committee, and has already done so in regard to the first part of the proposals concerning the re-organization of the Common Parliament or Rigsraad.
All the speeches made in the Assembly breathe the most bitter hostility to
Denmark, and all agree in demanding the establishment of a political union between the Duchies of
Holstein and Schleswig as the
conditio sine qua non of any arrangement with
Denmark.
The report of the committee expressly says that as long as that demand is not complied with no lasting peace is possible.
Now, this is the very point which
Denmark cannot concede, which she successfully resisted in the last war of nearly three years duration, and which
Prussia and
Austria, in the negotiations of 1851, admitted that
Holstein could not claim as a right.
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