The Cause of European Alarm.—
The Universe publishes the following prayer, which the Pope is said to offer up daily for France; “Oh! Mary, conceived without sin, look down upon France; pray for France; oh! save France. The greater its guilt, the greater its need of thy intercession. A single word to Jesus, reclining in thine arms, and France is saved. Oh! Jesus, obey Mary, and save France. The Cause of European Alarm.—
That there is still deep-seated uneasiness and anxiety in England and in other European States, on account of the discussions and rivalries of the emperors, is well known. The coldness between the rulers of Russia and Germany, and the growing friendship between the rulers of Austria and Germany, together with the rapid arming of Russia and the re-arming of Germany, has suggested strong probability of one of the greatest wars of the world. The rough reply of Bismarck to Roumania, informing her that she is not a sovereign state, and the seizing upon the repudiation by Roumania of a small and disputed debt, making this a pretext for bringing up the Eastern question again in all its former fury, shows some deep-seated plot to change the ownership of the mouths of the Danube. Russia has long coveted the Roumanian territory, and laid out all her plans and mighty military energies with reference to naval opportunities in more southern seas. Germany also may be looking ambitiously in the same direction, and is making alliance with Austria and Italy, well knowing that Russia will not yield her long cherished dream, and be perpetually imprisoned by the Black Sea and her frozen waters,—without a long and desperate struggle. If actual war shall be the issue, it must be terrible, and both Russia and England will bitterly regret their having allowed France to be so permanently crippled.—The Republic of Sept. 13. That terrible scourge, the Asiatic cholera, has now effected a foothold in this country, having been brought from Hamburg to Perth Amboy N. J.