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Tauranga Record and Bay of Plenty Examiner, Volume 1, Issue 22, 30 November 1867, Page 2

Tui: news from luirojio contaias sonie features of interest wliieli are deserving of a- few wi rd.s of eonimeiit, Tlie princijial subject of continental (liffietilry is tlie 1 talian questiou, but tliat is snflicicntly serious to threaten to disturb tlie peace oi liurope. Accordiinr to thc j telegraiiis : The entire 1 tahau press deniand the occupatiou of the Taua! terri-

torv. The Popo declares the ^leceut decree of the I talian Govern uent for consuiuiiiai ting the sacrifiee of theccclesi.astical propertv, null and vuid, and confiiiis the ceu- 1 sures lauiic'.ied agaiust the usurpers. Garihaldi lias risen in insiuvection, thus ]reei[>i- 1 tating the action of the Italian Goveriunent wlio liave arrosted him. A Frencli ex]iedition to j Lloine is imiiiinent, for it| niust be reineuibered tliat [ France io pledged to niaintain inviolable the iutegrity of the Papal titates, and in France, extensive warlike lilce preparations are lieing conducte 1. The insurrectionary party j in Italy would appear to be J

in coiiiinuiiication with Pruisia.supplies of animunition to tlie latter | lace having be/n intercepted. Tondd to the complication, bctween France atiu Prussia anytliing but a good understanding 'exists;"great® irritation having been caused in the foriner eountry by a diplotnatie eircular of Gou.ut Bismark. The Papal States are also in iu«urrcctiou and grave coiisequences are expeeted to ensue. The tuni affair.-s will ^mitunlly take is far from Governiiieiit are doiug tiu'ir ufmost to restrain the popuInr clamor for the iiivasion of the Papal States, and thc Enijieror Xapoleon is making every effort to maintain i ]ieace, but it wonld appear ' that just now vvar would be very po|iiilar with tlie Frencli 1 people, aud it has bapjjeiied tliat when tliey wero m tlie liumor, it did not niatter niitcli with wliom tliey went to wa r, nor have tliey hitherto been a people very easily restraiued.

Sbould tlie present exeitod feeling of tlie I talian oeople C'.il miiiate iu an iiivasion of the Papal States, France will he Ibreed to take theFitter nnderhor proteclioii with tlie aid of Austria, and Italy'and ['rtissit «ill ni'ohably (iiter into eotnbinafion. It will be hani to say wheic will he the se.it i-f war. Possihly it will he llonie for the Italiaus, and the P.hiue for thc Frencli. for no proposal has ever liad more lavor with the latter nation tlian the extcnsioii of ihe hoiiudary of France to the Iiliiue, and the Frencli have liad nnich eaii.se of late years to he incensed witli the grasping and dictatorial poliey of Prussia, now perlinps tlie le.idii i _c poWer iu luirope '1 lien it caimot he minginui that Kussi.i will

play an niactive pait iu tlie eouiing sirife, aud theopportuuity wliicli it will ;dF,.rd hcr for iinking fresh de inands on Turkey may prove too great a te.nptation to be refused . So that tliere are clouds in tlie political horizon, Imt whetlier tliey v.ill uiature, or where tliey will lnirst, we can only conjecture. Amidst all these porteufous doings, Fngland, in old times tlie most proniiiitnt in every great struggle has coinmeneed a lilipution war witli Abyssinia, a eountry of obscure barbarian negroes, the geography of wliose eountry is far from generally known cxcept that itissomewherein the interior of Africa. The war is not

oue from wliicli he troops are likely to reap at.y glory, ; but it is asatisfaction to know j tliat the seat of War is remote j from lier o«*n frontier, and /that lier eattse is just. Mean- | wiiile, tliere is 110 nation at j present at all able to cope j witli lier in the dominion of 1 the seas.