NEW MAP OF EUROPE

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XX, Issue 2259, 17 October 1864, Page 6

NEW MAP OF EUROPE

Till. Palis corics2)oncluulcnt of the Times gives some details of one ot those cunous maps which of Jate times piecedc the occiuience of impuitant events in Europe. The one now noticed appealed at the time of the breaking out of the Danish war. It is headed " ISuiopo in IStiO," and is on the ba^is of nationalities He says: — Fust conies the gieab Scandinavian Monaichy, composed of Sweden, Noiway, and Finland, with the Gulf of Finland, Lakes Ladoga and Onega, and the While Sea foi boundanes between it and lUiSiia. Domnaik is completely absoibcd in the new German Monarchy, of which Berlin is the capital : and the Kingdom of Poland, extending fiom the Baltic to the Black Sea, has Germany, the blare, aud the Gieuk Empties on the ue^fc and south, with the Carpathians and the Pi nth as its fiontieis. Of the .Sla\c Empiie Pesth is to bo the capital, while Vienna falls down to a pioviucial city. Italy computes the Roman States, Venetia, and Coisica. Poitugal is swallowed up by Spain, to which Gibraltai is restoied ; and France, as a nialtei of coiuse, takes in the Rhenish piovinces, with tho Rliine lor its fiontiei. The colons whu-h designate the countiies, as thej' aie to appear in 1566, designate the idiosyuciasy of the 1 elective populations. Fiance, "distinguished for the spuit of justice and humanitj abova all other Euiopean nations," i-, tinted with carmine, '• lepiesentmg the sentimental file which God lias used in colouung the lips." Tiie feeling winch make's the Italian people gloi ions is,ifc seems lalheraitistic than liuinanitaiian, more developed m the aits than in their manners ; and therefoie Italy appeals with a pale carmme ap[)ioaching to lose colour. Npaniauls and Poitugiiese, being le^s liumanitaiian than the Fiench, and quite as aitistic as Italians, but still anogant and Miidicthe, aio of lose coloui, '.lightly tinted with ochie, "as excessive of toughness " The Tnglish are the most mateiialist of all people, and the mo 4 eagei foi nggiamhsenicnt, aiemaiked with gimboge, the coloui of the gold they love. Scotlind and Ireliml, not having yut attained the same pitch of selfishness and mateiiabsm as the AngloSaxon lice, tho aitisb to depict them has considerately blended the staii tg 31.110W with the s-lighttst shide 111 the woild of use. The Geiinini, as a people addioted to study and meditation, and being veiy fond of music and beer, arc maiked m'skyblue, " which of all other colouis most exactly designates their character." The rfclave population, the gentloness of whose chaiacter is dashc I with a ci-itiiu toughness llot sufficiently entitled to s-kyblue, are painted in ultia mat inc. The Poles, who are a'so gifted with a musical genius, but are especially chin acidised by stiong attachments, devoteduess, and exalted sentiment", which accounts foi their being called " tha Fiench of the Nfotth," aie mailed by violent inclining to lose, with a toich of carmine and blue The Gieelc, who are sine to roduoe the Tuiks to submission at no distant day, aie chaiacteiised by a love of [^peculation and commeice, and gieen, "as the eml)lein (<f material hopo," is the just colour for them. The peoples who livj near tho Pules are of a gentle disposition, and thertfoie the artist paints the Scandinavian ldac The Russians are tieated somewhat unceremoniously. They aie a baibaious people, with a thin varnish of civdization which they exhibit to the West of Euiope, but they aie at bottom sanguinary and feioeious. Napoleon was qnifco light uhen he baid, "Sciatch a Russian aud you will find the Taitar." Ochre, with a tint of vcimdlion, is ewclly the colour in which a nation like this appeals 111 the map of Euiope foi ISGC.