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London, England, 1848-12-07 00:00:00

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LONDON. THURSDAY. DEC. 7,
Ws are really ashamed to it down and argue at
this time of day a truth so sellemnifest as the unlike-
lihood, we might say, the esethaty, of war. Bat
as the sdvoutes of isweentespeediture have really
me resod to stand ups but this Apposition, and as
thq esanownsatly belt ea it ander their
Beer we feel obliged b ova to satiety, semi
ibis and well-leasers
Bad first, what have hese the oars of war sines
Mew became a stemsassity ? Is the foremost rask
were doubts dyrAstio jealousies, disputed sovereign-
ties sad sueoeseicam the right, the power. the pro-
pellers' of particular familia& When hooess were
everything, sad the people nothiag, and when the
entire interests a: different populations were absorbed
in the prevalence or mimeos of a Vaasa or a nem
graven in rude ages, in more advanced sue of the
hmfiies of Austria and of Frame, blood sad treasure
were posted forth like water, not merely
afces.or the pro-
bodes but the segrandimment ot rop4 !
r To this may be joined the more legitimate aims of
national pre-eminence, the wish of a nominee
to berme the might and extend the header et
Frame, of a Prussian or a Russian to do the same.
Of course such wars beget their aneWidepebelpires
of self-defence, of indepesdatior, priesiTiag the
balance of power. Other wars were poseeked by
principle more than by anibitioa, however essemarily
oath motives blend. TM Malitmedsa endue, for pro-
pagating one's creed with the sword and intredneing
titialfoa=eby persecution has sreassi mike sgaiast
wars of the seventeseth mem were all
more or less religions, as the rest see st half a m-
em, ago was poliV-vl Fiannusrz of Aostris would
have all Germany esthetics, which medneed the Thirty
Tears' war. The Frisch of 1794 would force mph-
limn equality down the threats of all EMEND, whilg
Omelets monarchs were eerily determined to team
the old absolutism down the throats of the French.
'The great rank of the esatruy just elapsed is to
phew UN utter vanity of all such ttempts.
If we look back to 1750, and except Russia, awhith is
peculiarly sheeted, we shall fled that every dynasty has
failed in family aggrandizement, every country in
territorial ambition. Every bigot has found iiil=2
of ramtitio, and intolerance roll back upon
Penciples of freedom, however stifled and over-
powered, have been always found to spring up azain
with accumulated &M. And the great land marks
of popular progress, such as representative oysters,
coniesercial freedom, liberty of ewbrift opinion,
trierance in religious question—au these advance
slowly, but surely, from the west of Europe to the
met ; and with them internatMnal war becomes an
absurdity, en impossibility, an anachronism.
What has been the result of Louts Paturees
attempt to revive the policy of Louts XIV? What
the result of the Merriest= idea to prolong in the
nineteenth century the brute and seems rule of the
middle ages? If ever governments and populations
were lett to their tarsi bent it has been within the
last six months ; yet set, how much the contrary of
what we all along supposed they really show them-
selves. Were we not told that French spirit, if freed
from the curb of the house of Orleans, would
Wei the Alps and the Pyrenees, make the
Mine its boundary, and convert the Mediter-
ranean into that loog-threstened French lake? The
esatrary of all this turns out to be truth. The more
popular the French government, and the more
Military the influence which predouslatem, the more
pacific is France.
What were our prognostications of Atria? They
wet foundwere,certainly, were, certainly, that if that ambitious po
Europe well embroiled, it would seise the opporm-
nay to appropriate Constantinople, and extend tts m-
ecums and conquest& Instead of this, Russia,
since she has been the only power in Europe with
/fee hands, has pursued a policy of exemplary for
not only on her southern and eastern fron-
tier, but with regard to Germany, where events
have been most menacing. Russia has shown the
prudence and the her of age, rather than, as might
be supposed, the rash intolerance of youth.
Every power in Europe, indeed, whether republican
or monarchic, liberal or reactionary, has MIN to
having
draft the great law of non-intervention.-intervention. Preside
roes tes it in Denmark. Austria wads.
her hands of the rest of Germany : and if she
marches to Rome, will do so in ccacert with France,
not in antagonism with her. The Arian as well as
Pllllllilll statesmen admit that all the old farms of
despotism are impossible. The rural Belavonian race,
which humbled the Yienome, are to be propitiated by
laws guaranteeing peasant rights, and by at least some
semblance of representative government. The King
of P11.0381A has called out his landwehr or citizen
militia, which would not support him in reestabliah-
iag despotism.
Amidst these immense tasks, which each govern-
ment has to perform at home, how is war or inns.-
Mon possible ? What could be the motive of such
war or invasion ? Listen to the declaration of Louts
I`Apoisoi. lie blames the sending 3,000 men to
Rome as an imprudent interference, and as a hardi-
hood that might nimbi war. Kw LAMORICIESZ,
the French war monster. who proposes reducing his
art2estimates by one half, anti who en thee ex-
on the French army no more than the Duke of
t;ZLLINGTON now expends upon ours. Listen to the
French marine minister, and examine the conestaenos
of his reduction. Read the organs of French opi-
tire observe the votes of the French chamber. I
the language' of BAIIKOT and THIERS, BUIVAIID and
CAVAIONAC. M. BARNAr says he aims at distending
the French army, through the medium of Louts NA-
POLZON. And he says this in order to Hatter the
French population and the army itself, of which the
soldie-y would be delighted to be disbanded.
In the face of such bets ad such opinions es these,
for n ministerial organ to talk about French invasion,
and to maintain that the eight millions an-
nually which have been lately ard to our military
expenditure from fears and precautices which every
day's events prove futile, may not be reduced, and our
army and navy mminished to what they were in 1838,
to merely naintainlng a policy of expenditure for

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