The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-11 00:00:00

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TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1856

THE opinion appears to be gaining ground, that
the continuance of the Peace Conference is to be
attributed to the desire of Russia to brea
alliance between England and France.
looking for things wonderful, but which are not
likely to come to pass. The material interests of
the two countries are identical, and, whatever diplo.
matists may think to the contrary, materialism will
predominate over politics. NAPOLEON has not
entered into an alliance with England because he
loves our free institutions more than he does the
despotism of Russia, or because London happens
to be nearer Paris than St. Petersburgh. He has
united the strength of France to that of Great
Britain, that he might preserve, at the least pos-
sible cost, the balance of power, and obtain for his
country a voice in the direction of the affairs of
Eastern Europe. To carry out such an alliance, it
is not necessary that Louts NAPOLEON should
force upon himself an affectionate 'regard for our
Constitutional Government, or anything else that
Englishmen admire and hold dear. The union of
the two countries has but one object—to resist the
encroachments of Russia, and to protect the

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And are we to suppose, that the restora-
tion of peace would prevent France forming a
similar alliance, and pursuing an equally humane
and enlightened policy ? As for uniting with
Russia against England, such ideas are
far more BOURBONIST or LEGITIMIST, than BONA-
PARTIST or FRENCH.

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Russia is a century behind Western Europe in
civilization, and we need not, therefore, be sur-
prised to find her diplomatists cherishing notions
similar to those in vogue a hundred years ago.
Some of her statesmen do not hesitate to say that
" France is the natural ally of Russia." This is,
indeed, degrading the Frenchman—the freedom
loving, the intellectual, refined, generous, and chi-
valrous Frenchman— to the level of the Bear
What interest can France have in common
If they can exist together in the
with Russia ?
lisphere without corning in mortal

~,,ery ten, twenty, or thirty years, it is as
much a& either have any right to expect. They
ought to have met face to face on the Vistula when
Poland was invaded by the Cossack. They ought
to have met and fought before Alexandria
in 1829 ; they ought to have challenged each
other in Hungary in 1849. France should have
protested against years of bloodshed in Cir•
cassia ; and surely she did nothing supernatural
when she joined her arms with those of England
for the deliverance of the Black Sea, the Danube,
and the Mediterranean, in 1854. Within the last
-en or eight-and-twenty years there have been
than four distinct periods when France
consistently pitted herself against her
And were peace restored to-morrow
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