The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-09-01
NO. 340.
EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE.
LONDON, august II, 1883.

n' pa hoasted discoveries of the 10Th century,
w. mankind have not yet ascertained this
n.o.t Fact. and acted upon their knowledge
@a Not to go so far back as the time of
William the Third, with eight years of hostili.
~, include the eleven years contest of Anne
',;,b France and Spain, aud the eighteen years
r,bc Georgesl II, and III, previous to the Amer
~, War. which left the national debt under
! ,,O millions we may cast a retrospect over
,L.t deporable struggle Though mighty and
| l,nedcent to the world in its consequential and
~. how sadly the account stands against the
.,putries which are prone to plunge into the
mad horrors of war The American conflict
lasted above eightyears and added 100 mii-
! hons to the British national debt. The French
r,oIutionary war followed and the truce OF
imiens increased the load by above 800 mil
IONS and the renewed battle annexed above
40 millions more; so that at the peace OF
ISll-that is to say between the treaty OF
Utrecht under Queen Anne to the treaty OF
Paris under King George lli--a busy century,
t,ulv-the burden of taxation had risen to pay
tho interest of more than 200 millions of debt,
;nstead of little more than so millions the
original sum which frightened the isle. Five
hundred millions of debt had been incurred be-
tween 1898 and 1914. The return from Elba
and the cost Of Waterloo added tangible
item of several millions more; but we have
Glanced at enough, in the merely pecuniary
Gne-nOt to mention the havoc of human lives
the desOation of fertile lands, and all the IN
deseribable miseries attendant upon this fierce,
hating. unnatural state, for rational beings
IN demonstrate the vast amount Of privation
and suffering entaied upon succeeding genera
TONS hy the unjust and ambitious, whose evil
PASSIONS obtain power to mislead the human
lace into these calamitous contentious. Has
nearIy forty years of the blessings of peace
can.ed the European world to forget the his
tory of the preceding century, which was SO
eonally divided between periods of feverish in
acton and sanguiuary strife and has left so
huge heritage Of oppression to bear and de-
plOre
In the face of this danger, we are sorry to
note that, in spite of dubious assurance from
n Petersbugh that the Gar was favorable
"a the Austrian Pacific proposition, thaving re-
ected that of France.) the clouds indicative of
, storm lower instead of brighten. Everything
dome by Russia seems to mark determination
n % on at all hazards As if intoxicated with
poWer-and, according to the adage made mad
hy prosperity-urging to fall, the Emperor
Nicholas mannuvres his fleet of 90 sail of line,
and Is frigates, in the Baltic and eulogizes
the mighty force Of his feet at Odessa In
Moldavia and Wallacha he plays the complete
tyrant. forbds the natives to leave the prov
noes stops the correspondence at the post.ot-
fee reduces the Hospodars to cyphers, and re-
arranges the entire Government, not as if to suit
temporary, but permanent occupancy. His
" To- lac dr,a 10 nd ba M Rna
san Consuls in Turkey are ordered to with
draw IL is even said that Russian corp is
about to enter Servia, which would, indeed, be
throwing away the scabbard from the sword
as Austria must, in that case, do the same. Ii
would be strange were the first collision to take
place between the two brother absolute mon
achs! No doubt both Servia and Bulgaria
have been the theatre of secret intrigues, the
results of which must soon appear.
Lord Clarendon having declared that the
immediate evacuation of the Danubian Prov
inces is q SINE 9,a non, it does appear impossi-
bic to avert the passage of the Dardanelles by
the combined English and French fleet, in the
event of Russia to clude the last ultimatissum,
by any cajolery to gain time.
few short hours must determine whether
reason and Justice can prevail over madly in
tOxicatcd human pride and ambition, or QUEEN
Deus UUH perdere, prIus dementdt. 1t is sad
TO think that one man should have 30 much of
misery in his power.
Holding the opinion we do of war, we never
meet anything calculated to excite ill-blood
between the people of different countries with
ont feeling tIs the parties guilty of the offence
are almost common enemies, and not to be ex-
cuscd on the score Of thoughtlessness, or flip
pant thirst Tor smartness or rhetorical display.
II is satisfactory to observe that the stirring up
Of such angry ebullitions between England and
the United States have recently lost most Of
their force. The taunting on the one hand,
and the soreness on the other, have nearly dis
appeared and far more healthy condition of
intercourse grown up, so that the masses now
participate in the sentiments which were always
entertained by the wise and temperate 1t is
about twenty years since Mr.. Rush, the Amer
can Minister to this country, published the
Narrative Of his Residence, and furnished a
model for every future author of both countries,
which, we regret has not been implicitly fol-
lowed on either side. But still the current of
hberality and moderation has continued to gain
strength, and the spirit of Immature, ridicule,
ana cancaturc, has prOportionately fallen into
welcome element towards promoting this i'm
prOvement; and the largely increased and in
cfeaslng numbers of intelligent travellers who
now visit the old and new countries, and can
appreciate what is praiseworthy in both, must
contribute rapidly and essentially to far more
intimate understanding of character, and far
warmer regard for what is estimable, whether
on this or that side of the Atlantic. With
hn.Ar md 20 an
Qualification to us lin communication of this
nature not to give it as our own sentiment but
IS one uttered in every branch of English soci-
ETY. in which we have happened to mix within
the last week or ten days, that an article
n 80 eminent newspaper as the Times upon
Tue New York Crystal Palace Exhibition was
denounced as an unworthy and offensive dis
play OF that unprovoked depreciatOry malice,
lhe eject OF which is to beget reply and rctort,
ana thus keep alive the petty irritations which
very patriotic Englishman and American
would wish to he ain the deep bosom Of the
o'ean between them buried forever We
euPnateally deny that the squib in question
I"F IL does not reach the name Of diatribe)
peaks The sense of England or it's press On
we contrary, it was generally condemned and
regretted and only the hope expressed that no
news writer in New York or elsewhere, might
'nlnk 1t worth while to blow up such paltry
es'ers INTO the consequence Of a disputatious
fare mp"
The partial obscurity which hangs over the
news from China increases the interest so
inuch that even the momentous state Of affairs
between Turkey and Russia has been unable
:. absorb that distant question The snnihla-
Son OF time and space by electric wires no
souo' Contributes much to the curiosity, now
SernefaIy excited, about circumstances and To-
,n'''eS which, for all that was cared about
s"e,'' might as well have had their habitation
:" ,''e moon rs on the earth. India, and Bur-
S"" ana china, and Japan, and Borneo, and
Az. Francisco and Panama, and Central
hnc,o" and the Sandwich Islands, and Tim
grns,au and Lake Tsad, and Central Africa
NJ f,on.y and Australasia particularly, furnish
and aoa' Jay to day, with household words
mry sare. o. them indeed, are justly occupying
le,., neSt attention. Among these, not the
- 'sHFcdly il tho CaIast;ai E,.,.;.a aftn~