The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-11-01
What Prospect of Peace Z

The probability OF peace abroad daily
grows less The cry, which arose when
Sebasopol .ell that there would be an end
to the war; has ceased even among those
who were the most hopeful. All parties
seem 10 have concluded ;ha, a protracled
struggle is inevitsble. We attribute The
steady decline in consos, not only to the ex-
port oil coin aad the deficiency in l5e har-
vest, bot to this conviction.
We do not see how England, al any time
since the destruction Of Snope, could have
fallered herself with an early termination of
this contest. For a collision between Great
Briiian and Russia, though precipiated by
the blunders of the Aberdeen ministry, has
been impending for quite forty years Ma
poeon predicted it al ST. Helena. The best
writers of western Europe have been declar-
ing il unavoidable. ever since the Congress
Of Vienna and the Holy Alliance. The pres
ent generation Of Englishmen have grown
mp, believing, almost as an article of iaith,
that Russia was the prince Of the political
power of darkness, A spark only was need
cd 10 fire these iuAammabe materials, and
the folly Of Aberdeen applied The match.
The Btlisa nation consequently will not
agree to a peace. unless Russia makes enor-
nous and even humbling concessions. A
Ministry which should patch up such
peace, would be swept from Office BY tor
nado Of public opinion, which might even
reach 10 the royal Iamily itself, if any mem
bers should be discovered to have been en-
gagged in The intrigue. The Manchester cot
iou.spinners do not represent the sentiments
of the nation at large. In face of the un-
known character of The British people, veri-
fed by nearly thousand years OF authentic
history: it is not probable, however much
commercial interest may desire ii, that peace
will be male by England on terms so easy
for Russia as The famous four points. There
is no exasgeration in the popular oompari-
son of England with bull dog. Her .obsli.
macy is proverbia When she once takes
hold, she never le,s go until she conquers, or
is more than half dead herself. In The pres
ent conflict, moreover, she is backed by an
ally whom she mus, consult before making
peace, ard whom The most stringent consid-
eraticns prevent from concluding the war,
except in a manuer obviously triumphant TO
all.
But il England is obstinate, Russia is stub
born. If Palmers,on does not conclude peace
unless on terms deeply humilaiing TO the
Gar, the Czar, on his part, does not consent
TO such peace, # he values his throne or
his life. If the West regards Russia as
semi-barbarous Tartar, threatening the inde-
pendence, the liberty, and the civilization of
Europe, Russia looks on the Allies as infidels
who have conspred agaEst The cause of true
religion and invaded her sacred soil Behind
the dyuastic impulses under which the war
partially arose, and by which il has been
principally conducted, lie those deeply-rooled
and conflicting public sentiments. The strug-
gle is, therefore, not only contest between
the Allies and the Gar, but between the
people and the civilization Of the West and
the East. A war of this character must ne
cessariIy be proiracied. 1t can only close
with the complete exhaustion Of one or both
of the combaiants. Ifit is brought TO a con-
clusion Otherwise, peace cannot last, but
hostities, Recommending at the first fair OPP
porluniiy, will rage again TILL the weaker
party is down.-Lsdger.