The Nevada journal., 1855-11-09
Queen Yictoria's Visit to France.

| P"o'' sin0o d cto"ueu Eng llSn sovereign
was seen in the city of Paris and it wa:
then no visit of friendship, but a barrer
grasp of empire. That sovereign O.
England should visit the sovereign O
France in his capital, is now to occur fol
the first time in the annals of the two ma
tions. Nor can we feel surprise that az
event, requiring for its fulfllment such
rare colncldent circumstances should have
been delayed SO long. Before the Euro
pcan system, no king could with perfect
safety trust himself to the keeping of his
brother, and English policy since has un-
happily oftener leagued us with Austria
against France, than with France against
Austria
The fault has not been confined to ei-
ther side, and the best that can now be
said for the erros committed on both is,
that the people of the two countries have
remained always friendly to each other
The enmity has been between the govern
ing, and not between the governed races.
Nor is it to be denied that the angry tone
given to Franch and English relations af-
ter our own revolution, proceeded less from
the English than the French Government.
The Bourbon race had a too natural ahini-
ty to the weak and vicious Stuart race.
The final expulsion of the latter from the
English throne was bitterly resented, and
during the century that followed 1858. no
George could have visited Louis. A
great change has now come over Europe.
1t is neither Austria or France we have
any longer cause to dread, but new pow
er more formidable in its character and
designs than that whic either Charles V
or Louis XIV represented. Not so much,
however, from the extent of her internal
and intrinsic resources, as from the cbarac-
ter OF her barbarism, and her unscrupu-
lous ambition, is Russia become formida-
BILE to civilized Europe. Twenty years
before the French revolution these dang
ers, from the nature of her government,
were foretold, even by those who ridiculed
the pretences she was already setting up
to restoration of the empire of Constan-
tine.
We all know the persevering encroach-
ments she has since been able to make,
IN spite OF protest as untiring There
has been hardly government of any in
fuence in Europe during the last fifty
years which has not admitted, in count
less dispatches and protocols, the necessi-
ty of resisting the advance of Russia-of
putting limit to her extending frontier.
and some check to her overwhelming
ambition; nor was this duty ever more
manifest than in 1915, when Europe, ex-
hausted with war, preferred to surrender
Poland rather than re-emhark in it.
Every year since that time, however, has
shown more clearly the blunder then COM
mitted. Every year has added to the
necessity for the repression which it was
ielt must sooner or later come.
Selfshness, cowardice, dullness in the
continental powers and dynasties, have
alone delayed it. But England and
France have at least stepped forward, not
simply to declare the necessity, but to act
upon it, and add another seal to their
resolve in next weeks meeting of the
rulers of the two nations, amid the crowds
and festivities Of Paris It will be anoth-
er pledge for their unaided and unshrink-
ing performance of the work which to
none appealed so strongly, or should have
seemed SO necessary. as to the German
sovereigns and prices That even Prussia
as well as Austria felt this, no one acquaint-
ed with the recent negotiations can doubt;
but what they had sense enough to see
they have not had courage enough to do.
| IfGermany had but seized the great
opportunity offered, Russia would at
once have been checked on the side of
Poland, as well as in her progress seaward
Such another opportunity may not present
itself for centuries; and history will have to
record hereafter, not that Germans wanted
discernment to know the yoke under which
they were passing, but that they only
wanted unity and courage to throw it off
Meanwhile, it is possible the field of war
like operation may be narrowed to France
and England; but their task will not have
been performed ineficiently if it establish
finally an impossible barrier to Russian
conquest and acquisition in the Baltic and
the Euxine. This they can certainly ac-
complish, and they would deserve the
shame and discredit which has fallen on
Austria and Prussia if they were content
with less. The approaching royal visit
will call forth many historical illusions
and associations, bnt its highset value, we
repeat, is in the additional pledge it gives
or identity of policy and feeling between
the governments, and of esteem and good
will between the countries. Galignani
says:
Since the middle ages, nine kings Of
England have come to France, without
reckoning William the Conqueror, who
left it to fight Harold the Dane, and never
returned Some of them came as enemies,
others as fugitiyes, and very few as allies.
John Lakeland appeared for short time
in 1908, to the misfortune Of the young
Duke Arthur Of Brittany Henry III.
lost in France the battle of Taillebourg,
1912; Henry VI. was crowned in France
in 1881, in contempt of the rights oil