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TIE DAILY DISPATCH.
Monday Nisrnin9, April 81. rs


tn T. DAILY lJl0I "A L I'll.
Monday Sierniss, April 81. 1886.
Peace1 Last.
SPeace, 1t lasti Peace, certain 10 the oeci"'
ton of al the European journaia The ssn.
of shc pleniposentiaries In Paris have oeen nv ~
70 ali the essential conditions Of the treaty. Nv
thing remains but an arrangement OF details ING
governments of Europe are delighted, France Is IN
ecstaeies. an. except England, are happ! ana con-
tented. The Enelshman's proverp'ai PfefosAuve
of rrumblinr Is not exercised, a. tnis time, WIN
ont some reason. whilst the precise conditions OF
of neace are not known, this much IL KNOWN
.h., ,f,.r the war had proved q damaging ono to
,ao rras,ire of British arms by sea and land. and
o.. rn.,.nd at enormous expense, had just put
- .ruv and navy on Its best footing, and was
n,cn,red at every point to recover her furnished
-onorn and vindcate her immemorial valour.
I,,u,. Napoleon, who has gained from the war all
the honor and benefits that the war was likely
20 Weld, suddenly makes peace, and England Is
compelled to lay aside her elaborate preparations
and chew at her leisure the bitter cud OF disap-
pointmant aud modification
The London Times does not pretend to conceal
its vexation over this worse than lame ana I'M
,,o,e,t cnnclusion. awhile we regret" II says,
:. that the weight of the burden of the war on
our allies. and their unrise and nndignifed de-
investigations ia faror Of peace, have given to Rus
sia better terms than she had reason to expect,
we canno, believe that this war has been made In
vain" And among other proofs that 1t has not
been made In vain, the Times significantly re.
marks: "The nation which, Is ssdd TO have reck.
lessly foolishly, even sorddly, neglected the art
of warfare, is found after a short term Of HOSTILE
ties, possessed of the largest ornaments. by land
and sea- 'ohile military mondrchies are exhausted
md collapsed" Here is another awful dig under
the ifth rib Of our gallant French ally The in
dignation of the great Thunderer occasionally sub
sides to a melancholy and lugubrous vein. II is
evidently disturbed by gloomy forebodings. we
conceive it quite possible, says the Times,
that the British people will be discontinued win
the peace which is about to be proclaimed. Grant
ing what its defenders state that 1t is as favorable
as could be expected and may stand on its solid
merits, we doubt whether it will satisfy the hopes
which. rightly or wrongly. have been cherished
by Enelishmen There can be no doubt that the
war commenced with large expectations, which
were increased by victory and by the conscious
ness of ability to prolong the contest. 1t was
thought that territorial concessions, or even pecu-
sions. But it now appears that our triumph is of
a different and of less palpable kind. Our vic
tories and our urdiminished resources are their
own reward"
What has become of the material guarantees
which were to be wrung from the iron grasp of
Russia Not even the expenses of the war paid
Bull must pay his own piper, without even the
empty bubble of military glory in return, for the
enormous expenditure of hard cash.
We read that there are Examinations and TIE
Deums in France and England over the restoration
of peace. But what has the war achievedf 1t was
to have been a war of liberal principles against
absolutism. But where are Poland, Hungary and
Italys There is not despotism in Europe which
is not twice as strong now as at the beginning of
this war. There is not one spark of hope for the
Independence of any nation we have mentioned,
unless possibly, Russia exasperated by the treach
cry and ingratitnde of Austria, may permit her
to fight her own battles in any future instruction
of the Hungarian people. The war was under.
taken in opposition to the efforts of Russia to miti
gate Turkish intolerance and bigotry towards the
Eastern Christians, aud it ends by compelling the
Turks to make greater concess ions to the Chris
tian people than Russia ever presumed to demand
The war was begun on the pretence of securing
Turkey from absorption and dismemberment by
Russia yet the only guarantee it has obtained for
that end is the promised reduction Of two Rus
sian ports to mere maritime establishments,
leaving the highway by which Russia former
iy marched to the invasion of Turkey and cap
ture of Constantinople open and unobstructed.-
The war was commenced for Turkish independence
and it ends by reducing the Sublime Porte to a
most complete state of vassalage to the Western
A. .,tsI,~
would do honor to an OWL exclaims: Whatever
may be the future destiny of the Turkish empire,
it is at least delivered for the present from the fear
of invasion and dismemberment,' and in the very
next breath declares Perhaps the most solid gain
of the is the right to advise and TO enforce ad
gicc Turkey. In one sense we garrison the from.
tiers of the Ottaman State. For many years the
ascendancy of the Western Powers must be com.
pete at Constantinope." In truth the only real
result among those attributed by the Times to this
great war, is the dissipation of the bugbear of Rus.
sian military power, which had frightened Europe
That this formidable military power of Russia was
for purposes of aggression, nothing but bugbear,
none knew better than those who have used it, to
scare the nations from their propriety. The war
in this respect has only proved the soundness of
the opinion expressed by the Duke of Wellington,
that Europe was invincible against Russia inva.
sion. and Russia against invasion by Europe.
We rejoice that Peace has revisited the earth,
but why was it ever disturbed What harvest,
worth the reaping has sprung from the soil drench.
ed with such oceans of blood and sorrow9
A Just Reform.
The London correspondent of the National In
telligencer says that when Parliament reassembles
Sir Erskine Perry will bring forward the subject of
the law which throws the property and earnings
of the wife into the exclusive possession of the
husband. He win ask for a committee of inquiry
into the operation of the law and it is very pro.
bable, we are told, that he will obtain it. The 80
eial difficulty, says the correspondent. arising from
the hepiessness of the wife and the abuse of mower