Daily enterprise. (Wilmington, Del.) 1858-18??, 1858-04-03

The Relations between England and France.
The Persia brings intelligence that the
Emperor of the French has issued orders for
his navy to be put OH a war footing, while,
on the other hand, the British government
have directed their coast defences to be eX-
amined, and large body Of men to be con-
centrcted at one Of their newly-made camps.
This hardly looks as though either nation
felt perfectly satisfied that the mutual ex-
plantations Of Lord Malmcsbury and M. de
Walewski had entirely and altogether buried
the Ratchet. The English, Of course, need,
even in times Of piping peace, not to let
their coast Notifications fall into decay; they
require men for India, and they may as well
be trained to act in masses at home the
French Navy will shortly be required to un-
dertake the promised expedition against
Cochin China, and will require a navy for
this, not to speak of other naval enterprises
nearer home. So that, on the whole, these
several movements Of the two nations can
certainly be explained without necessarily
expecting a war between England and
France. But, considering everything, this
peaceful explanation Of the phenomena is
hardly as plausible as another.
What passed at the interview Of Stuttgart
no one has ever known. Recent events have
revived the old inquiry-What passed on
that occasion between the Emperor of the
French and the Emperor Of Russia? Was it
a second meeting of Tilsit, at which the EN-
perors agreed upon fresh partition of Eu-
rope into Empires of the West and East,
with Russia as the nucleus of the one, and
France the heart of the other?
In how perilous position the Emperor
stands, every mail tells numerous Stories
Think of that stiled groan-ViUe Ia RepuJ-
ligue which rose from the lips of two
hundred thousand Frenchmen, as Orsini's
head fell into the basket There is need Of
plenty of tried soldiers to keep down that
mob, or there will very quickly be an end Of
the Empire. And how is the Emperor TO
keep well with the anti-British soldiery, if
he insists on pretending that he plays the
part of the humble, dependent, and submits
sive ally of England On one side--a gulf
abandonment by the soldlery, and the fall Of
his dynasty; on the other-another gulf,
war with England. Apparently he must
4 choose between them.
| In the event of war with England the
chances are that at first success would rest
with France. Her army is much larger and
better disciplined than that of England: her
capacity for throwing one or two hundred
thousand men on the British shore, in the
course of few hours, by means of steam
vessels, and huTying them to London is I'M
doubted; and il the maneuvre was under
taken vigorously and swiftly at the outbreak
of war, the immediate result would proba-
bly, be successful. OF course, in course Of
time, it would be as impossible for hundred
thousand Frenchmen to maintain themselves
in London, as it would be for like number
iof Englishmen to occupy Paris, or French
men to hold New York in course of time,
theinvaders would be ANONYMOUSLY expelled.
But this would be but the least part of the
reprisals which England would forthwith
undertake. She would at once proceed to
organize and substitute the republicans Of
France and Europe. Through the exiles who
would hasten home to take part in revolu-
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.yons, and the empire would be Overthrow 9
such is the inevitable prospect in the event
war between France and England, and
ie only question is whether the pressure
inch The army and the agricultural classes
&c exercising against the Emperor, in conse-
hence OF his adherence to Great Britain and
the English alliance, is sufficiently power.
i to make him perceive that the evils we D
I'VE described as certain to follow a i1lpt,,re
TN England are after all less than those
inch he would have to encounter NV ras Ii
lining her friendship