Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1858-08-25
ENGLAND, France and the Fpture.

England, France and the Future.
Much uneasiness still exists IN the popular
mind of England and France The two
countries evidently look upon each other with
distrust The military preparations of Louis
Napoleon, however they may be denied by
his officials are known to be on an immense
scale According to late letter from Paris,
France has now under arms, the best ap-
pointed army that Europe has ever known.
1t is officially admitted TO amount to 500, 600
men. Every fort ttlroug hout TIE Empire has,
by general orders, been dismautled OF its ar
tillery, professedly to replace i, with bett cr,
but in fact to disguise the transfer of enor-
nous batteries to those points from which
they could be most expedi.iously conveyed to
England A move able railway for camp ar
tillery use, has also been brought into play,
and is subject of daily practice, and which
can be taken up by the troops and laid down
again miles in length, in the interval of a
few minutes At the same time every dock
yard in the empire resoUnds with preparation
aud the navy is put on ryar footing. This
certainly has an alarming aspect, if true, and
it must mean something. We perceive also
tha. in the course of recent discussion in
! Parliament on the Slave Trade, Lord Nal
mesbury and several other prominent mem
bers in both Houses, took occasion to attack
the French in the most irritating terms, on
their African Apprenticeship or Emigration
system. These attacks have since been re-
piled to BIZ several of the leading Partisan
Journals, and with much bitterness. They
charge that many Of the statements made in
the British Parliament are utterly false. Not
content with stlgmatizing the French system
as a virtual commerce in slaves, Lord Grey
went further, aud assaled the honor of the
French Naval Officers on the African Station
The result is degree of irritation in Franco,
that has not before been equalled. 4 Paris
correspondent Of the New York Commercial,
alluding to these facs, says
France, however, has other causes Of irgi-
tation against England The latter power,
whether III reality alarmed or not at the naval
preparations of France, affects to be So, and
takes advantage of this fear to watch the
French naval movements and to parade IL
the channel between the two countries a fleet
of most formidable proportions In itself.
an active surveillance over an aliy's fleets and
an aily's shores is not an act of gcol neigh
borhood, and cannot be exercist without ex-
citing just indignation.
Again, England, in provision of war
with France, has made an unnatural alliance
with Austria, for what end? To let Austria
loose on France in case she should attempt to
crcss the channel with an army. The same
thing was doEc under the first Empire, when
Napoleon was at Bologne, with his army
ready TO cross over to England. Austria at
tackled him in the rear, and he was obliged
10 leave Byiogne and abandon his contem-
plated conquest OF England, to hurry to the
defence of the Rhine. But these will not be
all the evils that will issue from the Panlo-
ra's box which England viii open on Franco
in ease of 2 war. BY means OF money and
promises. the red republicans Of France tt
ally and Germany will join the crusade, and
the Third Napoleon, like the First, will not
be long in finding Ais Waterloo.
II may be asked, what are the real inten-
tons of France toward England? [ heard
yesterday Counsellor Of State say this: at
is not our policy to quarrel with England
because the interests of the two nations are
too clssely iJcutifed; but she has heaped
upon us lately insuIt after Insult to such i
point that France is ready now for war, and
only waits an occasion; she will not seek the
occasion; bat if it zones She will accept il
with delight. England is counteracting US
IN ever measure We propose in the interest
of the East: she Is lcagued with Austria to
assist in this ungratefr work; she insults us
gratuitously and boldly in her parliamentary
discussions on the slave trade, and in singular
contrast with her scrYility to the United
States; she exercises a most imru5ent SUI
yyillancc over our vessels and our coast; she
has just acquitted two more of her propaga-
tors of assassination, and she has never Vet
given the Emperor one word of satisfaction
on the refugee question. Is it curious that
our forbearance, even in presence of the I'M
mensc interests which unite the two countries,
should be on the point Of giving way?'
The reader viii perceive from the forego-
ing, that the Anglo-French Alliance is any
thing but cordial. The two parties, instead
of exchanging civiitica and rcciprocating
courtesies are now engaged in attacks aad
rcjoinders, which certainly have serious. if
not a threatening aspect And yet a war be-
tween England and France, unless some stern
necessity should impose dreadful an alter
native upon Louis Napoleon, would seem al
most impossible.
Resignation Of Cyrus W. Field.
New York, August 20.-Mr. Field per-
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