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The European News.

IN ItstI NSN
All Europe may be now resUuudiug with the
clash Of bayonets, and millions of men may be
to-day marching to the sound of fife and drum,
and rushing into the bloody vortex of war. The
Elbe, the Rhine and the Mincio will soon be red
with the blood of foes battling on their banks.
There is no doubt that the war, once COM
menced, will be a deadly and protracted strug-
gle, one that will only terminate in an entire
change of the boundaries of Italy, Austria,
Prussia. France and Turkey. Two or three of
these powers have been longing for a fight for
several yeIrs, and now that it has come, there
will be a desperate struggle to acquire what they
have wished for. Italy will never be satisfied
till Venetia is annexed. France till she regains
the field of Waterloo, and the Rhine constitutes
her northern boundary as it did formerly, and
Prussia till she absorbs the coveted duchies.
The following, bearing on this subject, is from
4 late Bulletin:
NAPOLEON AND THE TREATIES OF lSl5.-The
French papers of recent dates received from Europe.
are full of comments in respect To the discourse of
Napoleon. said TO have been delivered at AuXerre.
To the words. =. | detest the treaties of 1915. which
some parties of this day wish to make the sole basis
of our foreign policy. are now added the opinions
of Napoleon expressed at various times heretofore.
In 1886 he wrote: See the lion of Waterloo yet
u1ll I-lA Albl blA AAl' wa hdS ~ tttS
not float where our arms have triumphed.' The
2Sth of September. 1910, he addressed to the Court
of Peers these proud word Il represent before
you Il principle. a cause. a defeat. The principle
is the sovereignty of the people the cause. that of
the Empire the defeat, Waterloo. The principle
you have recognized the cause You have served
the defeat YOU wished to avenge. No, there is no
disagreement between you and me-
Some weeks after, he said to an Under Project
who expressed Il desire that he should become IA
citizen - can never return to this title until the
IiA, ,f Ia.arl,p shall csa.a r. St,uI ,tr,n H.,
frontier; These sentiments of Napoleon III. SAYS
a French journal. were those of his uncle. Napo-
leon |. as will be seen from the following letter:
PARIS. January 10. 1914.
The thing upon which the Emperor insists. the
most, is the necessity that France shall resume her
natural limits it is the condition sine q"q non. All
the powers. England even. recognized those limits
at Frankfort. France. reduced to her ancient
limits. will have to-day but twOthirds of the rela-
tive power that she had twenty years ago. That
which has been conquered ~(confuiS) on the Rhine
does not compensate that which Russia. Austria
and Prussia have acquired by the dismemberment
of Poland.
All these States have increased (agronds)
They wish to bring France TO her ancient estate
this would be to rend and dcbasc her; France
without the departments of the Rhine. without Bel
GUM, without Ostend, without Anvers would be
nothing. CoNIINCOURT. Dixie of Whence"
Everywhere in France. the impression is general
that an effort is about TO be made to extend the
frontiers of the EmPire-to gain hack a portion of
the territory which was lost at Waterloo by the
dethroncment of Napoleon |.
The war which appears upon the point of break
ing ont l. regarded. as we have suggested. through
out Europe. as being the work of Napoleon-as
an effort to extend the borders of the French
Empire. 1t is doubtless the grand struggle for
which he has been preparing during his entire
reign. He has apparently succeeded in scducing
Austria and Prussia with hattering promising of
territorial aggrandisemenl. With Prussia. Italy and
France combined. even without including Austria
in the arrangement. Napoleon would be very likely
to accomplish his desire to change the map of
EurODP and wine out the stain of Waterloo The
treaties of 1915. which have hung as a threat over
his dynasty. would be amulled. The only prom
Using feature of the Eurol can complication is, that
f &i NH MI be likely i 10 to to- take place place 2 Tie % p%r1
titiou will be arranged without the Intervention of
Russia and Great Britain. Napoleon has assured
the Parisians that the war will not interfere with
the National Exhibition to take place next spring
in that city, If Austria IS a party to the compact,
as Is believed. Napoleon will for once have spoken
the truth. y simple division of the continent of
Europe will take place.
The third effort to lay the Atlantic telegraph
was to be made in THE month of July, COM
mencing about the 10Th, and probably before
this its success or failure has been announced.
All Europe and America will watch the progress
of the Great Eastern, as she leaves Valencia
IIarbor, and advances in her great undertaking.
The experience gained in the two first attempts
to lay the cable will doubtless help to make the
third one successful.
Even if it should be SO, many doubt whether
it will be permanently available, or whether it
will communicate messages freely, owing to Its
great length, which will be over two thousand
miles.
a new company has been organized to estab-
lish n telegraph via the Shetland and Farce
Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Labrador. The
of this route is that no submarine
cable will be over 500 miles in length, which
will not only insure its working better, but also
allow of repairs when broken or when any Sec
ton may not work well. Although the line is
much longer. it looks far more practicable an
enterprise than the other.
Then there is a third, known as the Russian
telegraph, connecting s.. Petersburg and San
Francisco via the AmOor River, Petropoloski and
Bhering Straits. This Is being rapidly pushed
and promises To be completed within
years. BY one or all of these routes, the
prediction of Shakespeare promises to be soon
accomplished
In put a grille round about he earth in forty minutes"