The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-07-20
Sir Archibald Alison OH a Eu-
rOpeau War.

SIR Archibald Alison. IN a recent sieech at q
volunteer drill took an extremely gloomy view Of
the Projects IF EnsInd IN the event Of "a Euro
T.ztn war. The war. BE- thinks. ! sure - come Z:
he accepts Mr. BI-Heiis mt thar Europe ha-
become great camp :" and De- doe MT think
thar mere n,u-in,eUeItiJU will save England from
having q share IN tie general catastrophe
" ! dreadful war j. ab,ut {, commence On the
continent which Will. o. all appearance. trrTniH-
atc In the uHIl-pltel SUI rcfuIcv Of Dus power.
What such power will BE-. whether Russia. Ger
many Or France. - Yet lie- buried IN tie womb
Of time but Of one thing We may bc well a--r-
81. that which eecT guns Du tire continent viii
ere l1ns turn t. victorious arms against IT,. Tie
simple enthusiasts who think that commercial
Interests viii govern tire earth aud arrest the arms
e conquest viii then find E0w mi--ruhly they
have been mistaken and power won hy tie sword
vIl never cel-e u make use u the sword for IT.
extension. Look az Rome IN ancient. and France
under the First NAPOLEON IL modern time. HE
power victorious ia tie continent VIII. bevuud all
question. turn It, arms against this cIuHtry-t1c
only remaining cncck On It, ambition. Bc-iie-
their natural and unavoidable inclination. all the
great pJNei- II EurJTc have wrJng- o a.cnge.
inflicted On them ~ Britain IN former times. aud
whbah they Will willingly seize the fret OPEDr-
unity Of TeIuitinZ. We have paid two .i-it- u
France within four centuries. and have occupied
ParI-. aud her -oIz would gladly return tire COM
VliIneut az London We have made a long Witt
u Eu--l ~ >cia-UItIl. and -hc will always feel
awkward til she has returned II o. ~ at Ports
mouth. Our victorious arms have been seen 1T
Washington ami the Americans are only wait
ing for EnSland's difficulty u let their standard
be- seen ia LJndpH."
After this candid ayOwal Of belief in tie early
coming Of Ncme-i-. the tory historian admins
tered cDlI comfort 70 hi- hcarcr- ~ assuring tlcUI
that the introduction 81 iron plating had a. one
blow destroyed tie naval superiority Of England.
that hcr wooden navy i useless and that the re-t
Of the world j. quite up with her IN the race for
the construction of an irOn-ciad fleet:
"a. 10 J. doubtful whether our royal navy ~ Yet
equals that Df America. United 20 that Of Rus
the latter j. decidedly superior t. anything
could bring forward. If a forest Of hostile
ir,n-elad- appear off Spithead or Plymouth, vain
be the Forty or fifty noble -ail of the line ~
ing ia our harbOrs. Everything Will deIeud not
Dn tire fifty old wooden line-otbattie ships, but
Dn the eight OF ten fine irOn-ckids. This great
change ha- entirely altered our relative position
Ia any future naval war and unless stcIs are
taken, and that speedily, 10 cOunterbalance it's
effects, IL may safely be predicted that evil days
are coming upon u, and that the days Of our
national independence are numbered"
Our readers will observe how Alison, with 20
Of bis eDuutrymen ut this time, Is haunted
by the notion that an alliance Of the United
States with Russia for some PuTI1-c and at some
time II among the contingencies 70 be provided
IdrcTGSer.