Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-05-24

and Greece are already cnaugiHS
theirs. Belgium has provided herself
with rifled cannon and is about to
adopt the Prussian musket
Does this stupendous preparation
for war mean that Europe seriously
intends to keep the peace? 1t would
be difficult to believe so, even though
We knew Napoleon had abandoned his
hone and ambition to extend his en-
pire to the Rhine, that Bismark no
longer desired the annexation of Hol-
land. aud that Austria was content to
bear unavenged her humiliation and
defeat. But these causes Of disturb
auce have by no means ceased to exist,
nor are these the only interests which
tempt ambition to violate the peace Of
Europe. The struggle for political
aseendency promises soon to pass from
the Rhine, the Danube and the Pc to
the far East, where there are prizes to
be contended for beside which Lux
emburg and Holland, Holstein and
Flanders sink iutoiDsignifeanoe. The
balance Of the power in Europe Is not
heneeforth to be determined by a nice
division Of principalities and duchies
in Germany, or partition of eonquests
in Mexico OF South America, but by
the acquisition of empires in the vest
regions beyond the Yolga and the In
dus. While our American free civil
ization marches westward, spreading
itself in populoHs States on the prai-
ries and among the Rocky Mountains,
and reaching out to the shores Of
China and Japan, the monarehic civ
ilization of Europe marches eastward
round the globe to meet it. England
far ahead of all her compeers in Asi-
attic ACKNOWLEDGMENT, has already in
Identified herself for the loss of en-
pire in North America by the acquis-
ton of d0minions IN India embracing
fourteen hundred thousand square
miles Of territory, and peopled by near
" two hundred million inhabitants. A
glance at a few statistics .conceHDg this
splendid empire of Hindostan, or
British Ipdia, viii show how immens-
" Great Britain mas been aggrandized
in the East, and how much cause
there Is for her continental rivals to
be Jealous of her.
Though British domination in In
dia commenced in fraud and tyranny,
and has-been perDetuated at the
swords point, more recently, and es-
peeially since the Sepoy Rebellion, a
more liberal and Christian policy has
prevailed, and the commercial devel-
opmept of the country has been i'm
mense. In 1901, the merchandise
imported from foreign countries
amounted to 98, AS, $40; in 1861 it
had increased to G28, $50, ,923, besides
e21. 1863. .352 in bullion. In 1859 cot
ton manufactures were imported
amounting IN value Of 50, ,222, ,089, and
in 1844-5 such importshad increased to
the value of Ell, ,O35 ,885. The increase
Of exports is no less astonishing, those
of 1910 amounting in value to G13, ,455,
584 and those of 1865 to e58, ,O27, ,O16
Our Southern cotton kings will dc
we'll to note the fact that the exports
Of cotton from India amounting in
1860 to only 85,637, ,624, Increased in
five years (the time of the Southern
rebellion) to 937 7573.637, or about
S185, 100000. The entrances and
clearances of the British vessels at
Indian ports in 1865 numbered 1921.
Of ., AZ, ,521 tons of foreign vessels,
| 1 ,755, with a tonnage of 92O,532; and
besides this there was an enormous
coastRise trade carried on by native
craft. The country contains 2,747
miles Of railway in operation, on which
| there were transported, in 1865, r.
826,518 passengers. The postal ser
vice embraces 1 ,421 offices and deliv-
cred IN 1865, So, ,986 GIG letters and pa
pers. The Government has II, ,73G
miles of telegraph in operation and
maintains 17,117 schools and colleges
with an average attendance Of 435, 1898
pupils. The country has a standing
army consisting of 1850 Europeans
and 118,315 natives.
Such is the plain arithmetical pic
ture of British power. prosperity and
dominion in the East. Would it moi
be strange indeed if the other West,
ern powers should long view with In
difference, or forego an attempt to cir.
cumvent or equal by diplomacy OF
conquest, these enormous acquisition:
of commercial territorial and potentia.
wealth by Great Britain? And yet
the English Government has availed
itself of scarcely a 1.-THE of the adYan-
tages for aggrandizement offered tC
ambitious and adventurous powers IL
| the immense Asiatic continent The
4 Chinese Empire, embracing a territory
Of 1 ,300,0 600 square miles and popu
lation of 415,000,0O0; Japan, with :.
| population of 6O,00O,000 and terrific
| ~ of 163, zoo square miles Farthel
India, having an extent of 873, ,99t
square miles and a population O
| % 381 600; Persia, Afghanistan
| Belochistan and Turkistan, having
in the aggregate a territorial area o
| 1 1,779, 600 square miles and a popula
ton OTIS, 600. .OO0-all these vast coun
tries are splendid prizes which, in thu
weakness OF semi -barbarism, lie help
less at the feet of the civilized inva
der, and which tempt the covetou
grasp of European ambition.
With such incentives to beget jeal
ousy and rivalry, even if there were n,
disturbing causes nearer home, thert
could be little probability that Europ,
/ would now disarm. And yet it is saf
to say that the power which takes thu
purest religion, the freest ideas anC
the highest civilization, and not tha