The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-11-28
Els MARCK'S WAR POLICY.


British Aristocratic Reply the Eainsbnrg
Revirw-FEoy the Prussian Premier Cone
trolls the King and State-Ti,e Eirst Num-
her OF tho London Times and tie Tlcn King
Of prussia- ENGLAND VIII vindirate Her
Fame.
From the London Court Journal. Nov. l2)
The public mind has been greatly occupied during
The week by an article In the Edntofug RsuaeB con-
serning the war between France and Prussia In
spite OF the great interest Ia selfish interest may
slre the ouie des nd .Bdreas-that crowd OF people
who dare not form their opinion, SUN less dare to
express II before ,neir own peculiar newspaper mas
10 acrounl Tor the eagerness with which the article
headed Germany, France and England has been
greeted by the puoc The prctcAt fer inc long expo
stion OF the writer's ori0n on the relative claims or
thc belngercnts English sympathy Is found In the
"l,a Prusse strAutriche deputs aadowa." In itself
the wen wrtten powerful review oil that unimror-
tant WORK necomes an importent document but
gree OF political responsibility which throws all its
literary pretension ana rhetorical eloquence into
pressed IN these highly finished, ciassicay indited
pages must be inc genuine sentiments OF the man in
power, with which pencraft authorship had noughs
10 do, and on taking up the welcome number OF the
Enat0tuy Rerteo we turned TO this ninth article
with tno greatest eagerness fully prepared to lose
execution, IN tie certainty OF lnilng at last
RE hight when should guide US through
the dark labyrinth OF bleed ana sorrow
into whCn we have been led by both
parties through me uttered lies OF the one aud the
acted Ialsehoods 81 tie Other we were most griey-
ousy disappointed IN this nope The loren is held
aoit, II Il tue, by Tie writer's cunning hama, but its
hghl Is urotoR ~ on one Stde, while the other
mains st cngel9pcd in gloom and shadow. perhaps
nj The deeper IRON the contrast The very c,rculn-
stance oil a man Ia Office bringing forward his own
private views upon Il political question, and thus In
oncing The suspicion 81 the.r being shared by the
government OF WIN ch he forms part L. already IN
ise 80 !, striking and 50 strange that we canuot
many, France and l.nGiaui'' should have been read
marked aud serloa-W digested by every renectlng
man IN England. To the unnlsed reader the article
seems dictated by manifest leaning towards prus5
STA bui 10 those Gcquailted with the undercuuens OF
the stream politics The Individuality OF the author
~ and thea recalled by sigas aad tcKCns unnts
taxable 5hls the adJust.nento Austria the tentier
leaning toward the iaings by which that Power
has been eiIaced rom the position 10 which it had
been raised by centuries OF splendid ieats OF arms
md diplomatic skill, the latent conviction that the
forced reposc To which she is now condemned VIII
insure Ler complete regeneration, belong entirely 10
Tue policy OF the individual, as wei as the ether con.
victon OF the utter disappearance OF France, SO
visible throughout chat It has lie need or The omitted
assurance all belong 20 fully 10 the peculiar system
OF me "riter that not Tor moment could his rlen-
fnls same chain of rolicy Is followed up by the
Nero Bismarck, whose expressed determination 20
destroy has not, however, been as yet repaired by
any expressed determination TO reconstruct The
plan pursued by that statesman has been carried
out ~ to The rules aa S down IN me ,o n
been denommated, not inaptly, by The southern Ger
mans, 'thc Jesuits of ,ae North" And Bismarck
organizer. lie goes apparently at once straight TO
the point clearly and without disguise, Affects
brutal frankress winch SUNS Tho adversary with
Surprise, leaving the burden OF whatever let or hin-
dranee may be offered q The main object OF his en-.
noas Y 9f h ~ sSrSas FL NJ
tiGnt Instruments likewise which have their uses
says grim old Torqnemada, the chiefs ATTEST pupil
Like Loy0la, again, does Bismarck accept no
opposition TO his will. Although compelled 10
snhrait 70 that independence of mind, that
support Of prosesianisn he does not dare to act
up 10 the letter oil the Jesuit rule and assume the
entire iesponssity OF the asSs issued by the state
Contents himself Win The distribution o. the pats
in the great drama IN which he lakes the hi hest and
iowest-author and scene-shiter at Once--and gives
Che other business TO those be considers best ted 10
perform Il. Thus King William IS made to go In for
Frederick Charles for silent vigilance, and Motke
for obstinate VIII. The werld Is meanwhile led TO
ana that he really does retire TO confer with the
venerable monarch upon the very subjects on
which i Is wei! known that he would taSe
Bismarck consultS no man upon the means or
attaining the end on which he is bent, and the
suit he King, lying concealed close ut hand Is but
seeroa Of q m si9s snw Pee e e
tinople. The Marquis de Riyiere was received ut
inc seraglio with all the honsrs Of diplomacy.
Tue Sultan IahIaoud surrounded by his high
the splendid compliments OF the ambassador With
evident Satisfaction, but when II came to the re-
%est Of ana LIZ pr9iseS a r Inc
and uneasy knitting hrs brows and musing in
perplexity, unti III length he rose with tue an
nouncement that The question being OF the highest
importance to the welfare of the State, he did not
dare decide without help from on high. and must
beg leave to retire in order TO address prayer to
Allah for the necessary inspiration. Nothing
could be more natural, and, indeed, respectable,
than this desire. The ambassador, although coming
frn thatr o,,to limit =
was amused at this excess OF devotion, ana when
the sultan reappeared, evidently relieved IN mind,
and perfectly contcnted, with cordial and uncol-
diaonal assent to. every one of the propositions
made the Marquis was loud in his admiration
Of the heaven-nspred decision: But the dragoman
CTOgez q t0ht caroUs ~ WIS his trrevcrent cxcla-
NATION. His Aighness may consult Allah upon the
honesty Of his vzier or the delity Of his wives. but
ali minor questions are decided by the f'Dev among
the Tailors tthe game wen known at English fars).
ON political subjects he consuts oracle but this
Is determined on the color or the boui What fine
subject for caricafure at the present time would be
makes tho aged head OF King William vomt forth
the red balls bearing with them the supposed express
the admiration with which the reviewer expa
flates upon the wonderful organization OF the
Pruaslan conduct Of the war, " above Az things
politics. He comments with unfeigned apprOba-
lion on the order and economy which pervade the
arrangements made for yIotuallIng tho army, the
saving of stores, the shipping OF uniforms. 1t IL
certain that Bismarck has arrived az the solution
q the greatest problem Of all those which have
quite original, although new co eur century. 1t
consists simply In feeding large armies on the
march At the expense Of other people and putting
an end to all recrimnaton BY putting an end to the
despoied themselves. Tho bullet and the torch at
Bazeles and other places have repaid the corn aad
OIL and wine carried thence. Even the artillery
wagons were utilized In that true spirit OF economy
wnlcn the writer loves SO well; FOR when the stores
o. cannen balls they had bsrne 70 the doomed spot
were al exhausted they were replaced by the corn
anu forage belonging 10 the murdered Inhabitants,
SO tnat tne vencies might not return empty; and
so the practice Of economy was carried out
to the fullest extent. All this we repeat
once more, not original. By the great
C0nde 1n wnat thnt great hero was pleased to call
"a wise severity and Marshal saxo, In what the
world, with more righteous Judgment, denomt.
mated, even at the time, brutal ferocltyn has the
same system been practised before But the Inn.
preston OF Gods Justice on those who offend His
eternal laws cannot Jatl 10 rise to our minds wheu
we remember that IL ~ the posterily of the de-
spoiled which IS now wfeaking this teniod ven.
Ceance on that OF the dsspollcrs 1Re author Of the
review before w. iea apSs bY his admigaon Of the