The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-04
EpauIets Being Done Away With.
ENGLAND.
The Attitude of Great Britain-The Govern
ment and the People-Universal Condemna-
tIon of Napoleon.


tion of Napoleon.
Mr.. George w. Smalley writes as follows to
the New York Tribune from London, under
date of July 2l:-
Mr.. Gladstone, master as he is of home poll
tics, feels too heavily the responsibility of de-
cision on foreign affairs. Heis morbdly anxious
to keep on good terms with everybody. SO it
was left for the press to speak, and | rejoice to
say the press did speak, with unanimity and
a force that made it heard with respect all over
Europe. The Imperial Court of France went
mad with rage and resentment Napoleon had
counted on the subserviency of most of the
London journals-as on many of them he had
only too good reason to count. They had leaned
strongly towards him. and cast away from Prus-
sia when the Hohenzollern business first became
known. So far they are responsible. and
more responsible than the Govern
impartial and had, 1 am confident, said
and done nothing during the first week to en-
courage the Emperor with hope of support,
moral or material. But no journal anticipated
that war was to be forced on, regardless of the
withdrawal of Prince Leopold. When they dis
covered that the Emperor had made up his mind
to disgrace Prussia or fight her, the English
press launched protest worthy of its best days
and its most honorable fame The Times took
the lead, declaring that the greatest national
crime since the days of the first French Empire
had been consummated; that the war was the
to conceive what infatuation can have commit
ted the Emperor Napoleon to a course which is
as impolitic as it is criminal.
The Daily Ne,os, with an ability and boldness
equally remarkable, has exposed and denounced
the gigantic crime of him whom it was lately
the fashion to talk of as "Englands nearest
ally"
fhe press well represented the public feeling
at the first announcement of war. 1t is not
merely general, 1t may almost be called unani-
nous. At any rate, have not met one man of
any degree or rank, or any shade of politics,
who did not condemn the Emperor, and express
or loss wi Qd
with q conviction of the business of her cause.
England looks on Germany as great people
forced to go to war In self-defense against
jealous and unscrupulous neigh Dor. -
The Dubious Neutrality of England.
The London Times of the 22d of July says:-
Although the notice of neutrality has been
issued by our Government, no information has
been given on the important question as to what
articles are contraband of war. Upon applica-
| tion at the customs, shippers fail to get any
answer on this point, and the greatest perplexity
| consequently exists. There is every desire on
| the part of the commercial community of Lon
don to abide carefully by any definite rules that
! may be communicated to them, and to assist the
! Government In every way to maintain an atti-
| tude OF strict impartiality.
An English Opinion OF the Two Contending
| Nations.
The London Times has the following
| The Germans are branch of that race which is
destined TO people and subdue the earth. From
their earliest records they have always been
spreading, and their emigrants are now among
| the most active elements OF transatlantic pro-
| gress Far away from the vast Fatherland, round
| the Baltic, down the Danube, and the busiest
centres as well as in the remotest backwoods OF
the New World, the Germans count their bre-
thren by the millions, and these powerful by
their wealth, intelligence, and energy, are not
likely TO look unconcerned on a struggle ia
which the very existence OF their never
forgotten mother country is at stake. Here
in England, In America, throughout the
world, the Germans are looked upon as the
most welcome Observation-Disclosures indus
trious, truthful, trustworthy. Even in Italy,
where Germany has been Tor ages the scourge
of the land, the German individually was always
popular even during the worst period of Aus
trian domination at Milan. The French, on the
contrary, hardly ever take root away from
French soil. They have passionate admirers
and anxious imitators all over the world, bu
few brethren anywhere. The Emperor acknow
ledges the fact and boasts that France needs NJ
allies We hope she will be able TO dispens'
with moral as well as with material support.
A Companion of their Military Qualities.
The Times of another date says
The chief difference between the two bellige
rents lies in this, that France brings arm!
into the field, Prussia only an armed people
France has her practical military school Away
open In her African colony. Prussia has in re
cent times seen no wars, except In two brillian
but short campaigns, in which her militia ha
rather an opportunity of displaying thei
courage than leisure for acquiring experience
! The front line In Prussia or what is called tn
regular army, is formed of raw soldiers; but l
; the rear of IL are the men of the Reserve an
, the Landwehr, who have gone through thei
! three years training, and have been kept up {
high degree of efficiency by yearly drill-me
q of mature age, whose cool courage Is intende
y TO temper the ineonsiderate ardor aud impetI
{ osity OF youth Thus the French should haS
the advantage at the outset, and the Prussiar
: | at the latter period Of the campaigns for th
= | strength of the former lies In the first, that
e the latter In its second line.