New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-29
WAR NEWS BY MAIL.
rNcIIsu PRESS ON THE WAR.

ENGLlSH YIN IIiI' wan
A FORMIDABLE INDICTMENT AGAINT NAPoLhoS'
The London Economist has long been ,he
most influential and conservative Of the financial Jour
mails OF Europe II is the last OF all organs OF puon
on,nion 10 be affected by sentiment" or passion anu
must be regarded speaking only thesober u
capitalists and the common verdict OF the business "o
apart from nationality, when it discusses the war uc
tions now at issue. The following article tncioioie
from The Economist OF July &c. upon the declaration vi
,yar hv France has peculiar weight and signicance
Tho declaration OF war by France against Prussia IL
one of those awful events which bring comment u a
stand, and which Of themselves maze When can he said
aSopt them This time last week almost all the best
impossible nc was bad enough that France should
saw that the accession OF very uS. .ho,o &C.,
tive of the KING Be " esteemed by her easus
beii: IL was worse in her to volunteer TINS IN an a,
sVe My 70 cause 9uarreI It was yet worse in France
when Prince Leopold resigned MS % s,o Which
were inconsistent with the dignity, OF ftuS Was
and which were meant TO De eru orensiye de,
hands i'm an unprecedentedly offensive manner on 'e
King Of Prussia in public place puI w9tso foregone
Conclusion and shows that, whatever may De sal Ine
momentary candidatre OF the Hohento s tb bein
ming to fight Prussia and meant nothing IN ,hs ali
"o account for such T9 and forget our ex
nerience OF him as important statesman, anu h aoa
years Of the conseryators ana nes following the
oI huIgp ~, when Iouis Napoleon was regarded as
gambler and q, cG@Rns s engaeY who
might invade any country "itnV taSt for a war he
thoDeht convenient himself France For years We
have held other opinions OF tne frehIn gerc fears
and Nctions But nothing in them Is worse thah Wat ne
has now done The most desp rate act Oh reaeb Of he
peacp of Europe in this manner on sudden ana "th
no object which any one can state. ,,o.,on y, var
When indeed, the French proclamation vi H%
reaches ns we shall have the decent drapery III wSn
the Emperor clothes his policy But use what wGrds 9
what is called relative Of the King OF Prussia that Is
German Prince, who has common ancestor t have
bce candidate for the Spanish crown, ana tha1 ,ir
King OF Prussia will not promise tnat ms are
shall be again. But what TWO nat a'le waTI
ever to be at peace shadows like these are 10 cdu
England Prussia might have emRre on the
ground the probable injury to European ] far
and its with the Hlgnnt at the Teres
was much more OF menace 10 Europe IMAM ti ~
henzoern is not even Mardon the contrary says me
won't 20 there and all the complaint Is mat ILussa S
not say that IL he changes his mind he sha not e ~
there pretext for great so little speclous ana
so eyanescent was hardly ever seen. . . Ar, ,oon,ro
"Nothing that be said is adequate TO the meaning
meanehoiy that with all our boasts Of civilization and
after SO many centuries OF Christianity so great crime
0or it is no less) should be possible in the world.
THE TIMES on THE CRISIS. q,
The London Times thus announce Gene t Ine
we had the pain Of recording in these COLUMNS since
the DAYS Of the first French Empire mas Deen
war This dire calamity, which Oyerwhems Europe
with dsmay is 1t is now too clear the act OF fIace
of one man in France. 1t is the ultimate re'u1' VI pr
THE WEEKLY PRESS.
The Saturday Rerteto declares thet napOgTn eerts
than any which be alleged by the Duke OF Gtamon
army il raised and equipped there Is supposed
risk war and then ts thought so admirably organl1ea
force ought be used before it declines IN ell
cheney. If France succeeds, all the ordinary y
evils of war will r be o. d Franco Geth having burst
forth trumphany, and Of its eervescence and success
having corrupted as they must do tae n nT e Oh ne
ment, France will have to keep perPetuay dctathg 10
politics will once absorb all the thoughts OF French
men, and anything like domestic reform and free gov
generation AS to the rest of the world the success OF
France would be an incontestabe loss IL would deterl,
nation making groundless war to its profit It would
crush the rising liberties and nascent prosperity OF
poor and alarmed. on the other hand, as France
lights merely show that she is the mistress OF West
ern Continental Europe, ii is difficult TO see how she
can retire the contest easily and with honor If Ger
many makes successful defense The war must there,
fore either be long owing to the RAPID success OF
France il must do infinite harm TO France and TO Europe
In whatever look at it, the prospect is most dis
heartenng, and it cannot be wondered at that on the
eve Of such war, all Europe has been stricken Win
panic
vote of $4,000 soldiers against the Empire at the last pie
6istf The war has no cause no motive no justllca.
If his bows succession would not be clear. 1t is child
ish to speak of such duel" between France
and Prussia VIII Denmark remain quiet while French
men are the Elbe, Russia SIT patient
while Denmark becomes German province VIII arnle
counted by quartermiOns respect that neutrality OF
Belgium which will embarTass every military design
France has ally for Austria dare not claim TO Renter
Germany by the side of the Germans foe; for
she has no advantage Of situation for Prussia invade
her more easily than she invade Prussia and she has
no advantage Of numbers, for Prussia collect all
the soldiers any generals handle with effect. She
enters her strenth only, amid the dsappro
hat of Europe, under the
shown any capacity for generalship, and
who sets before him end to do what has yet
been done-to turn a nations history back.
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