The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-18

Charles is at Treves preparing to attack the
French left between Metz and Thionville, then
one of the reasons for this attack, which must
convince the French commander that he has
reeolute antagonist on his right, is apparent.
The Crown Prince will probably, in that case
have effected most serviceable diversion.
Enaland's Duty TO BeIsium and Herself.
The Spectator declares that the mere cost of
faithlessness to Belgium would in few years be
greater than the cost of fidelity; while the cost
in character, in Independence, and in the best
results of our insularity would be incalculable
If we abandon Belgium, the one European spot
not our own which the Continent expects us to
defend, we must recede from the Continent for
ever, must retire from our place ia the civil
lzed family of mankind and either sink into
the position of larger and more pauperized
Holand-a Holland full of great estates and
people with too little to eat-or confne our
selves to the task of civilizing Asia-sink, as it
were, without willingness and without en-
nobliDg faith, from statesmen into missionaries.
No one will trust us, for we shall have broken
an obligation we acknowledged because it was
inconvenient to fulfil 1t.
The Bmperor's BIuuders.
The Spectator observes that while the En-
peror was wasting time in a scenic attack on an
open town held by Prussian major and few
infantry troops, an attack apparently designed
mainly to show his little boy "War, and in
spirit his army by accounts of an easy victory
the Crown Prince was inflicting a real substan-
tial blow on hi position. By another strange
irony of fate, on one day Napoleon in his Jour
nal Oticiel declares that one grand object of the
war was to deliver Bavaria from Prussian op-
preston, and on the very next the Crown Prince
of Prussia, at the head of Bavarian soldiers,
drives a French division from the field but this
movement is but an incident in that great con-
centric advance of which the object is Nancy or
Lnneville, or it may be even Chalons, and in
which battle must be fought at almost every
step.
The Emperor and Germany.
The Daily Ne,os comments on the declaration
of the Journal OficieI that the nephew of the
conqueror of jena is making war, not against
Germany, nor even against Prussia, but rather
against Count Bismarcks policy. 1t is acknow-
ledged, however, that in order to prevent the
unity of the common country, the old Germanic
Confederation which has so long disorganized
and paralyzed the national forces was to suffer
transformation which would have laid Ger
many helpless at the feet of the invader. 1t was
the old scheme for the disunion and division of
Italy, by forming federation under the presi-
dency of the Pope, applied with some necessary
notifications to Germany.
Enthusiasm of the French People.
The Daily Ne,os says French contemporary
is at great pains to discover a sufficient motive
for the enthusiasm of the French people in the
| present war, and it arrives at the conclusion
that France in 1870 is gone out to fight its old
| enemy of 1892, the chief OF the monarchical
coalition against the first republic. Whatever a
| calmer philosophy may have to say about it a
| few years hence, the war with Germany is at
| present to be considered as revolutionary war.
| 1t is the French Revolution against the success
| sors of Brunswick. France declines to believe
| that Count Bismark will give liberty to Ger
many, but is fully persuaded that he would take
| Alsace ard Lorraine If he could.