The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-27

portant news of the progress of the Euro
pean war, extra editions will be issued after
this hour, and before the regular time for the
early edition.
THE ENGLISH WAR SENTIMENT.
The abilities of the present Emperor of the
French as q profound master of diplomatic
science have not been more conclusively
shown by any of the events of his career than
by the c~onsummate skill he has shown in the
management of England, and in the COM
parative ease with which he has reduce her
to the position of a second or third-rate
power, so far as European affairs are con-
cerned, at least. When he made himself
Emperor the popular feeling against him in
England was most profound. The traditional
British antagonism to his family was intensi-
fed by the coup detat and the INSCRIPTIONS
means he adopted to consolidate his power
and to establish himself upon the throne. In
the early days of the empire he had every
thing to fear from England, but he adopted a
line of policy which from that time to this
has not only prevented any interference on
her part with the affairs of France, and he has
either secured her as an allyin his contests with
other powers or made himself certain of her
neutrality. The old anti-Napoleonic senti-
ments in England, however, if smothered
were not quenched, and the real, sincere,
and hearty British friends of the nephew of
his uncle are exceedingly few and far between;
and while the majority of the English nation
has acquiesced in the latter-day policy of non
Intervention in continental q%uarrels, they
have felt, nevertheless, that they have lost
much of their old dignity and Importance
thereby, and are not disposed to regard the
man who has forced them into such a posi-
tion with any marked degree of favor.
When bad feeling already exists, it does not
require any very great provocation to excite
hard words and hard blows; and the publica-
ton of the secret treaty proposed by France
to Prussia in 1866 has stirred up all the old
antagonism to Napoleon that for so many
years past has only been indicated by occa-
sionsl sarcastic comments in the newspapers
OF in the vituperations of such writer's as
Kingslake. Substantially it was known at the
time that France was endeavoring to make
some such arrangement with Prussia, but the
British public did not have it down in black
and white as it has it now, and the publica-
tion of this treaty has not only given the lie
to all the Emperor's fine speeches and pro-
Carnations, by which he has endeavored to
throw the responsibility of the present war
upon Prussia, but it has shown England how
little he really cared for her wishes and
opinions in such a matter as the division and
distribution of continental territory. The
plan for the absorption of Belgium, in p~articu-
lar, was O particularly rude attack upon the
omo1rr pTopTe of England, and it would not be
a matter for surprise if the publication of this
document made England the ally of Prussia,
in which case France will certainly have her
hands full. The leading English papers are
endeavoring to bring about such a consum-
nation as this, although, as in the case of
many previous European contests, England
really has no concern in the quarrel, and at
the most she can do no more than regain
some of her old-time prestige as one of the
leading European powers. In case she does
take up arms, however, it will not be the first
time that she has been forced into an expen-
siye and improbable war to fight the battles
of other people, against the better Judgment
and sound sense of the most thoughtful and
far-seeing of her citizens; and although Prus-
old l. CuHOiAJ hOhOOhlS ACI rs I'LL ally, Uu0
results of her interference on her own future
may we'll engage the attention of her states
men before they commit her to a contest the
end of which no man can foresee at this
moment.
The Irish have already warmly expressed
their sympathy for France, and an Irish re-
bellion would at least give considerable
trouble if the bulk of the army and navy
were engaged with a foreign foe. Such a
combination of circumstances would give the
very occasion for which the most prudent
Irish enemies of English rule have been wait
ing, and it would scarcely be allowed to pass
without an attempt being made to strike a
blow for Irish independence. We believe
that it would be a good thing for Europe and
for the world if England would unite with
Prussia to squelch Napoleonism at once and
forever, but so far as England herself is con-
cerned, she will be most likely to consult her
present and future interests by discreetly
keeping ont of the fight,