The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-22

france, TINT, under the present cOnultlOnb OF
the fight, France is overmatched The fault
may be attributed to the bad management of
the army both during the war and before it,
and not to any inherent inequality in the
military powers of the two nations; and it is
quite unnecessary and would be even inde-
fensible to continue the war simply to show
that Frenchmen are among the best soldiers
of the world"
On the keynote thus sounded the other
leading journals of the United Kingdom sing
much the same strain. A continuance of so
frightfully bloody conflict is deprecated for
the sake of common humanity and progress,
and King William is most earnestly recon-
mended to let we'll enough alone and not to
push the French people to the alternative of
a general appeal to the radical revolution.
Here and there the Tory papers cannot help
showing their teeth at the republic, and all
the old stale sneers and ISLANDERS of class
of writer's who are nothing If not servile and
reactionary are dished up again in tho same
sauce antique. 1t is the liberal Irish press
that gives the young republic of France the
warmest, heartiest, most whole-souled well
come, and we remark, not without some
glimmerings of an early political conjunction
of fortunate planets in still another republi-
can sky, that mention of ''the banner of
stars" occurs more than once in their eulo-
gies upon the Gallo tri-colyr. No bad accom-
paniment for the hours that precede the re-
arising of the ''Sunburst" and the "Ori-
famme," and those who comprehend the
word republic" on a white banner borne
through the streets of London on Monday
evening last will not mistake the symbols
The Dutch and Belgian press, dated to the
7th instant, have come in, and their articles
are full of patriotic emotion at the possible
imminence of danger in the direction of
Prussia. The NieWooe ROtterGdn1Sche C0urGfat,
q well-conducted, long established, and highly
influential business organ of the great COM
mercial centre of Rotterdam, unites with its
able contemporary, the ALgemeen HandeLS-
6Ias of Amsterdam, in expressing the proud
determination of the Netherlands to defend
their independence as their fathers of the old
Dutch republic defended it in other days, and
at the same time in offering the most earnest
prayers for the cessation of the war, the relief
of the sorely tried French people, and the
peaceful maintenance of the new form of gov
ernment in France. These are kind and cheer
ingwords from sturdy people, who have fine
navy yet and one hundred thousand as brave
troops under arms as ever fought for right
and liberty. The Belgian papers are more
reserved, the ministerial journals of Brussels
confning themselves to graphic letters and
to coincidence for the slaughter on both sides.
The Independence Beige frankly espouses
the cause of the Provisional Government, and
says of those who compose it:-"They are
most honorable and intelligent men, each and
all distinguished by an immense majority of
votes cast in their favor by the capital and
by the most enlightened centres of France
They are the men, too, "who, for ten, nay,
for fifteen years, combated the faults, all the
excesses and all the sinister resolves of the
Imperial Government"
In France the journals of the Northern
departments speak pityingly of the fallen
empire, but with enthusiasm of the republic.
There appears to be, indeed, no dissenting
voice on the latter point. As for Paris, we
might fill columns with the warm utterances
of its press on every phase of the situation.
The papers recently dynastic give the new
government clever welcome. The France,
the Patrie and the Constitutional rally to ii
without reserve. The De60ts huns and haws
and mumbles in it's sleep just as it always
does after q repast on any unaccustomed
dish. The Peuple Francais and lie Public
fearful misnomers, as the reader will perceive,
since they were the watchdogs of ''the Right
or majority in the late Chambers-snarl
viciously at the new regime, and the Figaro
has actually been mobbed for its foolhardy
diatribes. The Steele, the Opinion Ndtionale,
the GGulOiS, and the Liberte, and, of course,
the Journal Oficiel, are all of one mind on
the matter. This criterion, indeed, may be
followed throughout, that everything fresh,
brilliant, kindly, sincere, and hopeful in me-
tropolitan journalism goes heart and hand fol
the repnblic, while all the soured, blase,
sceptical, purchasable organs suggest sneak
ing doubts and difficulties. We have for this
occasion but few words to add. Adopting
the great idea of the age, that the newspaper
press, conducted as it should be, is the voice
of the time and of the people, and needing
| the press of Europe, from the Highlands OF
| Scotia to the Sicilian shore, and from the
| Atlantic eastward to the Neva, we must be-
lieve that the mind of Europe is fully
aroused; that the blood of the toiling millions
is up, and that France, their exemplar, for
the moment stricken down because of her i'm
perial palsy or political kings evil, is arising
| again, clothed and in her right mind" to
lead on a new array of States marching in 6
new path, with new words blazoned on an
ensign, new in its combination, but in its
principles of truth and justice ancient as the
everlasting hills.