The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-23
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Editorial Opinions OF the Leading Journals
upon Current Topios-CempiIed Every
Day for the Evening Telegraph.

From the N. r Times.
The English people are out of temper with
everybody and everything at the present mo-
ment. They are not satisfied with Mr.. Glad
stone. They are still less satisfied with their
Queen, whose life has been spent, since her
husbands death, in studying how not to do
her duty. Then, again, they do not like the
war. They do not at all like their own pros
poets. They are very much afraid that they
have no army and that their fleet is a de-
lusion. They begin to think that their beau
tiful neutrality policy may in the end
prove disastrous mistake. They have acted
with extreme meapness-to use no harsher
word-towards the faithful ally of seventeen
long years. They have clapped their hands
on their breeehes pockets and cried out to
the belligerents, ''We don't want to have
anything 10 do with either of you. Fight
away as long as you like, only buy all you
require of u.s." And now it seems as though
this system would not pay in the end "When
we see two nations fighting, says the Pal
Mall Gdsette-the only English journal which
has the courage to speak out-'it is very
doubtful policy to dance round the combat
ants screaming like an excited old lady when
she sees two navvies belaboring each other in
the streets" That is q complete description
of the attitude which England has occupied
during the present war. There is not a
civil word for us anywhere on the whole con-
tinent, complains the London Times. What
else could England reasonably expect?
That Mr.. Gladstone should have proved
wholly unequal to the great crisis which has
overtaken Europe will surprise no one who
has car efully studied his character and career.
He is a man infirm of purpose and repre-
senting nothing in England but that peddling,
''shop- keeping spirit which is gradually sap
ping the energy and spirit of the country.
He is afraid to move finger until he is quite
sure that the movement will not risk his
popularity, and while he is waiting to be
sure of that, the opportunity for action
passes by, or the country drifts into a series
of hopeless blunders. There is no longer
any leader in England. The Liberal party
accepts MIR. Gladstone because it must have
head, and there is no one else but
the peoples William" to put forward
Mr.. Bright would not command the loyalty
of the larger section of the party. Lord
Russell is out of date. The young members
are not sufficiently powerful with the public
to take leading position. The country has
had great faith in Mr. Gladstone, founded
on his skill as financier, and when it made
him Prime Minister it expected great things
of him. He has disappointed everybody.
He has uttered sentimental lament over the
war as 'mournful and miserable" business
Further than this he has not attempted to 60
He has made himself party to the ''policy''
of insulting France and crouching down
before Prussia-only to be detested by the one
and despised by the other. This is one re-
suit of having Prime Minister who is desti-
tute at once of courage and genius. Lord
Palmerston may sometimes have been an
lmprudent man, but he at least had some
thing better about him than the heart of a
slave.
England down on her knees before her
money bags will be obliged some day to ad-
init that even the plan of alternately truck
ling to foreign Powers and insulting them
will not render her secure. A great danger
menaces her at this moment. If France for
gives her for her dastardly behavior during
the present war, Frenchmen must be made
of different stuff from what they were. Prus-
sia will never be reluctant to deal her hu-
initiating blow. If Russia and Prussia have
secret understanding with each other, as
seems extremely probable, troubles in the
East will arise very soon after this war is
over. Bismarck has most likely made pro-
posals to the Gear which insure the neutral
ity of that potentate during the war with
France, and the compact can scarcely be
one which England would approve. The
Gar has gone out of his way to pay compli-
ments to the Germans on their valor and
success-which does not look much like that
intervention in favor of France which we
be in no position to check the next
Eastern movement of Russia. She will never
again find French soldiers fighting by her
side. Her workingmen preach about
the duty of settling all national dis
putes by arbitration, at the very time
one of the most frightful wars of
modern times is raging. Her middle class
60 to the Crystal Palace to feast their eyes
on an imitation of the destruction of the
bridge at Kiel. 1t is wonder that threat
rieal spectacle of the carnage at Sedan has
not been arranged for their amusement. The
Prime Minister is going about the country
trying on frieze coats, and tasting Irish
whisky. This is ''England's attitude" while
Europe is convulsed with war. With the
yeomanry class almost extinct, with the bes
blood of the country drained away by emf
grafton, with an incapable Ministry at the
head of affairs, and shop-keepers ruling the
nation-what other result could have beer
looked for?
THE OCCUPATION OF HOMEGROWN
ING THE ITALIAN EDIFICE.
From the NJ Y. Herald.
'The end crowns the work" is an exalte
and significant motto when rightly applied
Such, we trust, may be its use at Rome. Ou
very full and graphic special account
by telegraph announce the formal occu
patton of the Eternal City by tn
Italian regular army, under the command O
Major-Genera Cadorna, and the enthusiast
reception of that distinguished officer and hi
troops by the Roman people In this trul
great event-one, assuredly, of which ever
succeeding day will prove the immens
importance-the eager aspirations tina
Italy has cherished for generation past al
proach distinct and practical fulflment. Ital
is dead haughtily exclaimed the men of r,