, 1874-07-15

Hohenlohe to be Vice President of the German
Imperial Parliament, point out a single word
said by him to appease the German appetite
for
FURTHER VENGEANCE ON A FALLEN POE,
or a single deed of graceful mediation between
the oonqueror and the conquered
No! Marshal MacMahon does not bind him
self to the significance of Count Won Arnim's
departure and Hohenlche's arrival. He is
perfectly aware that of all living men the new
ambassador best knows the mind of Bismarck
and is most trusted by the German Chancellor.
And all France knows that this mission means
a speedy renewal of hOstilities, if clever and
INSCRIPTIONS diplomacy may surely find a way
of rendering peaceful negotiation impossible,
and may as certainly devise means of hasten
ing q rupture between two countries, one of
which is maddened by intolerable and unceas-
ing humiliations, and the other blinded by its
fears of a terrible retaliation.
The religious question can only have this
much to do in the sending to France of this
eminent Catholic" that the ~conclave now
daily expected proves a subject of serious diff
fculty for "Catholic" statesmen to settle.
They would like to have such a Pope as dear
Cardinal Hohenlohe would mGke-a man after
their own heart, who would be alike acceptable
to Kaiser Wilhelm and that "most edifying
Catholic King Victor Emmanuel. That it
would be a grand triumph of diplomatic skill
to induce France to unite with Germany and
Italy in controlling the approaching papal cleo
ton, we have no doubt, and the reader may be
sure that Prince HOhenlOhe will do his best to
win it
WHAT MAY oME OF HoHENLoHE's APPOINTMENT.
Then, there is the crown of Spain to dispose
of. And if Marshal could be in
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on the head of a HohenZollern, and to lend his
countenance to the Comte de Paris, why that
alone would be a grand result accomplished by
Bismarck's ~favorite.
Does the late reported refusal of the Spanish
crown by the Duke de MOntpensier point in
this direction At any rate France and her
truest friends all over the world could pardon
Prince Hohenlohe many a deed of questionable
merit if he could only be instrumental in be-
slowing on the fair kingdom of st. Louis such
a sovereign as Louis Philippe II. would be
sure to make. But this prospect of peace,
prosperity, national strength and dignity under
such a sceptre is one which circumstances
scarcely permit those who read the signs Of the
times to indulge 10. And yet it is hard, when
such a prospect opens before one, for heroic
France in the hour Of her greatest need to pus
it away, especially when it is so easy to realize
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Christendom.
Whether Prince Hohenlohe's mission means
this peaceful solution of a mighty international
problem, or whether it means war, a war dread
Iul to contemplate, now IS
ENaLAND's GRAND OPPORTUNITY.
Twice within twenty years has England
missed her opportunity of securing beyond per-
adventure her own and Frances preponderant
position in Europe as the two great Western
Powers. AS such their interests are absolute
ly identical. Whatever diminishes the pres
tige, nationa al honor or territorial integrity of
either Power diminishes in like measure that
of the other. They should have combined at
the approach of the Danish war to forbid the
outrage committed by Germany on that ancient
but feeble nation. 1t was the first step to-
wards the abnormal aggrandizement Of Prus-
sia and Austria was soon made to feel the
arm of the new Power thus created by the abb
~stention of England and France. It was a Ca
pital mistake for England, and her best states
men felt it with prophetic instinct. A still
greater and more fatal one-one which, indeed,
appears now irreparable-was to allow France
to 60 into the late war, or, having allowed it,
not to have lost her last shilling and her last
soldier before allowing France to be dismem-
bered and impoverished by her heartless con-
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