The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-06-19
THE PACIFIC
Observation-Disclosures
SATURDAY. JUNE 10.
The Situation In Europe.

On the 10Th Of May the Car Of Russia arrived at
Berlin On a y.si; to his uncle the Emperor q Ger
many. ari the London TIze5 i reported az stating
that the situation was indeed critical at the moment,
for European peace. The London Telegraph, IN an
editorial commenting on the meeting Of the two En-
perors. said cit IS impossible to conceal the truth.
The Continental situation wears this morning the
very gra7est aspect. If We were to say that the
question Of the future repose Of Europe may be
practically solved before forty-eight hours have
Passel We would scarcely 90 beyond the facts The
tendency at this hour is decided unpaci6c." After
meeting the Emperor, the Car, accompanied by
Prince Gortschakof, visited Prince Bismarck. And
now it IS satisfactory to know through the telegraph,
that the Gar returned TO s.. Petersburg convinced
that a more conciliatory disposition exists, tending
to insure the continuance Of peaceful relations be-
tween France and Germany. 1t may lie accepted
that the relations between these Two countries cannot
be Of the most cordial kind. France is smartiug
under the loss Of Alsaee and Lorraine, which car
ried with It the cession Of Metz and all but one Of
the French ~fortresses on the Eastern frontier. And
there is really no more pacific feeling toward Ger
many in France than exists in the latter toward the
former. One smarts for the loss of territory; the
other knows full well that Alsace and Lorraine can
only be retained at the expense Of being always
ready TO maintain possession Of them.
France republican-remarks the New York Herald
and almost certain to become more and more so,
is a problem worthy Of the deepest consideration Of
two EmPerors. Republication in France, as its his
tory shows, has possibilities that imperial minds are
not apt to overlook. What is to be done with it!
II the French would only give the pretext how easy
to send Moltke and bis legions streaming out of Metz
into the Champagne region. But what is to be done
with a country which, when you smite it on one
cheek simply turns the other to the smiter and keeps
on sharpening the sabre ? France has stood every
form Of insult from Germany, and will not resent it.
Every day she becomes stronger. Every day sends
new men into her armies and new millions into her
treasury. So that Germany must stand in anxious
silence looking on, seeing this prOdigious Power grow
from hour to hour, and knowing that every look.
every thought, every pulsation and aspiration is for
revenge-that some day she must fight this Power,
and under conditions far different from those which
eliminated at Sedan.
But upon this occasion it appears that the Gar
Alexander has appeared in the role of a ~peacemaker,
and that with the view of Strengthening peaceful
relations, he has invited ex-President Theirs to an
unofficial conference on European affairs. 1t will be
remembered that NJ. Theirs toward the close Of 1870,
when Paris was suffering the horrors of a siege. IN
dertook upon his own account a tour TO the courts
at st. Petersburg and Vienna. This mission was so
far successful as to induce him to set out upon his
return to a conference with Bismarck. His efforts
resulted first in an armistice and lastly in the sign
ing Of the treaty of Peace. Theirs, although now
little more than a private citizen, has perhaps more
influence among the councils of France than any
other statesman, and we may therefore hope that his
interview with the Car will tend toward a long con-
| tinopc Of paaceful relations befwepn the two nations
which, it was feared, would again be plunged into