, 1877-05-25

TIN COUNTRY DRIFTING uNFnxPAnRD TO WAR
=THk tInEnAt PARTY nHEAKfua TIP.

-THk LIBERAL PARTT BREAKING Ur.
Cbtvsspondsnce Nkm lSrk KnrId.
LONDON, Nav l2.--Of course It does not fol-
low that thing will really happen because
believes It will, but popular I'M
preston thus firmly 1xed will necessarily have
lts effect on the course OF public .ntlairs. And
L prevails to this moment to very remarkable
degree In reference to the war. The conviction
grows more and more strong every day that
England cannot possibly be kept out Of tie wa..
The Russians canuot afford to risc Up this
strugele until they have beaten the Turks, and
when they have beaten tlietn they viii require
q guarantees y and territory, to say nothing Of
that fron-clad feet, which Russian officers al
ready begin to lock upon almost ~ tbur own.
Then or never Will be tho time to plant the
Russian eagles In Conssant,nople, and England
terfcre long BEFORE accinK pla1nly whittier the
march Of cventa to tending.
Thls Is what Is In oil mcp's minds, and hence
people arc considering With rather. more. care
find tho country. Ii It well prepared for tit
Everybody knows that 1t Is not; you cannot
keep that 9 accret. It has an army, "only
little one,' but there are not many. officers in
Commandesin Chief knows practically less than
anybody else. He has certain number Of
faToEites who habltanl1y surround him. and
whose word he takes on Ill subjects: and With
Vic AEtA tAC Amy III - AA
little aequainted ~ Napoleon the Third was
With that Of the French army before its diaas-
trous campaign with the Germans. A very
competent officer asserts that the commtssnrtat
every way unit for active work. OF our fleet
It ought 10 be possible ~ speak with greater
confidence, buttn these days nobody knows what
any fleet Il worth until # is tried. II tho plates
Of the tron-clads are thicker than eyel, they
hare invented guns which eau pierce them as
almost auy distance. a torpedo may easily
blow up tho largest vessel, md 1t maY evcu he
doubted whether light and actiyc craft, carrying
rnms, mar not prove moFu effective for the real
lave naval friend who stoutly Insists lint
VIC shall have to 60 back somo day to tho
!" wooden walls" In which true saI1ors were
bred in old times, and In which they felt greater
have ID Their Iron foEtresscs. Ono thing FL.
gland has 70 greater degree than any other
European power, and that Ia money. This Is q
not unfmp0rtant consideration, md 1t IL the
chief source Of confidence which those who
know all our resources can perceive In surveying
tho field.
It can never b denied At any rate TINT Mr..
Gladstone has DOM bis bert to force tic. euuu-'
try Into war, and that on the side Of Russia,
which must be q very curious fact for his old
colleagues Of Crimean war,days to consider:
No wonder that his t.rcsolutions" threatened
at one time to lestroyllls Da1ky,,.nnd that nlen
itke ut. Bright declare that Il Is saier far TO oo
o. tlcso rcsolutions It il happily not nccrsary
for u,o to discuss. Il YOU read 1t. o. aan sur,
you viii not, layiug something better 10 do,
YOU viii flut} tint cjass ot Ernticl1cu known
iu Amertca Is "UIowersH hayo 1T uH . jarrc
ouautity uf Gus, and Tint nn,ld the wilderness
of words Tiers Is remarkably lttlo common
scuse MOI to falk OF etatcst1snsbtn. to bo found.
Al lis back ofI ali IL ills: Thu Nominal Icaler
Of tho Libcrni marty. tho A(ar0ufa OF UartinV.
ton. is out Of iii SYMPATHY with tic Radicals,
mt they with lin. Ihera uust soon ho IN anil
Of ti,e tmnrscticable aTran0cment which was
forced ufnt, Lpryl Uartinrton. mid frOm wl,trI,
i,r hos ibn9 bean anTious Il, reiraau himself.
H. t;ia,latonc instca,i of asststtnr lin. ~ nu
wns i.,,,n in honor Ia tln. haa constantly stirred
"r, tns1i1oniineifuu In thn rnncs. III. Hind.
s,ronais nwn intsntiopa nrt veil known: In Ina
fos,ncS su aiIIontn viii hfr. I,hamIrriaIr. NIr.
Fawcett. md thu otber Rsdtcals. Will. Ia In.
fn.1r u its,nrse an iast fralrmrnta III tho old
W%to rartv' md to md l., tho ,"ssare mf scyeral
meas,1res s ionn loudly called for ~ thp "cx.
trrn,n Lam Amour these ara the ntMIl.
ticn ri lin law nj nrjmmrcnt,1re nnl
t%n te ,,sct.a,,,tsb,nsnt IT tha EhvTSi. Yn. vii
tln.1 lint II Mr. i,laistone ityes tlcsu Two
n,ca.irns win hath In currictl unier Ills leader
shinMtt1e iast GTst. The ii liberation SOCIETY"
a. II in rnl1r1i. ara thorort1hlv .rure of Mr.