The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-06-10
ENGLAND DRIFTING UNPREPARED INTO
WAR.
THE LIBERAL PARrr BREAKING rr.

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popular I'm precision thus firmly fxed viii
necessarily have it's effect on the course o
public affairs. And il prevails at this m o
mene TO . very remarkable degree In refer
ence 70 the war Tae conviction grow
more and more rtrong every day that Eng
land cannot possibly be kept ont OF the
was. The Rassians cannot afford to give
up this struggle antil they have beaten the
Turks, and when they baye beaten then,
they will require "gossantees" and terri
tory, 70 cay nothing Of that iron clad heet,
which Russian ofiloers already begin to
look upon almost as their own. Then or
never will be the time 70 plant the Russian
eaglesio CoDstantiDople, and Eoglapd will
object, unless, indeed, she 10 driven TO in =
eoEfere long before, seeing Plsinly whittier
ehe march Of events 10 tending
This 10 what 10 10 sll mems minds and
hence people are considering with rather
more care than usual in what condition
war 10 likely to find the country. ls 1t
well prepared for itf Everybody knows
that 10 10 not; you cannot keep that 80
cxet. Il has an army, only little one,
bat there are not many officers Ia the ser-
vice who know any thing about 1t, and tho
Commander- in Chief knows practically lees
than any body else. He hes . certain
number OF favorites who babitually sur
r0and him, and whose word he takes on all
subjecta; bot with tho actual condition Of
a. Napoleon the Third was with that OF
the French Army before its disastrous cam
peigb with the Germans. A very compe.
tent officer asserts that the commissaTiat
department 10 in q most inc fficient condi-
tion--in every way unfit for active work.
or our feet 1t ought to be possible to
speak with greater confidence, but In these
days nobody knows what any feet ia worth
until it 10 tried If the plates of the IRON
clads are thicker than ever. they have in
vented guns that can pierce them at almost
any diBtauce. A torpedo may easily blow
MP the largest vessel, and 1t may even he
doubted whether light aud active craf:,
carrying rams, may not prove more effect
i've for real work than all the huge iron
clads ever launched. l have a naval
friend whe stontly insists that We shall
have to go back some day to the g wooden
walls" in which true sailors were bred in
old times, and in which they felt greater
confidence than the men of tue present day
have in their iron fortresses. One thing
England bas to O greater degree than any
ether European power, aud that Is money
This 10 o not unimpOrtant consideration,
and 1t is the chief source of confidence
which those who know all our resources
can perceive in surveying the field.
1t can never be denied at any rate that
Mr.. Gladstone has done bis best to force
the country into war, and that on the side
of Russia, which must be very curious
fact for bic cid colleagues Of CrimeHn war
days TO couaider. No wonder that his
" resolutions" threatened at one time to
destroy his party, and that men like Mr..
Bright declare that it 10 safer far to be in the
hands Of the Conservatives. The debate on
these resolutions it is happily not necessary
for me to discuss. If you read it, as l am
sure you will not, having something better
to do, you will find that class of gentle
men known in America as " blowers" have
let off . large quantity OF gas, and that
amid the wilderness OF words there ia re-
snarkably little common sense, not to talk
OF fstatesmansbip, to be fund. At the back
of it all 10 this: The nominal leader of the
Liberal party, the Marquis of Harrington,
is out Of all sympathy with the Radicals,
and they with him. There must soon be an
end of the impracticablea arrangement which
was forced upon Lord Harrington, and
from which he has long been anxious to re-
lease himself. Mr.. Gladstone, instead of
assisting him, "a ne was bound in honor to
do, mas constantly stirred up insubordina
tion in the ranks. Mr.. Gladstone's own in
alliance with Mr. ChamberlaiB, MIR. Fawcest
and the other Radicals which is intended
to disperse the last fragments of the old
WhiR party and to end IN the passage OF
eeveral measures long loudly called for by
tie 'extreme left" Among these are the
0bOlitIoB OF tho law oil prlmoGenlture ana
the disestablishment of the Church. You
will Il nd that if MI, Gladstone lives these two
measures will both be carried under his lead
ership-the iast first. The Liberation So.
ciety," as it is called, are thoroughly secure
of Mr.. Glad stones services. This is the
secret of the disorgAniEation now apparent
in the Liberal ranks, and it accounts for
the hostile, not to cay offensive, attitude
which many of tie Liberals take up in re
ference TO Lord Harrington, and of which
you may zee examples in this days SpectG.
tor, as for example this: To our mind,
Mr.. FaWcett, Mr.. Courtney, Mr.. Dillwyn,
Mr.. Chamberlain, and the other earnest
friends of the fourth resolution, came out
of it with the most and the Marquis Of
Hartiu Rton with the least credit. And this
o gain "IfMr Gladstone has made an error
in allowing Lord Harrington TO veto any
Discrimination between the HaTtiDgtonian
aud GIadstonian Liberais, the country will
at least have learned from the miserable
little wranRlss Of Monday night what to
think Of the ebSlf-heartedness Of Lord Hart
ington."
which governed Eogland with but short IN
for nearly forty years. What