The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-12-01
EN- G L A N D
mrR WARS IN vICTORIA's REIGN.
Her Present status with Other Nations
Tho WARM Acshanistan-Thc Opium War
The Crimean. the Abyssynian, and Lui"
Contcs,s-Thc Egyptian War and War Upon
the Beers, Etc. Etc.
IEor the nlsnatch. |

For the Dispatch.I
The war in Egypt is ended for the pre-
sent.
England is now rcwarding her officers
and glorifying herself.
So grand a preparation for so feeble a
foe has never been seen before. 20 as
proportioned was il to the objects OF attack
that il seems rs II England used an occa-
sion TO illustrate her war power impressive
" TO Europe, with whom she will have TO
deal about this Egyptian business.
She has now accomplished the. Ilghtest
mart of her work. Without any disaster,
She has walked over the course" She
will hold Egypt. and will thereby be in
volyed in serious troubles, and at this mo-
ment she may be on the eve OF such a crisis
as she has not faced in many years.
Nor do we see that she is making ade-
uuate preparation 10 meet the issue she has
forced. England has in these event, ar
roeantly defied "the great Powers OF
Europe" and will have no ally in the war
she has invited. And never in two hun
dred years has England made war upon a
first-cIass Power without a first-class ally.
She may sing paans over her late eX-
plots and honor and decorate the heroes,
but she should not forget that the end is
not yet.
She should strip for heavy work. and
above all. let her secure France or Persia
for her ally.
England is not expert in war. She has
great wealth, plenty OF pluck. and inordi-
nate pride: but her aggrandizingp propensity
has often made her eat the bread OF bitter
ness.
The reign OF Queen Victoria furnishes
more illustrations of England's aggression
upon feeble peoples rights, and OF the
laundering modes Of her war operations
than any equal period Of her history.
During this reign twelve English gene
rails have been made peers OF England
and in reviewing the roll OF them ones
memory is sOrely tried TO determine upon
what grounds Of military merit such hon
ors have been conferred.
Sir Colin Cambell and Sir Hugh Cough
were strict soldiers of tried conduct and Of
hard-earned fame. Their honors were won
upon fields where real soldiers fought, and
where only British pluck could bring them
through, and where that was nearly all that
was called for: but we can remember no.
thing important about the others.
\ calm review Of the military events o!
England, Of which we have the memory,
should not elate high-minded English
man.
Nor will there be found occasion for the
admiration Of people skilled in war.
THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN AGAINST DAsT Ma
HOMET.
About 1881 England undertook TO I'M
throne DaSt Mahomet and to place another
Amccr ON the throne OF Afghani,tan.
After 4 fierce and bloody war OF four
years the DaSt drove every Englishman
out OF his country, and resumed his right
iul sway.
The last retrcating English column Of
10000 men wa, entirely dc>troycd-Onc
single man alone survived that retreat to
tell its dreadful story.
Three years ago England again entered
Afehlni,tn and dethroncd the rcigning
Amer 10 put in his place the heir OF that
very Dast MahOmct whom forty wears be-
fore she had fought four years to de-
throne.
Lord BeaconsticId thought Aighanitan
necessary as a "scicntilic frontier" OF In
dia--a barrier against the advancing power
OF Russia. 70 secure thi, she made q sharp
using i'm rs conduct S2O.O00.O01
OF The famine fund OF her starving sub
jects i'm India. And then che abandon
Cd the whole enterprise and left the cXas-
pcraled Aighans in mood TO invite the
friendly offices Of Russia. And Russia
has steadily advanced her columns. with
fixed purpose and unyarying success. until
she now from IIerat bidcs her time TO strike
for India.