The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1884-09-21
LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE.

LATEST NEWS FkOM EUKUPE.
TIE PANIC IN ENGLAND OYER DOUER-
INC EUROPEAN SKIES.
The Egyptian auari AND lie DaHsevs- kns.
land's Downfall Foreahadowsa-The Bul.
wsrh Of the Navy lnenecssai-The Meeting
Of the ERperors . Cause OF Alarm-0lad-
stones Political PSsiiiou-The Prince OF
Wales Trying 10 Make che Throae Demo-
sratsc-l.sserary and Other Intelligence.
DUBLIN, Sept 20--The fit Of panic from
which England is suffering just now IL one Of
the worst aud most prolonged attacks she has
had for years. Nothing lie going right There
Il not point OF the wide horizon OF tho future
which is not darkened with lowering clouds.
and tho perusal Of the English journals for the
lost week would convince any foreigner that
England had permanently adopted the phi
losophy OF Schopenhauer. Tho khartoum ex-
petition Is spoken Of In the most respondent
way. The frequent changes OF plan. the Or
dering Of boats one day. the organization OF
camel corps the next. the call already for vol
unteers from the Guard regiments. which ore
supposed to DO reserved a. o last resort. and
finally the lurid and unbalanced kilograms Of
Gordon. produce an almost universal feeling
that the whole thing is going In end In tiasco.
To complete tho discomfort there are reports
OF the loan being given to Egypt despite the
failure OF the conference. Lord Northbrook 10
described a. convert to the principle OF q
protectorate. and the public 10 divided into two
parties. the one dreading that oil this money
and possibly blood are going to absolute waste
because OF Gladstone'e resolve to fulfil his
pledge OF withdrawal and the other pointing
TO the outspoken and nerce declarations Of
sven moderate French journals that France
Ill NIT ha NM ~ nj hv Emo.
land. All attempts 10 penetrate the designs Of
the imperial trio from whose councils England
was SO SYSTEMATICALLY excluded Are vain.
All these things lend additional interest and
Importance to the really severe panic that has
set in the condition OF tho navy. For the first
hme the charges have passed from the unread
speeches OF expectant ofaceholders and retired
Admirals. who are paniomongers by profess
sion. to the columns of popular papers. For
once the sardonic md bitterly anti Radical ~.
James's Gazette and the vehemsntly Gladston-
ian Pail Mall are agreed The st. James's Ga
sette sums up the situation BY declaring that
England has not seen the last OF her great
wars. It adds that while a. belligersnt
nation We are more and more doubted there
10 scarcely . nation In Europe where We arc
not deteSted. There 10 not one that 10 not al
ready calculating on our downfall and the gain
to b got out OF It." Tho Pail Mall met the
question Of the hour with characteristic
promptitude By devoting twelve columns Of its
contracted space to an examination OF the con-
dition Of the navy Its conclusions are pessi-
mistic In the extreme. The position always do
manded BY EnRishmen Of all parties was that
England's navy> should bs equal to all the
naviss Of the other powers Of Europe to-
eether. This is far from being tho case now.
During the last fifteen years the naval expen-
HoS1, hna eavA
cont. while in England It has slightly de-
oreased. 30 far from being ahead in armor
guns. and speed TO any probable combination
Of fleets. she is just little ahead Of France in
ships. behind her In guns. and about equal in
armor and speed. English guns are inferior
both In weight and power &c those OF Franco.
and even Of Italy. The point that lends addi
tional danger to all this ia that now England
10 absolutely dependent on other countries.
especially America. for food. The English pa
pers themselves hang upon this 40 the main
change In the naval situation OF the empire.
and the staid and almost of1cial RkpubliQue
Fdncaise. by way Of warning England against
her supposed hostility to France makes On
elaborate calculation on the subject. conclud-
Ing with the statement that the cutting of OF
The Sea Communication Of England for six
weeks would mean famine These considera-
lions lend additional force to the startling
statement that the preparations OF England
against the Alabamss Of the future are insufl-
eient to alot three to each station and that for
10000 merchantmen scattered all over the
world there are only twsnty-four unarmored
vessels Of speed exceeding fourteen knots an
hour. Finally. q torpedo service Is absolutely
non-existent.
The newspapers still continue to publish
columns OF contradictory and imaginative &C.
counts ofthe results Of tho imperial interviews.
The statement 10 repeated SO often ~ to be
perhaps credible that ono great object was to
prepare means for gradual disarmament. The
despots are said to be getting afraid Of these
vast forces because OF the frightful increase OF
poverty. and therefore OF socialism. to which
they nre leading. and some doubts are even felt
whether In the coming conflict between the
throne and revolution the troops could be re-
lied on. The English pessimists draw the con-
efusion. from the reconciliation Of Austria and
Russia. that Russia has been induced to absn-
don her designs on the Balkans in considera-
ton Of her being allowed TO do what she likes
against England in central Asia.
The ono small crumb OF comfort that 10 ex.
tractod from the kilograms OF Gordon by the
Ministerial organ is that he 10 In favor OF tho
Nile and not OF the Suakim. Berber route
Doubts are now felt whether even II Wolseley
gets TO Khartoum he will be able to induce Cor
don to leave all his resolves still being ap-
parently In favor OF retaining this territory
unless 1t il to be taken In hand by the Sultan
OF Turkey. It 10 not known whether Wolseley
has among his other powers that Of arrestinR
Gordon. but 1t 10 thought by cynical observers
that some such authority will be required to
dispose Of Gladstones white elephant
Tho Prime Minister has been compelled. as
most people thought. to depart from the vow Of
silence he imposed on himself. and 10 now
making speeches at the rate Of two or three q
day. The Radicals arc seriously disappointed
ut his determination to restrain tho agitation
from an attack on the House OF Lords. and
literary critics mourn over the wlshy-washy
stuff that is made to do duty for virile oratory
In his replies to the numberless addresses.
Biz Stafford Northcote's rival haranGues are
understood to DO read by editors certainly
they are not read by anybody else. There is .