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Show THE S.TliATION lii EUROPE. Tlifri: is every in of a w2r in I'.ilrope of no commo-. riri,Tiitiid. France ei, or thirds if vo. in the !an.li.!a.'vof I.r...U ..f IF-' .Hern fir the ?'pv,i-h tl.run'?. the indications of an inci-i'ii t- ih- -tn-ntli f I'ru-t-t-i.i wliieh W'iu'iI i! ink': its r.oi:ti"n in Kurr,i':'in a!ii:rs a uiit formidable one. Fran'e dr"a U the ;i i n ! ii iou aelieii:"i of Biiuiark. It l-.a-s no desire to heei'm.n i in i-ln.-r A"i'ria. An 1 tlie ''inoiuti!!e mvi of de-tiny," n-t . i-fuilrfin i-fuilrfin h h !r en e:i le 1. i --i no t like tin! idi-i of .'l' h iir.purt.irir artani:-ninnfs artani:-ninnfs ln-inif Tiiad'! wliiiour 1 ; i kmnv ledj.;.! and win :tion. IJiid'.-s Lh c ro ii mci'Hil of d' r itraUt: tuuitij y near the Rhine which each mwr t-. n like tn p'i-.--i and lays i claim to Home lea iln '.'ene'i . ijj'jri an u,-y-i i i the m-ee--;ty of Fi a n,:e o.-.-u in! tlii" ten i:o-y as a cheek on I'iumi; mil the clamor fir war anions the Parisian jouni iU i-i indicative of the temper i hich animate the people, or tl.iO it is the f.'ovennnriit Spi-akini; thiii hiddenly to court puhlie opinion h fire taking so eventful a step as that of plun:in Kurone into wir. An cxhihit of the military power of Trance and I'ni-sia hows a heavy pre ponderance in favor of the latter. A idiort tone a,L'0 the !er!in curresprmd-ent curresprmd-ent of the New York Ur.ill furn-i.-ljed that journal with u detailed j ncc'Mint. of 1 1:0 military s'rength which the great powers of lCurope had nt command, or eoidd call into the fill I. A tabu a r statement in the eom-niumc eom-niumc ition si ow.i that the peace establishment es-tablishment of I'Yanco is 41 J tZ2 men, w hile that ol Pru.-iia ir 726 000 men; to which is to he a ided the peace cs taiMluueiit ot 'North Germany, 315,-6'Jt'i 315,-6'Jt'i men, and that of South Germany f't'j.510 men. The war strength of France is 1 S.iO riOO; tliat of Fru-ia, 1. -130.000, with North Germany, 944,-SlM, 944,-SlM, and South Germany, 184,406 to Lo added to it. Even if Austiia should join Fiance to offset Spain, and should bo able to cany South Germany with it, the preponderance in numbo s would be still gieatly in favor of Prussia Prus-sia ; for the Austrian peace establish nietit is i!78.470. and its war sttengtr-MS. sttengtr-MS. 700, which would be almost counterbalanced coun-terbalanced by the men that Spain could bring into tho field Helium is also likely to be drawn into the conflict on the i-idu of Prussia, and though not one of the great powers of Kurope. it is sufficiently strong to make its as.-it-nco de.-irahle. That the war prospect is imminent, the rapid measures taken by Fiatue mfficieiitly prove, the minister min-ister of war being able to report on Fiiday night that the army was ready to march. A contest between France and Prus v. at the present time would be a ten i-b'y i-b'y fierce and bloody one, of no ordi nary magnitude, for the prohabil tics are gr at that neatly the whole of Europe Eu-rope would be enlaced in it, so numerous nu-merous are the belligernt points at is:ie. which the least touch of war might cause to blaze up like rockets in the political firmament. |