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Show The w nr Cloud Darken.. The news from i.urope laoks more war-hke. Russia is in earnest, tie . does not inteui to content herself with the mere abrogation of that part of the treaty of Pari-, which interferes with her keeping a ieet in the Black t-ea. She means to end the Grand Turk out of Europe, and has evidently made up her mind to mprove the present unequalled un-equalled opportunity. Turkey, on her side, also made up her mind wee-is ago that war was certain. cer-tain. Austria, too, shows no sign of shrinking trou. the comest. The only doubt is about England. There the peace party are very strong, aud if they could have the:r way the government would make every sacrifice rather than go to war. The ptobability, however, is that the British people will not consent con-sent to such humiliation. They will fight, and the government that shows the white feather will be turned out of office. In such a war the sympathies of the I nited States will probably be on the side of Piussia, and for obvious reasons. e cherish a religious prejudice against the Turks, and have an old score to settle with England. As soon as the war is fairly a going, the ocean will swarm with privateers escaped from American ports, in spite of all the ob mten?o-vaV WWnTCS ......Vipres of international law recognized recog-nized anil Timintuin.I I.r. V-.l : . u; J-illKiUUU in the case of the Alabama. It will not be the fortune of each of them to do as much damage to Enarland as the Alabama Ala-bama did to the United States ; but. upon the whole, John Bull will probably prob-ably have to drink about as deep of the cup of punishment as he deserves. At the same time, the commercial marine of the United States will bo started again by the chance which the war will offer us of taking our share once more lathe carrying trade of the world. A. I. tiun. |