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Show European Affairs. The French, to all appearances, are stll determined to resist Kvon Jules Favrc, while calling lor the downfall of the Empire, declares, "We are unanimous unani-mous to resist to the death." Cool o; servers will find it difficult to see a prospect for success ef the French unless un-less they are aided by foreign intervention. interven-tion. They have another army under the walls of the capital, and ano'.her forming somewhere, either at Tours, on the Lorie, or at Lyons, and perhaps per-haps at both place. The resources of the nation are stiil enormous, if only time were had to make them available. But the Prusians can scatter raw armies ar-mies at Lyons and Tours, if the? can reconcile themselves to the idea of letting let-ting Paris alone ; and in so doing would adopt the true military policy. The who'e of France couid tiien be occupied and paralyzed in a month, wherras, a siege of Paris might stiil, in the cud, prove fatal to the beie?ers. The Prussians, Prus-sians, thus far, have shown that they know how to pen armies; the French strategy is to send them isolated into the jaws of defeat. It is difficult to see how the tast generalship can now raise new armies and concentrate them in the face of the Prussian forces, if the latter are controlled by strategic principles, instead of political delusion-. France is in a situation where she can retire from the contest without dishonor, dis-honor, unless dishonor is forced upon her by the imnolitic greed of her conquerors. con-querors. Her sons have shown their traditional gallantry, and their unanimous unanim-ous resolution to resist to the death any partition of their country, must inpire universal re-pect and sympathy. But it is probable that such a humiliation will be iorced upon them ; and where, in such a case, can they look for help? European affairs and policies have undergone a complete revolution since the needle gun mado Prussia the umpire um-pire of the Continent. Russia is apparently ap-parently the firm ally of Bismarck, and sees in the downfall of France and tho helplessness of England, her revenge for Sebastopol, and freedom to do what she wi.l with Turkey. With Prussia, she may partition Austria, all the German Ger-man provinces going to the Prussian Empire, leaving Hungary independent; Italy taking the Tyrol and Dalmatia, and Russia taking Galicia, the Danu-hian Danu-hian Principalities, and Turkey also, if sli2 objects ; in any caue getting tho Black Sea from the hateful treaty of J 8 5 1 , which forbade her from keeping an armed ves-el on those waters. In short, Prussia and Russia may divide Europo between them, in the way suggested, sug-gested, if France is made defenceless hy the severance of Al-aco and Lorraine; Lor-raine; and then Russia's career with Asia will soon lead her across the mini-mitofthe mini-mitofthe Himalayas in a flank attack upon the British Empire in India. If llnglaiid can find anything in this horoscope of the future tiynako her njoic; over I ho s.icond Waterloo of France, it, is because her statesmen have died on', and i-he has left only ui'-ii inlcciod with traditional prejudices. preju-dices. Or she is inactive because (what is ordy too true), her power in Europe is gone; having consisted for a hundred years only a purse by which -he subsidized other nations, and kept ICuropc iti.contin'ial turmoil, but which in now replaced by u debt of . 1,000, O0'),U0O, which her figaulic utrugglu with Napoleon oct Iicr. She may now r' joice that French influence in Egypt will he paralyzed; but, Sebasto-tiol Sebasto-tiol was I1u;.daiiil's work as well as Fiance's, and Russia lias far more potver nod will to wreak the Kr"dgo in t' fuluic. than France would hnvo I "iicumst ancch. Wo shall iinour nnv r : i u-lucc of power n r ; "tic Oon- Europe will ,, ( oerr.f.d. ,SV Francis, JMI,i. |
