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Show TME ATTITUDE OF" RUSSIA. The dispatches this morning, independent inde-pendent of the startling telegram which appeared in the Chicago Times yesterday morning, indicate plainly enough that Russia is alarmed at the evident designs of Prussia. A united Germany, with a large slice of France including a number of strongly fortified cities, would sit at the head in the council of European nations, and give the law to the rest. Napoleon is reported to have said some time ago that he did not fight for France alone but for Europe. The facts seem to bear him out, that the quiet of Europe will have a standing menace with such an overwhelming military power in the centre of the continent. With a united German empire, the now King of Prussia and then Emperor of Germany Ger-many could call into the field an army of at least two millions and a half of men in time cf war; and with an immense im-mense seaboard, fine ports and capacious capa-cious harbors would undoubtedly speedily speed-ily secure a navy that could contend with any in the world. Russia sees this plainly, and Russia, ambitious and powerful, does not want a neighbor neigh-bor so dangerous, a rival so very formidable. for-midable. Russia, it is said, lias an immense army massod on the Prussian frontier ; md for some time we have heard of vat war preparations in that empire. It is possible thut before be-fore the snows cover central Europe, either peace will have been proclaimed or the war will have spread until in the language of lord Lyons, ''Europe is in flames." |