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Show IS THERE TROUBLE AHEAD ? Some time ago it was reported and the report was denied that President Grant had made the offer of a fleet: fa Russia in the event of a. war over the neutrality of the Euxine. Seeniiuyy curious, there came following the report re-port and its denial, a' statement from St. Petersburg that a correspondent had been banished from the empire for invading the privacy of the Csar, by making public a portion of a letter received by Alexander from General Grant. ' Now cotueo another announcement, brought by telegraph and published yesterday, that President Grant means - to make B. F. Butler's programme in the Alabama affair his own, and will force an issue on it as humiliating to Gieat Britain as the action of ..Russia with regard to the treaty of Paris, and England's tame acquiescence therein. Should President Grant have reached such a determination there is trouble-ahead. trouble-ahead. We have no notion that the English people will much longer submit sub-mit to the humiliating policy of a "peace at any price" ministry. - But, viewing circumstances and contingencies con-tingencies a3 they appear, it would seem that there is an understanding between the United State? and Russia, and that England's humiliation a3 a result of that understanding' is almost -certain. Already made to feel that she must strike a heavy blow if her political position in European aflaita is to be maintained, and having failed to strike that blow, the prospect now is that the "cmprc-s . of the seas" is about to fall from the pre eminence she has so long enjoyed. en-joyed. Germany simply hatea England. Eng-land. So does Russia, Unquestionably Unquestiona-bly the United States doe3 not love her. These are to-day the controling powers of the world. And the policy of England in feeding the flames of - war in other countries, through a mercenary mer-cenary desire to make money from the sufferings of rival powers, will' probably proba-bly return ou herself after a fashion -he little expected. |