THE FUTURE OF THE WAR,

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 22, 18 January 1878, Page 2

THE FUTURE OF T HE WAR,

I — Tito English enn'esviniutont of ft Now York paper, discussing the future of tlie Turkish- HusMan war, argues thnt its eloso will be ns full of peril tor Engirt" I ns its outbreak. England enn hardly consent, to tlio dismemberment of llic Tuvlcisli Empire without endangering her hold upon llio loyalty of her Mussulmon sul j 'o(9 in In lift, nii'l if thoro benny truth in the very general belief of Kurope tluik Germany nii<nns to use the ascend iney whiirli tlio war gives licr, to extend in fluoneo rfleetivoly nnd visibly over J'eljr'um nnd Holland, the prestige of Kn<*» Inn. l ns n g'eat European Povror will receive such i\ blow nslm» not boon stniolc nl it since thonlliod Boiirhoa 1 lleet.s swept tlio English Clmiiijol, and the war Ministry of Kinij (ti?oran the I IT, wore conipolled to x'uin the liumiliiilinsr peneo of Vorsiiillos. To nil this it is clam el thnt tho English publio lias boroine indifforcnt under the influences of Gliu?---j scono s foroign policy, the b«sis of which wns, that *)eico was more impo'rtnnt in Enclnnd (linn (ho Imnor or intocriiy of tho British .ICmpiro. It has becon^ C»shionnblo to talk even of tho separation of llio Colonios from tho Mother Country oa on event not only p<i««iblo but probable, not nioroly ciulurnllo but desirnb'e, Robert Lowo nnd Glndstono now pursuo tho snmo themo in tho Fortnightly review, nothing the jealousy of England ngninst liusj.su by showing (hnt India nad nil her other foreign dominions nro n source of nnxioty nnd expense ; thnt it would bo wall to got rid of them, nnd thnt n rival nation which contomplntod assuming any of thoso burdons ought to bo thanked for its philanthropy, and not bated for ambition or nvnrico.