THE COLONIST. NELSON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1870. THE LATE WAR NEWS.

Colonist, Volume XIV, Issue 1383, 27 December 1870, Page 2

THE COLONIST. NELSON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1870. THE LATE WAR NEWS.

The late telegraphic news contains few facts of any immediate importance—that is, of importance measured by themselves. Still, meagre and barren as is the relation of events, and fevr as are its particulars, there are to our mind indications that the Prussian fortunes have reached the flood, and that possibly the tide has turned. Paris declares that it is provisioned for three mouths ; if this be the case, General December may do as much for Prance, as General February once did against Russia. The distances between the lines around Paris and the German frontier are so great, that the communications can scarcely be held, if the population of the intervening district is animated by the Bpirit of the men of '93. The whole of the north-east of France, as far as the line of the Loire must be by this time fairly eaten up; so that the besiogers can scarcely look for provisions except from Germany. Added to this we hear rumors of " complications" between America and Prussia, rumors strengthened by the reported i-lsp in insurance on American vessels ; while the pronounced sympathy of Prussia with tUßaMiw* «UuM«pon Tujrktj, will bgqu

extinguish the rapidly waning sympathies of England,jand even of the English upper ten thousand. "We are totally ignorant of the nature of the alleged "complications" between America and Prussia, and can only conjecture that they are somewhat akin to the remonstrances on the subject of the export of arms lately addressed by Connt Bernadorff to Lord Granville. In that case they may lead to what is most devotedly to be prayed for, a tl rapprochement" between England and America. Be the ground vof such an event what may it will heartily be welcomed in the Colonies, at least, and we believe, by the mass of the English people. The cry of " Germany one and indivisible" represents a most legitimate and laudable aspiration. We should rejoice exceedingly if eve at the sacrifice of some of our monarchical and aristocratic prejudices, a similar enthusiasm could be aroused for the unity of all English speaking nations. That hereafter this enthusiasm must be aroused, and this desire gratified, who can doubt ? | Such unity would at once do away with our greatest difficulty, by making loyal subjects of the Irish; and place our race as the most : important on the Earthls surface. Now that the doctrine of the solidarity of races is fairly launched into the troubled sea of politics, it is impossible for Great Britain long to stand alone. We hope that it is not treason to say that we ardently long for the day, when one vast Federation may embrace Great Britain, Ireland, North America, and the Pacific Colonies. If such a Federation should date its birth from their common sympathies with the Republicanism of France, and common detestation of that Northern despotism, to which the rulers of Germany appear to have bound the fortunes of the German race, who shall say that such a birth is inauspicious ? By this monstrous alliance the Germans have suffered their rulers to throw their progress back, possibly, for centuries; after their giorious effort for their own unity, and against Bonapartism. Meanwhile, the salvation of Germany lies in such men as Jacoby, now unconstitutionally imprisoned by the command of General Yon Falkenstein.

Possibly •— probably, we fear, —we are premature in attaching importance to this tiny gleam of sunshine. None the less, we hail it in the full assurance that it is auspicious of a glorious and certain, if distant future.