POLITICAL TENDENCIES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XI, Issue 2935, 17 May 1877, Page 2

POLITICAL TENDENCIES.

The Pall Mail Gazette says :— A French writer dwells on the cuiious change which has of late conic over the wt.rhl. Formerly empires were c\st;i>>-IL-licd in a briu a 1 manner by shevr forci* of arms, but now a more philosophic s\sMn has conic into vcruie, and wo have the wars of the unities ; in 1851 there was t c war in favour of Pauitalianisni, and this would have been followed by a P.uiscandinnvinn campaign ha-1 Sweden nob feared fo measure swords with Germany. Next came tho war of 180,5 and the triumph of" Psiugmnanism, stieiigtheiK'd by the war IX7O. JNow we have the Pansl.-e vine diflicu'ty in full fuphion, and l'auheilenisni bcftmnin;; to bubble up, 'lh<» United Stales, wir.h the Monrodoctrii.e lai/.-ely and boldly intoipreted. add.s tho writer, 'have created a Pan-fini'-ricanisui, and before many yeais have passed we shall ,sco a Pani.-Jamism. In the da^s of Lepanto, Tscheme, and Navavino, when it seemed that the Turks were on the point of striking tents and of being driven from Em ope', tho rest of the M<v-se!ma«i world appeared unconcerned. It U not the same to-day, and all tlie followers of the Prophet are moved at the situation of the Ottoman Povto, and the ruin with which it is menaced." It is sugfee«ted, too, that wo may some day see the revival of an old idea which lay for fomc in a semi-ilormant state in the brain of .Napoleon 111., to wit, an attempt at Panlatinism — a union of the Latin races, of Frenchmen, Italians, Hpaniaids, Portuguese, Belgians, Swiss, &c. 'But sufficient until the day is the evil thereof.'