Peace and war1 One would fancy from the topics of
the foreign journals, that all the world was on the brink of a universal conflict. Peace and war1 One would fancy from the topics of the foreign journals, that all the world was on the brink of a universal conflict. France cannot get soldiering out of her head, and she infects us. The Prince De Joinville sailed over to Brighton the other day, to learn that floating breakwaters break their moorings if the chains are too weak ; and the people of Brighton discerned in the expedition nothing but a manoeuvre to reconnoitre our coasts, in order to the invasion discussed by the Prince in his "Note." Per contra, a French paper has discovered for the fiftieth time, that England caused the explosion at Algiers and the fire at Toulon. All that means war. Queen Victoria dines with Louis Philippe, and straightway peace is restored.
The Due de Nee re, Regent-elect of France, and the Due a Aumale,..unsi have entered Spain, perhaps to let the bac - look atililisabella and the Infanta Liusa, and most
pro .the la Witti:in eye to matrimony : war or peace, or bath" -sty involved the matchmaking : every sheep's-eye cast by the Royal gallant may have its corresponding bullet ; and soft nothings have very hard consequences.
The Pope of Rome had .been on a complimentary visit to the Chinch of ilk. Louis in its own capital,—leaving his card, as it were, at the house of the Faesch representative in heaven ; and France =wits in the l*en of peace with the Holy See.
Germany is much bnnied with her religious controversies, car- ried on in great part by Mobs and police.
Mexico is really .going to war with the United States : for Mexico denies the independence of Texas, though the province has walked off in a manner that shows its independence to be more than theoretical ; and the United States prove their right to despoil Mexico, most logically, simply by asserting that the deed has been done, and therefore must have been done ; so that it is clearly the special act of Providence, and mere piety encou- rages the great Union to willing war with its helpless neighbour.
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