A FRENCH VIEW OF THE SITUATION.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1772, 21 February 1888, Page 3

A FRENCH VIEW OF THE SITUATION.

A Franoh journal, "La Paris, thus ooDclßely Buma op the situation m Germany m its own fashion * — " The Emperor la QO years old. All bio friends are dead. He can still understand what is said to bim, bat cannot give expression to his thoughts, for hia strength is waning, and he must husband it. The coming winter will soon coufiae him to the house? will the return "f Bpring etiU gad him alive ? The Emprcas is 70, and her health ia drooping. The Orown Prince la at San Reino ; the question is whether hia disease will only dtst-my hia organs of Bpeech for the time b»ing, 01 kill bim at once, He la f6 ; bia son, Prince William, will soon be 29 ; he ia the chief of tho Qerman military party, He hates France, and loses no opportunity to pose as ft partisan of war. For all that he is seriously ill. With ns this maneater could Dot serve aa a private, as every medical board would reject bim W unfit for service. He may do for an emperor, bat not for a soldier. Marshal Moltke is said to have educated papils — Wsldersee, Sohellendotf, and others, He is 87< If the present lying peaoe were ended, what horse would be gentle enough, what carriage comfortable enough to carry m the wake of his armies thio calculator without genius, this desk strategist, who has fancied himself a Bonaparte because he had only incapables before him ? Prince Bismarck is 73 His glory ia immense, bla genius is vivacious, but his star Is growing pale. Ao ho has deceived all those whom he has not oonqaered, ha can only gather around him doubtful allies, whom he atrlveß to entangle ip his nets. The farce now enacted on the Galician frontier, as well as at Sofia, h«s no other object. Nevertheless Russia remains Impassive, and allows the Chancellor to wear out m impossible combinations the remnant of hiß strength and audaoity, and is preparing to resist, but will not attack. Thus the whole fabrio of German policy — men, ideas, laws, and things— «fß crumbling away. The army is still powerful, but Us strength ia thai of a consumptive athlete. The Umpire is dy lns;.— Vive la France I "