The Feilding Star THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1888. European

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 111, 19 April 1888, Page 2

The Feilding Star THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1888. European

We notice with some alarm that affairs in Europe are again beginning to assume a very gloomy aspect. The Kussians are reported to be making active movements all along the western frontier, and their emissaries continue to incite rebellion in Roumania and Bulgaria. The appearance of several thousands of Cossacks on the Galician frontier has created so much alarm m the city of Cracow that the Austrian officials have sent the women and money into the interior. In France everything points to the possibility of great political disturbances within a very few months. The indiscretion of the Government in degrading Boulangek has made that General the hero of the hour with the excitable French people, aud M. Floquet evidently recognises that every movement of Botjlanger is now a menace to the continued peace of the country. Boulakqer is supported by the Buonapartists who are certain to encourage him in his ambition to attain absolute power by restoring Imperialism to France. But, before that event can be brought to pass a bloody revolution is not impossible. In order to escape the latter dire calamity, a war may be chosen with some neighboring Power, on the grounds of accepting the least of two evils. Should the Emperor of Germany die shortly, and his disease is of Buch a character that his demise maj occur at any moment, the dissensions in the German Government which now appear will be inevitable when that unhappy event does take place, will be France's opportunity. Having a foreign foe to contend with would avert a civil war in any other nation, and although her past history has shown her armies could contend with, and defeat, nearly the whole of Europe wKile a revolution was ragijg within her own borders, we think that France would forego the double luxury ib the present instance if she thought internal troubles interfered with the culmination of her long- hoped for rerenge on hated Germany. In that case Boulanqer would be compelled to act merely as a General, and therefore under the control of the Minister for War, instead of as a Military Dictator. With the fine weather of spring and summer now in Europe, campaigning will be easy comparatively speaking, and the armies of the nations which have for so long been preparing for war, may within a few hours be at each others throats, What part England may have to take it is impossible even to surmise, but we notice she has got into a muddle again in South Africa which may coat her n;any thousands of valuable lives and hundreds of thousands of pounds before she gets out of it.