A EUROPEAN COALITION AGAINST ENGLAND.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 186, 31 December 1880, Page 4

A EUROPEAN COALITION AGAINST ENGLAND.

} The M oruiufj Post says:—lf is almost superlluous to speak of the ; f a iluru of Air Gladstone's eliorts to ; ovanise a .European coalition against ! the < >if ou.'Wi Fin pi re, lmt it is by no j means sup 'Ft! uou-ss to refer to the in- | creasing dangoT ■<>£ its disturbing ami ! rcvohdhmarv no/fcV bringing about | something like A KiWpv an eonlitHu • against .England. Tin 'T* in two., j most serious grounds foN believing j tluit, our obstinate Premiers' Auiatica! i championship of the TVui-S.'a'V bH' aim l’nn-ITellonic schemes is driving iwvdj mg Powers of fclie Continent to cm.v- ---! skier the eventual steps which moy ,be required tp limit or repel the'- - Russo-Rud.ical intrigues against the os- ! tablished order and balance of power in Europe. The unequivocal noudij cation of the leading organ of Gef- : man Liberalism, the National Zeij tuiig, that in the view of Prince | BismaclEs German ’policy can never j tolerate th.at any Power should be evArusted witii the function of a 1 roenative agent of Europe’ against Turkuy. has been supplemented by ! the further statement, that in ease of i neacssitv ‘'Germany would not merely ‘ abstain from giving any authority of the sort to England and Russia, but : would be obliged to protest if E'ng- | land and .Russia were to take any ! steps equivalent to a declaration of ; ward The London cabinet, we are : told. !rm been distinctly informed of , these views of the Prince Chancellor, : in winch it is needless to add, the j Austro-Hungarian Government ab- ! solutely concurs. I’he A ossische Zie- , tuug, does not hesitate to say that in I certain eventualities the foreign policy | of Germany “■ might lead to complications with .England, the issue of i which it is impossible to forsee. ; When organs of public opinion, stand-

jug in such close relations to the leatl- , iny- politciaris of a country like <ter- | many, are driven to criticise the risks involved in our li.av.ical Premier's system is such terms, the matter is clearly deserving of the | most earnest consideration of Engj lislnnen of all parties who subordinate i partisanship to patriotism. At the ! same time it is evident that Germany ; is almost as directly threatened as : Austria-Hungary by the alliance of j British Radicalism and .Russian | despotism in the Balkan Peninsula, | and that it 'is the- well-established j maxim of Prince Bismark to set GcrI man interests above everything else."