COMING EVENTS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 179, 2 August 1869, Page 2

COMING EVENTS.

o The ''Peripatetic Philosopher." who writes for tho Australasian, conunents on the probability of an American war in the following cheerful strain: — To pursue the subject of wars. The Bird o'Preedom seems peckish. The Bird o'Freedom, in fact, finding that hia feathers have been pretty considerably plucked of late, would like to be dressed out afresh at the expense.of -England. A j very laudable ambition. I wonder which would be cheaper, £500,000,000 sterling or war? A five opportunity for the peace societies to raise the coin and buy off the American armament ! lam afraid that if we do get a war, it will be a warm one. The British soldier generally has a dislike to his American brother — he certainly did get tarnation well thrashed at Bunker's Hill, and would, I fancy, not be sorry for a little settlement of affairs. For my own part, being cosmopolitan [ I was born in a balloon], I don't care much which side wins, so long as they let me alone, Vicar-of-Bray fashion. But it will be a glorious j war. The South will rise again to a certainty; also those Fenian gentlemen will have another flutter for it. In all probability there will be a row in Mexico. France will be drawn into the quarrel, and the Italians will" seize the opportunity to break out in a fresh place. As soon as any large body of troops is withdrawn from Paris, the smouldering feeliug of disgust at the Empire will burst into a flame, and despite M. Hausraann's improvements, barricades will rise. England, occupied with Ireland on the one hand, aud America on the other, will be forced to withdraw troops from India. It is quite on the cards that the .Sepoy regiments thus left in the majority will attempt another risiug, and, if this be so, Russia, who has been biding her time, will instantly pour her legions across the Ural Mountains, and descend like a torrent upou northern ludia. Poland leaps to arms at the first note of Russian war;, Turkey awakes from her : lethargy; .to strike one more blow; Crete and tins islands of the Mediterranean are convulsed, 'and the Royalists, amid [the general'cotifusion, carry fire and sword into: Spain. Apathetic .Belgium; cat^ ; the .dykes , of AHqiland-^ cbr-pses;/-/-^ closing * of tho ,

eorts strikes a- fatal blow to commerce, and our merchant-marine becomes a privateer force. The peaceful islanders of the Pacific, deprived of their, humble gains, massacre the missionaries. The Maoris drive out the New Zealand settlers. The disappointed gold-seekers of Otago go en masse to the Cape, and a bloody war ensues. The slave trade is resumed,and the war is carried into Africa at the request of the Humane Society. Algeria is already, in arms, and the Chinese residents of Ceylon capture the islaud in a fit of madness, induced by the monotony consequent upou the stoppage of the mail. The colonies aye the first to perish. Canada becomes the scene of fearful conflict, and is finally captured by the United States. Two ships of war. sail down Hobson's Bay loot the banks, and plant the stars and stripes upon the New Town-hall. Sydney is bombarded by a corvette and sunk, on the same day that 500 South American Republics simultaneously burst into being. America runs with blood from Cape Parry to Cape Horn j and Europe hires Africa as a graveyard via the Suez Canal. This and more I frresee, and as prophecy is in fashion, I didn't see why I should not predict as well as anybody else.