The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1870.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 249, 21 October 1870, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1870.

The great interest attaching to everything concerning the war now raging has induced us to devote the greater portion of our space to-day to various items of news which we have collated from American newspapers to hand. The serious turn which events have taken is such as cannot fail to raise the gravest apprehensions in every mind, and the arrival of the next news from England will be lookt-d for with eagerness, and almost with dread, as we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that there is only too much reason to fear that the whole of Europe is about to be involved in war, and indeed, the telegrams we yesterday published, seem still further to point to the likelihood of America also joining iv the deadly struggle. It would seem that Prussia is surprised and astounded at the magnitude of her successes, and that she is not prepared for the turn that events have taken. She little anticipated that

within six weeks from the first blow being struck Napoleon would be a prisoner at Berlin,. and the French Empire a thing of the past, nor, indeed does she appear to be too well pleased at such a consummation, for we find that while on the one hand this astonishing change has been brought about by her unparalleled success, oa the other, she refuses to accept the results of her own action, and declines to recognise the republic which has quietly sprung out of the ashes of the defunct Empire. Possibly she has no desire to see a republican form of government established on her borders, but such appears to be the unauinious wish of the French people, aud there is reason to believe that it will be recognised by all the other powers. Will Prussia persist in ignoring it ? From England the news is anythiug but cheering. Demonstrations have taken place in Hyde Park in favor of republicanism, and this, although we are disposed to believe that from filtering through the American press the news has come to us in a somewhat exaggerated form, is a fact not without significance, and, taken together with the known state of rebellion that exists in Ireland, seems to show that in the event of England being involved in war she would not be iv a position to bestow her undivided attention upon her foreign foes. By the next Suez mail which we may expect about next Tuesday week, we shall receive three weeks' later news than that we are iv possession of, and by that time it wiil be knov/n whether there is to be a general war, or whether we are still to enjoy the blessings of peace.