The English Drift Towards War

The tenor of tbc dispatches deadyincüoates the Bteady drift of Elngland into war with Russia, notwithstanding the vu-y oaations iml c.oiiKrrvalivc (l(claraliii of the Home Secretary in the GladBtoue debato, to the effect tbat tlio. (ïovermnent will maintajii lie Btriotest aeutrulity between the oontending powers, wliile it maintnins its own interosts, and is couucioiiB of itu own carncst desire for peaco. Assuming that Englaud goes uto this war, sho will not cure to gointo i alone. It is not her custonx. She fights with money, and subsidies, and Jiances. She has never carried on war alone in modern times. She has uever nade a square stand-up flght like that betwcen Franco and Germany. She will at once seck an ally, and that nlly will be Austria, whom shc will attcmpt to drag üito Üie eouflict.