Panice Bismarck has certainly made most felicitous comparison when ho likens & war between Russia and Great Britain to " fight between "a while and an elephant." Where are the two belligerents to clash? As the Times' correspondent at St. Petersburg aptly enough says, "If a war should break out between Russia and England, it cannot be @ series of great battles or great naval engagements." The campaign will not be decided as the Austrian and German war was decided, by a Sadowa; it will not be settled as the French and Austrian war was decided, by a Magenta and ® Solferino; it will not be decided as the maritime struggles of France and England were decided, by a La Hague or a Trafalgar, It would be utterly impossible for Great Britain to equip an army of invasion to repeat the Napoleonic blunder of the Moscow campaign, and the Russian fest is absolutely and confessedly unequal to compete with the vast naval armaments—the " insurances "—which England has kept up at such enormous cost.
The newspapers recently received throw light upon the question, and we are now able to state distinctly what are the Russian plans with respect to their share of the war, if, that is to say, these semi-official utterances are to be credited, and it must always be
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