Waatzver may be the issue of the events uow occurring in Bulgaria, they have already made it plain that England will not actively interfere should war break out. This might have been deduced from the state of public opinion at home during the last war between Russia and Turkey, It was then shown that at least a powerful wiuority was opposed to any resort to arms in support of Turkey, Hnd land gone to war then, that minority would by a natural process, in w! religious, humanitarian, commercial and other interests would all have played part, soon have been converted majority, A nation like what England is nowadays hates war from the bottom of its heart, though perfectly determined tosupportitshonour, and still to some extent influenced by inherited fighting instincts, especially when ils blood is up. But as von as England becomes involved in war, that political purty which is opposed to it begins to grow in strength, and hence it is to be hoped that fature wars will be of short duration, As soon a& the kidunpping of Prince Alexander was known in England, public opinion, we believe unanimously, pronounced against that outrage, And as unanimously it wae id, in public and in private, that England has nothing to do with what occurs in the Balkan proviuices, and no interests of hers are concerned with what goes on there, or with the Princes and politics of these little kingdoms and principalities, So far as we know, that is the view which has been taken by the English Cabinet, and the policy impoted to it of endeavouring to annite Tarkey, Greece, Bulgaria and and Servia for mutual protection is departure therefrom, But nothing ore reworkable has occurred in Eng. lish polities than the complete change of mind on the Eastern question which lis taken place since the Trealy of Berlin in 1878. The number of public men who would then have said that England had no interest to serve in keeping Russia out of Constantinople might almost have been counted on the fingers, while now the view that we are not much concerned with who may be the possessors of that city is openly advanced in influential newspapers, Probably those who advocate this policy may turn out to be considerably in advance of the time, but it would not now be put forward unless it rested on solid basis of publio opinion, There appears ranson to believe that this policy of indifference is now held by German statesmen, but this is still only an in. ference from the articles whioh have appeared in the iuspiced uowspapors onthe Continent, and it would seem not to be the view, or at all events the feeling, of large numbers of the German people. Bat on these pointe we as yet know little that is trustworthy, In our issue of the 7th instant we reprinted from the Times @ communication to that journal from a Correspondent, whose name is not ven, bat whose paper and the atten. tion which it has received point him out as one wilh a great knowledge of foreign affaire, whatever his opinions
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.