Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume VII, Number 18, 2 May 1868 — English Column. FOREIGN NEWS. [ARTICLE]

English Column.

FOREIGN NEWS.

Bismarck goes io for purcb)ting; ia peaee mther ib*n wa*ting m war. Jn tke Pruss*n Chauiber. when ihe bill for apprc»pnatmg a *ery large »um as » eompenMlioa " to thc d iscrowned George of Hanover. «rai under dt«cussion, he declared that it wras a eheap bargain at the sum namcd ; chat it good policy to buy up a kingdom now and thcn; that ihe only re«aoa wby liaiy dēd not get tbe start o( him *ras that she was too poor 10 pay the money; and tbat a I»ben»l po!icy io this rfgard w tb* true one. He succeeded in making the Chantbers think so. by a votc of two-thirds for his biH, to une third agaiost it. The llalian finances appear to be in a well nigh hopeless case. Ooe Finance min« ister ōfter anofher is tried, and uli Hiil to do anything except to teli the people th »t bankruptcy stares them in the face. Meanwhile Parliament listeiiB, propo»es remedies whieh nre criticised, (our»d fault with and refusrd, uud whieh after a long to do rnd in the nothing out ut whieh they sprang. Count Canibrav Digny now reports a funded debt of 250.000000, a fluating debt of 32,000,000, nnd a deficit on the curreut year of nearly 10,000.000! Tbe first thing to be done of course i* to retrench, and to tax heavily ; but the neccssnry reforms involve such nuinberless private interests that it is almost impnss"ble to push legislation in thnl direclion, even by a single step. Count Digny eannot even suggest a method by whieh the an nual īneome and expenditure enn be balnnced. Vague hopes of commercial prosperity in the future are made an excuse for not r?quiring the nalion «f to-day to sAeat itsell to pay to. day's liabiiitiis in fuii. Italy ean ieam something from America just now; nor is it absolutely certaia !hat tbe United States rnay not learn something also by looking at thu eoniluion and prospects of lialy. Mueh solicitude is felt iu some quarters in regard to the policy whieh Kussia is pro* posing for the East. It is diclared that she is considering whether to push her designs i'i regard to lurkey uud Turkish questions, slowly by peaceful pressure, or rapidly and

i iristantly by war. GortschakofT lends all his | iufluence, it is declared, to the peaee pany; while General Ignatie(T, fresh /rom Constan- | tinople, is understood to be urging strong!y ' the importance of immediate aeiion, cven at the risk of precipi(ating \var. The Kussian an»b«ssodor has been sumnu>ned froni Constantinople, that he mny report the lntest I aspect of facts. The impossibility of putting down ihe revolt iu Candia reveals the essen* tinl weakness, and indeed the utter helplessness, of the Turkish empire ; while the European provinces have achieved a prnctical independence, whieh seems only to need a proclamotion tosever thei»erely formal bond whieh is all that still attaches them to the Turkish crown. All things look as if Russi« is to draw townrd herself the eyes of the world in the not far future, as, more thanfor inuny years, of chief cousequence among the powers, in her movements, whether for \var or peaee.

| The Enpliah ore getting n little over their Peman <*care, and beginning to find out thnt it w«.s essentinlly a vu)gar nnd despicable nffuir. lgnorance, prejudice, fanaticism, rest» lessness, and geuuine Irish stupidity, seem to have been mixed in it, in «bout equal porlions. But £nglnnd must not forget that she hns seriously and persisitently wronged | lreland, and that there is a grent \vork of phihnthrophy and Christianity whieh must needs be done there before she ean blame the poor lnsh for being uneasy, nnd for turning hither nnd thither vaguely in wenry eft'orts to lift themselves out of their chronic wretchedncss. \Vhat with the N«ital imbroglio, and whnt with the general vagueness of all matters connected wilh the Coloninl Church; the whole inntter of organ*J2ing and carrying on the dependencies of the Church of Engl »nd in its outlving distr»cts over sea is in great confusion. Seven»l Colonial sees are wiiliI out Bishops, and severo| new Colonial dioceses are shivering iu the wind. because . u nobody knows what a Colonia| Bishop is, or who should have the ma «ing of him." h !is quite time Parliament, whieh practically 'is the •• Great Head of theChurch" in

' England, <. xercised itseif about lhis ; and !«ither uutied, or cut, the knots and snarls whieh now encumber it. i