European Powers Preparing for War
THE following remarks are from the Rochester Democrat, and are interesting to the student of prophecy: England has been arming her civic population until she has over 25,000 volunteers ready for service. Never were her dock-yards more active than at the present moment, some thirty or forty vessels of war being in course of construction.—“The Warrior,” a steamer clad with iron plates four inches thick, and with a tonnage only one quarter less than the Great Eastern, has also been introduced to her native element. Meantime France adds new companies to each regiment, and recalls her soldiers on forlough, as do also Russia and Austria. Italy is also preparing to muster her half million of men, to take part with Garibaldi in the attack on Venetia; even the Pope—poor old man—grows warlike, and is about organizing a fresh army. But when and where, and between what powers hostilities are to break out, is the point that cannot be with certainty foreseen.