The Daily Empire

Prospects of Another European War.

The Berlin correspondent of the London Times states that another European war is imminent. He says:

"It is generally recognized that the present peace is merely an armed truce which may continue for a year, perhaps for two, but certainly not beyond," and "which will be succeeded by a struggle to which the war with Austria was hardly more than child's play. Whenever it happens, we may be pretty sure that Prussia will be prepared for it: far from reducing her military establishment, she is enlarging and completing it, her arsenals are filled to overflowing with implements of destruction, her gun factories are in full blast, strange rumors are current of new and undreamed of improvements in the artillery department, and if hostilities should break out, she may astonish her enemies with a second edition of the needle-gun, more fatal and more decisive of victory than the first. On the other hand, Louis Napoleon is hard at work reorganizing his army and getting it in proper trim for a contest with the foremost military power on the Continent—for such Prussia is now become—and unless the French Emperor's thread of life should be prematurely snapped, he may be depended upon to take the earliest opportunity of retrieving the prestige he has lost, and which he can ill afford to dispense with. Then, indeed, Greek will meet Greek, and the tug of war will begin in good earnest."