Egypt is rapidly becoming our highway to India, and many men think that in the future our trade with that great dependency will flow down the valley of the Euphrates.

Consequently, it is necessary to prevent Russia, at any cost, obtaining a footing south of the Black Sea." "And do you think, father, that there will really be a war ?" "I'm inclined to think that there will be, Jack, although this is not the popular opinion.

We have so long, in England, been talking about the iniquity of war that I believe that the Emperor Nicholas has persuaded himself that we will not fight at any price.

In this I am sure that he is wholly mistaken.

So long as there was no probability of war, the people of England have quietly permitted the cheese-paring politicians who govern us to cut down the army and navy to a point when we can hardly be said to have an army at all.