With the exception of the Times and Daily Chronicle, the
leading papers of Europe are inclining towards intervention. The Governments hesitate ; but we see signs that they are getting alarmed, that combinations are being formed, and that there is a half-developed inclination to intervene in order to restore the status quo, or at least, to put limits to the Japanese victory. We have tried to state elsewhere the strong reasons which operate against that course, but must add here that the Japanese are a little losing their heads. The leader of the Opposition talks publicly of the " decadence " of Europe, and of arresting Russia ; while the people grow more contemptuous of foreigners every day. The exaltation is natural enough, and would occur in Paris under similar circumstances ; but it will not diminish the European disposition to intervene.
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