The New York Herald Newspaper, August 16, 1870, Page 4

4 EUROPE. War Despatches by Mail to August 5. Special Reports from the French and Prussian Armies. Napoleon’s Headquarters at Metz and MacMahon’s at Strasbourg. French Impetuosity, but First Misgivings. March of the German Army—Seven Hun- dred Thousand Solid Men, ; Premier @ladstone’s Reply to Disraeli. Great Britain as a War Power or Mediator. Count Bismarck’s Indictment of Wapoleon. British Guarantee Treaties for Bel- gium and Luxembourg. ‘The Inm erpoot ihe arrived els, trom Lty- oth of August, fhe City of Brussels lanc ewspaper i special Europe: ed to ner day of sall- ing trom Lely sources we have an ample report in condnuation of our a n history of the war between France and Prussia, dated to the latest moment. WAR DESPATCHES BY MAIL. Special lilaery of the Great Conflict—The French Arai uyter. NAPOLEON'S HRADQUAUT! AT METZ. Metz, July 30—A. M. Nancy is suikier than usual. The Emperor has gtveu the place the slip, Wnethe of the town mourn the loss of the which they evidently must dered hep and sedan c: they have beea for the las the mbabitants atial splendor ave enjoyed wien pow- vere in vogue, or that fortnight 1a a state of | excited su, as to the movements of his Majesty Napoleon 1il., 1 know not: ow delibly imapressed on my mia race, with bablinally frowuin family xesey to ile-browed aishas a oons are the ple commodl- ties of > entrance gate near the rai Vv silly em- ployed in addis > the dis} summit. With mt man tract from one of the N tes infor panied with a grant and f that Was expec! “| pity rt ts of Nancy, Thetr perse 1 be the death of them, On Thur w YORE HERALD, giving detatls of the state of th e fortifica tions of Metz and took train for that place without de I knew that the was on the w 4 hout the line excitement was appar As the train passed, young and ola of both xes collected at the station, Crowds pressed forward to gaze at us, and the patriotism wud loyalty of the juveuties was in some instances evinced £ il shrieks of “Vive UEmpereur !” His Majesiy was really expected. The news had been teleg down the line and young France was pra for the passing of the imupertal train. From tur and news hurried to ery person who bad heard the le railway. SCENES BY THE WAY. The bump of curiosity is strongly developed on the heads of Lorraine. At every station our train was ped for some time, the station master had “wired” up the line to inquire if with safety we could proceed. Asteam horse was plunging along ala terrific pace some mulesin our rear, dragging the tmmperivi train tinies of the d tn it was the ruler of the des- on, accompanied by the heir to the unzone. ween the stalions we were car- Tied forward at headlong speed to avoid the ¢ of being overiaken, At last Azs sur ile owas fr 1, @ village within a fow Lv Ininuies of Me The station was beauty aud fashlon of the neigh- vod, from the Monsieur le Commissaire de Po- in cocked hat and tri-colored scarf, who strut- 1 the plentitade of official dignity, to the ng, Village tdiot, ragged-breeched ened tongua and vacautstare. Poor uld he or the empire expect to gain irlosity ? ald go ahead. hu Hl Metz was telegraphed The reply was to © wereshunted, Bxcitement was at pu! @ train was conung. cir babies aloft to obtain a view of 108 Fireurs, of whom there was sensible, becoming, free-and- u hat and plume, linen blouse, crs, knapsack, belt and cartouche box and rifles—fell in; the Commissary of Police grew three inches taller and strutted inflated with the Wajesty of tue law; the blue-bloused peasants prop- ped thetr eyes and mouths wide open, took off their hats gave the last finishing touch toshaggy locks plastered with water and grease for tne occasion; the Roman Catholic Bishop, who, with gold chain, & massive ring, mauve-colored stockings and green and gold timming to his hat, accompanied by two or three attendant priests, sparkied with exctte- ment, Put, put, pufl—a train passed—bitter disappointment on the face of all; it was a “luggage”? hastening to avoid an imperial smash. Ob, dear! we are all more or less toadies. AN IMPERIAL TRAIN WHIRLING TO THE FRONT. After a detention of forty-five minutes the real im- perlal puffer hove insight. Screaming and sereech- ing as it dashed past with the rapidity of the whirl- wiud, @ confused sense of carriages was all we saw. The tratu fad come and passed vefore the shout of “Vive UBmpereur’’ had collapsed and peo- ple had returned from tip-toe to fat.foot. Among the crowd here, and, indeed, at all other places along the line, were many Sisters of Charity and priests, In the excitement of the moment the former as;they they hurried up showed thelr aukles and the latter waved their shovel nats on nigh. When the im- perial train had passed we dashod after tt, With respect to the reception of the Emperor by the Messins, his Majesty has every reason to be satisfied. There was but little military display, the Cents Gardes being the only troops in waiting at the station, The Emperor took his seat in one of the court carriages accompanied by the Major General Lebeuf; the Prince Imperial and the Prince Napo- leon were in a second, followed by others contatuing the officers of the household. There was, of course, anenormous crowd, and the Imperial cortége was Was greeted with enthusiastic shouts of “Five Bm- Dpereur!” “Vive U Prince Impertal!” and in many in. stances bouguets of flowers were thrown from the windows. The Emperor was in uniform aud wore the undress rev képi, having discarded the cocked hat, The Prince Imperial wore the uniforn of a lieutenant of the Guard, Passing through the streets ata rapid pace, the imperial party (ook up quarters tu the Preiecture. A GALLANT GROUP—IN 4 HOTEL. In the evening the court yard of the Hotel de l’Eu- rope presented an apimated aspect. On the terrace pug, Motuers impertalisr acompany—in th easy dress, Ty trou were tn gentle converse, about anything but indies, bate surrounded by and sentries at the entrance gate. Having dined in presence of all (his military giory, the great difficulty of where to tind a bed remained for solution. At the Hotel de ’u- rope, not room to “awing a cat,” and shakedowns being prepared iu the dining hall. At the Hotel de Metz, “nota room, sir, of any kind,’ SP minor hotels were overflowing. “We have re! dozens, to-night, str, was the slerreotyped answer made by their owners, “but ur can dine and breakfast here, if he desires too,” Everything is frightfully d Within a few days hence, how many of these d-laced sons of Mars wili have ceased to breathe, Or with mangled limbs be the dust in agony? This town, now alive with troops in the highest spirits, will winoas doubt be litle more than a vast hospt! Already 49,000 beds have been ordered fox the wossae, and pe. Legere all are aring lint ago, the Tadics of the leading families the Palais de J: ioe, eon is lormed an Am lag circle. thus ing their time the alleviation army the mes- exorbitant prices from honor of employ for of the future sufferings of the French sins do not fatl to those about t sacrifice themselves for France. ARMY DEFICIENCIES. The declaration of war of and concentration troops were so sudden that neither oficers Hor men were prepared with the necessaries for Campelear ing, and the Messins are selling their goods whole at retail prices, AS I have before stated th of ake inent reney of the Commissariat Department, of the ineiticienc; Both food for man and beast are wanting. In this each, walling tn (he large hear the espianade, to be Jaden with forage, give some idea of the enormous expense incurred by every day’s delay. For each horse the sovernment pavs ten francs per day, but the wagons remain tnactive and have done 50 for weeks. There is no forage to be had for hg oe or patriotism, That the army will see bot wor! there is every reason to believe. Ambulances are being seat to the front and the troops are already on the move, I was roused this. morning by a mili- tary baud at four o'clock. In looking from the win- dow I found the Forty-fourth regiment of the line en route for the front. HOW THEY MARCH, There is something about the marching of a French regiment that pleases me ‘The men, heavily laden as they are, come @ long march fresh and in good order, with but few straggiers. Should there be any, they almost invartably come up briskly, @ Clear sign that they are wellshod. There is Ro limping an fal torture, 80 palnfully appa- rent in the rear of the British troops. THE EMPEROR'S EQUIPPAGE IN WAR. The Prince Imperial, accompanied by General Bouvaki, the pet of the Guards, visited the camp yes- terday. He was enthuslastically received. To my mind the 144 appears too del.cate to un- fatigue. The Emperor went by to the camp at St. Avold and re- barr about five o'clock, As two of the impertal carnages were tn waiting at the railway station for 4 considerable time a goodly crowd collected to ree Napoleon on his return from the beadquar- ters of General Frossard. One of the carriages was dé Ww Daumont. The Emperor’s horses are splendid nuaals and were much admired by those who had years of discretion, while the small boys took great delight in the posiilion’s jacket of green aud red, trunmed with gold lace aad coguettsuly ornamented with gilt buttons, his bright glazed hat, saffron colored leather culotte and huge boots, which, polished, redected like @ murror the faces of the inquisitive young imps who crowded round their wearer. These boois, however exten- sive they may now be considered, are but pigmies if compared with those ponderous affairs worn by French postilions before rattways caused the high road to fail into insignificance. In those days the boots were like Martello towers; they would have Withstood a siege if necessary. ‘They often remained in we stirrups, and at ail times instead of a pos- Ulion taking of his boots he was liited out oi them aad another dropped in. ‘the unpertai boots have made me wander from my subject, the return of Napoleon Ill. from St. Avold. special with its richly decorated saloon i station and the ruler of France, followed aud a small stail, descended on to the His Majesty looked taugued and very “Vive l’Empereur! ive te Prince linperiai!” shouted the peopie. Within a few seconds “boots and leather breeches,” bump, bump, bumped ! if out of the station dragging behiad lum tue man on whom the eyes or the world are 80 anxtoasly fixed in expectation of the mom:nt when he will give the signal Jor # slaughter unparalleled in the aunals of war. dergo much fy tr AK GREAT STARE OF BONAPARTE. The cowing strife wiil be the heaviest stake that the Emperor has ever played. Should success attend him his prestige will be unrivalled; but should this last throw of the dice be untortunate, and suould the army be deieated, the result will be complete downfall Who on earth can teil to what this country will be brought should any personal disaster befal the &mperor? What between socialism, republicanism aud the unbridled unated soldicry, anarchy would a unchecked throughout the las That the rench Wil be victors is the popwar belief. They are a gallant people, the army is in good order aad provided with the most periect weapons, The peo- ple, even his enemies, give the Emperor credit tor uuparalleled sagacity, aud dectare that unless certain of success he would not nave declared war. The greater tne confidence in victory the more intense Will be the disappointment of defeat should it un- fortunately occur. GRIEF OF THE “SPECIALS.” ‘The correspondents of newspapers from all parts of this world and from some of the next are in de- spair, and vow vengeance. ‘They are not to be per- mitted to follow the army. Every device to evade the imperial order has been resorted to in vain. In one direction a journalist has aiopted a white choker and a respectable suit of sanctified cut. He describes himself as a traveliing Uoglish parson, aud up to the present moment he las escaped wang: ing. Severai lave applied to be attached to the In- ternational hegeoen A Commisston, and have re- cetved & polite permission from the general m com- mand, Wiid tie addition that the headq-arters of that plilantropie body will at Metz. To be siut up in a fm rear of the army be slow tortnre to a go. ‘ad correspondent and wing hin to an early grave. Some bave odered themseives us assistants to the vivandieres to wash Plates and glasses and supply drink lo the Guillc warriors. Others have petitioned the Prince Im- perta! and every general commanding a division on whom they can pounce, but au have been refused, THY PRUSSIAN SPE Yesterday Metz was enlivened by the appearance of three Prusstan spies, who were brougut in to headquarters from the front by @ party of gend- arm Inierrogaied al fresco by two ataif officers in the court yard of the Rotel de l'Europe, a large crow collected. They iad been arrested on this side of the frontier, and were charged with being spies and marauders. Dressed in dirty gray biouses, faces of a dull brick color, and with bair to , their personal appearance did not make a decidedly favorable impression on We inhabitants of Meiz, who are but le higher on the ladder ‘of poilieness than those of Nancy, in which latter city even infants in swaddiing clotnes scowl! aud growl ata passing stranger. This may not be the case during the piping umes of itat the present moment 1 can vouch for One of the prisoners “owned up’ to have ing been a nou-commisstoned oilicer In the Prussian serv ther deciared thas he bad formerly worked in a manufactory at Metz, but the third ac- cording to tie tnfori jon afforded by a commun)- ia fortified town, mies in the field, would cative g nfermatt dans un systeme de denegation avsolue et mutisme complet,” which being Interpreted may be best expressed “dumb as an oysier.”’ The officers who were taken prisoners some days since Will be kept captives at Orleans. are Barons de Welumer and de Villiers, Before starting for Orleans they dined with the Major General. The report that the English officer killed was Lord Charles Hamiiton is unvue. The officer in question was Lieutenant Vins, Company C. He was born in Baden, Yut was of English origin, his mother being an English woman. He wasan officer in tho Baden army, CAUTION. Many of the journallsts yesterday experlenced an uncomfortable sensation about the neck on being informed that during the preceding night two trains of chloride of ine, thirty gross of handcutts and two thousand yards of the stoutest whip cord had arrived, these goods having been especially de- mauded for the exclusive use of refractory journal- ists. After we have been handcuffed we are to be Eighth and Ninth cutrassiers, also about 1,000 horsemen in each regiment), making 2,000 men of each arm, or 6,000 men in all, AS I said before, the horses are certainly not looked after as we would call looking aller them, and the men are cortatnly the reverse of clean. But they all seem in good condition and are looking forward with eagerness to a brush with the Prussians. pory. The heavy cavalry have not at present much to do, but the light brigade is busy patrolling the line from Brumot to Neurembourg and Wissembourg, where the position ls completely open to the Ba- Varian troops, and into which their pickets make almosi daily forays. In fact, all along the lne ot which I speak there are villages and small towns which hardly know whether they are French or German, They are situated upon the French side of the frontier, but their language, habits and manners are decidedly German, although I don’t think their sympathies are with Prussia, Qut to return to the French cavalry. How the 2,000 cutrassiers, wear- ing metal helmets and cutrasses, are to live, move and have their being with the thermometer at 80, and of what ase they would be if they could move about, it 18 Impossible to say. The light cavalry brigade are all mounted upon barbs, horses brought from Algieria, and a very picture [to look at. They will keep their condition and their courage upon almost any conditions whatever. The officers, too, of these two corps, the Third Hussars and Eleventh Chasseurs ¢ Cheval, are all young men, and many of them belong to the very first families in France, ‘They are very full of what we should call “dash,” and Most auxtous to measure swords with the enemy. In the ranks of these regiments also (particulariy the Eleventh Chasseurs, that came from Paris, where it was quartered for some years) there are quite a humber ©. young men of good family who have joined as volunwers since the war commenced, A triend of mine told me that ta one squadron of the regiment there wero serving as private soldiers or 48 Hol-commisstoned officers no fewer than seven, young men of title, and some of whom are very rich, indeed. One of thei, whose family 1s and has been Orieanist for centuries, was asked the other day how he could make up his mtnd to serve “Celul-ct,”” asthe Emperor is always calied in certain circies. “don't,” was the reply; “I don’t serve ‘Celul-cl.’ I pits man in Frauce, I serve France, ‘ita FRENCH ARTILLERY, T visited to-day the immense body of artiilery, con- sisting or eight batteries of feild guns, now en- camped at the Polygone, @ large cpee. space, about two miles outside Stasbourg. Of the guns them- selves it would, perhaps, be impertinent for me to give an opinion about, for L am not well versed in Uhe subject of artilery. This much, however, 1 may say—viz., that they looked gid aud battered, more as if they were coming out of than going into a campaign. But of the horses there could be but one opinion, and that is, they are utterly unfit for their work. They are siall, weak, and without either weight to pull well or speed to get quickly into posi- tion, Man for man, gun for gun, and team for team, 1 would back any one of our Woolwich battertes to Walk round aud round them, Aud when we re- member that, the Prussian artillery is, perhaps, the arm upon which that army prides itself nore than auy other, I do not wonder that French artillery ofticers speak with caution and reticence when taiking over the chances of the war, GENERAL FORGEOY. The general who commands the artillery of this army Corps 1s a man of great skill and great inven- tion. It is he who has brought the famous weapon called THE MITRAILLRUSR to perfection. ft lis internal machine there are four batteries with MacMahon’s — @armée, I have tried hard, but have not been able to get a sight of one of them: Even the officers attached them are made to promise that they will not say a word to any one concerning them. But I have been able to pick up afew de- tails, all of which tend completely to confirm we opinion formed respecting Wem by 60 many persons. At 1,500 yards the aim of one of these weapons can be made as certain as tbat of a revolver at six Paces in the hands of a first rate shot, The motion of tuis gun (if gun it can be called) partakes some- what of the nature of the revolver as to tts loading, save that 1t has a side movemené right and left, and Keeps on discharging to the front and to both fapks @ perfect shower of projectiles, that are themselves boits more than balls, and at 1,500 yards can be sent through a four-inch board. My intormans had seen some of the frat experiments of tis terribie engine of destruction before it was brougnt to present perlection, and he de- Ciares that poring in the shape of man or horse could stand aguimstit, and that a brigade of infantry attempting to storm a battery of mitratileuses must be utterly destroyed ina very few minutes. This, of course, is one of those fearful problems which have to be svived during the war now about to begin. Ajother is that of the future USE OF CAVALRY IN WAR, Many persons are of opinion that in all fature Wars, now that infauiry are armed with anus of precisiou that carry @ long Way, cavalry will be of no use, Others, again, say that ln future campaigas the day will be invariably won or lost by cavalry. Many more, again, tnsist that, now artillery ts bein brought to such periection, there will be hardly aay use for either cavalry or infantry. Sbould ihe renuch stand by the arm for which they are most celebrated, and declare that all future batties will be batties of infantry, of which the better armed will iam aua the worse armed will loge the day for a cer- atnty. THE PLAN OF THE CAMPAIGN, All plans of future movements are kept profoundly secret, So mucii so that | doubt very much whether any One in thls corps d’armee except Marshal Mav- Mahon himself and General Coulson, the chief of his staf, could really tell us what is to be done or likely to be done. But I still adhere to the opinion | have already,given more than once—vamely, that Mac- Mauou, having fatled in his attempt vo induce the Prasstans to give battle opposite Strasbourg, has ed his iront aud will now cross Into Germany the Bavarian frontier, somewhere about Wissem- bourg or 'Tatonville. NEWS PROM A DESERTER. A Hanoverian deserter from one of the Baden regiments Was brought iu here yesterday. 1 had a jong talk with him, He says that ie only left home & week ago, and that ail the old Kingdom of Hanover are anti-/’russiad in Wiel’ sympathies and would be delighted to hear of France gaining a victory if it Was likely to restore them to their old indepenilence, He tells me that excepting the valley of the Moseile and immediately about Berlin, the war is very un- Popular indeed, aud Manifested the utmost surprise at (he unwarlike appearance of tis the most frontier town tn France. L suspect tuere is a good deal of truth in what he says. Throughout Prussta the people are forced to give up their horses, : orn, buliocks, sheep &c., lor tie W notuing what- ever of the kind, V the government want is paid for at the m: In Berlin tiself a banker's Jett: ever, as bls on London, still 1es8 on Paris, caunot be cashed. Here | went two daysto Mr. Klose, (he bauk with an American gentleman who wanted $5,000. He had a letter of credit from the American Vanker Monroe on Paris, He got the money in Lard Napoleons tn about five minutes. And indeed business of ali Kinds goes on here exactly the same as people are married and given m ual e, and they jabber their curious Alsatian patois, and they drink their bocks of Strasbourg beer, and smoke their pipes, and pass hours upon hours at the caiés reading Le Courrier du Bas-Rhin trom is title to its printer's name, and then de capo, as if nothing had hap- pened, Was happening, or was likely to happen. MARSUAL MAOMAHON, This officer ts very little seen, He has so much to do that be cau hardly afford to spend much time in amusements, He 13 a short, soldierlike man, with unustakable evidence in his features of bis Irish atevel ket rate and value. rot credit 1s of no use what- origin. He rises at five o’ciock A. generally hears mass in the cathedral, which is close by the old palace he is living in. At seven o'clock A. M. he receives his generals and chief staff officers, and works until eleven o’ciock A. M., wlien he comes to the hotel 1 am living in (the Maison Rouge, a capital house) to breakfast. At twelve o’clock he goes buck, works all the afiernooa with his secretaries or stat 1870.—TRIPLE what the French call Uintendence, is not ready, and of the six months’ rations for an army of 159,000 men and 20,000 horses which were ordered to be stored by August 1, barely one-half has been got to- gether. The fighting part of the army is furl ous at being thus kept back alter all the hurry they made to get here, Thus the Third regiment of zouaves reached Stras- hourg from Constantine, which ts sixty miles irom the coast in Algeria, in five days, including the voyage to Marseilies and six hours’ delay in that town. And acavalry regiment, the Second Chas- seurs d’ Afrique, commanded by the Marquis de Gal. lifet, readied Mulhouse from Oran in six days, Oran being two days’ march from the port of em- barkation in Algeria, And from. every corner of France it was tho same. Gencrals and colonels, captains and Meatenants, sergeants and privates, all hurried off to tho scono of war as fast as they could, and now to tind themselves delayed in consequence of the bad arrangement of the commilssariat is really too provoking. lt 1s the old, old thing—a story which we in England have had vray 4 at the outset of every war aud which you had | at the commencement of your great strugglo. with the South, ‘The fighting portion of the army say that the im- tendence 1s certain to break down this campaign, and that they hopethe Empefor will revert to the old. French system, which worked so well under the first empire, of having an oMicer in each regiment whois entrusted with providing all that the men need tngthe way of food, tents, clothing or what not, It would be@ curious commentary if, just a8 we in Eugiand ave, at an enormous ontiay and after a groat acal of rouble, formed what is called a “control depart- ment,” which is an exact imitation of the French tn- lendenos, that the original of our copy should break dowa and fail alt 9 70 SRE THK EMPEROR. Emperor now 1s,,and: no try to make out, Ten minut telegram the Marshal left for Metz, and Will not bo back before to-morrow morning, When it 4 not un- lukely that @ movenjent of these headquarters may take pluce. DISCONTENT. Another cause of discontent tn the army, or, at least, among the very best troops of the army— those that have come. from Algeria—is @ change that tie Sushorities are Get gee m oe way be | carry their baggage. erto In ‘hay Tegimeut of Turcos and of counven tae 1 ers of euch company (captain, lieuteuant and sub-lieulen- aut)were allowed LWo mules between them, Une of these mules Carried their small tents and camp beds, the other their cooking uten- wild and clothes. ‘Tis is now to be wuitered, ‘The mules are to be abolishea altogether, and cach half battalion Of Oiticers, thut ts the ofivers of tiree companies, are tw have between theu a smali cov- ered two-wheel cart, which will be drawn by one horse. ‘To the regiments that were until now on the peace esiabilshinent, tus Change 1s no hardship whatever. ‘they would have to provide some kind of curriage fur the Campatgo, aud might as weil have one sort as the other, But the oiticers of zouaves, Turcos and Chasseurs d@’Afrique, are always upon a war fouting, they are obliged to kee; up their baggage animals all the year round, am have brought tue same wiih them from Algecia at great axpense. ‘The cousequence ts that they will now have to part with them at & considerable loss, und not bein, wealthy men they do not like the prospect at al Itis tn cases like Us that the want of a tree press is felt. If the ofMcers of the army could, as in Englaud and America, make them- selves heard wi the columns of the news- papers, the authorities would take — care to remedy thelr wanla, As it is the inlendence, and the civil administration do very much as they like, aud the commanders of divisions and corps Know littie of what regimental officers are discontented avout. In addition tothe change in baggage ani- mals they are ordered now to ¢! @ their tents, Each officer is ordered to provide Hiaself with what ia culled a tente Randon, being of a pattern approved of by the late Marshal Kaudon whea he was Minis- ter of War. ‘This involves an outlay of atJeast sixty toa hun- dred francs, say from fifteen to twenty dollars, which is about the month's pay of an tufantry ofi- cer. As 1 sald betore, the French ofticers are by no means wealthy men, and the order has ‘disquieted those who were proviaed With tents not a Lflic. AT WISSEMBOURG. There was yesterday suother skirmish near Wis- se@mvourg, about fifty miles direct north from here. Some Bavarian hussars crossed the frontier and at- tempted to destroy the railway Uat leads to the town Irom this, and which goes on direct to join the great ratiway to Mayence. ‘They were surprised by some French cavairy, and driven back with the loss of two men killed and taree wounded, the latter being taken prisouers, On the Freuch side one man was Killed. PRUSSIA. from Bertin to Cologne—The Army Move- ment to the Front—Seven Hundred Th snod M Ready fur the Fight with Nape- leon—A “Special? and Bismarck. COLOGNE, August 2, 1870, After continual detours and stoppages on the way- side through Germany 1 finally reached Berlin six days since, and immediaiely tnformed you by tele- gram and letter of what [ bad secu and tearned during the trip northward, Nothing is certain or sure one minute now in this war-making land. Amid all this‘din, uproar, transportation, soidiering, ordering and counterordering, “specials” are seeing a lively time, and If they do not get into prison as spies it 1s almost impossible for them to keep their communicating ines in the rear open, So you must not expect either celertty or regularity. I have de- termined to start out and get as near as will be pos- sibly allowed to the seat of operations, in order to sce and hear what I can. It is something for me to have been able to post myself thoroughly in re- gard to the yartous people's sentiments, armies and positions a3 I passed, aud J now proceed on to hear thi tion, knowing weil the two parties about whom Iam to treat. But to resuu quickly a8 possible what I saw and did m Gerlin, tn order to catch the mail, J will have to write as quickly as pen can run. Berlin, very dul generally at this season, was fonnd all alive with bustle, excitement, and, above all, with the movement of troops; ‘the military’? were the order of the day tn the streets and when not drilling, and presenting arins in Prusstan style, being sent off from the depot; in fact, for the last three weeks T have been witnessing Prussia’s marshalling of her million of armed men towards the Rhive, where they are now, or, to the best*accounts, at least 700,000 ready for the ‘ght. The people in the capital seemed anxious, but conf- dent of success. The troops 1 met were quiet, but hardy and. determined looking; they were not certainly gay, and seemed to ob- serve the laws of discipline pretty freely. On arriving at the counctl held among your war cor- respondents on the Presstan side, I found that application had been made through regular cian- nels to Count Bismarck for permission to accom- pany the army, On the next day a refusal was sent in from M. de Thile, Vice Chancellor of the Con- federation. The Foreign Office refused curuly. At a second meeting tt was decided that your specials on the Prussian side sionid have to shift for them- oficers, takes & gallop with a single aide-de-camp when it gets well towards evening, aud returns to dinner at seven o'clock at the hotei. MacMahon is @ great admirer of the American nation, and talks with wonder of the manner in hanged and the air deodorized with chloride of lime. You must regard the news from the seat of war with suspicion, gossip, vention and bombast being in the ascendant. The Committee de la Viande dé Cheval suggest that the troops sould eat horsefesh. On the day following a battle 1t will be found evea more tender than immediately after being kilied, Everything ts not only very dear, but food during the campaign will be most scarce, *. MACMAHON’S ARMY. i vind The Ficl@ at Strasbourg—French Concentras fion and Prussian Dash, STRASBOURG, HEADQUARTERS OF MARSHAL MAcMAHOW’s ARMY Corrs, July 30, 1870, We are every moment expecting that some move- ment willbe made toward the Prussian frontier, but Marshai MacMatonjhas not lett Strasbourg, and, as nearly a8 I can find out, there {8 yet a division aud a half of infantry encamped’ plose round this town. The cavairy has all moved ,and is now in and about @ small towa called Brumath,some thir- ty-five or forty miles to the northeast, ana nearer the Bavarian frontier. I visited the spot yostesday, and came to the conclusion thatas a whole = * THE CAVALRY DIVISION ‘ 18 ay fine @ body of men and horses as { ever? saw, although what in England we call the “tn. terior economy”? of the regiments, and still more the cleanliness of both men and horses, is certainly very lttie looked after. The cavairy division is composed of three brigades, one of light cavalry (the Third Hussars and Eleventh Chasseurs a Cheval, each about 1,000 strong), another of cavalry of the line (the were seated Major General "at, echal Ba- zaine, aud @ host of minor military | haries, in full untlorin—stars, epauleties Id broad rivbons | Second and Sixth iancers, each rather over 1,000 juga aad horses). and a (uird of heavy gayalry (the Wwiich your great civil War was carried out. He has a {rank, pleasing manner, 18 very easily approached and uever forgets @ person he has once seen. With all the officers and soldiers who have served under him in Africa ius very name {3 a tower of strength. And,jby some means or other, every general, etther of division or brigade, and every regiment (except the lancers and cirrassiers, neither of which ever go to Algeria,) have been what the French call by the pet name of ‘‘Africans,” and have gerved under him. THE PEOPLE OF STRASBOURG. ‘The citizens are raising, whatis for them a very large sum of money for the use of the wounded in this war. They evince the greatest possibie anxiety to agaist the troops iu every possible manner, and if men are to be judged by their actions, it is impos- sible not to conclude that the war is most popular with them. A PRUSSIAN ADVANCE GUARD. As I write news has been brought {n that a con- siderable body of Prassian troops had been seen near Forbach, within the French frontier, on the line of railway leading to Metz They were met by the French light cavalry of the Fifth army corps, and fell back within their own fronticr, French spies report that within the Prussian. or rather the Baya- rian, Vervitory the tines of rail leading to Mannheim, as well as those leading to Mayence, have been ut- terly destroyed by the Prussians, THE GARDE MOBILE of Strasbourg aud all the department is being rapidiy formed, and mounts its wuttorm for ducy on Monday, the ist of August, | believe. FORTIFICATIONS AT STRASBOURG. Thee até Pore, pt in order and gans mounted algug the rampart4, In short everything foretells that we are approacking the veglaning oi the end. The French Delay iv {loving—Cause of the Haid”. STRASBOURG, Heangita2teRs or MAcManon’s ARMY Coane July Bl, taro, } At length the real cause of the delay {moving (UL Corps has ogaed ou The comumlssariag: or seives, and consequently each man took with bim- self, not an army to follow at headquarters, but a county to observe, I determined to strike for the centre and proceed as near to the operations as I could get. Some said they would (and did) leave at once for the Baltic, soine for South Germany, some for the Russian fron- SHEET. accom! ledge waria, 117,433 men, 240 guns; Wartembery 630 men, 66 mmpeny, or Wren or ing they pdivalge, | Bina; Baden a20 wea, Oh caus—tota, 182.408 men, 870 ting 0 bays, che by Ree Welaes coon co wish 1 ie will thus be seen that the whole avatiable troops says, the two warriors the day seem to wish to fight tt out in @ dark room between themselves and thelr armies, However, we will see what we will see. In the eorped ey bed pores oeen ane ret to say, rather a snocessful atten) wing the press of the whole world, In so far as lay in the power of the Ctr, yy is Thad been led to suppose that I would find folks more liberal 1 Berlin than they had tn Paris; but I think tt would be dificult for. Lebosut & Co. toadopt more stringent measures in regard to the news- apers than those enforced on the right bank of the Kune, and which I am now experleucing. INDEPENDENT... ‘The refusal called for action, and I tmmediately est pouat and io aeons to the Rhine, at the nearest allowed train uot exclusively exceptions, are, and under. as they all, with rare aa ee . The was to leave at six 1’, ly start, amid in burghers, who were read bis ation ‘an mein pore ous in ae ‘and gccompanie’ 7 ol al arck. hy P. Mam-érliver sation. they ‘procecied directly. to Brunswick, B&nover, Cologne aud Mayence, where they are tow. On" the whole route the greatest euthustaam d. coniidence was expressed for and ogy tue way, tad ont: ty to nee 1e Wi excel hun’ the ae deparcare Berlin, Ho came to hotel re | was stopping ww Bee & biind Grape Duke—one of the small Geroistein family of dukedoms, on a ae commence see rive lig one horse oad, With. the ald-de- met, driven ina one iD, a ar a out vel ing Duke's, a) bd on Oirst_ floor, and after a few to dnd the waiters and a fow dolug their level best Ay re Gy tte ound | ice nosane volt putthe kl nim not to-go out to the cab, ‘% wa boys, bootblacks, and old women oaugh! pleut ot his Majesty as he was ding and laid io wait for him at the cab door, Old Wilhelm saluted them royal! ae Set their hats and headgear, and two old. wol ai up and handed him peti- tious. He took ‘with his own hand, indeed as if he was th wo ve them, gad with o geu- eral bow from him gall of it a hurry. ‘The peti to the exemp- lon . of. sons landwebr. I was struck with the humor, activity and youthrut appr , who, although sev- earance ay is BOV ‘enty-two years old, looked: ved more like one of ouly middie age. I happened to push in a train bound for this point at one o'clock ou the night of the King’s departure, so I tound myself Bolng to the wats ouly “ve hours’ time behind that couveying the royal miilitary-diplomatic destinies of the Father dJand. We had along a goodly number of soldiers. Now, German soldiers travelling in the trams must sing and drink; hence there was no means of doing any- thing but watching” the ambatance commitieemen as they paraded.a@t the stalions with the red cross on their arms afd the patriotic ladies fiom the vil- lages as they handed around immense bowls and jugs of beer andcherry Water to the tiirsty devour- ers, Bread, beer audelippery sausages, long enough to pull @ cannon into action almosi, were the vogue at every station, where a delay of minutes. was invariabl, made many to take on sometiing or other for the theatre of war, either a company, & gun, & calsson, & hog or express: packages (ulso the express), Or horses or a flock of eese. It seemed, when tue traln dually did reach | re Uns morolng that we had on board *a Lillie of everything.” il the sundries ‘were, however, eafely delivered and without aceident aiter ratuer a close confinement. Only one raliway accident has as yet occurred in the transportation of that immense host to tue Ruine—seven men killed, forty wounded. ‘iere at Cologne, which | shalt make @ species of Leadquar- ters ior the present, we are not far off from the theatre of war. Tho city 1s fortified, under martial law, and we are subjected to all te pecuilarities and restraints of war's grim-visaged front and keen eyes. ‘The hotels aro watcled and. visited many times aday. My whole history 1 beilove was written Out on the ledger this morning, and God only knows what is to come afterwards on the score of passport and passes. But I have ‘seen war in two hemt- spheres before, and 1 will try tO move along. Yet, while doi my best to satisfy your readers, you must recoilect in what dificult, not to say 1nmpos- sible, straits we are navigating just now in these regions, and not ex) the usual raptuity and punctuality, which you expect and which it is the right of a great, live paper to afford itself. 1 intend to make short excursions, from here down we Khine southwards, perhaps to Mayence or Frank- fort, if I can get tuere; otherwise, ou and on, ba ward and forward, writing on the run, if any kind of open communications can be found or invented whereby tosend the news. LATEST NEWS. ‘The latest ‘here, obtained from reliable and well posted sources, is tius:—Loth partics prepared and equal in numbers; soldiers especiaily enchusiasic fod counting upon General Goebel as their big man and great general; Betterf in command of the department of all the Khine cities; heavy fighting expected at Landau, not iar from Fraukiort, on tie frontier; point there to be attempted by the French; they Cannot cross between Coblentz and Mayence, too stony, and country on either side of the Knine too abrupt and steep; may cross between ;Cologue and Bonn, where formerly French passed, but not anticipated just at present here, because tt 1s said they would have too heavy fightsng with the ciuwe of the Prussian army. Cologne ts all astir; steamboats carrying to and fro aiso a litte of everyihiug, especiaily soldiers and provisions. As 1 close the bands over the Water there, at the fortress, are indulging freely in the gay, strains of the “Grande Duchesse” and “La Vie Parisienne.” Offenbach does not sound much like war; sull, all our ears are iulently listening for the mighty roar of the mightiest fighi Utat this age will have witnessed. Aud now, on to the front or funk! as best may be. k= NAPOLEON’S BATTLE REPORTS His Majesty’s Account of the Battle at Saar bruck, (From Galignani’s Messenger, August 4.] A telegraphic despatch from the Emperor's private secretary was received by the Minister of the Inte- rior last evening at ten minutes past five, ordering, by his Majesty’s direction, the following note to be communicated to the Paris jourpals:— Murz, August 2, 1870, This day, at eleven in the forenoon, the French troops had a serious eugagement with the forces of Prussia. Our aruly assumed the offensive, and, crossing the frontier, Livaded the Prussian territory. Notwithstanding the strength of the enemy's posi- tion, some of our battalions sufficed to carry the heights which commana Suarbruck, and our artil- lery in a short time succeeded tn driving the enemy from the town, ‘Lue inpeiuous onset of the Prench was so great that they suffered put triding loss, The chgagement conmenced at eleven aud termi- nated at one. The Emperor was present at the operations; and the Prince linpersal, who accompanied his Majesty everywhere, received, ou the frst pattie feid of the campaign, Ure baptism of fire. His presence of miind aud coolness in dauger were worthy of the name which he bears, His Majesty aud the Prince Were back ab Metz souu after four, The King of Prussin’s Departure from Berlin. ‘The special correspondent of the London News gives tho following description of the Prussian King’s deparvure Jor beadquarters:— If you had been near King William’s palace this morning and tad remembered the farewell parades of the Koyal Guard in 1866, you would have had that year brought very vividly before you. There was the old King in high spirits smiling pleasantly at lis men. There was Lue iine of gilttering vayouets, the spiked helmets below and the silver eagie borne proudly aloft. The First Guard regiment was re- presented by as fine a set of young fellows as you could wish to see. With bearskins on their heads, they would Lave looked immensely tall, aud even with the spiked helmet they had an imposing ap- pearance. Tbe new flaga of the regimeat were brought out from te palace, covered by their water- proof cases, and were placed on the right of the line, Acheer burst fromthe crowd, aud another louder cheer as King William passed along. His Majesty was on foot, and after inspecting the troops he returned to the steps of the palace to see them march away. Loudly swelled tne music above the shouts of the people. ‘Never did men step more closety together than the soldiers of the First regt- ment. Their feet seemed to sivike the pavement with sharp and regular blows, Frederick the Great tier and some for Ventre Germany. On ¢onsulting further about negotiations @t Berlin with your spe- cial stationed tn that city, be said, “Bismarck, whom he knew well, liad refused to see anybody.’” 1 repiled that to get the news was for me asan absorbing a matter as a larger atm might be to @ larger man, and hence 1 proposed to see M. Bismarck Ummediately, and get a yes or no, as time Was prosslng; that, although we were expecting the battle to have begun, I could not start without seeking ounce more, and, backed by strong influence as I Was, to obtain the immense advantage of going with the Prussian army to de- scribe its accomplished facts and deeds, rather than to move on the outskirts of the same. I immediately made a written application to the Count, with’ my recommendations, and, to avoid watting for a reply, which might never have come, I carried it myself to the Foreign Ofice. There I ob- tained access to the puissant.seigneur, who directs the destinies of millions, The Count was in the mldst of hurrying up his preparations to leave the oi with the King and stuif that same day, at six P.M. He had barely time to say to me that my ap- plication had been received, but that he could not inake an exception for any one; ‘it is not possible.” Those were the words he used; and, although I was treated poiitely, there seemed to be not the slightest regret that a newspaper writer could not proceed to the war. He and all the Prussian people ure down on a free press just at this Jancture; they all seem to have an instinctive dread’ of ‘a writer or @ paper, for fear those terrible, bloody French ymay eke out a crum) of comfort from todlsoreet tating. It has been Dy use to pul tt on wie around of “only himself might bave approved the discipiine of the corps. Now they had left the palace and were moy- ing down the Unter den Linde, with a crewd ran- ning by their side, Men and boys scrambled alter as fastas they could. There no more shouting, for the people kept their beeatu Lor jostling around the sirees corners and hurry{ng on to the ratlway, This Was the final departare, Smart aud tidy as the corps looked, it Wasin teavy marching order— too heavy an ofter, I think; but let (aatpass. ‘Tho soldiers carried everything with them—cougt and Daversacks, Masks and cooking tins, with a short sword tn addition to the bayonet, aud @ spare pair of boots to be ready for the chances of the cam- Daigo. We have b2fore spoken of Landwehr men, of the great mustering of reserve to defend the country. But here, as we see the Guard regiments bs forth, we see the pomp of war as it might be nO Landwehr system. Fine strapping lads, drilled and Well onicered, march away to the lively strains of the military band, Who looks back or doubts the result? Who vut ts ready to meet Frenchmen, or Russians, or anybody else, when the word ts given and the stiver eagle is raised on high? They are not auch dark, sunburnt warriors as have come from Parls and from Chalons in the Lnpertal Guard, butif these Prussians meet ther rivals in an open Heid it wil Le a Roland tor an Oliver. So they tramp on to the raliway, The Armies—Latest Muster Roll. {From the London Army and Navy Gazette, Aug. 1.) ‘The following is a correct statement of the aval able sweugth of the French and Prassian armies:— Frencu AR\y.—Total strength of feld army, 286,400; army of reserve, 98,600; troopa remaining In Algiers, 00,000 ; depots, €c., In France, 49,900; avallable for calling in, |, 658,000, with 1,014 gut NouTH GERMAN ARM sent strength of fleld army, 447,888, with 1,212 guns; reserve, 104,986, with 234 guns; leay- jog ia! ort goator 164,132, With 240 gune—total strength, 766,005, wi ns BUM FURNIGUED BY THE SOUIN GERMAN BEaTEe— = of the German States amount to the colossal dgure of 949,318 men, With 2,056 guns. The German Commanders. The Norih German Correspondent of Berlin of July 4say3:— The commanding omen hy egy Hed Goeman army are now ali appoint * of the general staff will be General do Blumenthal, Colonel de Stichie and General de Speriing. Herwarth de Bittenfeld aud Vogel de Falkensten have been entrusted with the milicary government of the ppevaren particularly ex the eventu- alities of war, ‘The guards are to be commanded by Prince Augus- tus, of Wurtemburg: J ao First corps d’armée by General de Man- teufel. ‘The Second by General Fransecky. ‘Third—deneral von Alvensieben IL. Fourth—General von Alvonsieven L Fift—General de Kirchbach, Sixth—General de Tumpling. Seventh—General de Zastrow. Eighth—General de Goben. Ninth—General de Manstein, ‘Veuth—Generai de Volgts-Rnotz. Eleventh by General dé Rose, aad Twelfth by the Crown Prince of Saxony. The Catholic Clergy and the Prassiau Army. From the Paris Monde, August 2.) In Praia the authoritics have ita all the offers of material and religious aid made by the Catholic Urders. The greater part of the Sesuita’ establishments, among others those of Laach and Munster, Chars posing Redemptivnists and Laza- rists are fittiog up hospitals in their houses, A large number of fathers of those Orders and many of we ordwary clergy have already left for the army. On Lhe 28th of July Prince Frederick Charles and Gene- ral de Stelamets passed through Cologne with seve- rai officers and Catholle ecclesiastics, on their w: to the camp, Along tho priests were Prince Ed- mond Radziwill, who will attend especially to the Polish suidiors, with whose language he is perfectly acguatnted. The Knights Hospitallers are display- ing extraordinary activity. ‘fhe Central Oommittee of those of St. Joha of Prussia (Protestants) is at Berlin, under the presidency of Prince de Piess, An immense hat) serves as a depot for gifts im Kind, ‘Those of St. Joun of Malta (Catholics) have thelr seat at Gologne. j he Knights who follow the army wear a green uniform. Biswarck and the “Pence” Press, The whole of the Northern Confederation except Silesia and Sa uy belng, says Galignani’s Messen geryin a state of seige, Count Bismarck proceeds with the greatest rigor against all those who aro poibted out to him as entertaining antl-Prassian sentiments. ‘thus he has ordered @ large number of arrests among tho Hanoverian aristucracy who are devoted to tite cause of the 6x-King. All the partic- Ularist journs ve been suppressed, the Khenische Courter, the Francfurter. Beobachter, the Sehles- wisele Zeitung, &c. The moderate ones have been menaced with ¢xtinction in case that they sbould seck to binder the natlonal movement instead of throwing themselves into the current, GLADSTONE ON THE CRIS!S. Reply to Disraeli on England’s Position for War or Diplomacy—The Russian Alliance Armed Neutrality and Neutral Duties—Tho “Misiortune? in the American War—The “Secret Treaty.” We publishea on the 10th instant the speech de- livered by Mr. Disraeli in the English Parliament on the condition and prospects of the country in relation tothe present war, Owing to some mall disarrangemients Mr, Gladstone’s speech aut not reach us in Ume fur the exigencies of our circula- tion, We now publish a verbatim report of the Prime Minister's speech on the occaston, Mr. GLapsroxk suid:—1 will endeavor, sir, to separate in the observations it 1s my duty to aadress to the House tie diplomatic and the his- toric poruons of the speech of the right honora- bie genUeman from uit portion of iv in which he has arraigned the policy of tie government with regard to our military establishments. Now, as respects the historical review taken by the right honorable geuticman, 1 am not able to agree with him in recollecting or stating te period wheu this House, upon the eve of Huropean complications, bas embarrassed or tajured the government by its suence, Such is mot my recullection of the year 1853. Such is not my recollection of the course taken by the right honorable gentiemay himself in the year 1853. Thus House is tue only,judge of the degree in which, upon occasions of this Kind, 10 shall maitain reserve and rely upou the Executive or demand information ani cluim to itseli an immediate share in the con- duct of ailairs. On these maiters the House 13 supreme. The governinent rather does its duty by indicating to the House, so far as its position ren- ders it right, when the public interesis may be served be reposiug confidence in those who hold public ofice, The rignt honorable geatlemanu las said muci in Wich Lam able to agree with regard Lo the position of this country, He, in the terms of bis motion, desires to Know’ What 1s our situation relatively to Lae war now going on. IL auswer, that our situation has been thal of a mediator as between the contendiag parties, Lt 1s now that of a friend. it has been the situation of a mediator, unsuccessful and yel uot odicious, because Une intervention un. dertaken by us was an intervention under treaty on the urgent appeal of France. The right honoravle gentleman, wit sometuing short of per cousistency, declares tat the candi- dature of tue Trince of Hohenzolleru for the Uirone of Spain bas bad really nothing to do in this matter, wud at the same time, in another portion of his speech, he treats {t as of such vital lmportance that he says it would have convicted us. of utter incapacity for holding our oMices if we had not been aware before it was piainly announced by the opposition of Frauce with regard wo the Prince Of Hohenzollern. Now, iam notable to take ad- vabtage of te scheme Which he provides for me When ie says tiai he ts sure, my Oficial position nob having changed, that J, at least, must have known everything avout lo take place, or that Was taking: Place, wiih respect to tual candidature, and could uot thereby be taken by surprise, Now, { frankly own that, as regards that particalar incident, tt did come on me in the nature of a surprise. Verhaps We ought Lo take that particular incident, and tike- Wise tue inode 1n Which 1t was received, as @ syiup- tum of the state of things—the high teusion or feciiug and the vast existeuce and eularge- ment of military establishments of the two Powers. That state of things caused great auxivty; at the same ume, altuongh it was not possible to contemplate it without apprehension Tor the future, that apprelension was not one the realization of which tere Was any reasoa to expect avupy given moment, And if we were unabie to foresee the luture-~if tue diplomatic servants of Lugiand were Unabie to joresee the nnmediate fu- fuse, Wey Were in precisely tie same Condition a8 Luc Ministry of ‘ance. Kor the Prime Minister of France, exactly one week before the appeal was made on this mutter as one of peace and war, of life aud death to the British goverument to tatervene, M, Ollivier, the Prime Minister of France, declurec ollcla that the poiitical atinosphere had never ap- ¥ ed 50 clear. Such are the contingencies und vicissitudes of this matter; bat [ will not dwell upom them, because there are other matters of more im- portance with Whicu l have to deal. In the charac- ter of mediator, When @ compiaint of France was made, we $0 far admitted the justice of tat com- plaint, although without ever adumitung tbat tt Would have Wairanted to our view a resort to arms, that we thougit for tie sake of ihe peace of Kurope and under all the circumstances of the case that the nomination of the Prince uf Hohenzoliern should be withdrawn. For that purpose the British governmentginierfered, aud my nobie friend, aided doubtless by similar eforts from other quarters was successful Ln procuring that witudrawal, Aud I need not say that 16 was adcep disappointment to us when, after that nomination had been set before asthe cause Of the exisicace of danger, and thas cause so declared had disappeared from view, We Tound the horizon was not ciear, We taen endea ored to Improve the position of matters between tose two great States by suggesting to France, who had givep us a Utle to Make such a suggestion, that she could not be justified in demanding from Prus- Sia an eugagemeht which Was to cover ail the un- seen contingencies of the future with respect to the throne of Spain and the Prmce of Holienzoliern, We represented to Prussia at the same Ume that 15 was but just that ag the King had been associated With tué nomination so he should responsibly wad visibly associate himself with the withdrawal. On the side of Prassia that purpose was gained, though, perhaps, its lirst reception by Count Bismarck had not veen favoradle. On the side of France tt was put aside by the occurrence of tho incldcug to Which the right honorable gentleman has ailuded in nounbecoming or inapplicable verms—the inci- dent of that supposed insult to the representative’ of France, which, as far a3 we have since been tuformed, appears tofnave Vanished tn thin alr, (Hear, hear.) We, ten, a3 a last attempt, made our appeal to that protocol of Paris, wulch we had always thought remained 48 @ uoble monument of soine real advance in civilization, as an acknow- ledgment of @ public authority in Christendom, which was to be entitled to exercise a coutrol overs the passions, the eaprices—nay, over the strongest convictions even that might be entertained by pare cular States, That appeal was tisclined by France as unsuitable to the case, It wus received by russia with the declaration tiat France had takea the inte uative io the war, and that undor si clrcun stances It Was impossible for Prussia to take the intut- ative in recommending mediation, Su We arrived as the outbreak of war, and the right nonoravie gentle- man NOW asks us Whatis Our position iu respect to vhat war, Our position 1s, as le has truiy said, hat of ancutral, Ishail presently aliude te the phrase that lie used when te said that we ought to ovueerve an armed neutrality. (Wear, dear.) As far as | koow the bistorie meaning of thy ‘i it is emineully unsticauie to the ces. An armed neutrality, If 1 remember the imstances to which the phrase has been authoritatively applied leap ots @ disposition of mind very lar, indecd, from that which we dope we way stil claim without reserve— an unequivocal friendliness to both parties ip Us une happy contest. (Hear, hear.) Unless 1 am greatty mistakea an armed neutrality Is the term which is commonly empioyed to indicate a state of things when anticipating war—considering yourself tn fear of War, YOu have not yet taken @ part, nor declared yourself, Asgcuted neutrauty, & neucratty backed