The New York Herald Newspaper, September 16, 1870, Page 6

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LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—A BIRD IN | HAND Is Woarn Two 1s Tue Busi, &0. NIBLO'S GARDEN. Drama or Hrawt's NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 45 Rowory.—GEanD | GERMAN UPERA~/20/AT0RE. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— LONDON ASSURANCE. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.-SHAKSPEARE’s | JULIUS Cassar, HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Va- ‘that he regards it as sufficient. roadway.—Tum New Domestic + NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPFEMBER 16, 1870,—TRIPLE SHEET, The German Army Before Paris—All Ready for the DefencesMore Dynastic Comptica~ ous. The sioge of Paris may bo regarded as hav- ing practically commenced, though no hostile | gun has been fired upon or from her fortifica- tions, Tho besieging army is calculated at four hundred thousand men. The defensive force is variously stated at from three hun- dred thousand to five hundred thousand men of all arms. Whatever bo its strenzth an address of General Trochu’s would indicate He feels assured, he says, that tho defence will be ad- | Seine, above and below the city, have been destroyed by the French, so as to keep the besieging army on the castern side of the city. The railroads on that side have been also de- ! stroyed; but those leading westward from Paris are still in operation. They may, how- ever, be broken up at any time by raids of the German cavalry. The city is said to be well provided for a siege, and the population is represented as resolu‘9 and determined to defend it to the last. A despatoh from Bouillon, ia Belzium, dated on the 14th inst., aaaounces that a por- tion of Bazaino’s army, comman ‘ed by Muir- | and is on the march toward Paris, and an apparently later despatch from the same place makes a like statement in regard to the have reached Carignan, ia the neighborhood ‘of Sedan, We regard the statement, how- ever, as rather apocryphal, From Strasbourg ‘ and the other besieged foriresses there is no | late information except the general assertion that not s French fortress has been yet cap- tured, The fortifications of Lyo s are reported as completed, and large levies of men are being raised, organized and armed iu all the cepart- | ments not invaded by the Germans, It is expected that about a million of Frenemen will soon be in arms for the defence of tho THEATRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadway.—Comto Vooar- TM, NEGRO Avy, &o. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, £85 Breaiway.— Nxouo Minsrurion, Fanos, BOR -RSQUED, ao. 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Be republic would not accept their tern; They could recognize it sufficiently (gen, it ‘scems, to propose terms to it, and only discovered that they could not treat wilh it when they found it would not betray iis trust. Tur Fentans iN IreLanp are said to be again in motion, inciled, no doubt, by the ex- pectation of the coming ‘‘opportunity.” Like sensible fel following the example of their brethren in this country, their first move was after the money, It appears that their plans were all ready to make a raid on the Branch Bank of Ireland, in Cork. Had they got their fingers into the vaults they would have made a good haul to start a commissariat department upon. Tue Case or Samuer D. Mornis, the Brook- lyn District Attorney, who is charged by his political enemies of the ‘‘ring” with misappro- priation of put eys, has been referred by Governor Hoffman to Mr. De Witt, Corpora- tion Counsel, for a new tion. The Governor overruled the demurrer of Morris’ counsel. Morris, who was assailed by astrong combination, made a siurdy fight of it the first time, but we shal! probably never gee the end of it now. iavestig Mowry Anp Peace.—Ii is as frightened money will se as that water will seek ils level. nent of Europe is in great part unt of war. Hence for the past few weeks money has been accumulating in London, the ‘“‘nation of shopkeepers” being most likely to keep out of the struggle. The decuoalation is so great in the English capital that the Bank of England yesterday reduced its discount rate to three per cent, Itwas seven per ceni a few days after Napoleon declared war. The movement is now extending to our own country, for the Canadian banks are giving Wall 9 all the gold it will take. true that countries ‘he Conti- e panic k peac country. The abortive blockade of the Elbe and Weser by the French flac: has been abandoned. It was of no real advantage to France, aud the men and material engaged ian it can be of more service at home. It seems that we havo not yet heard the last of M. Taiers’ mission to London. Yester- day he was represented as asserting that ho did not know the republican goverument of | France. To-day we are assured, on equally reliable authority, that he had received fur- ther instructions from the republican govern- ment, and had not quite abandone1 his efforts at peace negotiations or given up all hopes of success. But the most significant intima- tions in regard to his mission are the con- necting of it with some scheme fer the restora- tion of royalty in the person of one of the Orleans princes. Of course such a scheme has evidently been one of the possibilities of the situation, but we had not regarded it as among the probabilities. M. Thiers, how- | ever, is represented as having been the bearer” | of an important communication from General Trochu to the Duc d’Aumale, and as having had long interviews with members of the Or- leans family, recently streagthened by the | arrival from Brazil of the Count d’Eu, son-in- | law of the Brazilian Ismpziu, wad env ve tee princes of the House of Orleans. The moan- ing of all this is that General Trocha may ast the part of General Lafayette when he placed Louis Philippe on the throne of Francs, and of General Monk, when he restored the English monarchy in tie person of Charles the Second. This is one of the directions in which French | affairs may turn, But evidently the King of Prussia does not yet contemplate that contingency, or at least ; does not throw out any hints of the kind. Tae programme which is laid out for and at- tributed to him, and which has the air of pro- bability to supp ort it is that as soon as Paris is in his hands he will summon back the Re- gency, the Senate and the Corps Législatif, , which he regards as the de jure government of France, and arrange a treaty of peace, with commissioners to be appointed by those bodies,-and will, after the ratification of such treaty, restore Napoleon to liberty and to France and let France then choose her own government. But one of the conditions of peace is to be the cession to Germany of the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. Even if the King were inclined to forego that condi- tion public opinion in Germany would enforce it upon him. The one great obstacle, however, to the car- rying out of this programme is the resistance je the | which Paris will make to the besiegers. If defended with the bravery, skill and deter- mination which we hope to see displayed in its defence, and if its supplies of food, water and munitions do not fail, the German armies may see themselves compelled to raise the siege and to retreat back across the Rhine, fortunate if they are able to get back. The events of the next few days will probably fur- nish indications by which to judge of the result ofthe siege. May it be auspicious to the republic and to the principles of popular government. Tne Postrion of Great Briratn.—Great Britain will not commit herself, She will not be French, She will not be Prussian. M. Thiers has talked to Earl Granville in vain. Why is Great Britain so chary? 1s it wisdom or is it weakness? How different since the days of William Pitt! England against the world was Pitt’s policy. England for herself is the policy of Granville and the statesmen of the hour, Perhaps, after all, Granville is right. The shopkeepers don’t want war, and the shopkeepers now rule. To engage in a European war would not now pay, and therefore England will not have it. On all hands the mighty are falling. The atti- tude of Great Britain is therefore the less to be wondered at. The new bully is to be found north of the Rhine. Tue Porsontnse Case IN BLoomFIEtp, N. J., wherein two negroes, a man and a woman, for some fancied slight attempted to poison a whole family, is suggestive. One of these negroes, tle man, was fresh from the South, and no doubt entertained to an exaggerated degree that intense hatred of whites which is too often to be found among the freedmen, and which, no doubt, was engendered by slavery. The woman was easily led off by this fiendish fellow, and on the first faint excuse he sets her on to the terrible deed that we have already recorded. mirably sustained. The bridges over the | | shal Canrobert, has cut its way oul of Melg | whole of Bazaiae’s army, which is said to | Paris Isolnted and New York tho World’s Safe Depenitory. As we goto press this morning Paris cither is, orin a few hours will be, completely cut off from the outer world, The Prussian lines, long threateninz, long drawing more and moro | tightly around the doomed city, will have closed in upon it with the deadly weight of the anaconda, stifling and crushing its prey. Buit which overy scale and link bas separate intel- ligence and covers an independent sting. Each coil thrown around Paris bristles with | bayonets and is ready to blaze forth with the | deadly fire of besieging gunz. The whilom | gay capital of the most joyous and volatile | people on eafth feels itself suddenly surrounded and confronted, close up to the very margin of its pleasure grounds, by a stern, relent- less foe, overpowering in numbers, of iron discipline, and still reeking with the dust and blood of victory. Weil may the boautiful and voluptuous city quako to her innermost boule- yards and prepare herself as those only prepare who feel that their last hour impends, Well, too, may capi.al, trade and peaceful enterprise floe in utter dismay from such a scene of ruin. Bankers, merchants, wealthy speculators, people of fashion and artistic euse, have hastily departed. Coin, plate, paintings and statuary, elegant furniture, raro | curiosities and costly books—in flue, all things portable of beauty and value have ‘been gathered up and sent away, so far as possible, | in these breathless days of terror that have preceded the march of the Germans from Sedan on Paris. But as we carefully scan our aogeaichon from every part of Europe and ponder the universal agitation that they reveal the ques- tion instaaily arises: Whither shall capital and valuables be taken with tho perfect assur- ance of sffcty? Italy and the Iberian Peninsula are ‘red hot” with suppressed popular passion; Switzerland is remote and isolated among her mountains; Germany, Austria and Russia are in actual war fever, or on the verge of it; Holland, Belgium and the Scandinavian countries are liable at any moment to be overrun in their feebleness by their more powerful and now exasperated neighbors. Where, then, is the refuge? No one thinks of Russia, since a general disturb- ance must ivevitably involve her, and that such disturbance is at hand none but the wilfully blind can fail to see. Of course Greece, with her banditti, Turkey, with the “sick man,” failing daily more and more, and Egypt, merely a half-established viceroyalty as yet, are ludicrously out of the question, What is left? Js, it England? Ab! she had tbat prestige of safety in the days when Wellington studded every week's history with British triumphs oa land and Nelson swept theseas. But Wellington an! Nelson are both dead, and steam and electricity have made the |. English Channel but a creek. Toe old island group is by them rendered Continental. An hour or two of time neutralizes the Straits of Dover, and, disguise it as the dreamers of the past may still attempt to do, there is trouble, deep, widespread, all-embracing trouble close to the surface in London, in Birmingham, in Leeds, in Liverpool, in all the mines, in all the mill towns and districts, in the army and in the navy, wureerer tha toiling poople and their real representatives are thrown wy ctuer in masses, This very week has been signal- ized by their murmurs, and the days that fol- low are regarded with unfeigned apprehen- sion, do what paid employs of the govern- ; ment will to belittle the crisis, In one word, the strong box of Great Britain is no longer secure, and we need not conjure up Ireland and the Fenians while British artisans cheer the republic in the streets of London. There is, then, but one real asylum left for capital and substantial moneyed interests, and that is found in the United States. Union and tranquillity have been reatored. Liberty reigns here with peace and order. Our unoccupied domain is endless; the resources on the soil, in it and under it, are without limit; nascent cities call aloud for builders and owners; rail- roads and new river and lake transportation implore moneyed aid for grand developments ; opportunilies and profits invite on all sides, and the broad Atlantic on the one hand and still broader Pacific on the other separate us from the broils and the ambition of the turbu- lent Old World. Pack up your crown jewels, your baubles and your knicknacks, oh! ye princes and potentates just going out of busi- ness, and send them hither tous, Let the Roths- childs and the Torlonias transfer their stocks and bonds and coin and bills to this favored shore. Popes, emperors, kings and queens, with endless trains of artistic, financial and mercantile princes can all find room, shelter, welcome and employment in the great repub- lic. The centre of exchange, as of intellectual power, is shifting visibly while we gaze. The highdst grandeurs of Venice, Genoa and Leg- horn ia the South ; of the old Hanseatic cities in the North, and of Amsterdam and Rotter- dam, as money changers, are past; and now Paris has gone into total eclipse and London trembles downward to her suaset. The West- ward star of empire is in the zenith of New York. { Toe Law Mave Terrmpre.—A _ garroter named Egan was sentenced yesterday to eighteen years and six months imprisonment in the State Prison at hard labor by Judge Bedford for complicity in the robbery of a Mr. Jackson in his shop on Amity sireet last March. Two others, who were known as desperate thieves, were sentenced to twelve years and six months for highway robbery on Cherry street, and a fourth for a similar offence was sentenced for ten years. Here, then, are four desperate thieves effectually disposed of for a long time to come, four thieves less for honest citizens of the present generation to dread—four thieves cut off from the power of doing evil almost as completely as if they were hanged. Therein lies one excellent effect of such unflinching justice, but a better effect of it lies in the fact that it makes the law terrible. Ii will prove a warn- ing to other thieves and stay their hands for some time, The hardiest burglar in exist- ence dreads such a term as these youag vil- lains have received as he would death, and is not likely, with the thought of them fresh in his memory, to- risk such a precious slice of his existence for the insignificant booty which burglars are usually satisfled to capture even in their most desperate enterprises the great serpent in this caso is a mass of | The Attitude of Prussia, The attitude of Prussia as reported in our @eapaiches from London and Berlin is without parallel in tho history of civilized nations, | Assuming that she will overcome all further operations, and that she will occupy Paris, she then proposes to ignore the government a government of her own creation, and which, because it will be of her owncreation, we must suppose will be made up of her creatures, Itwill | be, it is said, made up of the Representative Assembly and the Senate, and of the Ragent, to be conjured over from England in order that she may sign anything to secure the freedom of her husband. With this creature of Prus- sian power—this simulacrum of a govern- ment—Prussia will treat for the surrender of France, for delivering over in chains a con- qnered people. Doubtless Prussia's creatures will give Prussia whatever she may choose to demand; for, asin all this assembly called together to represent France there will be no one with authority or spirit to speak for the conquered people, a treaty may be easily made. This is government conducted on the princi- ples that prevail in our metropolis. How often have we seen the plunderers of our city treasury bothered by the accidental presence of an obstinately honest man in charge of the city funds! But the trouble never lasted long, for at the next election the plunderers would put one of their own men in that place and then draw all the money they called for. So now Prussia finds the revolutionary gov- ! ernment inconvenient, It will not recognize her exorbitans claims, I+ will not listen to the proposition to cedo French territory. So Prussia will put her own menin the place of these, and then will get what sho likes. Among any people in Europe some generons instinct would revolt at such conduct, but the Prussian wields a newly acquired power, and generosity comes not within gunshot of the King’s headquarters. No creature with a sense of self-respect makes an abusive use of casual supremacy. Nobody, from the schoolboy up, but exercises some restraint and refrains from mutilating his enemy when heis down. Prussia only seems regardless of this human rule. She will not only kick her enemy when he is down, but she will quarter him ; only before she pro- ceeds to this extremity she will call in the notaries and have him mako his will in her favor, This is the spirit manifested by the government that has suddenly leaped to the first position among the armed Powers of Europe. “Republican ‘or Cossack in fifty years.” What is.there in the Cossack worse than this? And this Cossack nature makes itself felt in the name of the great, enlightened, intelligent German people, from whom, sirce the age of Arminius, the world has heard so much of its aspirations for freedom and brotherhood. But we must make allowances, The beggar on horacback proverbially rides very far. It is new for Germany to be able to dictate terms to France, or to any one else; and she is, therefore, but little ac- quainted with the limits that even conquerors are accustomed to respect. Europe at large— England, Austria and Russia, at leasi—must look on with strange tee.ings at the Power that propeesa thus ta odminigter upon the eftcuts of France, in the name of peace and In order ‘‘to bo let alone” in the future. None of these Powers, it seems, will inter- fere. England dare not, Austria dare not, and Russia will not act alone. Fear and their absorbing selfishness govern them; but time will show that this is their own quarrel. Why does Prussia desire to tie down France and have a military frontier between resistance that France may opposo to her | de facto—to set asido the men she finds in | authority, aud to sat up in the place of power ‘The Republic Marching Om, “Lat et wmme gahn /” we said in an article | published three weeks ago, and predicting | revolution and the republic as. the necessary next consequenco of the complications in France. The phrase was a species of slogan or watchword in one of the old North German dialects in cortain remarkable days, and now | its use and application have come again. The interpretation, “Let it go round!” is being | wondronsly fulfilled. The republic has been | proclaimed and accepted by all Franco with- | out the cost of a single life, notwithstanding the open sneers and secret hostility of those eternal foes of popular progress who were the friends of France while she represented military despotism, and are her snarling enemies to-day, when she stands forth grandly and nobly for the people. But these pests of & liberal epoch grow fewer and feebler every | hour, and each reaction that they plan is paltrier than the one that went before. The voice of the third French republic has electrified Europe. Wherever it has penetrated true: patriotism and genius have leaped up tothe summons. Spain, Italy, Iceland respond with enthusiasm, and Eng- land, the very stronghold of aristocratic con- servatism, thrills to-night with a more real and earnest popular inspiration than she has felt since the days of Cromwell. Moreover, were it not that German feeling is, for the moment, identified with the causo of united Fatherland as typified in the existing war, and it would look like graccless desertion, of the toilwarn veterans in the field, vivas for ‘‘die republik” would be heard, while we write, in the streots of Berlin, Dresden and Munich as they have been heard already (our latest despatches tell us) in the cities of Brunswick, Nowhere in all Europe was there a more general, deter- mined and well considered republican mani- festation made during the heroic days of 1848 than in the German capitals, Baden was ono wide battle fleld where the hastily equipped patriot armies under Mieroslawski yielded only after hard fighting to the terrible explosive bullets of tho Prussian regulars. Twenty-two years have passed since those gigantic struggles. The people have twice the thdught, education, organization, earnestness and resources that they then possessed. The songs of Freiligrath and of Kinkel and the words of Rober: Blum live a vivid life in their memories; Fatherland has become one in its aspiration; for lberty as for a national existence. At Strasbourg, at Metz, and now at Paris, the French people, as contradistinguished under their real tri- color from the frand of the 24 of Decem- ber, will, in the glories of their supremo reverse, have again inflamed tho enthusiasm of their armed adversaries and have awak- ened the pity and sympathy of their demo- cratic brethren beyond the Rhine. The German soldiery may return thither with the fall of the autumn leaves singing their own version of the ‘‘Marseillaise.” The republic, then, is marching on. One by one the withes of monarchical impediment are snapping asunder before her advancing | steps. One by one the good and wise men of all lands; the true, fresh, bright natures in all régions of the earth are recognizing her doctrines a3 the only guarintecs of permanent order, “peace and UNTISURD wali ghteausnt, wud to tha romotast bounds of Europe millions greet her name with enthusiasm who, but a generation since, scarcely comprehended tho word. Bat the steam engine is, indeed, a democrat, and elec- tricity is the Ariel of practical progress, The surrounding and neighboring States can no more remain for any length of time darkened with sianding armies and overshadowed with this Power and herself? Is it that she may live in peace? Nonsense. Nono know better than the Prussian statesman that their surest guarantee of future peace as regards France is their present triumph. None know better than they that after this war Prussia dare not keep the peace—that she must in three or the gothic lumberwork of thrones while the republic shines out from the watch towers of Franco than the planets and their satel- lites could continue in ‘primeval night after the central sun began to glow in the firmament. Wendell Phillips? New Reform. four years have another conquest on hand or have a German republic. They tie down France in order that she, the Power that can 4o most against them, may surely be counted Gut from the next fizht. Here are Belgium 4nd Holland prostrate at the feet of Prussia, and she wants them. England stands in the way and the guarantces of Russ!a and Austria ; but with France tled down these three Powers cannot prevail to prevent the purpose of Prus- sia. Prussia could seize and occupy Belgium before England could land twenty thousand troops. Austria would violate her engage- ment, as she has always done, when it suited. Russia would be the only one to fight, and the nation that has crushed the military power of France would crush that of Austria in a shorter time. By their present conduct the “neutral” Powers are preparing their own future. A Goop ExampLe From Jersey.—Jersey justice is generally swift, and is often based as much upon common senge as upon the techni- calities of law. Asa case in point: A couple of New York rowdies visited Hoboken the other day, evidently intent upon making mis- chief, and carrying money enough in their pockets to pay any fine which might be im- posed in case they fell into the hands of the police. They so conducted themselves at an excursion party by insulting the female members of the company so _ grossly that they were brought before a Jersey justice, who administered to them a taste of Jersey law. The Judge said that in ordinary cases the punisument would be simply a fine; in this case, as it appeared that the de- linquents had deliberately “imported” New York rowdyism into Jersey, with the intention of buying their amusement with a small fine, for which they were amply provided, he would let them know that Jersey stood upon her rights. So he sent the rascals to the. city jail fora month. This is a good example, which might be followed here. We notice that Jersey is far ahead of us in the prompt discharge of judicial and police duty, from the hanging of a murderer to the imprisonmeat of a rowdy. A Fairy Qvarret. —General Cadorna, commanding the Italian troops advancing on Rome, says if any act of brutality is com- mitted by the Papal Zouavos he will kill all the foreigners in that command, which would pro- bably iuclude a majority-of the whole force. The General evidently looks upon the fight as a family quarrel that outsiders have no right to meddle with, Wendell Phillips has written a letter setting forth his prohibitory views. He enters upon the canvass resolutely, determined appa- rently to win by a clear enunciation of his and his party’s anti-drinking principles and without any weak denial of his faith. How he will harmonize the ideas of the labor reform party—whose candidate he also is— with those of the prohibitionists is a question of strategy that Wendell’s superior brain may possibly master ; but among the laboring men of Massachusetts there certainly are a large number who like their beer or alo after a day's hard work, and who consequently, hav- ing to choose between the two, are very likely to prefer beer or ale to Wendell. This is ona difficulty that his candor in politics has already raised against him, and another is the fact that in his latest letter he scolds and denounces the republican party. We can hardly compre- hend the idea of a democrat voting for him, and he seems determined that the republicans shall have good excuse for rejeeting him. Altogether we think that the great agitator really does not care to be Governor of Massa- chusetts, as he, indeed, admits, and that he is only conducting the campaign for the purpose of inaugurating a new reform—that of can- dor and truth in politics, et Stirrixa Tem Up.—The frequent com- munications published in the HERALD and our comments thereon relative to the imperfect enumeration of the census have sttrred up the officials considerably. Geueral Sharpe in his address (o the people of the Southern district ofNew York denies that there is any irregu- larity in the mode of taking the census. He represents the deputy marshals as almost immaculate, and complains that they have been obstructed in the performance of their duty on several occasions by reticent or indig- nant citizens, That may be. A census mar- shal at the door, with a book and pencil in his hand, looks so like a tax collector that some timid people become alarmed and get rid of him with as few words as possible. Our com- ‘ments and the action of the Mayor have pro- duced one good effect, however. General Sharpe announces that he will keep his office in Chambers street open during five hours a day for ten days for the purpose of hearing complaints from non-enumerated parties, and he promises to remedy their grievances. We recommend everybody, then, who has any fault to find to step up to the captain's office aud settle the difficulty. Inly pair. the Pope. Italy marches to Rome. King Victor Bman- uel is once again the child of fortune. The crowning of the hopes of the Italian people is now so easy of accomplishment that the full value of the opportunity is not sufficiently ap- preciated. Mazzini looked for a grand row and a fair opportunity for spectacular demon Stration, So, too, did Garibaldi, But the crowning of the edifice in Italy dies not find any necessity for the services of Mazzini or Garibaldi. The cry igs for the King. In a few more hours we shall hear that Victor Emanael has entered Rome; that Rome has been pro- claimed the capital of Italy; that the Pope is | the subject or the prisoner of the Italian King, and that the wrongs of centuries have been peacefully righted. There are many now ask- ing the question, What ‘will the Pope do? What can hedo? Nobody offers to fight for | him. Since the days of Charlemagne the Pope of Rome has in name always, and often in fact, been the greatest of Christian rulers. Emperors many have courted his favor, and some of them have found it necessary to bow the knee before him. To-day the fact is patent to the world that no monarch is so poar as todo him reverence, With universal con- sent this mockery of temporal sovereignty known as the Popedom is allowed to die, The Pope does not seem willing to go to Malta, where many think he would bo happy. It is not wonderful that the Holy Father thinks | twice before consenting to become the guest of a heretic Power like Great Britain. In Rome the Pope may still be happy’ if he will only consent to stay. Victor Emanuel is tho last man in the world to wish todo bimharm. A despatch which we print this morning shows how Victor Emanuel feels and how he has been compelled to bow to this force of events. We could wish to see the Holy Father in Now York. It has always been our convictioa that the New World is his proper sphere. If the Old World is sick of him, as it seems to be, why should he not come to the New World, which allows its heart to go out to him with filial affection? In Rome, however, the last of the Popes is likely to dio. May he die in peace. The New Zealander of Lord Macaulay becomes less and less a possibility. Mean- while the good fortune of the Italian King ia to be noticed. Victor Emanuel may yet die with the Papal benediction. ~ <t ‘Tho Neutral (Powers and the War. -- Tae neutral Powers have been placed in a peculiar position by the war. The results of the war have proved a surprise. A3 we have said, once and again, it was not at the outset expected that the balance of power would be seriously affected. Naturally enough, therefore, the neutral Powers looked on as unconcerned spectators. Latterly, how- ever, it is manifest uaconcern has given placa to jealousy and fear. Russia and Austria have in consequence become officious. Great Britain, with characteristic caution and with not a little cunning, stands aloof. Russia and Austria, if report speaks true, advise Prussia and recommend peace. Great Britain gives no advice, offers no recommendation. The great nentral Powers are therefore divided. Russia and Austria take one course. Great, Britain takes another. Which course is sright? To answer this qneatto® ‘Properly % we must consider the position of Prussia. Prussia did not begin the war. The war was forced upon her. If France had been successful France would most assuredly have marched upon Berlin and would most certainly have insisted on the annexation of the Rhine provinces. France did, in fact, avow this purpose. We do not say tliat, had Prussia been humbled, the neutral Powers would not have interfered. But we do say that victorious France wou!d have clung to her purpose. France has not been succegsful. . Prussia has, Has not Prussia a fair Tight to to march on and dictate feaci if not from the Tuileries at least under the walls of Paris? Fair play is a jewel all the world round and all the world through. Have we a right to say ‘that Russia and Austria are right in attempting to make Prussia halt be- fore she has done her work? Would Russia, would Austria, have halted where they now, both of them, bid Prussia halt? They would not. No Power would. No Power durst, King William may be wrong in standing by the defuact government, which was certainly based on the popular will, and in despising the actual government, which is self-consti- tuted. But mo one can deny that King William has the right to be satisfied that in settling this question, which has cost his people so much blood and so much treasure, he has a right to deal with the representatives of the French nation. Great Britain does not stand in the way of King William's purpose; Ithough ia so acting Great Britain may be sélfish, who has a right, as yet, to say that she is wrong? It is our conviction that this war is about to be ended; that, in fact, it must be ended. The original cause of the war no longer exists, France has ceased to be aggressive. Germany is sick of bloodshed. Europe, in all its length and breadth, trembles for possible conse- quences, It is more than possible that those Powers which stand aloof, waiting for a fitting opportunity to interfere, are doing quite as much in the interests of peace and a final and satisfactory settlement as those who are offi- cious and meddlesome. Prussia is the vic- tor, and Prussia must be allowed to make her terms in her own way. While Richmond was being invested would we have allowed any Power to dictate to us how to treat the foe ? Certainly not. While, therefore, we hope and pray that Paris may bo spared, let us be just. The neutral Powers must be left to decide for themselves. Prvssta. Datves On.—Prussia Joses no time. Whatever else may be done she will not, for she dare not, delay. Already it is pretty late in the season to be only where she is—in the centre of the enemy's country, with the possibilities of a siege before her, anda long line of supplies behind. It is the middle of September, with very hot days and very cold nights, and this for men who live in all the discomforts aud exposures of the march and bivouac meais fever—a general epidemic of fever, more or less typhoid in type. For a month to come this trouble will be worse every day. In the country in which the Prus- sians must now encamp dysentery of a fatal kind is epidemic every year, Camp life aggra- vates all these tendencies. Before them, there~