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France devolves of the United interfere more f the Germans a time of peace. the number of t two millions, in Paris alone, large German Ave merchant! , 3alth of their, France migh t ent that their ['ship to its an evil t 0 [uguenots 1) ) . the French be conteste['• nful necessity'• I policy. W e ssurances have, the rumour o the German' Ind of Patti re should I )° er, that about nvited to leave temoustratione he L and wehr eight thousand f these are said papers, as wel l aain, which 311 lugust 4, ba d ,untries of the Wurtemburg , Grand MIX fter that delay ni.—Netv renders i t around MeV, has 'gained 5 sated 6 , Metz, s engagement the - f ortifictv Le advant o 4 e s raught with ce and cozy battle-field s, Inds of hura o limit can Ye t Every devic e 'ed for sweep' is brought t 0 3ady rivers 0 more dare to N . ° statemen ts It is all g uess' lay that they e French a c " stained bog ;sure us that ,ho predicte d z would 1 31 . 1 i to real/0 dio may be an' a conclusio' Putting other t, for this 10 all in all, the e. Napoleon warned the' bloody war' can hesitate were ;la ~we wer e but which il l she inevitable is been gold d for days t° , and tratO" certain that hotly con' rerything :ontest unt il it comn30(11 n, it means Sts of .ti r et* cs \lna' at coin rathe r le have o'll risen to t . , we for Lin 0 :. thels done und er ias not, been are equal l y ush of vie. no chang re has been protracte d ' hanging tha t may Pe rish ,. will neve r er exertioll that thel ;h the RoY!, big that VI the prese!' l , onsiderati o. : will recoil'''. specially ter, and tl ie ie college. our pre s s He tak e e were 1 1 ° 5 le Gernle,t, ;ountry, ;o rest sat r not in ou but in fi l l thority tnt o nstances he amralil l _ r stable stat e ' is 180 guy' mcludespi of State f° t .3 viewed 1 . 1 .1 ca l error 1' ich that thet labour J . 115 the countLi • RecrulP readily / ig p er vade, linate to nd uently 11:11 , aedies 13 5 / 3 pheres, Air e f the vil: 0 : r f or thl o lisplayl the Pi n ons, sore ; in rhen eo , nes in l i t t cure. oh n thron,, constant ._ [ am pstea d ' e of T. 1-i. ger ra o _ l , 1 Brixto real, Vs 4'' I‘ , hora.-. ,nk, A Ca os ent-street' al, of 111 ' 8 of b i°3 he id of CRYSTAL PALACE.-SHILLING DAY. 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The Banff lifeboat, it was stated, went out to the brig Regina, of S wine munde, which had patted one cable while at anchor in a perilous position, and brought ashore the crew of nine men. The lifeboat had to encounter a heavy sea in going to and from the vessel. The tubular lifeboat Willie and Arthur, on the New Brighton station, also did good service in rescuing five persons from the stranded smack Rattler, of Liver pool. The Odd Fellows' Lifeboat, Manchester Unity, was likewise launched in reply to signals of distress, and saved the crews, consisting of eleven men, of two wrecked vessels. £5 were also granted to the crew of the fishing smack Laurel, of Ramsgate, for rescuing the crew of nine men of the brigantine Dublin Lass, of Guernsey, which went on Margate Sands in thick weather, the wind blowing hard from the S.S.W. Va rious rewards were likewise voted to the crews of other shore boats for putting off from our coasts on the occasion of shipwrecks and saving life. Payments to the amount of £2,500 had been made on different lifeboat stations during the past two months. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (Manchester Unity) had recently sent the society £5O, as their contri bution for the past year, towards the maintenance of their lifeboat stationed at Cleethopes, which has since been instrumental in saving the lives of two shipwrecked crews. Captain A. It Weston, of the steamship Surat, had also transmitted a further collection of £35 18s. he had made on behalf of the Simla Lifeboat Fund. The late Mr. Charles Lloyd, of Kennington, who had passed his earlier days at sea, and who had been providentially preserved from drowning on nine several occasions, had bequeathed the sum of £5OO to the institution to defray the cost of a lifeboat. New lifeboats had been sent by the institution during the past month to Seaham, county Durham, and to Banff, N.B. At both those places demonstrations had been arranged to take place on the occasion of the first launch of the boats, and, in addition, the Seaham Lifeboat had been publicly exhibited at Harrogate, en route to its station, its cost having been contributed to the society through the indefatigable exertions of the Misses Carter, of the last-named town. It was decided to form a new Lifeboat Station at the mouth of the Boyne, in Ireland. Reports were read from the inspector and the assistant-inspector of lifeboats to the institution on their recent visits to the coast, and the proceedings terminated. GIIARGE OF LIBEL AGAINST A BARRISTER. Mr. Cornelius Walford, barrister-at-law and insurance manager, of 76 and 77, Cheapside, attended yesterday at the Mansion House, before Alderman Hale, to answer a summons which charged him with unlawfully writing and publishing a certain false, malicious, defamatory, and scurrilous libel of and concerning one Arthur Bower Far wood, contrary to the statute. Serjeant Parry in opening the case said that the defend ant was a gentleman of position and education, and he had been connected with several public companies, and was also the proprietor and editor and manager of a publication called the " Insurance Times." and the libel complained of was inserted in that publica tion on the 10th of August. The prosecutor was a mer chant at Liverpool, and also a director of the West India and Pacific Steam Navigation Company, and the libel appeared to be connected with one of their vessels, called the Venezuelan, which sailed on the sth of March from Liverpool on a voyage to Barbadoes. The ves sel, it appeared, got into difficulties, and on the 16th of March it appeared the passengers and mails were taken out of her on board a French ship, called the Camilla, which was bound for New York. At that place the purser of the vessel sent intelligence to her owner stating what had occurred, but representing that the ship was not in a dangerous state. After this it appeared that a sensational account of the accident to the Vene zuelan appeared in one of the Liverpool papers, an d the prose cutor and a gentleman named Ismay effected an insurance upon the Venezuelan for £2,000 at fifty guineas per cent. premium. The defendant was alleged upon this to have inserted an article in the Insurance Times, charging, in point of fact, that the prosecutor had been guilty almost of an act of gross swindling in under writing the Venezuelan at such an enormous premium, when as it was alleged, he was aware that the vessel was really not in any danger, and there was nothing in the circumstances connected with her condition that would have justified asking such an excessive premium.. The case on the part of the prosecution was that the prosecutor had done all in his power to make the actual condition of the vessel known to Lloyds, and to the public generally, and that in point of fact no fraud what ever had been contemplated or committed. Mr. J. C. Kane, formerly sub-editor and proprietor of the Insurance Times, proved that he became acquainted with the defendant in March last, and he transferred the paper to him under an agreement. The witness then proved that the article complained of was written by the defendant, who had the entire management of the paper. He also stated that the defendant had invited him to " get up " some correspondence in relation to these trans actions and to marine insurance generally, and he refused to do so. Mr. Lane, the publisher of the Insurance Times, was here called upon to produce a certain letter signed " Mer chant," but he declined to do so or to answer any ques tions, on the ground that it might implicate him in a criminal charge.--The objection was allowed.—Mr. Kane went on to say that he had a dispute with the defendant at the end of July, and his connection with the paper ceased shortly afterwards. He then stated that portions of letters, under the signatures of " M erc h ant, " " Liverpool Merchant, "An Indignant Merchant and Actuary," were in the handwriting of the defendant. (These letters were put in and read. They contained strong comments uponthe supposed swindle referred to by the defendant in the alleged libeL) Cross-examined : After he left the defendant he went back to the office and obtained possession of the documents that had been produced. He considered that they were his property. He had not had any conversation with Mr. Farwood or Mr. Ross (the gentlemen who had effected the insurance upon the Venezuelan) before he obtained possession of the docu ments. He acted under the advice of his solicitor in the course he adopted, and it was his own solicitor who introduced him to Mr. Webb, the solicitor of Mr. Far wood, in the present prosecution. Mr. Farwood, the prosecutor, was then called. He deposed that he was a member of the firm of Leech, Farwood, and Co. , of Manches ter , Liverpool, and London, and was the managing director of the West India and Pacific Mail Steam Packet Com pany. Witness had also been an underwriter at Lloyd's for sixteen years, and Mr. Ross acted as his agent in London. The defendant was formerly director of the Accidental Marine Insurance Corporation, which was wound up in 1866, and witness was a creditor of that Corporation. At the time the Accidental was wound up he had some communications with the defendant. The Venezulan, the vessel that was referred to in the Insurance Times, sailed on the sth of March, and he heard nothing of her until the 31st of March, when he received a telegram to the effect that the vessel had been transferred to the Camilla, and was to be taken to New York. The telegram also stated that although the rudder had been torn away the pro peller was intact. He communicated this telegram im mediately to the Liverpool Underwriters' Association, and he expected it would have been sent to Lloyd's, in London, and it was with that object that he gave them the information. On the 13th of April he received a telegram announcing that forty guineas premium had been paid on the Venezuelan, and that fifty could pro bably be obtained during the day, and inquiring whether " a line " should be written at fiLy guineas premium. On the morning of the 14th of April he accidentally met Mr. Ismay, a ship owner at Liverpool and London, and they agreed to underwrite the Venezuelan to the amount of £2,000, at fifty guineas premium. At this time he had read a sen sational article in the Liverpool Courier, copied from the New York Times, in reference to what had happened to the Venezuela. After making this engagement with Mr. Ismay, he went to his office and found a letter from the captain of the Venezuelan. (This was put in. It was to the effect that the injuries sustained by the Venezuelan had been very much exaggerated, and that he had no fear of losing the vessel.) This letter did not at all inter fere with the engagement he had made with Mr. Ismay, and he sent a telegram to Mr. Ross, his agent at Lloyd's, directing him to insure to the extent of a,OOO upon the Venezuelan, at "£5O premium," or " better." The telegram also called his attention to the article in the Liverpool Courier relating to the Vene zuelan. Witness sketched out a letter to the Liverpool Underwriters' Association directly he received the captain's letter , informing them that the statement in the Liverpool ' Courier relating to the Venezulan was very much exaggerated, and that the captain had no fear for the safety of the vessel. He gave the secretary of the Liverpool Associa tion liberty to publish this letter, and it appeared in one of the London papers on the following day, and it was also posted up at the rooms at Liverpool. The insurances were effected as he had advised, and he became aware that the vessel had arrived safe at New York on the 30th of April. The prosecutor then stated that he distinctly understood the articles complained of in the Insurance Times to apply to himself and Mr. Ross. The amount he received upon the transaction was £225, and he had refused to refund the money. There was no truth in the statement that he had ever had v anything to do with insurance frauds of any description, and he considered that the charges made against him were false from beginning to end. At this stage of the case the inquiry was adjourned. OIL 12 , , - .Pocket Filters, 3s. 6i ENQLISH NEUTRALITY. Naturally enough, both Prussia and France are dis satisfied with the course which is being pursued by British merchants under the Neutrality laws. Each declares that the other is the most favoured, and both indulge in open denunciation. Prussia asserts that England practi cally allows her territory to become the French base of naval operations against the coasts of North Germany, by supplying French ships with coal. She also asserts that England is a magazine from which France can draw any amount of war material. France, on the other hand, complains that English merchants are, sup plying Prussia freely with everything she needs and that both the English Government and people sympathise with that country to an extent which impairs their neu trality. Between the two, England is in a fair way to get the ill-will of both belligerents, just as she did in the rebellion in this country, and yet it is said by her Government that she is strictly fulfilling all the duties of a neutral under the law of nations. The accepted rule now is that neutral ships may carry what they choose to either belligerent, excepting " contraband of war," and to any port which is not blockaded. All goods are declared to be contraband which ate specially required for war purposes, such as arms and amhiunition, and even such goods may be sup plied without offence, subject only to the risk of capture. Under these rules it will be readily seen that in case one of the belligerent Powers has a strong war marine, and the other a weak one, the former possesses a great advan tage. This was the case with the North and South during our war, and it is the case now with France as against Prussia. France has a strong navy, and is able to keep a sharp watch, and almost entirely prevent the sup ply of contraband goods to Prussia , while there is no im pediment to trade with France. So long ars the lawremains as it is, a commercial people like the English will be pretty sure to take advantage of it, and the result will be that they will have the ill-will of the belligerent which suffers most, and very likely of both. Nations, like individuals, are sure to resent hostile interference when they are engaged in a contest, even though that interference may not be prompted by sympathy . . Eng lish dealers supply the French fleet with coal, and send large numbers of horses to France, and Prussia very naturally complains, although it is clear that she does so upon insufficient legal grounds. Still the fact exists that a serious ill-feeling toward England prevails in Prussia, while England is lavishing all its sympathy and " moral support" upon Prussia. Considerable discussion is taking place in England on this subject, and much regret is expressed that the cordial feeling between Prussia and Great Britain has been disturbed. The remedy which is proposed—and it seems to be the only one that can be applied—is to amend the existing Neutrality laws so as to prohibit the sale of contraband goods to belligerent Powers, and to define mote fully what articles are contra band. It has also been suggested that the Queen be em powered, by order in Council, to prohibit, tem porarily, the supply of such articles as are not strictly contraband of war, but which may become essential to a belligerent, as is the case with coal just at present. It is argued that perfeCt neutrality is in the interests of humanity, inasmuch as it would tend to shorten wars, and that this consideration ought to be sufficient to overrule the objection that it would cripple commerce. Most wars would, doubtless, be brought to a speedier determination if the belligerents were confined strictly to their own resources. and in many in stances we do not doubt that hostilities would be prevented by the general adoption of a policy of perfect neutrality. But aside from that consideration, we believe that in the long run, even so commercial a country as England would not lose by resolutely repressing trade with belligerents, and especially in contraband goods. The good will of other nations is of greater importance to that country than to almost any other, simply because it is so extensively engaged in commerce and manufacturing, and it can far better afford to forego temporary gains than to hazard the permanent loss of future trade. But Great Britain ought to be controlled by a higher consideration than that of mere pecuniary interest. It should be impartial and fair, and so define the laws as that both belligerents may know what to rely upon. There should be no technical evasion, no quibbling, but an honest, straightforward neutrality, which would win the respect and preserve the good will of all nations which may be so unfortunate as to be in volved in war. From the tone of the English press upon this subject, we judge that the general feeling is in favour of such a policy, and the indications are that it will be adapted—perhaps not soon enough to prevent a misunder standing with Prussia, but in time for any fresh hostilities which may occur.—Neu) York Times. WAR POSSIBILITIt S. The time has gone by when wars between nations were simply the affairs of Governments and dynasties. Old Esop has a fable, in which the owner of a donkey was striving to hurry off the obstinate quadruped, lest he should be seized by the enemy. " But," expostulated John Donkey, "if the enemy gets hold of me, will he double my load ?" " No," was the answer. " Then I'll not budge," said that wisest of donkeys. " Whether you are my master or somebody else, it is all one to me." But the wisdom which was once confined to the fable is now found in fact. The uneasy people may take advantage of the situation of war to toss off their packs and when Governments go to war, an important item in the pro bable cost is what the uneasy thousands may choose to do while their rulers are waging war or thinking of mak ing war upon each other. It is said, and it is probable enough, that Italy is on the eve of rising and proclaiming a republic ; and that in Spain a similar event is appre hended. It would, indeed, be curious if the war, which ostensibly dates from the question of the Spanish crown, should result in deciding that there is no need of a king in Spain. It would be curious, too, if the Italian crown, the work of the French Emperor, should be abolished by his loss of prestige. The protection of France is withdrawn from the Papal chair, and if Victor Emmanuel on the one part and the Italian Carbonari on the other make a dash for the Holy City, Austria of old, the defender of the Church, but latterly somewhat estranged from Rome, may interpose and still more complicate matters, while no other outside interference is likely to be brought to bear. Whatever has been his success or want of success in the field, Napoleon haz certainly lost ground in Paris. In the Corps L6gislatif and other departments of the Govern merit we fail longer to see the usual exercise of the Emperor's resolute will. Things are moving without him ; and though the compromise Ministry of his appointment has been displaced in favour of a Cabi net said to be more decidedly Napoleonic than the retiring Ministers, the next turn of the wheel may supplant the present Ministry in favour of one less friendly to the " Empire," or the administration of the affairs of the nation may even pass into the hands of a committee of safety or a Provisional Government. One thing, and one thing only, can avert this, and that is such a success of the French arms as will heal the wounded pride of the nation ; and such an identification of Napo leon with the success as will restore the] favour he has clearly lost. We are aware that upon apparently good authority the Emperor claims that the war is one on which the nation insisted, and that he could not resist the force of the public will. Something more is necessary than the Imperial word to prove this, though we do Louis Napoleon the justice to concede that he believes it. It is a " Napoleonic Idea," and, of course, he believes it. The Napoleon, under the shadow of whose great name Louis has reached whatever of imposing grandeur his attitude possesses, never, if we are to credit his own assertions, un dertook of his own motion, or by his own desire, to disturb the peace of the world. He was " the child of destiny." But Louis Napoleon without success is a lost monarch. The Imperial heir can be Imperial only by inheriting success. If the war is Louis Napoleon's war he will be held to a stern account for its future. And if it is a national war so much the worse for him who does not carry out the national dreams of glory. The national pride will sacrifice the man who assumed to lead, but only made abortive the national will, and brought defeat where the people demanded victory. But the intelligent reader will imagine possibilities and probabilities for himself. One thing is next to sure, and that is that the war now in progress, terminate as it may, will be disastrous to absolutism. Its effects upon the future of Europe and of the world cannot be over estimated. Every war in the present day in Europe tends to the ultimate elevation of the subject into a citizen. When great political truths need no more be veiled in fable, but are the subjects of outspoken speech, it is no longer the donkeys who reason with Esop--himself a slave. They are the donkeys who do not reason.--Pnilaclelphia Ledger. DANIEL O'CONNELL.—A. bust of Daniel O'Connell has just been unveiled in Union Park New York. It is a plaster of Paris cast by a young Irish sculptor, Mr. William R. O'Donovan, and is intended to be the original of a bronze statue to be erected in Central Park. It is to be fourteen feet high, and is to be surrounded by twelve colossal figures, representing twelve epochs in the history of Ireland.—Freeman's Journal. THE RULES OF SCALPING.—A Western (American) paper says that the friends of people killed by Indians can know what tribe the murderers belong to by observing a few simple rules laid down for scalping by the different tribes. Tlie Cheyennes remove a piece not larger than a silver dollar from immediately over the left ear; the Arra pahoes take the same from over the right ear. Others take from the crown, forehead, or nape of the neck. The Utes take the entire scalp from ear to ear, and from forehead to nape of neck. We regret to hear of the death of Sir Thomas Montgomery Cuninghame. He is succeeded in his title and estates by his son James. captain of the Rifle Bri gade, who was born in 1834. His family, which claims the earldom of Glencairn, traces its descent from Mal colm, son of Fresken, who, when Prince Malcolm fled from Macbeth after the death of Duncan in 1039, con concealed the prince from his pursuers. After Malcolm was restored to his rights and the throne of Scotland, he conferred on his preserver the thanedom of Cuninghame, from which the family takes its name. The Lord Chancellor has nominated the Rev. Arthur Charles Wilson, D.D., of Christ Church, Oxford, senior assistant master of the Grammar School, Chigwell, to the head-mastership of the Queen's School (formerly the Holy Ghost Chapel School), at Basingstoke. Dr. Wilson took his B.A. degree in 1848. WAR TOPICS: When the French Emperor demanded Savoy and Nice as indemnification for the assistance he had rendered Victor Emmanuel in the acquisition of Lombardy, Mrs. Browning wittily remarked that " Italy was awakening from its Third Nap.' Cannot ,the phrase be now more appropriately applied to France than it could then be to Italy? When. we find Deputies boldly asserting in the Corps L6gislatif that the safety of the State is of more vital importance than the perpetuation of the dynasty, and M. 'Tiers publicly foreshadowing the dawn of a new republic, it is evident that the nation is arousing itself into vigorous adlidn from a state of lethargy into which it had sunk under the narcotic influence of Imperialism. A few short weeks may solve the problem.—At th e open ing of the war the hopes of Mamie were fixed upon Marshal McMahon; but his first battle (Vsloerth) was a great defeat, and he disappeared from the milit ar y leadership. Marshal Bazaine was then appointed to the chief command of the army ; but at his first battld (near Metz) he was surprised and badly damaged. Marshal Cartrobert is doubtless ambitious now for glory as the Vreffeli Commander-in-Chief ; but we imagine that he would turn ea the poorest of the whole lot of Marshals in handling a large body of troops.—The French blockade of the Prussian ports Was not completed, or at least announced to the world, until August 15. Ten days only were allowed from that date for the'departure of neutral vessels. The delay of the French in estab lishing the blockade or in making an attack on some of the North Sea or Baltic ports, is inexplicable. It now appears that the chances of success, if attacks should be made, are greatly diminished, and it is not improbable that the French may have to content themselves with blockading the principal ports. Considering that the object of France in making war upon Prussiu was the seizure of the Rhine provinces, it is prepos terous in the Paris Constitutionnel to accuse Germany of inaugurating the " policy of spoliation of French territory." The invasion of France by Prussia is for the purpose of preventing French aggressions upon Germany. —lt is a remark of both French and German military writers that French soldiers very quickly lose confidence in their commanders, in case of a display of anything like incapacity. In this view nothing can be more damaging to the prospect of French success than the blundering that has been displayed by some of their most prominent generals during the last month.—We find in the Cologne Zeitung a patriotic article, written by a German lady in reference to the moral and social effects of the war with France. She gives much excellent advice, and, among other things, strongly expresses her hopes that the stirring up of German animosity against France and the awakening of German spirit and life and feeling, will be the means of suppressing throughout Germany the immoral and indecent can can which the French have of late years introduced to German cities. We trust that Miss Lewald's hopes in regard to this matter will not be disappointed. If one of the col lateral results of the war be the suppression of the can can, throughout the world, it will not be altogether without its moral and social advantages. In the present war, as in previous wars, both parties loudly implore Heaven for triumph. The form of prayer which has been authorised for use in the Lutheran churches of Prussia is very im pressive, and a correspondent has described the solemnity with which the congregation sang Luther's grand hymn, " A strong fortress is our God." One of our Paris letters published yesterday described the Empress Eugenie as a devotee at the shrine of Our Lady of Victory, whom she has just presented with a splendid candelabra. Daily the Empress repairs to the shrine, prays, deposits her offering, and departs. It seems, however, that all the votaries at the pious shrines in Paris are women, which is a fact not creditable to the masculine population of France.—New York, Tribune. SOCIETY IN FRANCE. In addition to the misfortunes that have already visited her, France is threatened with still another, perhaps more terrible than any that has yet been felt—the disorgani sation of society. This is a calamity that seems ever ready to appear hi a time of war:or of revolution. The old landmarks are broken up ; the regularity of social order, to which men trust as confidently as to the per manence of the phenomena of Nature, is destroyed ; and the popular mind, astonished to see things it had been accustomed to respect vanishing away like dreams, and, intoxicated at the degree Hof liberty, or even of licence, allowed to it, rushes into a thousand excesses. France seems to have reached such a crisis. There is a cry of terror from many Provinces. The peasants have passed from the stunned incredulity in which they first received news of the disasters that had befallen the army into a more dangerous mood of anger and suspicion. They are certain there must have been foul play, or the legions of France could never have been crushed by the invader. They have been encouraged in this belief by the wild imputations of treachery that have been scattered broadcast by men who ought to know better, and who must know better—the better educated classes, the speakers and writers of France, those whose special function is to guide and moderate public opinion. It cannot be surprising if peasants who have been en couraged to suspect everybody above them should direct their passionate resentment against any and every p erson in their own neighbourhood whose ways do not exactly coincide with their own The Parisians who have insti gated them may deprecate—and, no doubt, do de precate, very smcerely and earnestly the direction their f anger assumes, but they •cannot, k ,hold them selves free from responsibility when they have fanned to a blaze the temper of an ignorant and excited people. It is only too easy to understand the agitation that haespread among the provinces of France. Are not similar experiences written in histories for our edifi cation and warning, though we are apt to take little benefit from them ? Peasants against nobles, Catholics against Protestants, Atheists against priests, villagers against officials, workmen against employers, country against town, and in towns the faubourgs of the poor against,;thel.faubourgs, , of.qthe rich. When the evil days come, the division of class against class makes its appearance among them. It is too easy to understand the fact, and in judging the outrages that are committed we cannot but remember how much there is to palliate the offence of those who perpetrate them. War, however humanely carried on, is a ghastly thing. Consider the form in which it appears to a peasant of Lorraine. An army of locusts will march across a country and strip it of every green leaf, ,plant, 'or twig in their pas sage , leaving it a gray desolation. Does any one suppose that an army of men, is more sparing as it overruns a land? The French marched through Lorraine eastwards, and their requisitions denuded it of half its stores. What was taken was commonly paid for at a certain fixed price ; but it is always forgotten that the value of an article increases as it becomes more scarce, and the price that is sufficient for superfluities does not, even when paid, represent the value of a man's neces sary stock. A farmer may sell half his oxen and sheep, er half his horses, or half his corn, and not complain, but if all his stock, live and dead, be taken, and his neigh bours are stripped as bare as himself, be will be disposed to curse the barren money which is the poor equivalent of his wealth. The French went East and returned to the West, and each time they took what they wanted, and the second time not so scrupulously as the first. The Prussians have come after them, and they are, according to impartial accounts, and even according to the sufferers themselves, civil and exact, if strict, in their dealings ; but they come speaking a strange language, and abso lutely denuding the land through which they pass. The Lorrainer is left with money, with paper money, with cheques, and acknowledgments ; but his house is despoiled, his stores are empty, his fields are desolate, his cattle have vanished, he has been unable to gather his harvest, he has not even the seed for a coming year, and he may look forward to a winter of misery and starvation. Add the chance that the strong arms which would have helped him are gone for ever, and we have a too common picture of rage and despair. It is true that the same experience cannot be found in all its details in the South and West of France, but there has been suffer ing enough to inflame the more passionate natures of Languedoc and Brittany. Their sons have been taken away. Their stores have been draughted to fur nish the commissariat of Pari s. Their homes are empty and bare, with no sense of national triumph to sustain their courage such as thrills Germany from Silesia to the Saar. But perhaps the inhabitants of the banlieue of Paris are the most unfortunate of all. They are com pelled to see their houses razed and their fields reduced to pristine savagery, while they themselves are driven to share the miseries of a besieged city. Those who have to deal with men in such a case are bound to be as careful as if they walked through magazines of gunpowder. It is human nature torn from all its moorings and tempest-tossed on a sea of misery we en• counter. But what have these poor peasants been taught by their professional teachers ? They 'lwo been led to believe that the secret of their sufferings lies in domestic treachery and an organised espionage on the part of the foreigner. Nothing too gross could be said of the denials enemy. from S t t h o e r i e ll s p o s f cruelty thosehave b who e a e r n id, n s a v i e d n ted , and to have suffered under them have been treated as naught. , That every foreigner should be regarded as a traitor in the pay of the enemy is nothing, when every Frenchman is suspected by some other Frenchman of pursuing the same calling. Can it be surprising such at a re once sx, t burst ha into ne t flame followed. am ? wonder When thesuffe wriings, tten ldaet, prepared as they have been by former voicesybesl d h if of Paris talk of "spies" and "ene mies" on every hand, the peasants of the provinces naturally follow the lead that is shown them, and break into violence against Priests and Protestants, proprietors and officials, anybody—the nearest—that can be subjected to their summary persecution. It is impossible not to see that the military disasters of the nation threaten to be more severe than ever, and the material of human passion must become more inflammable.—Times. A meeting of volunteer officers is about to be held in London to consider steps for placing the medical de partment of the volunteer force in such a position that, should that force be ever actually engaged in warfare, those of its number who might suffer from the casualties of war should not be left unattended.