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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 22.

Wrra the approaching close of the desolating
war in America comes to as opportunely news of
a European Convention for mitigating some of the
horrors of future conflicts. This Convention was
the result of a conference between the Plenipoten-
tiaries of most of the European Powers, including
Great Britain, held at Geneva last August, and
it is still kept open for the signature of those
which were not represented. The object is to
ameliorate the condition of the wounded in armies
in the field. Hitherto, it is well known, these unfor-
tunate men enjoyed no immunity from the treat-
ment to which their comrades still in the ranks
were exposed. If it wan counted an act of barba-
rity actually to slay them when no longer capable
of resit:4We, it wee at leset not itilliOmmon to leave
them to perish on the field by a slower and more
cruel death, because till the fighting was so far over
that a truce was agreed on for burying the
dead and removing the wounded, the parties who
might attempt to remove themwere liable to be fired
on. Their medical attendants also were exposed
to equal risks, and if they were captured when in
the office of ministering to their charge they be-
came prisoners of war as much as if actually com-
batants. Yet this remaining savageness sun ived
(From the Spectator).
rather from want of agreement and arrangement The topic of the week has been the attitude of the North.
than from intention. The principle of sparing the The Irma democracy has come welt out of its boar of un-
wounded was recognised in sieges by the rule that prime trial. Through four long years of defeat, and die-
the hospitals, if distinguished by & yellow flag, couragement, and feverish effort, amidst the execrations of
should not be fired at. And therefore we are its foie and the forebeelnis of many of its friends, the BA-
under great obligations to those who conceived and Publlo has fought 06, opposiog to the superior organisation
of au oligarchy the strength which springs of freedom,
have now carried out the idea of extending this
and meeting °eelt ail with the
for v
y Anglo-Saxon
privilege from the city to the camp, and of adding n. tiiw in.
then world f
mistake th
to it such general provisions as may make it more nilw the game is won, and in its first hour of triumph,. And
with
beneficial and complete. the smoke still hovering over the field and the lists of its
With this view the Convention declares that not dead not yet made up, it is singing psalms to God, promising
only the military hospital' in the field but the peace to all mankind, proclaiming freedom to all slaves,
ambulances in which the wounded are collected and crying to its rulers to issue complete and uopurchssed
amnesties. The emotion may not last, though we think it
and conveyed shall be declared to be neuter, and
win, but the future of a people whose uncalculating emotion
as such respected and protected by the belligerents in the hoar of defeat is to boast of their invincibility, and
as long as any wounded are therein ; and that all in the moment of triumph to ask pardon for their foss, must
persons employed with such hospitalsor ambulances, be a grand one. Since the men of the barricades shot their
such as surgeons, nurses, bearers, and chaplains, comrades for plundering, democracy baa given no sign so
shall be equally regarded as neutrals. We should fall of promise as the conduct of the American people after
gather from this provision, if it is not narrowed in the fell of Rielinnia•
practice, that the ambulances, those beneficent (From the Press.)
disaster
tidri ft:tn.:hi:op ConfederaterooaSitate:
bea felligcr with
o
contrivances for the collecting and removing the
wounded tohoapital, first introduced, to the honour the cities famous in all time for the heyroism of its among
of the First NAPOLEON, by Baron LOUIE; his cele. the heave endurance of its WOUND, has at last, at the expiration
orated surgeon, may now without fear be employed of four long years, succumbed to the more numerous hosts of
on both sides as soon as a lull in the conflict per- its assailants. The combined attack of three armies, with
mite them to advance on the field, without the intercommunications established with each other, each
necessity of a formal preliminary agreement. It is probably equalling if not exceedingl in member the fossel''
posedalso established that all persons so engaged in
capital Writ th'i e South:hisno: Stal tuale's tnis.nimnphthede
and
t-hom
e
the field or in hospitals may continue freely to of the Northern soldiery. The event has taken no one
perform their functions even after the position is by surprise. It seined rather as the result of the pre-con-
occupied by the enemy, and may rejoin at pleasure °geed policy of General Lee, than as a measure rendered
their own corps. All persons thus engaged are neoemary by the onslaught of General Grant and his
to be distinguished by an arm badge, bearing a associates. The immediate consequences of this abandon-
red cross on a white ground, and the ambulances MaUt of the Seethe"' eelgotteltheeceet yet be foreseen. If
and hospitals are to carry a flag with the same the rev
treating &limiest Droverumn
turso be we-ell Ire:unwed dthefeenetvecausthtionomof
device. There is to be no distinction between the Ric homed may be the precursor of accumulated sufferings
sick and wounded of either party ; they may, to the forces of the South. On the other hand, should
when practicable, be delivered up on either aide General Lee succeed in obtaining shelter in the mountain
at once to their own corps. When this cannot be humans of the interior, be may yet maintain an effectual
done, those who, after discharge from hospital, re id:sec* and prolong the straggle with his opponents. He
peace • master mind, end may devise means for the
are unfit for service are to be sent back to
ccoolohtithource of the straggle worhithchomay tendm mdoch to dieni.
their own country. Those who are fit
for service may be sent back under a may be gloomy andw dasarmaion, yet the account.l trans.
pledge not to serve again. While these provisions dated from hostile ammo of information may be found
are established between the belligerents, care has to exceed the reality.
been taken to enlist the services of the inhabi- Each substance of a grief hash twenty shadows,
Which show like grief itself, but are not so,
tants of the country in the same merciful
(From the Illustrated London News.)
offices. If they bring help to the wounded, they
It would appear is the highest degree improbable that
shall be respected, and remain free. Any the Onfederacy can hope to win back by a continuance of
wounded man entertained in a house shall be a the struggle the good fortune they have lost. Late events
protection to it ; and any inhabitant who has enter- have strongly indicated that their strength is well-nigh
tamed wounded men shall be held free from pia- exhausted. For four years they have endured a strain upon
hility to have troop billeted in his house, and their vitality far beyond reasonable expectation. Indeed,
from contributions imposed on the territory. These until within the last twelvemonth, it seemed that no
combatant
succeed ihintipoiiiincing
sou obtohietorline behind
ed
regulations are to be brought to the knowledge of
externalwhich th fenorce
ne nn:
the inhabitants by the generals on both sides as man pierced it, and found population
the interior of the shell was
soon as they take the field. hollow. His march through Georgia to the most, sod from
The humane spirit in which these regulations the coast upward into the heart of North Carolina, demon-
are conceived happily meets no check in drated that the whole military strength of the Confederacy
had bees placed upon the frontier, and that no means
this instance by any fear that war will be
would availitit
bas
General Los's
prolonged by depriving it of its terrors. The off., °fee
res :mid:stir:7de!
question is not the saving men from wounds it. —ii.
T North y Virginian y, calamityythe mhopewand stay
and death, but the saving men from prolonged of the Southern States, has at last, after a most gallant re-
agony ani sometimes needless death, after they sistaoos, been shattered and driven from the capital sad its
are wounded and helpless. The role, then, which 1 outpost. The defeat seems irreversible—at least, as far as
must guide and control all our efforts to mitigate visible probabilities can throw light upon it. The legitk-
the cruelties of war is not infringed by this merci-
ture iii scattered ; the Pree is teot in flight ; the organimed
; sforcp.'
foe of the nation iso disintegratedaoti w o
anst unnlrrtnara "tvinnerlaly
fnl code. It is certain that no combatants were
ever wrought to submission by hearing of the suf. 1 parts one d
more come together, although It might obtain
ferings of their wounded. If that effect could , favourable terms, it could hardly restore to the South &s-
-have followed from that cause, it ought to have other momentary chsooe of eetablishing her separate leas-
hes!) seen in the American oonflict, where the peed/nice. tinder such circumstances the friends of humanity
hearts of every Northern household that owned a can scarcely desire that the contest should be prolonged. Gal-
captive within the Confederate lines were wrung iree7Tdbui:leneed leeptboeibe
weadi.iilliTeelbeireinni:sonnt nisdoloit! now ate:
with the knowledge that the horrible torture of precedents for such a CORM. Waste of blood is alwaysne to
gradual death by starvation and exposure without be deprecated ; sad mbar, the mat brilliant courage,