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LONDON, IVEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12.

As the French EMPEZOIt appears determined
to have an available army at least one-half larger
than that now at his disposal, M. BoNNET, on t..e
part of the economists, has thought fit to describe
the cost thereof from their point of view. Is it GERMANY.
not a little too late, except by way of protest? Contrasting the Germany which the late Prince
As such we may regard it, but it is to be feared Consort of England and the deceased King Frederick
that M. BONNET'S warnings will have very F Ale william 117.0 f Preside projectedbeen in 1848—as
through appears
effect on the Army Commission now employed so from a document which has just made public
sedulously at Compihgne. The EMPEROR had Reuter's agencyh that which Count Bismarck
made a profound study of the character of the gohdtesoutthoatt
somehowKonra too tz in
muchte susnrimrermr,
thliettlTeihmases
concludes
French nation long before accident offered him a been dune even now. Count Bismarck has not united
throne and autocratic power. Since he bitted the all Germany nor kept a sufficiently tight hand over the
steed and seized the reins he has been King. Had he absorbed the South as he annexed the
able t.O teat practically the results of his North, he might, perhaps, have had all Europe against
studies in exile; and as, up to this time, he has him, but he could hope to have at least all Germany on
his side. As it turns out, troubles and dangers are still
succeeded so well that even the Saturday Review,
besetting
break Discontent pae in the
e South is ready t
Norththreatens to
has become one of his most fervent apologists,out mutinyintoth.•
it
'
may we not infer that if the economists know go the whole length of the Ausy in th
tro-French alliance. Never-
what the proposed venture will cost he may be theless the position of Freesia is still strong while helpless
supposed to know whether the nation will pay the irresolution reigns in the camp of her adversaries, and
bill 'I The EMPEROR, we may be sure, is the soul not a little is to be hoped from the assembly of the No: di
ompiegne Commission. It is ho who will German Confederation. Germany at all events has now a
of the Clingru power able to identify itself with the will of the
dictate the principle on which the increase of the
gmajoritytiffiandotetnyfourceet it
tn ono:ill:6 Man.
hat elements ;) The
array army is to be based, let who will manipulate the ding t
details. The principle is certain to be based on a making out dist"ictly what it is that Germany ree'ly
more extensive use of the law of conscription ; wishes or aspires to. Without immenre firmness on the
that is, on a more rigid application of one side, and, as much pliability on the other, the task of
the theory that every man is liable to constituting various states and peoples as one will be alto-
be taken for the service of the State. gether impossible. The Germans, it is easy to perceive,
Throughout his reign the military policy of the hardly know at what a dangerous game they are playing.
Emezrear has tended in that direction. Ho raised Teahsetyanfod7hete wwesthat, sad yet
hmleenesnreemsill
lithe), hwahv:reonmethme.
the number of conscripts drafted into the arms her Saxony, Bavaria, and the Rhineland as open battle-
from 80,000 mutually to 100,000 ; and thereby fields for the French and Russian armies.
raised the average of effectives in time of peace The Daily News observes that the ex-K;ng of II inoverl
from 330,00(1 to 450,000. Twice, when great is duing his utmost, in the security of his Austrian retreat,
to throw difficulties in the way of those of his late sub-
wars were close at hand, he raised the annual con
tingent, once in 1853, and again in 18 r jects, such as the officers of the late Hanoverian army, who
tangent, once in 1853, and again in 18:-.)8—in
decisive
compelled by
amoreo r les p
anticipation of the attack on Austria—to 140,000 profession oftheir e
allegiance.ubli position
cttedeeto m
does
not
taekre a
even
men. What has been done before may be done confine himself to issuing foolish proclamations, but sends
again. What the French nation has endured twice his agents to intrigue upon Hanoverian ground,
in thirteen years it may endure once more. Glory but such manmuvres have no political importance. Even
has never been neglected in the Imperial policy, the officers are not disposed much longer to acquiesce in
the position in which their late King would like to retain
and France knows its price quite aa well as the
them for his own purposes ; and the most that the King
EMPEROR and the economiats. As the Ememeoe.
can do by persevering in his recentractices is to keep up
is of opinion that France will pay that price, the a series of petty local irritations which will involve his
probability is that she will. unreasoning adherents in trouble. Should the Prussian
What will be the cost of having a million of government proceed boldly on the one hand to maintain
trained soldiers? Regarding it from M. Forzn's the dignity and protect the independence of Germany, and
point of view—that is, how much will it mid to on the other to develop sad apply the principles of con-
stitutional liberty, it may laugh to sena the intrigues of
the Budget—we tied that the increase will swell
such enemies as the ex-royal fant!ly of Hanover.
the total of the Army Estimates from, in round The Td
ofcgra jsite hithlll Prince Consortksthatthosew will evidence
who have studied the
numbers, four hundred millions of francs to four character
hundred and seventy millions of francs. The of his cool, clear judgment in his proposition for the
more nearly the extra levy is made to approach reorganisation of the German Fatherland which has just
the character of the regular soldiers the more come to light. He seems to have aimed at little more than
the creation of an effective central power by which the
costly it will be. The EMPEROR has no love for
German nation should be represented abroad. To attain
National Gum's of the old type. His affections
this object,
an Emperor
proposed
he that
lifefor term ;that those
the German princes should
are set on soldiers, not on pa elect ins in uniform. eitherfor
Consequently, we may be sure ad- that the _ electoral princes-
should, either in penorby deputy,
ditional conscripts will have more than eight form a sort of imperial council, whose sanction should be
days' training per annum, and as the number I essential to all acts emanating from the Kaiser ; add
of the days' training increases, so will the direct that the popular element should be upheld in a
State. That will weigh with M. Form). Diet elected by the estates of the different king-
cost to the
doms belonging to the confederacy. The elected
But the direct cost is barely half the indirect cost.
Pe
We are told that labour is scarce in France. It Emperor al t
alauwthorit; was
goveswm
beGere
tanWithshin boundslan
hdy theh
is
is scarce, not only because the demand has in- conclave of princes and the popularp parliament.More-
creased,-
More-
creased, not only because so many men are over, a central tribunal, a sort of Teutonic supreme court,
drained away from the labour market to be made was to be established for the decision of all legal questions
into soldiers, but because the rate of increase in I between states and states, and sovereigns and subjects.
the population of France is so slow. The annual I The late King
Frederick William objected to the project
and that Austria would not forego her rights in favour of an
average of births in France is now 970,000,
tztliersutgesterdtothbeat tthheeresserheoreuld bet
Atwo,
there were only 22,000 fewer in the reign eaelectint epnlatnpe
rothre
of Louis XVI. The number of young men i tas ; the real Kaiser—the King of the Germans—tow.be
liable to conscription has only increased in I elected by the Princes of the Confederacy. The caune of
the same proportion. Consequently the de-1 events, however, proved too powerful for regulation by
mend for more soldiers comes at a time any abstract deliberations.
when the demand for labour is test, !As the Post reads events, the Germans have opened
and when the supply is less than it would have tsbraeiredevisesßeto themfdactdethatr parliamentary
care tw rule has been
been had the population of France increased at of a German par' liament, which in tilgite in
nhantils of creation
the rate of other European countries, say of Prussian government they know is intended only to be a
Prussia or our own. Hence it follows that the , sham.
cost to the State of abstracting so many men The Herald throws some doubt on the authenticity of
would be greater than it would have been had the draft for the constitution of a German empire ascribed
to the late Prince Consort. At all events it must be said
there been more idle hands. When the EMPEROR
has diverted 600,000 men from their ordinary that Princete
within
wrt wouldth rut
have framed such a scheme
labours, and set them to soldiering for three too of The criticism
and ten
suggestionsyeare of his...liedfe.solticluch
months in the year, ho will have diminished their Frederick William IV. is altogether inconsistent with King
value to the State, according to the calculations of traditional policy of Prussia.
the economists, reckoning each man as worth on .
the average two franca per diem, no less than i IRISH EMIGRATION.
108 millions of franca ; and M. BONNET, adding 1 A hypothetical, but still imprudent, sentence in a recent
etter of Mr. Bright's, seems, the Daily New: says,
to this loss of wages, the loss of the value of the to have terrified Lord Dufferin, and to have pro-
work
him to a equally
work done to the employer, is of opinion that the yoked • rejoinder extreme and one-
total loan will be double that sum. sided. It is absurd for his lordship to represent his
As the EMPEROR will have a larger army, it is opponents as contending that emigration from Ireland
plain that he must have made up his mind that the has been a curse ; but to disprove the proposition, who-
end he contemplates makes it worth his while to ever may have committed himself to it, is not to vindicate
face the difficulties and dangers arising out of this Irish landlords and English policy. No fault could be
found with his letter if he were discussing the propriety
state of things. But they even do not represent all;
for in ordinary times, at least, the French do not tulles emaxorus - a Imprrilre attemptingpolicy of aificially
historical
love the conscription. The present drain on the juataticetion.' The whose nell aa
or illist:grio:l•

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

(THIB DAY.)