The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WtDNESDAY, OCIOBER 19, 1870.

trivial matters, to interfere with the ordinary course
of trade in favour of either party in a war.
THE DANGER OF INTICRVENTION MEETINGS.

Mr, G. J. Holyofthe gives some sound advice to
that section of the working population which is so
fond of making extravagant manifestations" in
favour of the French Republic and intervention.
Mr. Ilolyoake is careful to premise by saying that he
regards the restoration of the Republic in France as
compensation for the war which has made
it possible, and therefore does not consider
himself liable to a charge of want of sympathy
with the French in their affliction. He counsels
working men to avoid taking measures which would
lead to intervention, unless they really mean that Mr.
Gladstone should go to war with 'Prussia. In that
case he advises them to send their sons to the new
war and to contribute to the new taxation which will

be imposed. As he interprets intervention it means

the imperious declaration "You shall not fight ;"
whilst mediation means, "I advise you not to fight.„
In the present position of affairs in France, interven-
tion, in the opinion of Mr.- Holyoake, would be worse
than neutrality.

THE COST OF SUCCESS.

" A Hertfordshire Incumbent" writes to the

Times to give the conquering Prussians a warning
by means of an illustration. A quiet English gentle-
man, he supposes, is afflicted by an incurably litigious
neighbour, and is eventually driven to take his
grievances into a law court. He wins the case, and
exults accordingly, but next day gets notice of an
appeal. Feeling bound to prosecute the case with
spirit, ho engages some great legal gun and goes on
from court to court, till at last his final triumph loses
some of its satisfaction from his lawyer's
intimation that the other side has no

means of paying the costs, and from the receipt of
an anonymous letter warning him that a desperate
and ruined man will keep his eye on the villain who
has reduced his family to beggary. This, says the
incumbent, is very much the position of the belli-

gerents. The war is to Germany very like the law-
suit. She must go on, " though the bills of both
litigants are running up to a frightful extent and the
assets of the defendant rapidly diminishing." Not
very many years ago France herself obtained a rapid
and brilliant success over a weak and obstinate adver-
sary. In June, 1830, Marshal Beaumont landed with
thirty-five thousand men in Algiers, and
within three weeks the town capitulated to the
surprise of all France. Had it not been for the
revolution, which overthrew the elder Bour-
bons, the French army would have returned
home with ample compensation and with abun-
dant honour. The new dynasty choose to flatter
the popular desire for conquest, and France has re-
tained Algeria for forty years during which
the hatred of the people for their rulers
has gone on increasing, every colonist has
required six or seven soldiers to protect him, and
now that the soldiers are withdrawn a fresh revolt
is at once proclaimed. The position of the Germans
in France in 1870 is exactly analogous to that of the
French in Africa in 1830.