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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1870.

A. GENEROUS sympathy has, in the very midst of
the warlike turmoil now distracting Europe, drawn
together yet more closely than heretofore the English
and Belgian nationalities. The Government of her
Britannic MAJESTY has awakened this feeling anew
by its prompt and earnest solicitude for the vindica-
tion of the rights of Belgium and for the preservation
against all hazards of its constitutional independence.
Scarcely was the outbreak of war between France
and the North German Confederation realised, when
her MAJESTY'S advisers took the initiative in project-
ing the rapid negotiation of a Treaty between Great
Britain, as one of the neutrals, and the belligerent
Powers now contending in arms with each other
upon the very borders of the Belgian territory, by
means of which Treaty the integrity of the
Belgian dominion might be expressly and
practically guaranteed. The course thus undertaken
by the English Government in the interests of
Belgium, was undertaken, it should be remembered,
quite spontaneously. Unsuggested by our own Par-
liament, unsolicited by the Belgian Ministry at
Brussels, immediately and energetically at their own
instance, our administrators did precisely what
every well-wisher of Belgium was hoping at least
might be done, namely, they secured a substantial
guarantee from the two infuriated belli-
gerents that come what might out of
the war, no harm should at any rate come to the
very State which, from its contiguity to their own
possessions, was, by reason of that fact and of other
important considerations, the most seriously jeopar-
dised. No wonder, in the presence of these most
conspicuous evidences of solicitude on the part of
Great Britain for the conservation of the liberties
and rights of the Belgian sovereignty, no wonder,
we say, in presence of these proofs positive of amity
and sympathy on the part of England for the Bel-
gian King and the Belgian population, the King and
the people should, within these last few days, have
given evidence of their very hearty appreciation of
the cordial sympathy in their regard manifested by
our Government. The Sovereign expressed his
sense of obligation emphatically enough in his speech
from the throne. Since which, the people of Brussels
have signalized their complete coincidence with the
opinions and feelings thus expressed by his Majesty in
our regard, in regard to our QUEEN and our people,
our Legislature and our Government, by a remark-
able and enthusiastic demonstration.

As to the particular peril Belgium has for a long
while past been exposed to, as everybody knows, that
has been nothing less than the imminent risk she
has run of having her rights and liberties,
her integrity and independence, bartered away
between her two powerful and ambitious neighbours
A glare of light was abruptly thrown upon this
danger for Belguim, by the revelation of the Draft
Treaty. It was then seen that France and Prussia
had been secretly discussing together the notion
of sweeping Belgium from the map of
Europe. Prussia declares that the proposi-

tion came from France—France that the pro-
position came from Prussia. By whomsoever
originated, there, howbeit, the proposition was between
the two, there it was, under discussion between
them, and that secretly, and therefore
surreptitiously. Consequently, there, beyond
possibility of doubt, much less of con-
tradiction, was for Belgium an imminent and
frightful jeopardy. Against the recurrence of it,
England has now taken the most effectual means of
guarding. And of England's conduct in so doing
Belgium is gratefully appreciative.
According to a letter just now published by General
TURR, the infamy of having originated the proposi-
tion for the seizure of Belgium by France, is thrown
by the writer of that letter, that is by General TURK
himself, entirely and absolutely on Count BISMARCK.
Addressing himself to Count BISMARCK, General
Tunn says, among other thine., thts—"On the 10th
of June, 1866, I had the honour to speak
with your Excellency in your study in the
evening; and on the 11th I passed an hour with you
under the large tree in lyour garden. Your excel-
lency was very anxious as to the result of the war
which was then about to commence. You said
4Ah ! if the Emperor NAPOLEON only wished it,
the war would give us no trouble ; the EMPEROR
could easily take Belgium and Luxembourg,
and regulate the frontiers of France. I proposed
all this to the Emperor, BUT HE WOULD NOT
CONSENT TO IT. If you go to Paris pray tell all
this to his Highness Prince NAPOLEON.' This was
what your Excellency said to me on the days of the

10th and 11th of Julie, 1866. " Time, place, and
circumstance are all specified. The statement is
sufficiently categorical. What says Count BISMARCK
to all this, now that General TURK, has boldly stood
forward, thus, as his accuser before all Europe ?

THE action against the editor and proprietor of
the Sheffield Daily Telegraph for publishing a libel on
the Earl and Countess of SEFTON has, of course,
terminated in a verdict for the Crown. So far as
the offence itself was concerned, there could be no
question whatever of exculpation in the matter.
Not only did the Sheffield 7 elegraph give publicity to
a pure fabrication involving the character of the heir to
the Crown, but one of the staffmade matters worse by
embellishing the statement so far as to involve two
other persons of rank. No old woman's tale could
have a more ridiculous origin than this libel. First
of all the Echo published a paragraph which aspired
to compromise only the PRINCE. OF VALES. This
valuable news was promptly telegraphed to Shef-
field. A reporter of the Sheffield Telegraph
had been to London, and in the classic I