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LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1870.

ENGLAND'S Neutrality, in regard to this terrific
war in which France and Prussia are the belligerents,
was, at one and the same moment clearly defined and
nobly emphasised by Mr. GLADSTONE, on Saturday
evening, during his impressive speech at the Mansion
House, when responding, in his capacity as
Prime Minister, to the LORD MAYOR'S toast
of her MAJESTY'S Government. It was defined and
emphasised by him, this neutrality of England, in
words that deserve (until peace returns) to be in-
scribed in letters of gold above the leading columns
of every newspaper in the United Kingdom, and over
the swing doors to the east and to the west of the
central ball of the Houses of Parliament. The particu-
lar words we are here referring to are these—and they
are words that fell from the lips of Mr. GLADSTONE
on Saturday evening, in tones of solema and most
weighty significance—" We must not," said the
PRIME MINISTER, " presume too much upon a partial
experience in anticipating the time when, as we
fondly hope, this conflict may be brought to an end ;
but it is our duty to take care that, be it long or be it
short, we may have done nothing, when the time of
reconciliation comes, to forfeit the friendship and the
good opinion of any of those who are engaged in this
conflict." One of the most brilliant wits who
even lived, that most cynical analyser of human
motives, who was himself both a man of the world
and a philosopher, the Due DE Ro CHEFOUCAULT, has
among his Maxims given utterance to this wise
morsel of advice to his fellow-creatures—That
one should always treat an enemy [observe, an
Enemy !] as though he would one day become
once more a friend ! And there is surely, upon the
very surface of it, wisdom in the recommendation.
And it is the wisdom of moderation. If to an enemy
one should so act, according to the advice even of a
sagacious man of the world, how much more incon-
testably ought one so to act, to act thus equably and
dispassionately, not to an enemy, but to
a friend ! In this instance, not to a friend,
but to two friends—and to two friends who are more
than ever sensitive as to the manner in which
we are acting towards them, for inasmuch as they are
TIM confronting each other in deadly antagonism.
As to this most suspicious secret negotiation that has
been going on between them as to the barter-
ing of Belgium, and Holland, and Luxem-
bourg, we must, for certain, when the right
time comes, demand a full and exact explanation
about that from both of them. But, meanwhile, so
long as we are occupying a neutral position in regard
to the two infuriated belligerents, it behoves Eng-
land so to act—as the PRIME MINISTER has
said "it is our duty" so to act—that when
the fondly hoped for period of reconciliation has
arrived, WE MAY HAVE DONE NOTHING TO FORFEIT THE
FRIENDSHIP AND GOOD OPINION OF ANY OF THOSE
WHO ARE ENGAGED IN THIS CONFLICT," that is of
our friends and allies, King WILLIAM I. and the
Emperor NAPOLEON 111., of the 40,000,000
Prussians and of the 40,000,000 Frenchmen.

HARD-SWEARING is the only name for it—this
frightful contention as to the draught treaty between '
France and Prussia. The impression produced is like
that most undesirable one experienced in a Court of
Law when two opposing witnesses each upon oath
solemnly attests in regard to one and the same fa,:.t
opinions diametrically opposite. On Friday evening
the matter in dispute was formally brought under the
consideration of the House of Lords by the Earl of
MALMESBURY. By permission of Earl GRANVILLE,
the noble lord put to the SECRETARY of STATE for
FOREIGN AFFAIRS a direct inquiry as to any light he
could possibly throw, in bis capacity as a responsible
Minister of the Crown, upon that, to say the least of it,
mysterious document. Lord GRANVILLE, in reply, read
to the House of Lords two other documents nearly
as mysterious, each of them, certainly, in many
respects quite as remarkable—documents that may
be described at once as statement and counter-
statement. The former, that is the statement, was
the full translation of a telegram from Count
BISMARCK to Count BERNSTORFF. The latter, that
is the counter-statement, is the exact report of Lord
GRANVILLE himself (in a despatch addressed to Lord
LYONS as her BRITTANIC MAJESTY'S ambassador
at the Court of the Tuileries) of an explanation
given to him in the course of conversation by.
the Marquis de LAVALETTE, the French Ambassador
Referring to Count BIsMARK'S communication alone,
Lord MALMESBURY on Friday evening spoke of .the
drift and purport of it as in his opinion only
devisib le as "appalling." Lord MALMESBURY, in so
speaking of it, had no knowledge whether at the
moment of M. DE LAVALETTE'S point blank contra-
diction ! If he speaks of one document as "appalling'
what word is there that can adequately define the
effect produced by the two—by the statement and
counter-statement when placed in direct juxtaposi-.
tion ? Each gives the lie direct to the
other. The mutual recrimination is worse
immeasurably worse than the old pagan
to quoque. By each the quoque is utterly repudi-
ated. Respectively the one accuses the other of
being the wicked tempter, the accuser himself, of
course, being innocence personified. It so happens,
of course, that neither the one nor the other comes
into court, as the phrase is, with clean hands.
Spoliation is not unknown to either. Instance in
France—Nice and Savoy. Instance in
regardregari
Prussia—portions of Denmark and the
whole of Hanover. Nevertheless, with a charming
forgetfulness of Nice and Savoy, M DE LAVALETTR
talks to Lord GRANVILLE as though the absorption
by France of any portion of her neighbour's territory
were anything less than shocking to his imagination.
Count BISMARCK on the other hand—even Count BIS-
MARCK !--whose appetite for territorial gain in 1866
grew with what it was then feeding upon so very