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LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1870

Tu responsibility of the war, according to the
view of our leading contemporary, devolves, now that
tte ENTEROR is gone, upon the Republican Govern-
ment. We cannot see this. We cannot but think,
• in fact, that the solemn declaration formally set
forth by the King of PRUSSIA in his very first Pro-
clamation is pfbof positive to the contrary. It is
demonstrative of the
.truth, such as we maintain it
to be, that any such deduction is simply
illogical. King WILLIAM declared that be waged
was not against France, but against the Emperor
NAPOLEON lIL Nov that the EMPEROR has suc-
cumbed, now that he is a prisoner at Wilhelmshahe,
the one object of the war as defined by the KING
might be regarded as accomplished. Hence,
• putting the implication it was insisting upon rather
coarsely, the Gaulola said the other day that after
the collapse of Imperialism at Sedan on the 2nd
Septenther—if the Prussian Sovereign in spite
of that collapse continued his march upon
Paris, if he did not at once sheath his sword and
withdraw his forces northwards he was—a liar.
Without going any such brutal length as that, it is
snrely allowable for us to insist that the KING has
placed himself in an entirely false position, when,
after having emphatically assorted that he made war
against the Emperor NAPOLEON 111., and not against
France, when the EMPEROR is his prisoner, he still
carries on the war against France, and with every
appearance of doing se @ outranae. Again,
in that same first Proclamation of the Prussian
Monarch it was most positively insisted upon that
Germany entered upon the contest not With any
view whatever to territorial aggrandisement, but
simply and solely for the vindication of the rights
and liDerties and independence of the beloved Father-
land. Nevertheless, in flagrant contradiction to that
most positive avowal, Alsace and Lorraine have
been alized and occupied with an evident
determination that they shall be absorbed and
incorporated with the other south -eastern
possessions of Allemania. Insomuch is this proceed-
ing again, en the part of the German KING, irrecon-
cilable with his claims to be regarded as truthful
and consistent,that cum more the GauloiB blurts out
the trucculent gibe that he is a liar. Count von BIS-
MARCK himself has very recently volunteered to the
• Pall midi Gazette Correspondent the avowal that the
Prussian resolve la to seeare to themselves henceforth,
if possible, the ocoupation and retention of the
two great fortified places of Metz and Strasbourg.
These, Prussia will insist upon holding, as material
guarantees, that France, whether Republican or
Imperial, will, for the future, be on her good
behaviour in regard to Germany. Retaining Alsace
and Lorraine, taking forcible possession of Metz and
Strasbourg-, continuing her march upon Paris—now
that the EMPEROR iS a prisoner of war at
the Schloss Napoleon Prussia is clearly
acting inconsistently with her own programme.
Prussia is clearly placing herself quite deliberately
in an entirely false position. Now that NAPOLEON
111. has surrendered, now that the chief part of the
Imperial army has capitulated, the consistent and
honourable course open to Prussia would be this—
to sheath her victorious sword, to open negotiations
with the Government, such as it is, now in power at
Paris, to insist upon France indemnifying the
conqueror for the expenses of the war, and to define
the articles of a treaty of permanent pacification
between the belligerents. Instead of this the lbar is
continuecl, the Prussian forces are still advancing
upon Paris, the sword of Germany is still resolutely
unsheathed, as though the King's declaration had
been the very reverse of what it actually was, as
though he had asserted that he made star against
France, and not against the Emperor NAPOLEON

THE- present situation is full of startling conttasts.
Any number of morals might be drawn from it, any
number of sermons might be written upon it. Never,
for instance, was there a more wonderful text than
"August 2nd and September 2nd." Those two dates
mark one of the Most sudden catastrophes that
the world ever saw, On August 2nd the. French
artilleiy fired its first shot, the terrible mitrailleuse
made its hoarse voice haaird for the first time, sad
the open town of Saarbriick was shelled because the
French were getting impatient for hostilities.
It was on September 2nd, just one month
later, that the French troops, driven almost
from end to end of France, *ere—sach, of them as
had not perished—fleeing wildly into Sedan
before the, frightful storm of shot and shell
that made the little krdennois fortress a Teri-
tattle hell upon earth. The sqldiers had
had enough of war then, and Ear more than
enough. Thousands of thorn were only too glad to '
be sent prisoners of war to the city which they were,
to have entered as victors.

But tire contrasts are not confined to one part of
Europe. One of the most extraordinary results
of the war will be found far to the south of France.
Any how v.. may hem, that the Italian troops have
Tossed the Roman fiontier unopposed on their way
to Roma:. Yet it vale less than three years
awa that NAretr..-ox was sending his troops, as fast
as steasa could take them, front Marseilles to Civita
Vecchia, in order to prevent the unification of Italy.
' A united Germany he had not been able to prevent,
had not dared to oppose by force ofarms ; but a united
Italy he would not suffer, lox ha was strong
enough to forbid it. GARIBALDI some ten years ago
said that VICTOR BMMANVEL should be crowned on
the OaPitol• NAPOLWOM sowed that he should not.
GAMBALIA Came into collision with NAPOLEON' in
the 'petikin of his Deputy-Ge'neral an FAILLY, aird
victory was on the side of the big battalions. The