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nounced for France, and that immediately, the
phrase of the new French Premier will be
nothing less than supremely ridiculous. At
the best there is a rashness almost reprehensible
in these predictive mots uttered in great crisis
by men occupying positions of immense respon-
sibility. The most effective, astounding, absolutely
electrifying mot ever uttered by M. RounEn—
literally a " mot," for it consisted of a single word,
had reference to the declaration as to the period at
which Rome would be delivered up by France to the
Revolution—"Jamais !" How about that fine phrase
now, M. ROUHER-with the 5,000 men withdrawn
from Civitta .Vecchia ? The oracular utterance

dwindles down, now, into a mere piece of clap-trap
and braggadocio.

THE student of the war who is puzzled to account
for the rapid collapse of the French military resources,
will find one clue to the mystery in the proceedings
at Paris during the last few days. Just after the
defeat of Woerth, when thefirst outburst of indignation
at the incompetence of the French generals and the
want of properpreparation, had subsided, the impression.
became very general that the nation would unite in
face of the danger, and that all party differences would
be set aside for the time in order to combat the victo-
rious foe. Any delusion of this kind must have dis-
appeared ere now. The politicians of various creeds
who compose the French Administration and Par-
liament are all sincerely anxious to drive the
invader from France; but they find it im-
possible for this object to forget their
animosity to each other. The men who have
hated and opposed the Imperial rule, hate and
actively oppose it still. Each side endeavours to
accomplish two simultaneous designs. The Imperialist
desires to keep the Liberal in subjection, and to repel
the German as well. The Republican is sincere
in his wish to defend the capital, but he is none
the less anxious to seize the present op-
portunity of overthrowing the Empire. For
in truth a moment so favourable will
probably never occur again. There is no
semblance of union between the two parties ; and
in this fact is to be found one of the chief causes
which have led to the speedy collapse of the French
military resources.

Otherwise the rapid success of Germany would
have been inexplicable. It is true that
the Germans were well prepared for the combat,
whilst the French found themselves, to
their astonishment, quite unprepared. The
first possessed a real and numerous army ;
the figures and efficiency of the Gallic host
existed only on paper. The German generals are of
a very high class ; whilst nothing worse than the
strategy of the French has been known even in
Austrian annals. The Germans are educated sol-

diem; the French, on the other hand, are ill-trained

in some particulars of the first moment in
modern war—such as careful firing, for in-
stance. The French supply system has broken down
wretchedly, and it turns out that the money which
ought to have been expended in making ready for
the field has gone into the pockets of officers and
favourites—the creations of that despotic system which
it has been the fashion with some English kivers of
freedom to admire so much. Very serious are all
these disadvantages; but, granting the full force of
each, they do not quite explain the present position of
affairs. One French army is shut up in a fortress as
securely as Mack at Ulm, another is flying on a con-
fessedly hazardous errand to release these prisoners;
Paris is told by the Government to expect a siege a
once; and the German armies have marched without
opposition through the centre of France, and have
taken possession of some of the best points of defence
where no Frenchman was found to fire a single
shot. Generals may blunder, armies may
be defeated, but the nation remains. It is as nutne-

rous as all the German peoples allied with Prussia,

Its military spirit is undiminished, and it has at all
times of need produced men who were equal to the

emergency.

In 1792 the people rose and expelled

the invaders; in 1814, though utterly exhausted

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MORNING EDITION.

STRIKING phrases have not been wanting among
he incidents of the Franco-German war so far as it
has yet advanced. "Dead or victorious "—that is the
most notable saying of the EMPEROR'S, since the
campaign commenced, when he was urged to return
to Paris from head-quarters. "If they come, they
will find me here !"—that is, the utterance of the
EMPRESS to the wounded Colonel, when he cried
out to her from his sick bed, " They shall
not come here "—that is, to Paris (mean-
ing the Prussians)—" I swear it." Asking after
the Cuirassiers upon the morrow of Reichshoffen,
"There are no more of them" was the answer of
MAcMAIIoN. Among all these memorable phrases,
however, the most startling and the most electrifying
was that snot of PALIKAO, "If I could tell what I
know, Paris would be illuminated !" The peculi-
arity of each of these remarkable exclamations, with
the single exception of the one attributed to Marshal
MA CMAHON, is this, that, to perfect them, they require
justification. In the Marshal's instance the mournful
justification beforehand of the affecting words uttered
by him so laconically, was unhappily only too appa-
rent. But in the instances of the Emperor NAPO-
LEON, of the. Empress EUGENIE, and of the Minister
of War, Count PALIKAO, the words spoken, in order
to have the true ring in them, for once and for ever,
require to be justified, or, in other words,
fulfilled, by after occurences. Granted that
the EMPEROR does but return to Paris " dead or
victorious " the saying is herioc and will become his-
torical. Otherwise they will be forgotten as a mere
idle specimen of imperial garconading. In a similar
way the utterance of the EMPRESS REGENT will live
or die in the popular remembrance accordingly as her
Majesty is true or not to her declaration. As for
the War Minister's dazzling remark, fbr it is really
nothingless than that, it may be said that ufton its justi-
fication by events, or not, the Count PALMA() stakes
the whole future of his Government. Unless
some astounding piece of good fortune be an