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against the Spanish threat of invasion. Colei
Adair peinted.:out that the line of railway sur-
rounding tb.e north side of London could be made
an important means of the work of defence. It
would enable the commanders.to clear the front of
their force of the crowd of noncombatants, who
were always a source of danger, and the railroad
that could remo!e them to the rear would serve as
a line of defence by dividing it into artillery dis-
tricts. Under no circumstances could he conceive
a capitulation of :London justifiable. He cited the
'example of the Thatch provinces, which successfully
resisted the military power of France, to prove
what could be done by determination. If the full
resolve of England to resist to the last extremity
were known, and if it was supported by well-
organised means of defence in works and men,
under such circumstances there was no instance in
the history of the world of an invasion having been.
attempted.

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I lion by Major Farrell, consisting of the 3d, 4th, Bth,
13th, 18th, 21st, and 34th Kent Rifles; and
the 3d battalion, commanded by the Hon.
Colonel Lindsay, consisting of the St. George's
Rifles ; Civil Service, Lord Bury; Padding-
ton Rifles, General Donning ; the Scottish
Rifles, Ist Company; the -Artists, Capt. Phillips;,
and the Barnet Rifles, Capt. Taylor. This brigade
was posted on the right of Bickley Wood, near Mr.
Dent's park, and was under the command-in-chief
of Lieut.-Col. Hicks. This division, of course, ad-
vanced from the open country.
The defending division was commanded by Col.
Hicks-Ist and 2d Battalions—Major Close, City
Brigade. 3d Battalion—Capt. M'Leon, engineers;
Hou. Capt. Bruce, Six-Feet Guards ; Major Scott,
Ist Kent Rifles ; Capt. Lamborde, 33d Kent Rifles.
The first movement was made by the West Mid-
dlesex advancing through a thick hedge from the
field above mentioncd, through the enclosed grounds
of an old farm-house leading into Bickley Wood on
the right, and the remainder of the battalions of
this brigade debouched by a narrow lane to the left.
After marching some quarter of a mile, a movement
to the right took place up a steep embankment,
which brought the battalions into the middle of the
wood. After advancing some 200 yards along an
exceeding rough but romantic roadway, covered.
and surrounded by trees and brushwood, the first
sounds of an enemy being in front became known
from a brisk fire of skirmishers into the wood.
These were the first shots fired, and the first in-
timation that an enemy was in position, and,
as it was believed, in force. Skirmishing
companies of the -West Middlesex took the
initiative in firing from the wood, whilst the 14th
and 29th North Middlesex, the 20th and the
Hornsey and Hampstead were lying in ambush.
The skirmishers advanced from the wood
beating back those of the enemy, and on a given
signal the whole attacking body made their ap-
pearance through the wood and formed a most/
splendid line. and commenced firing in volleys in
fine order. The army of deferice being right under
the hill upon which the great body of the specta-
tors stood, the meaning and object of these preli-
minary movements were at first by no
.means clear
to civilian comprehension. We could see small red
rows of the Six-feet Gnards and their similarly co-
loured comrades skirmishing in the middle of a
field with desperate energy. They peppered the
wood so perseveringly that the internal slaughter
must have been really awful. Then, another field
was covered with heavy columns of infantry
ranged at right angles to the spectator, and we were
for a time very much puzzled as to what business
they had there, and what they were going to do.
Suddenly the bugle sounded the advance, and each
column, as if turning on a pivot, wheeled slowly
round, and formed a magnificent lineextending the,
whole length of the field. This manoeuvre was
beautifully executed, and elicited shouts of applause.
They were the invading army, and they were about
to annihilate the devoted garrison of the wood.
Now, the plot began to thicken, the smoke to rise
more densely, and the understanding of the lookers
on to be more and more confused. We could see
Alderman Rose on a white charger riding daunt-
lessly up and down in the thickest of the fire,
and Lord Ranelagh and Colonel Hicks, -like King
William and the great French Marshal, imparting
confidence to their men, and expressing them-
selves in the most reckless manner. The time for
skirmishing had now evidently ceased, and the
pickets had all been driven, or called in. Fresh
forces marched up from the road, or emerged
in heavy columns from the woods, and the smart
file firing which we had so much admired became
changed into rattling vollies, the closeness and
regularity of which perfectly astonished every one
who heard them. The spectators, men, women, and
children, elated with the strife, had by this time
crowded down the hill, and were quite close up
to the defending army, whom they encouraged by
their plaudits. To their surprise, however, the
moment came when their champions must give way,
and perhaps a more singular sight was never wit-
nessed than the retreat up the hill, the volunteers
retiring with their faces to the enemy, their confused
ranks mixed up with groups of ladies and children,
all laughing and enjoying the fun, making nothing
of the rattle of musketry by which they were sur-
rounded, the smell of powder, or the gun wadding
which was flying about their heads in showers.
But our brave engineers, our stalwart guards,
showed not the slightest symptom of fatigue. They
" dressed up" with the accuracy of a parade, and
fixing their terrible sword-bayonets prepared for
the final stand. We eould hear the word "Charge!"
and in a moment down they went upon their
assailants. Hand to hand they struggled for a
short period, but at last, again defeated, they were
again driven up the hill, and the ladies and the
children and the crowd and the reporters along
with them. It was decidedly the most interest•
ing and the most intelligible scene of the
day's spectacle. Now, Hicks and his engineers
had it ; now, Thorold seemed to gain ground,
and lookers-on shouted with excitement, as if
they saw a real battle. There was directly opposite
the reserved seats a piece of table land at the top of
the hill, a corner of which was enclosed with hur-
dles. 'Within this little enclosure stood Gen. Eyre,
Col. Knox, and several other experienced military
men, and they looked on with perfect delight
and astonishment at what was being done on the
plateau before them. At one side the attack formed
a magnificent line, and at the' other the defenders
stood to their arms, sullen and resolute, as the Spar-
tans may have done at Thermopylae. The deadly
Enfield went to work on both sides, and the steadi-
ness and intensity of the fire were perfectly mar-
vellous. No desultory "pop, pop," as one might
have expected from such forces, but a fierce,
regulated incessant rattle, whilst a thousand tongues
of flame came rushing from the guns in the twi-
light with the regularity of long rows of gas gets.
A most experienced military man, who looked on,
said he had never seen a more deadly or steady fire,
and, what was better, as he forcibly expressed it,
the men who after three months' drill could fire that
way in play, would fire twice as well in earnest.
The steadiness of the lines, the terrible certainty of
the fire, as indicated by the measured andrapid
roll of the reports and the exact order of the
flashes, the advance " like a wall" of the conque-
rors, and the tardy retreat of the vanquished—
all made the illusion so complete that we felt
quite a sensation of relief when the sight of a flag
of truce announced the cessation of hostilities.
Then did those late combatants forget all their
feuds and all their fatigues, and march gaily off in
search of the bivouacs which had been promised, but
which their commanders, like the Austrian generals
at Solferino, had quite forgotten to supply with
creature comforts. Captain Grant was to have been
there with his much lauded cooking apparatus; but
there was alas ! neither the cook nor the cooking
apparatus, nor anything to cook; Feeling our-
selves, some slight interest in this question, we
could fully sympathise with the disappointment of
the brave volunteers ; but they bore it without
grumbling, like gentlemen as they were, formed
again and marched off four miles to the railway
station, making up for their inability to fill their
stomachs by filling the air with their merry, manly
songs as they tramped. along the road.

WHO IS TO BLAME FOR AN ARMED

EUROPE ?

There is something in the constitution of human
nature which abhors a complete uniformity. Some-
body must be picked out as a victim in every well
regulated society. Every club has its butt, and
every school selects some especial object for that
amount of tyranny and oppression which lies hid
under the smug exterior of boyhood. Why should
we grudge to great empires the resources which
are found so necessary to the smallest social commu-
nities? The Empire of France is a great Empire.
Had it existed in the days of the Caesars them-
selves, it could not have been more complete in all
the apparatus of a thoroughly despotic, imperial,
and military Government. Litts.; Imperial Rome, i t
has he innumerable legions, its well-fed and subser-
vient populace, its Senate not superfluously or up-
roariously independent, its obedient magistrates, its
absolute centralisation, its republican origin. Like
„I;perial Rome, also, Imperial France hug its pro-
ribed class, regarded with perpetual jealousy, and
visited with perpetual punishment and repression.
It required at least 150 years before the victories of
the first Coasar and the proscriptions of his successors
could eradicate from the midst of the Romans that
Republican party, which, after so many defeats
and so many massacres, still represented the dignity
of a people that had once been masters of the world,
and had then been content, with a tameness of
which history only offers too many parallels, to
degrade themselves to the level of those whom they
had conquered, and to place themselves at the feet
of a master imposed by them on the rest of the
world. Thrasea, Ifelvidins, and Pretus had the
privilege of shedding their blood for a cause which
had once been the cause of the whole Roman nation
at a time when, under the fear of a despotic
Government and the distraction of barbarous shows
and frivolous entertainments, the Roman people
had learned to forget what they were and from
whom they sprang. A similar part seems reserved
for the "old parties" in France. When it is neces-
sary to accuse somebody, and the right person is
either unknown or is in a position in which it is not
convenient to accuse him, the blame is always
thrown on the" old parties." If the people of France
remember, not without some degree of bitterness,
that there was a time *hen they were permitted to
know what was actually passing in their own and
foreign countries without. interference from their
Government—if they reflect that they were once
permitted to give a free opinion as to the conduct
of their affairs; such feelings have evidently been
stirred up by the intervention of the "old parties."
If Spain, after having been urged by France into
a war in which ;the has received many hard
knocks and carried off in exchange only a mo-
derate amount of glory and a heavy ransom,
finds that events have confirmed the advice of Eng-
land, whom she was taught to hate, and if her dia.
dence in the counsels of France has received a
stimulus from the outbreak of a domestic rebellion
just at the moment when the was most abSorbed in
an enterprise of foreign conquest—all this is evi-
dently the work of " old parties." If the minor
States of Germany believe that France is anxious
to sell them to Prussia in exchange for the frontier
of the Rhine—if Prussia' believes that France is de-
termined upon possessing herself of that geogra-
phical necessity—if Belgium thinks her frontiers
by no means too secure—all this is the result
of the machinations of " old parties." If there
be a Frenchman whose soul does not bound
• within him at the annexation of Savoy and
Nice—if Portugal believes that she is destined
to be an indemnity for some concession to
France on the Spanish frontier—if Italy itself
is by no means certain that Savona, Genoa,
and Sardinia are not destined to follow in the wake
of Nice and Savoy,—this can only be because their
minds are vitiated by the malevolent representa-
tions of " old parties." And, finally, if England,
forgetful of the Crimea, forgetfurof China, and
listening only to the voice of fear and suspicion,
begins to think that the concessions she has made
as to commercial relations have not been met in a
generous spirit, and that the augmentations of the
French Navy are such as to give rise to well-
founded apprehension, and cause us to arm on our
side,—what has given occasion to all this, devoid as
it is of the slightest foundation, except the calumnies
and misrepresentations fostered by " old parties ?"
Such, at least, is the conclusion of the Constitu-
tionnel, a journal deriving its information too di-
rectly from the source of supreme power to allow us
,o doubt for a moment the legitimacy of its inspira-
Dn.

What, then, are these" old parties ?" What is the
influence that they possess, that they should be able
thus to set France against its own Government, and
all the rest of Europe against France? how comes
it that they have been able to establish themselves
es the only trusted expositors of the position and
prospects of Europe, and to bind in their spell so
many nations differing so widely from each other in
laws and politics, in government, and in political
relations ? What force have the " old parties" in
England, what in Italy, what in Germany, what
in Spain, so that they have been able to infuse
into nations so distant in place, b 0 cliscordo tin lan-
guage, so unlike in political constitution, this
universal principle of distrust of France ? We
cannot help feeling that M. Grandguillot mar-
vellously overestimates the resources and power
of the " old parties" of whom he seems so much
afraid, and compliments them on the possession of
power which they are very far indeed from really.
having. Whence should they derive it? It can-
not be from their organs of the press in France, for
they are shackled and manacled, and can do little
indeed, either to benefit themselves or to injure
those to whom they are opposed. Nor can it be
from their influence in foreign countries, where the
"old parties" are utterly unknown to the mass of
the people, and where the few intelligent men who
may take cognisance of their writings regard them
with pretty much the same interest as they would a
novel penned by amammoth or a tragedy fresh from
the pen of an ichthyosaurus. Would it not be better
to look a little nearer home? Would it not be
wiser to give up these endless complaints,
which satisfy nobody and only place the Govern-
ment of France in an undignified and querulous
position ? If it be true, as asserted by the Consii-
tutionel—which ought to know, and whose veracity
we are in no degree concerned to deny—that there
is but one feeling throughout Europe with regard
to France, and that a feeling of distrast and appre-
hension, we entreat the Constrtutionel to think bet-
ter of us than to suppose that we are mere passive
instruments, to be played on at the will of parties,
either old or new, or to be subjected to the gross
deceptions which have, as it thinks, been practised
upon us. We derive our information from no such
sources, but from gentlemen independent of all
" parties" either old or young. From these w e
learn that France is daily increasing her Navy ta
rate entirely disproportioned to her cowl:pa 91in
re-
quirements, and that her army can be filledup
a few days to any amount that is required. France
cannot hope to enjoy at once the advantages of a
policy of aggression and of moderatione
as between theration She chose
to go to war with Austria, when
such
ever. She chose to annex Savoy and Nice when
two nations there was really no provocation what-
ccoalloinuortabdleo pretenceth for
g s
a proceedinic..
there was not evsenhea
ClOrf • If the " old parti silent
escape suspi es are
there will not be wanting tongues to denounce
her conduct. She can put an end to all discussion
• within her own
upon it territories, but there are
parts of Furope to which this oppressive influence
does not reach, and from them she must be con-
tent to hear whatever a free public opinion chooses
to express with regard to
those transactions that
have destroyed the
confidence in the future which
France so urgently
needs.— Times.

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