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well-deserved fruit of_ unceasing exert
-1. In spite of her large army the Fl
is the best clad and the best cared __
Although the French army has to rely on conscrip-
tion, the French soldier is the most intelligent and
most independent soldier in Europe. The demo-
cratic spirit of equality which is paramount in the
people has likewise 'penetrated the army, and has
contributed to destroy by degrees the old system,
wherein the soldier was considered as a machine.
You see the effects of it in that free, elastic
step of the French soldier which must strike every-
one in contrast with other armies. He is
taught to think and rely upon himself, and he
acquires the habit of self-reliance, which gives
such a superiority in campaigning. This en-
genders self-consciousness and emulation, which
receive an additionil spur by the system of pro-
motions and rewards. Finally, France was the first
to understand that the new weapon would require
a new system of tactics, that arms of precision were
only valuable in the hands of men trained to act
more freely than was compatible with the old sys-
tem, and that soldiers did not arrive at this free•
dam of action by practising the goose step, but that
each individual soldier had to be trained in all exer-
cises of the body, and to be taught to act more or
less for himself. The thing was so self-evident that
most of the Continental nations have made more or
less faint copies of the Chasseurs de Vincennes.
This is only the beginning. The new rifles are
considerably dearer than the old musket, and it
may be questioned whether a large army brought
together by conscription for a few years can ac-
quire, as a body, this higher degree of excellence.
Such achange would require considerable outlay;
and there may be likewise some few traces of pro-
fessional prejudice remaining. However this may
be, the French have not changed their whole in-
fantry according to the new model; but, although
the old regulations for the rest subsist in practice,
the hop
_orcler of fighting has slipped in likewise
among the rest of the army.
Individual freedom, individual energy and enter-
prise, have been for centuries the boast of England.
All her institutions are based on them. She has
conquered empires and spread civilization over the
most remote tarts of the world by means of them,
while such is the superiority of her mechanical
skill, and such the excellence of her industry, that
all the world recognises them by the establishment
of protective tariffs, and envies the colossal wealth
accruing from them.
Here, then, are the three elements—individual
excellence, high mechanical and industrial skill, and
great wealth. Verily it will be England's fault if
she does not take the lead in the revolution which
is going on in the art of warfare for she will not
have known how to take advantage of .ber supe-

PRICE 4D• STAMPED, SD.

says that that sum will fall far short of what will
eventually be needed.
The officials of the octroi have taken possession
of the. posts established in the new enclosure of
Paris, now, like ancient Thebes, become the City of
The Hundred Gates. Under Louis X.V. Paris had
already considerably increased, and some neigh-
bouring villages were added to it, among others
that of the Roule, which was made a suburb of the
city, In 1784, ander Louis XVI., the Farmers-
General received permission to surround the capital
by a wall, which is nearly the same as that now
existing, but which will soon disappear. At that
period the barrier gates were almost all of wood,
and the offices small wooden houses placed on
wheels for the convenience of locomotion. The
barriers were 60 in number, classed in three divi-
sions—north, south, and east. The new enclosure
of Paris, with its 100 gates, its deep ditches,
and its. green slopes, will better respond to the
grandeur of the city than the wall by which it has
been hitherto surrounded. An immense number of
Parisians did not lose the chance of profiting by the
change in the barriers. During the afternoon and
evening of the day before the alteration was effected
they flocked outside the old barriers and made pur-
chases of every kind, and for some hours before
midnight all the barriers were crowded with vehi-
cles and foot passengers waiting for thp moment'
when they might pass through withotif being
stopped. When midnight struck the barrier gates
were thrpwn open, the octroi men retired, and the
whole body entered Paris and proceeded to their
respective destinations, ham* athaving tints effected
some saving, though at the cost of considerable
trouble.

In consequence of the extension of Paris, the
administration of the Mont do Piete has established
three additional offices, in which pledges are re-
ceived without additional percentage being laid on
by intermediate agents. One is at the Batignolles,
the second in the Rue de Buffon, near the Jardin
des Plantes, and the third at Vaugirard.

MILITARY OR G.l NIZ .1 TI ON.

(FROM THE TIMES' CORRESPONDENT LATE WITH

THE FRENCH ARMY IN ITALY.)

I hay e endeavoured to bring before you the real
cause of the superiority of the French military or-
ganization over that of any other country in Europe,
and I think I have shown, that there are sufficient
reasons for producing such a result without there
being any necessity for recurring to the usual com-
monplaces of France being by nature a military
nation, having a particular aptitude for warfare ;
that her institutions, and above all her administra-
tive centralization, give her superior means cf
organization to these possessed by others ; and
numerous other plausible generalties which are re-
sorted to by ignorance or prejudico to explain a fact
which no one can deny.

riority.
If this is not the case, none of the usual pretexts
for shortcomings will be an excuse—neither the
stinginess of Parliament nor the plea that England
is not a military country. There are above 220,000
men inscribed on the rolls of the British regular
army, besides from 140,000 to 150,000 militia, and
the sum spent on the regular army alone amounts
to nearly £12,000,000, giving one-fourth more for
every individual soldier than in any other army in
the world. The subdivision of a great part of the
army over widely-spread colonies ought to be an
advantage rather than a disadvantage, for it ought
to be the best school for practically teaching every
officer his duties in the field, and educating the sol-
dier for camp life; nor is there the practice want-
ing in actual warfare, and thus the means of study-
ing the defects of, organisation and the improve-
ments to be effected. If France has her Algeria,
England has India and China.
England had slumbered longest on her laurels,
until the Eastern war awoke her. It would be
almost supernatural to expect that she should shake
off the drowsiness all at once, and come up to the
point where those were who had continuously ad-
vanced during the last 30 or 40 years.
But she has made the first steps in the right direc-
tion, and she is so alive to the,necesity of advancing
that it may be hoped she will soon be up in the race.
She has recognised that her military system needs
improvement ; she has sought and introduced the
most perfect rite hitherto invented, and is now in-
tent on in:lking her soldiers worthy of their weapon.
And in this respect England is already at the head
of all others, for she is the first, and hitherto the only
one, who has made rifle shooting the object of the
systematic education of the infantry soldier.
But there it has remained for the present. It has
not vet been understood that the rifle is a revolu-
tion in and subversion of the old system, and that
with-the rifle everything else must he reformed and
brought into harmony—that the; movements meant
for old Brown Bess arctineffective and dangerous in
an age of rifles ; Olaf a soldier educated as a. ma-
chine will wield it only imperfectly ; that he must
have the greatest amount of bodily health,
strength, and agility ; that he must be trained and
clothed accordingly; that in this utilitarian age
even soldiers' dresses must be calculated on useful-
ness rather than ornament; that the command and
administration must follow in the same direction—
less routine and fewer councils, but more indepen-
dent action and responsibilities.

Its superiority is due to the observance of a few
simple principles, self-evident, almost truisms,
which are not the particular treasure of the French,
but the common property of all those who can raise
themselves above old traditions and time-honoured
prejudices. Like all great wars, the wars at the
end of the last and in the first part of the present
century produced a peculiar system of military
tactics and organization, the fruit of .long years of
bitter experience and sacrifices. The result of
this long struggle was that France, which had
originated the new system, and Napoleon, who
by his genius l'ad contributed most to its
development, were overthrown. The result was
so great that it was but natural in those who brought
it about to conceive a great opinion of tho perfec-
tion of the means by which they succeeded,— to lie
down on a bed of laurels and forget that even a
system for standing armies, however perfect, must
yield to the common law of progress which regulates
everything else in the world.
This may seem strange now, which even those
who think mummies the ideal of mankind dare
only to dispute about the degree of progress to
be aimed at; but it must be recollected that the
idea of progress, although coeval with the world,
is comparatively new as a recognised principle of
action. If this principle had to struggle hard to
establish its position in other institutions, it re-
mained almost powerless in a sphere which was less
subject to the influence of public opinion, and jea-
lously guarded, like the mysterious worship of
Eleusis, from the eyes of the prorane.

Thus it comes that, while France ever since the
year 1815 recognised and followed the principle of
progress in the organisation of her army, in most
other great European armies a war was waged
against thiiprinciple, and every concession which
had to be made to it was bewailed and considered
as a defeat. While France reformed almost every
detail connected with her army, and made a com-
plete revolution in military matters, her former ad-
versaries and victors thought they had done
wonders by changing the shape of a shako or the
cut of a coat, not with a view of convenience to the
soldier, but simply as a matter of appearance.
But although wrapped up in the world of the
past, it was impossible in this age of intimate inter-
course of nations to remain altogether blind to what
took'place elsewhere. With all the predilection for a
peculiar system—a consequence of the national
geniue and institutions of each people, it was im-
possible,in this age of mechanical skill, to deny the
superiority of certain improvements which, by de-
grees and after much opposition, were adopted.
Among these the greatest and most important is
the improved rifle.
We find invariably in the history of warfare that
the invention or adoption of a new or improved
weapon goes together with, or is followed by, a com-
plete revolution in the art of warfare. The Mace-
donian phalanx presupposes the long lance and
evolutions by masses. The organisation of the
Roman legion is only possible with men of great
individual superiority and armed with the short
sword and shield. The introduction of full armour
after the Crusades engenders the superiority of
horsemen over the foot soldiers. The application
of gunpowder to warfare re-establishes an equili-
brium between the two. The systematic introduc-
tion of fire-arms by Gustavus Adolphus creates a
new system in the Thirty Year's War. The aboli-
tion of tho lance for infantry, and the invention of
the bayonet, become the basis of our modern system
of warfare.

LIVERPOOL, Wednesday.—The screw steamer
Anglo-Saxon sailed to-day for Portland, with an average
number of passengers and mails for Canada and the United
States. The Liverpool, Philadelphia, and New York Com-
pany's steamer Edinburgh sailed the same day, with 130
passengers and a mail for New York. On Saturday itext
the Cunard steamship Africa will be despatched for New
York, with the mails for the United States and North Ame-
rica. Letters, &c., will be received at the post •office till
8 45 a.m., and on the landing•stage, with an extra fee of
6d., until 9 30 a.m.

APPALLING SUICIDE —About 3 o'clock on Tues-
day afternoon a fine young woman, 19 years of age, de-
stroyed herself by leaping down a coalpit near the Bileton-
road, on the outskirts of Wolverhampton.- The pit is in
Niessrs. Dodd and Williamson's colliery, and near that down
which a man recently fell, owing to its being improperly
fenced. The victim of love and jealousy in the present
case was named Phoebe Davis. A few minutes before 3
o'clock on the day above named she called at a cottage oc-
cupied by an aged couple close by the shaft-down which
she was about to precipitate herself, apparently very much
agitated. Pulling a handkerchief from her neck, she handed
it to the aged Inmates, saying, " Give this to Jack, for I
shall never see him again." She then ran to the pit mouth,
and climbing over the fencing surrounding- it east herself
,headlong down the shaft, which has been disused for some
time, and is upwards of 90 yards deep. A large concourse
of people speedily assembled, and information having been
sent to the principal police-station at Wolverhampton, In-
spector Cordon and a body of policemen proceeded to the
spot. Owing to the existence of foul, air in the shaft, a
number of precautions—such as throwing down quicklime
and placing air troughs—had to be taken before any at-
tempt could be made to recover the body. At last, after S
o'clock in the evaning, an old-seiner named Russell, having
been fastened to a chain, was lowered down byhand ; and,
isitaching the body of the poor girl to another, it was brought
to the surface. Russell himself nearly fell a victim to his
exertions, for when brought up he was (mite insensible,
and friction and other means had to be used for nearly
three-quarters of :in hour before he could be restored. There
is no doubt that the poor girl destroyed herself* in a pa-
roxysm of jealousy, owing to her lover having taken another
young woman to a dance. The body was removed to a
neighbouring public-house, and an inquest will be held on
it to-day (Thursday). •
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The great perfection of the modern rifle and its
general introduction as an arm of the infantry
foreshadow as great a revolution in all military
matters as any which has ever taken place. It is
scarcely necessary-to point out its obvious supe-
riority over the old musket, but the difference be-
tween it and the old rifle itself is great enough to
give the two weapons an entirely distinct character.
If any proof were required it would be found iu the
circumstance that the Swiss rifle, which approaches
nearest to it in point of perfection, led to the esta-
blishmyt of the Carabineers—the heaviest of Swiss
troops, while the new rifle produced Chasscurs de
Vincennes and Zouaves—essentially light troops.
But it is, perhaps, even more in the general intro•
ductien of the new rifle than in the greater degree
of perfection that one must seek for the consequences
of the change, which is nothing more or less than
a complete subversion of the very principle on
which the military organisation was based hitherto.
It is characterised in a few words. The old
musket was the arm of the masses, and the rifle is
that of the individual. The general introduction of
the former led to a system where the individual
soldier did not exist as such, but '\s as only lotked
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Hitherto the palm belongs to France, and it is a