The New York herald., 1867-04-12

ssmoed 90 900 infantry with large forcs of horse aud
aruilsry 10 champagne. On the 14th OF that month
hs end Of the year All hat renausa o. an Vsr srmy
destined TO break up the power OF the House OF Haps
burg was "a few skeletons Of reginents bands Of
rauders and empty arsenals all had vanished, like
snow In the sum- under the dssoving action OF courty
inrigaes and nvalresn The efforts Of Richelieu and
Mazarin effected no radical improvement and 1t was
only under Louis XIV and thanks TO the efforts Of
Louvos and OF his subalterns Martinez IA name whose
and vaubau, that France became . military Power,
when her frontier brstled with citades and she could
bring aas 600 men into the neld Even then, inde-
pendent OF Scotch Irish and other foreign regiments
no less than oneahird OF the infantry consisted OF
Swiss and Germans and the French nation, how
military, that while the Northera dIsxicts
yielded soldier out OF I4e inhabitants,
ns m Ss as Sns + 1 s
ants were supplied by the Flemish and German proyn-
ces Reuctance was especially shown 70 service In the
infantry ana With all the efforts OF Louvos 10 give this
Queen Of Battes the utmost development in an army
OF $50 600 men, in 1878 $1,000 men belonged TO the
cavalry and 10 900 TO the dagoons Up 10 the fan or
the monarchy, tho royal army had been recrnstcd by
volunteer enlistment aided Ia extreme cases By the
assas5" o. mf,essmsnt 4 was onIy II reyolu,iou-
that the .yeq sioBn and the crse nsoss laid the
basis for the law Of conscrp ion. BY his forced levy
into one and the same army" and was able to
muster up 100000 mon ia line Of bas,Ie--'
an an. effort ocy,, whis with purely national clements
the Senate in 1918 sent it, cohore into sayony be-
cause the extreme need Of the required mat
France should be defended In Saxouy. But tho Dle
dAnmac evidently, and in our opinion justly, believes
that nothing but extreme circumstances could Justify
sucb measures and he holds the ambition of the First
Napoleon responsible for the calamitss this wholesale
drain on the population inflicted upon the country. M
ace rcs Nv pl1ns,e; Q. vaor nave aays ncen
veterans such those with which Alexander Hannibal,
Cnsar Gustavus Adalphus, Frederick H., and Bopaparto
IN his carrier campaigns able to keep ths fold
after year. and to traverse whole continents. Even
before the great Russian and German caIamitics
began the imperial armies OF the First Ma
polcon had lost in consistency what they had gained
In bulk. Macdonald at Wagram, being asked why
no no, massed hls battalions In so denss . column,
and whether such tactics implied any falling or m
tho bravery Of the French troops answered "Our
dsrs are as brave as but their ranks longer
30 closely knit together they used to be-" The
satisfactory results Of tho Wholesale Ievies rcsorsd in
70 renar tho disasters OF the Russian campaign
sufficiently show how much easier Il Is to sxhausta
nation than to improvise an army In 1919 Napoleon
could only muster 1876 900 out Of the 25s 900 whom
the Senate had placed = hs disposal and In tho follow
swered By few thousands. Tho 6oO00 or 20 600 men
with whom he confronted all the forces Of the allies IN
mere boys: and u was only 10 the following wear at
waierioo that he ahlo table take Acid With
ads 40 of bewd prssners Of and Of men recalled
from disaut garrsona s3sl ata a N N Fg-sf@ s.
The Duo dAumsis snssrs a full length On the par
Bourbons q their rcsosaiion and under the Orleans
governnsst mo efforts sf 0ouvion 81 or, 10 whom
rather Is The consoaion has Il he cxtsnses q The
national forces; A0o0Q thsn COCOA and finally % 0oo
sssv.e ~ss prooSssS = seS .nd 49, 49,
garisDn hgs doe no& ada tsfhs vaor q ssdIss ths
meslls q the v.rioa. Fresch cosps N: kept mp By
eouseesaasd byas he ds9rss & sGssncv .asaaiasd
ssA eass 80 .,o .0s Sss'a:ss :'.s
tsmpsred By ths faslisses pAcid oess b ths old.
,ss ,sa n, po,Ssas0f :.:%'SSs from sss ::
became habitnal 70 the Frenchman. H was, however,
tsgaisA DC psrlos sslasr frop the nav hirsiing i
The oenscfps from his early associgons q aaeh him
e sss sor,ice q ssd him. ash vera = the rsgnsas
Ssse Due .sS5H s Ssls ss ls:ss ss ss !:
mesmres such - weEe found necea!v, and ~ peevs
The most iffesissIbs ncossaity be adopcS. By o.
Second: In order 70 save--E Franco undsr tho
sSss rusSps psso e S %''s aoom ss:s
Madrid and Moscow shan Is attempt 10 make up
for spanish aada ia. iesss.a by sssalns ssaxH
tAs Duke ooselsdss, sss "a 1s srsoA = mis;cry 4.
sissioss dsvecs w6 rSdercsa Ms use Il has nothing
own rights Its security lies IN the foros q prhlio
opinion not in tho woakness Of military establish
Of Fnce will he vcs
Charles K, the Emperor believes foil because he had not
sufficient military force within reach; Louis Philippe lost
his throne becaIso he had mot the heart TO tho
he had at hand As for himself hH knows full well that
1t by srapeshot that he aved society," or In other
been invariably directed to constitute the army into
means Unpopular repression ihe strength of govern
influence OF nation depends on the number OF men II
bring into the field II Is on that as on many
other grounds that we look upon his bill for the
or the army as an error His power at homo
and abroad Is based on an army; EARNED nationu
scu TO Be tooedgd tool mol 10 Be handed yiAoa
great difficulty and danger esAsr for kOme foreign
AS to foreign affairs IL Is cloar that this vast
Of the causes that led to The sudden
and general collapse OF the Austrian power Because
Austria broke down 20 miserably after seven days
bis existing military Institutions and wishes 70 modify
the BY approach TO the victorious Prusian system
with any hope Of satisfactory results The Prusssn avs
tenn was purely defensive as such II had existed FOR
iy years before M y was put 70 the test and then q
the Austrans the Due Aumaie observes was owing
70 variety OF causes not few Of which must be
whelmng strength u their adversaries The Prussaus
themselves seemed OF the shortcomings Of their
poses and did NOT venture 10 bring their forces into ths
sd without important alterations the principal OF which
consisted In prolongng the regular service from two to
three years. That the French Emperor has no great
faith in nero militia 10 evident from his reluctance to
reduce the service Of his regular troops to less than Ave
in the French standing army for such as IL s il fears
no comparison with the most thoroughly trained troops
IN Europe The question TO what extent Is practicable
70 muster behind the 400 600 OF the present reRu
Lar establishment second line Of reserve and third
OF Gardc Natonae Mobile that may constitute any real
addition to the already disproportonate military noer
OF France II reserve and National Guard men are
70 be made into real soldiers II France must needs
take the neid with nom 200 600 70 500 900 mcn n
as N. Jules Favrc said, the whole Country n 70 be
turned Into parade ground and barracks Germany win
In the end have little TO fear from French hostility
Financial distress aud the paralysis OF all social ana
industrial life win suffice TO render France poweress
Tor attack, perhaps ercn for denc contest between
but doubtful trial But at the end on seven vaars
IL the present imperial scheme is persevercd in tho
very possibility OF q conflict would be removed for
France poud find ne pace Of the Second Empire more x-
hdtiug than hsrhtss pdvs Of the First and ,rc should
hare in 1874 the prostroion Of 1914
the ALABAMA CLAIMS.
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