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without raising the whole of Germany
AGAINST US, and if it be necessary let
It rise against France rather than our-
selves" nh2 I
Herr o Bismarck is married and
has three children. His private life
is of hebappiPst, and his wife is said
to be a most efficient helpmeet, and
his very best secretary and amanuen-
sis. To his sister he is most tenderly
and d~evOtedly attached, and their
mutual affection is a bright spot on
the history of a great life. he is fifty
six years Of age.
From the New York Standard, I6th.]
/ THE wARoFg1slas
At the Congress Of Vienna, in 1914,
l the Emperor Of Russia demanded
that the whole of the Grand Duchy of
Warsaw should be eeded to Russia as
an indemnity for the loss she had sus-
tanned aud the heavy sacrifices she
had made during the war. Prussia
warmly sustained the claims Of her
late ally, not because she was deeply
indebted to Russia for her deliverance
from the yoke of Napoleon, but be-
cause She had projects of her own TO
Jay before the other powers, in which
she would require the support of Rus
sla. One clause, Of the treaty Of Ka-
lisch had stipulated that Prussia
should be ''reinstated, at the close of
EhOstiiities, in all respects, statistical,
financial and geographical, As it had
stood at the commencement of the
war of 1866, with such additions as
might be deemed practicable What
additions Prussia looked for were OOn
explained to the Congress. Besides
the fulhllment of the Stipulation, ''shs.
claimed various provinces on tine left
bank of the Rhine, which, by the dis
solution of the French Empire, We're
at the disposal OF the allies and the
whole Of Saxony, promising to
eede to Russia the southern
provinces of Poland. This pro-
pOsal met with a strong protest from
France, Austria and Great Britain,
especially from Lord Gastlereagh, on
behalf of England, who cOntended
that this ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF Russia
and Prussia was foreign TO the great
principles of justice on which the war
against Napoleon had been main
tanned. Prussia and Russia both de-
elared that they would not give way,
and made Immediate preparations for
war. The energy of the other Euro
peans powers, however, soon caused
them to lower their tone. On the Sd
! of February, lSlj, a secret treaty of
| alliance, Offensive and defensive, was
| signed between France, England and
/ Austria. The Kings of Hanover, Ba-
varia and Piedmont were invited to
| Join the alliance and. did 80. It's prin-
I afT,a1 rr-rrf5Tnn MA that tho aCnfrank-
ing parties should disintere5tedly pro-
eeed to carry out the stipulatiOns of
the treaty of Paris. Both Prussia and
Russia at once abated their claims,
and Prussia Was content with part of
SaXOny, c~onsoling herself with the
prominent position given to herself
and Austria in the new Germanie
Confederation; four votes out of seven,
if they could only pull together, Civ
ing them all the preponderanee they
could desire. r
Bat all the while Napoleon, in his
island prison, was not idle. He kept
up a constant correspondence with
his adherents in France and
Italy, and Murat, ever change
ful and ambitious, at once threw
himself heart and soul into
the conspiracy, which was rapidly
forming and spreading through the
army. On the 10Th of February, Ma
pOleOn escaped from Elba; on the LIST
of March he landed in the Gulf Of st.
Juan; On the night of the 10Th his
carriage drove into the courtyard of
the Tuilerie5. The great pow rs, Eng
land, Russia, Prussia and Austria, en-
tered into a treaty on the 18th of
March, by which they engaged to
unite their forces against Napoleon,
to prevent his troubling the peace Of
Europe, sOlemnly binding themselves
not to lay down their arms till they
had completed the destruction of Ma
poleOn. With an exhausted treasury,
empty ~arsenels Twelve thousand
pieces of cannon alone had been
eeded to the allies by the treaty of
Paris), with a regular force under
arms, which did not amOut to TO-
900 men, Napoleon set himself
to oppose the whole of Europe.
He raised thirty battaliOns of ar
tilIery, added forty battaliOns to
the Young Guard, and organized
two hundred battaliOns of the National
Guard. Fortunately Louis XVIII. !
had left forty millions of francs in the
treasury, while an equal sun shortly
became due; and by dint of working
on the national enthusiasm, borrow
ing thirty millions on the sinking
fund, calling in arms by proclamation,
repairing old muskets, giving treasury
notes for draught horses for the artiI-
lery and baggage wagons, Napoleon
looked forward to having by the first
of June four hundred thousand men,
one-half of whom would be disposable !
for active service in the field. In the
meantime, CaulaineOurt approached
the other European powers, with q
view to open diplomatic intercourse.
ave a have no peace" said Alex
ander; she has broken his word. 1t
IS a mortal duel between u.s." Mr..
Metternieh wrote, " Europe has de-
elared war against B~Onaparte. The
power and freedom Of the Freuch
nation are esential to the equilibrium
of Europe. France has but to deliver
itself from its OppressOrs. and re-
turn to the principles on which the
social order repOses to be at peace with
Europe.N There was no installing
such language, and Napoleon at once
determined to strike a blow. His
eneuies had determined to crush him,
he would defeat them singly, and re-
turn in triumph to Paris. Having
formed q provisional government,
with his brother Joseph at its head, to
act during his absence, he determined
to collect all his forces into one mass,
and by boldly pushing between the
British and Prussian armies, to sepa-
rate them from each other, strike to-
rsuht and than 10 thu loft Hal
reeoIected that with only sixteen
thousand men he had thus kept two
hundred thousand OF the troops of
Butcher aud Sewartzenburg at bay ON
the plains of Champagne; what then
might he not hope DIDO with one hun
dred thousand veteran troops, with
under two hundred thousand men to
hold his own against. One Eng
liShman,' says Napoleon, may be
counted for one Frenchmen," but two
P~ruSsians, or soldiers of
the Consideration were required to
make up one Frenchman.o
On the ID of June, SOalt was ap-t,
pointed MajOr-General of the army. L
and immediately took the command.
On the 18th Napoleon left Paris, ar
at Avesnes on the 18th. Here
he found the French army conoen-
trated between the river Sambre and
Phillipville, and containing, accord
ing to returns, 122 400 men, at day.
break. On the morning after the 18th
the French troops crossed the frontier
and marched on Chartered, passing
the Sambre at Marehieniens, Char
leroi and Chatelet. 1t was evident
that Wellington and Butcher, who
had been awaiting news from F0uche
in Paris We're not prepared for this
move, and Napoleon was in hopes !
that his cherished scheme of separzt-
ing the two armies would be success
fnl liz cont Tho lnEt ur:nn "A IL