Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-24

gusting, and the trial of an infamous assassin
 of a President is degenerating into the daily
 enacting of low comedy.
 The organization of the German army,
 reports General Roberts of England, has
 been brought to such perfection that in one
 night any army corps can be mobilized. In
 the Bureau of the General Staff letters are
 ready stamped and addressed to every de-
 pertinent and commanding officer of the
 several army corps, only requiring the date
 to be filled in for dispatch in ten minutes.
 All the horses belonging to private people
 throughout the country are marked of for
 the regiments and batteries to which they
 would be attached in war time, and also the
 hour and the train by which each horse
 would be dispatched to it's destination The
 whole country is organized for war, and eve-
 ry individual capable of bearing arms knows
 where to go and what to do in the event of
 call being made for his services. All the railway officials, the telegraphists, and other
 bodies in Germany are soldiers, and the heads of these departments are general off, cers, who organize them chiefly to meet the DSA of the Emperor are old soldiers. The Ger man officers personally know every man un- der their command, having drilled them
 Every captain is responsible to the colonel that every man in his company is efficient by certain date, the subalterns being responsl- ble again to their immediate superiors.
 Dr. Freeman, whose course of lectures be- gins here Wednesday, Nov. 30, was born. &C., cording to the International Reoieao, at Var borne, in Staffordshire. on the 2d of August, 1923, and was elected scholar of Trinity Coll lege. Oxford, in 1S41. Taking in due course his degree of B. A. in 1s45, he also obtained a fellowship in his college in the same year. In 1857, and again in 1868, he was appointed one of the University Examiners in Modern History. He has ever since his graduation kept up intimate relations with his universi- ty and college, and, having neither profession nor public office, has devoted himself to his tory. Living in the country and rarely visit ing London, travelling in England and on the continent, always in search of historic mate l rials, visiting and mapping the localities of | great events, he has been able thus to accom- l plish far more than he could have done had he been trammeled by place in Parliament, l for which he once stood unnecessarily, or even by an Oxford professorship. for which ] he was once a defeated candidate, He has | been very naturally interested in archaeology, | and, as his history fully displays, is careful ! student of architecture, which he properly | considers an important subsidiary branch of ] history. Thus, fitted by modes of life and | habits of study for his great task, he brought 1 to it developing mind, which has always dared to think for itself. In youth an ardent l Tory he has adopted the Liberal creed little | by little and it is related that in 1858, at the foot of the famous Rock of Cashel, he be- 1 came, as if by inspiration, convinced that the | Protestant church in Ireland ought to be dis 1 established In 1854 6 his pen was busy in l denouncing the participation of England in the Crimean war, and he has always taken 8 1 deep interest in the oppressed Christian na- tions of the East. Such, in brief, were his l moral, scholastic and political qualifications for writing the history of the Norman Con- quest.