The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1876-09-09 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

ANNIVERSARY OF SEDAN. (From the Times.)  _ Franee suffered an enormous loss when the capitulation of Sedan determined the fortunes of the war. She lost mink more than Prussia did at the battle of Jena. She lost as much in one month as she suffered 'during years sof the warfare waged by the first Be. public and the empire. In many ways Sedan was a greater calamity than Waterloo. And yet no thoughtful Frenchman outside the Imperialist camp would say that even Sedan was too heavy a price to pay for the gains which it brought to France and Europe. Thedestruct lon of the empire is an indescribable benefit, because Isignifies that France can now lead a quiet, natural, public life., eorthy of herself and not alarming to her neighbours. The army has been put back into 'a place of healthy subordination to the civil power. The swift devices of grapeshot are no longer among the familiar prescriptions of statesmanship. The courts of law co not need to be subservient to any dynasty, and they have ceased to be degraded by the political appeals which of necessity took the place of arguments for the defence in trials for the expression of political opinions. Both bnich and bar are purified. '1 he peace of the netion i; not excited by murder'Due conspiracies, nor is its contempt provoked by the discovery of fictitious plots at moments of imperial embarrassment. The Ministers have ceased to act disturb its repose: •Iji„, the mere officials of a dynasty, and speak with the tone ire.Tiing the dignity of a nation which was eg irteae et btlitfeoyr e and will be greet shitakllnelfavellecejace:PaAteid IPrefects do not drive the peasants tu roll likt ;sheep, or treat as so many mita its those who will not !vote with the Government. The French people are I more free than they have ever been in the whole course of their history. Their Parliament is not a convenient cloak for any despotism, but is as independent as that of England. The Church has east aside the servility ; with which she obeyed the beck of the Court, and if she speaks with muck fanaticism, she also displays , some of the vigour of her greater days. The foreign policy of the country no longer keeps alive the chronic fear of a great war for some flighty or dynastic purpose. Consequently the nation is tranquil in a oegree of whi it had almost lost the memory. Nor need Frenchmen now be ashamed of their Government, and they may feel that self-respect which is necessary in political as well as in private life. Other nations than France have equally good reason to be gratified by that change in the distnbution of International ; power which dates from Sedan. France had excited such misapprehension by her craving for dictatorial authority that the 'dominant influence of Germany I was preferable. Of Etpublicae France, on the alter : hand, Europe has nothing to complain, and her in: genc.e., indeed, is • necessary equipoise to that of her gigantic Ail:. VOL the least 'pmeng tbe gains cf I Sedan is the immense increase Of power which it gave' to the Protestant sympathies of Germany, and the paralysis with which it smote the liltramontane part y of France.  port as to the present state of the law affecting trade FORGERY BY A STOCKBROKER AT mark, if the countries to which they are accredited. PONTEFRACT, . Ty: it, ormation, when obtained, will be of considerGeo. W. Prest, stock awl share broker, of Hackfall, able importance to English manufacturers and metnear Ripon, has been charged on remand with forging a chants' - —shill of exchange for .1:340, at Pontefract, alleged to base been accepted by Messrs. Cross and Co., iron