The Potteries Examiner : — 1875-06-05 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SATURDAY, JUNE 5,18 M.  The Franco-German fight is over. Lord Derby has gained fresh laurels as a competent, well.advised, and efficient Foreign Secretary. France is re-organising her army, but cries, as Napoleon to petit, Napoleon the little, as Victor Hugo called him—Paz, that is, Peace. Wb hope it is so, mid it must be so for a time at least. Prussia is nervous as she looks across the Ruine, and feels compelled to sleep like a butcher's dog with one eye open. She must keep her vast army on a war footing, to be prepared for contingences. Belgium so trou. bled with the internecine conflicts between Catholicism and the modern progressive spirit of scientific scepticism. Rome, as we have often said—Papal Rome, we motto—must div, but eke will die hard. The Pope, poor creature, still bewails the loss of his temporal power, and cannot content himself with his quasi-spiritual powers. He wants, as of old, to have a finger in the pie. Hannah may give us a little trouble once more, bat it is hard for that Chinese subsidiary to kick against the pricks. Our Indian Empire is more than a match for China, Burmah, and Russia put together. We can hold our own against all comers, and whoever is so idiotic as to tainper with our presidents] supra' maey are sure to burn their fingers. If Clive, Warren Hastings, the Marquis of Wellesley and Wellington were stole to punish any refractory belligerents, our present East Indian Viceroy and Generals much more so. It is reported that there is a satisfactory understandirg between our Foreign Office and the Russian Empire on Asiatic subjects. Our brave men are gone to the Arctic regions; may their lives be in the safe keeping of Him who makes summer and winter; and may the expedition return victorious from the realms of . the boreal pole. The French republic seems consolidating, and our trust is that nothing untoward may happen, and that Gsmbetta may live to see his beet and utmost hopes realised. The Republic once on firm and safe footing in France, there is hope for Europe and a dawn of promise to the world. We could wish to live to see the day when Europe will be a grand federated Republic from the Caspian See to the German Ocean. Waco would then cease, oligarchies and autocrasies would perish, and "The universe would slumber, Lapped in universal law." Freedom must bide her time, the "Star dials point to the morn," For, as Charles Mackay has so well and beautifully  3ulllFl'—here's a light about to gleam, There's a fount shoat to stream, There's a flower about to blow, There's a sun about to glow; There's a midnight darkness changing into grey— Men of thought and men of action, clear the way." Alfonsists and Carlisle are still fighting, or rather trying to fight and conquer one another in poor, distracted Spain. May Castelar yet live to see his well-loved country free. New York adviceo of May 21 state that the widow of President Lincoln, who, since Ms tragical death, has shown decided symptoms of mania, has at last become actually Maine, and has been removed Wan asylum. Previous to her removal the unfortunate lady had attempted to commit suicide. In the course of a discussion lately in the Staffordshire Chamber of Agriculture on the Agricultural Cbildren's Amendment Act, Mr. C. It. Keeling, who presid9d, said that under the Act the children ware being taught a great deal more than was necessary for their position; they were, in fact, being educated to become the masters of the farmers. He considered that reading, writing, and arithmetic were the only branches necessary to be taught to such children.