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Lastly, a principle
foune .ption has been sanction-
a Plebiscite, frecly exercised in the
t of an invading army.
t witha future. The principle
that adiscontented minority encouraged
by sedition, acting secretly from with-
out, and supported by a foreign invasion,
“May renounce its allegiance and depose
its legitimate sovereign, has been in-
Btalled among the axioms of political
justice and of public morality. 1 will
not pursue this subject, On the head of
the public writers who, day by day,
have glorified these principles, because
‘they were of use to pull down the Pope,
shall rest the undivided responsibility
of this G lof Rebellion. They have
preached it loudly, confidently, and
scornfully ; and wherever the English
tongue is known these words have gone
out to the uttermost ends of the earth,
Hut there are ears listening, and eyes
Hg not far off, to whom this Gospel
is glad tidings indeed, They are learn-
ing it well, and the teachers of these
things must answer, and I fear pay for
it. If ] were to have spoken a tithe of
what they have written, I should be ac-
cused of sowing sedition with both myy
hands,

THE SIEGE OF PARIS.

The Dublin Freeman says, ‘ Intelli-
rence from the capital, since it has been
proclaimed in a state of siege, has been
extremely difficult to obtain, and owing
to the long and devious routes by which
despatches are forwarded, when they

: ean be got at, the news is necessarily
old. Still the city is not wholly cut off
from communication with the outer
world, which is kept up by means of bal-
loons and such underground telegraphs
as are capable of being utilised. A bal-
joon mail servicé has been organized
with a regular tariff of charges for the
transmission of letters ofa certain weight
und size, The journey is uncertain and
the risk great, but many have been
found willing to undertake it, and as a
proof of the success which has attended
the enterprise, only one balloon out of
half a dozen or more has been brought
down by German bullets Balloon pos-
tal cards, very much resembling our own
halfpexny postal cards, have been
hrovghtinto use, But for these balloons
we should probably have no news from
the interior of Paris, which would be to
us asa city of the dead.

Strongly fortified within and without,
garrisoned by a brave and chivalrons

This is}:

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- WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1870.

CHARLOTTETOWN, — -

THE HERALD,

gaining much advantage, while the
Prench have successfully performed im-
portant reconnoitring movements,

Still there is no disguising that the
position of affairs is critical for the de-
tenders of Paris. Official advices from
the Prossian headquarters report that
the preparations for a regular attack on
the fortifications and shelling of the city
are completed, We still, however,
cling to the hope that such a misfortune
to Franco and disgrace to Germany will
be spared.”

According to intelligence received by
the Telegraph from its special corres-
pondent, those within the beleagured
city are beginning for the first time to
feel the stern realities of the siege.
Provisions are daily rising in price and
deteriorating in quality, The spirits of
the population are depressed by the
sense of their utter isolation from the
outer world, The hopes of foreign in-
tervention are dying away. The con-
viction that France in arms has been
marching to the rescue of the capital
has been radely shaken, and the dreary
suspense of waiting is felt to be so in-
tolerable that even any unsuccessful
sortie would be welcomed as a relief to
the dull monotony of the investment.
The correspondent says—‘' The provis-
fons stéred in Paris, some say are for

My private impression is that before
three weeks have flown we shall not
lack very distinct informations from Bel-
leville, Aubervilliers, and La Batignolles
that famine is upon us, Be it not for-
gotten that labor and its concomitant
wages are dead in this metropolis. The
oor are poorer than ever, for those who
Ce by honest toil can find no work to
do, and those who pick up the thousand
unconsidered trifles or perform the num-
berless odd jobs of a great capital are
at their wits’ end. Chill penury and co-
ereive hunger loom up daily before us
like a grim Frankenstein, Evenif Paris
held stoutly out after the fashion of Toul
and Strasburg, what hope has she of
being able to resist’ Bismarck’s terms
when hunger lays her at her conqueror’s
feet ?
As for the proviuces, I have no longer
the slightest faith in the ery that the
rest of France is rising like one man.
The ideal army of Lyons is now said to
have dwindled to two er three regiments,
and I shall not be snspected of hard-
heartedness to Franee if I deny the pro-
bability of any army being formed and
organized to the south of the Loire
which isin the least likely to exercise
any influence upon the siege of Paris
Lean come to no other conclusion than
that Paris will have to fight the battle
out by and for herself, Has 1 fully ex-
pect, the Prussians are satisfied to close
every avenue leading into or out ef the
doomed city, what matters it whether we
are three weeks or three month in learn-
ing that we have not a choice but sooner

orlater to accept M. Bismark’s terms ?
In the meantime Farts to steamy. cad

‘rance is ia their keeping; have ** staked
their lives upon the cast, and will stand
the hazard of the dic;’’ sternly girded
for the fight and determining to hold out
to the bitter end while an onnce of pow-
der or a loaf remains, with a spirit of
heroic resistance pag Y the entire
mhabitants, at least Paris shows aa uni-
ted front te theenemy. Evenif ultimate
victory does not reward their heroic de-
votion, its gallant defenders will have
earned fresh renown for the Queen City,
in sustaining a siege which will doubt.
less come to be regarded as one of the
most remarkable in history, the crown-
ing struggle in a war of gigantic dimen-
sions. The rumors of disturbances

within the city have been proved to have
been wholly destitute of any foundation
in fact; on the contrary, rehable testi-

mony has been borne by independent
witnesses to the order which every where
reigns, and the determination of all
parties to hush their animositics until
after the departure of the Prussians. An
inner line of defence has been formed of
barricades, so that if the worst should
come, the BP seh os will take to. street

Fighting, wrrd-otawa thaie

very last. Everything, :

ractical science and forethought @uld
«lo to render the preparations fot the
siege, when once it became inevitable,
was done by the Government of the Na-
ae = the othe pant =
1 rs have menee aides to
Msp swith, and that they are being

«4 into consideration is plain
threat attriputed to Coup
ing the toy

: veuple, who, knowing that the honor of

Germans), but at all events

hows thatthe difficulties have
ade themselves apparent. The
troops are cut up from the hard-
of @ severe campaign 3 that sick-

ne ea in their ranks to a fearful ex-
Vent we know, although they have taken
it made on the march; without the
whelter of tents they have to look forward
to encountering very trying weather,
for in Paris fine weather seldom lasts be-
yond September, and October is very
vften a wet raw month, They are in
re heart of a country where every man
is bitterly hostile to them. They have
got to take a large city that it would
— take a million of hana effectively sur-
round with troops, and they are opposed
to an army reece Syd a large number
of trained soldiers have seen action,
and a host of fresh vigorous levies well
drilled, animated with the best possible

and becor daily more inured

a ve TH

and empty of private carriages to such
a degree as no one who knows the gay
and thoughtless capital in its ordinary
lightsome garb could imagine possible.
There is only one journal, the Combat,
the new-horn organ of M. Peter Pyat,
which demands that the restaurants and
cafes shall be forcibly closed, and that all
the citizens and citizenesses in Paris
shall take their seats on terms of prefect
equality at long public tables where food
shall be served out to them at so much
per head for those who can afford to pay,
and for nothing to those who are stary-
ing and penniless. If I mistake not, it
will be found that Connt Bismark spoke
the truth when le told the various gentle
men whom he has spoken to on this sub-
ject that the Prussians had no intention
of knocking their heads against the walls
of Paris, when svoner or later it was cer-
tain that famine would do the Prussian
work without the sacrifice of a single
Prussian life. We are gradually being
strangled.”

animes ceamaa

§ 19 seex BY A CORRESPONDENT. °F
SAE Conaeit Sehlech, like
most Bavarian oMcers, wasvory kind ~~
the long run, and grave US leave to go in
single file, one bY one, to the ridge,
where star?s 4 little summer-house, sur-
rounded by trees, like a small pagodn,
or Swiss cottage-—a gazebo, in
went first, and
Pp of the wood, where an
as been erected, we looked over,
‘at our feet in marvellous bean-

aris
of ty We were engaged in making out

ie through our glasses, when from
ontrouge flew ont a puff of smoke and
two bangs, which come close together
when ashell is fired at and bursts ina

Y line with you, warned ns that either the

French were keeping a very bright look
out, or that they ‘saw something else
disagreeably close to us to vex
them, but the explosion and fragments
were quite near cnongh to serve asa
notice to quit, and we retreated to the
tower, but not before we had a good look
all over Paris from Mont Parnasse, Pere
la Chaise, Notre Dame, the Invalides,
with its newly-gilt dome, the Tuilerics,
Pantheon, to the Are do Triomphe, and
could see the people and soldiers inside
the works, and in tire streets behind Issy,
Oar other friend and Dr tassel appear-
ed, guided by Captain Brix-Forster, of
the Staff, and we mounted the tower, or
gazebo, which consisted of several stories,
with glass windows, and had many
traces of occupancy by French soldiery,
and at every stage the view of the city
became more beautiful and entrancing,
for it “nah Fee though nota very
clear day, Swing to the dust raised by a
strong east wind, This same wind ‘in-
duced the French to send up a balbon—
some say Godard’s—-which was captured:
by the Prassians, with important de-
spatches, bat how or where I do not
know, | do not suppose there was a
chase and combat in the sky. Words
cannot describe the charm of the spec-
tacle. As I
glassed saw at the salient of Vanvres an
officer with a glass to hia oye atand-
ing on the embrasare and giving direc-
tions to the ganners, He was looking

‘ Workmen rested

one,some for two, some for three months. '

beyond. The Bavarian officer standing
by the tower explained the position and
told off the forts, related how surprising
the sight of Paris was at night, and then
cautioned us to walk singly abont 100
yards apart, proceeded from the shelter
of the little plantation towards the fort.
Whiz came a round shot this time right
over the work, ** The Freuch are wak-
ing up,” he said. “They have had
their dinner and are in good spirits.”
Dr. Hassel went next, and as he turned
towards a covered way a shell. whieh
seemed to my somewhat tutored ear to
be making right at the top of my head
came trom Vanvres or Montrouge, and
so I politely bowed to give it free way,
and was glad that it went on its way re
joicing, and burst down among the vines
on the far slope of the hill. The interior
of the redoubt was well worth the
trouble, and presented a scene of such
activity that before this letter reaches
you the French may fire away to their
hearts’ content, but cannot hurtit. The
fosse is broad and deep, with fine scarp
and counterscarp — palisadoes in the
bottom—and the casemates and bomb-
proofs give promise of fine construction,
But Paris—that was the sight of all!
And to see it thus:

TRE WAR.

Count Bismark’s terms for an armis-
tice,”’ says the Dublin Freeman, “were
such as no Government dare propose to
a nation with a heart to feel and courage
to make that feeling known, When ne-

hostilities fail, there is no hope of a per-
manent peace, And so France, in all
her difficulty, has girded herself up to
combat Germany, in all her strength.
But there is hope yet for the French
Eagle, It is true that Toul has surren-

Metz still holds ont, Phalsborg is almost
untouched, Verdun is far from exhaust-
ed, and Mezieres has not yet been in-
vested. The great cities are free from
the taint of invasion. Lyons and Orleans
must be taken, and Rouen must fall, ere
yet the Germans can rest in singleness
of purpose before the walis of Paris. In
fact the military occupation of France
must be an accomplished fact before the
Prussian King can look on the great
siege as his final effort, We dare not
fatuously hope that an army will now
meet him in the field, There seems no

position is contemplated, But winter
drove a greater conqueror than King
William from a city already taken, and
brought disaster on a campaign which
had been signalised by some ol the great.
est victories in universal history. The
German armies are composed of ‘the
bread-winners of Germany, The nation
must be utterly wasted by the worst of

winter in France, Besides, there is a
deal of misapprehension, as to their real
position, In addition to their gigantic

work in the country, the Germans are
some miles JrONt Ue "+. mealle of Paris

at that point where they are strongvess
The skirmishes of the 19th and

.

20th

of siege. This has now ceased.
al Trocha has ordered all the troops
back to the city. He clearly means a
line of defence only. A moment's con-
sideration will show the pradence of
this measure,

lodge the enemy with anything like per-
manent success. Men are wanting. Bat
every advance can be checked by fire and
sortie, This is far the safer plan. It
means little or no French loss and inces-
sant harassing of the enemy.
engagements as have taken place the
French have been altogether suecessfnl.
On the 22nd they took nine guns, twelve
mitrailleurs, and put 12,000 men hors du
combat, No misrepresentations can now
be put upon the French people, They
stand in pyesence of the naked truth.

was peering throngh my

The publish, : :
ments vutsid® Paris are reliable, and so

fe they favo& the French cause. The
people of Paris) have had noble examples
even in this @isastrons contest. Stras-
pourg, fallen \at last, and Motz still in
arms, are too @reat in men’s adiniration
to permit a faint resistance in the capital.
Wrrict has succumbed to sheer force.
Trocuv, at worst, can never be as for-
lorn as the defender of Strasburg. A
handfal of people must shrink where half
a million of grown men would be mighty.
From all sides we learn that arms daily
lind their way to the capital; and al-
though no army is spoken of we believe
time and Trocnu will do much to make
the Germans repent that Bismark reject-
ed all attempts at peace. A nation like
France is not put down swiftly. There
are many Uhrichs in the army; and there
is a greater than Strasburg in France.
The fight is not now for this regime or
that; itis for the bare life—for French
honor aud French existence, Let Trochu,
with his comparatively immense resour-
ces, but prove true to his command, and
the haughty conqueror who has inexor-
ably refused peace may in turn become
the suppliant and rejected,

PRUSSIA,

An Englishman at the German Ifead
‘Quarters writes to the Telegraph an ac-
count of a recent interview with Connt
Bismarck, Ile says, within the last few
days, Bismarck has been officially visited
by Mr. Malet, the Second Secretary of
the Legation in Paris, who came on a
mission from Lord Lyons, Mr.. Malet
came to ask on what terms the German
Government would consent to make
veace, and also whether it would enter
into any direct communication with M.
Jules Favre, The Vount answered ‘n a
friendly tone, but very summarily and
decidedly. We do not want money, he
said; we are rich and we do not care
about large indemnities. We do not
want ships, Germany not being at pre.
senta naval power, nor having any es-
= naval objects in view; but we
now very well that we shall leave be-
hind urin France an undying legacy of
hate, and that, happen what may Font
now, France will, at once, go into train-
ing. For that reason she looks forward
to aday when, without an Emperor to
keep her in check, and without the effote
feebleness and wastefulnesa which the
Imperial ag has brought upon her,
she wor | w vengeance on Germany.
Accordingly, what we now insist upon

is, that we shall have Motz and Stras-

harg. We do not care to have them
dismantled, but as they are, and as they

gotiations for a temporary cessation of |

dered, that Strasburg has fallen; but!

grouml for supposing that such an op.

all foes, inanition, if the present hosts!

were in opposition to. the “German Hine |
Gener: |

Tt were quite hopeless to try to dis.

In such |

~1) accouute of the engage: |

are we shall keep them for a bulwark
against French invasion, making them
stronger than ever they yere. We do
not want ships, but Metg and Strasburg
we must have, As foy knocking our
heads against Paris, we don't do it.
Thatis not ourplan, AVe have seventy
thousand cavalry, ayd we will starve
Paris out, by cutting her railways and
cutting offall communication. All this
is clear enough, but in some respects the
most. important and instructive part of
the Count’s remarks came towards the
end of the conversation, Ile assumed
that Prnssia would gain all her objects.
ltreating the acquisition of Metz and
Strasburg as a fact accomplished; but
he added, “What I now fear is the ef-
fect of a Republic in France, npon Ger-
many itself, That is what the King and
{ most fear, for no one knows so well as
we do what has been the influence of
American Republicanism in Germany.”
|The Count evidently alluded not only to
the theoretical tendencies of the Ger-
mans, but to the effect of communica-
tions from those of the Fatherland who
colonized the United States, and became
thus naturalized to republicanism, “If,”
he continued, speaking of the French,
“they fight us with a propagandist re-
public, they will do us far more harm
than they can do ug by force of arms,’

Count Rismarck’s fears, ae expressed
above, have already shown themselves
in their full activity. Pree utterance of
opinion in Prussia, is dangerous at the
| present moment. It never was a very
safe proceeding, even ia peaceful times,
but now the pious Monareh, who has
i been wading through human blood to
the chin, for the accomplishment of his
theories, all the while Ginking Ileaven
for the laxury thas afforded him, will
‘not allow a syllable tobe uttered by a
i subject ia contradiction of his views,

What, asks the Spectator, is the Prus-
sian home administration thinking off
jHlere is the celebrated old Democrat,
i Herr Jacoby, who was so eften elected
‘by Berlin, arrested at Konigsberg, and
‘imprisoned ‘hy order,” it is said, “ of
the Council of War,” whatever that inay
ibe, for a most sensible and temperate
statement of the reasons against the

The Atevald.

al a 5 A Naat at aR

‘Wednesday, November 9, 1870.

Tur present Government is obviously in
no danger of being involved in the woe con-
sequent upon being everywhere well spoken
of. Every week since its formation the most
aerid opinions and criticisms have Appeared
against it from a portion at least of the pub-
lie press. We have vainly tried to discover
in the acts of the Government, 2 sufficient
ease for this uproar, Its functions have
been exerted with no show of ostentation,
und in strict conformity, we believe, with
law and precedent, ‘The official appoint-
ments, in almost every change of Goyern-
ment, may be expected to provoke coniment
more or less bitter in proportion to the hopes
and expectations of the disappointed com-
mentator, All this was to be expected.
Men who have lived through half their lives
in the hope of a government position—who
have courted unsuccessfully constituency
after constituency, and on whom, time after
time, the disagreeable truth has been forced,
that the estimate they have formed of them-
selves differs widely for the worse, from the
estimate which the public has formed of
them, could not be expeeted to form prodi-
gies of equanimity,and preserve their temper
and decorum, as their golden hopes once
more melted away, We allow this much to
the weakness of human nature, The people
of the Island appear inclined to make a like
allowance; for they seem to pay no heed to
the violent denunciations of their would-be
Mentors, ‘This diguitied repose on the part
of the people, is susceptible of two explona-
tions: either they deem the men who seek
ito disturb them unworthy of credit, or they
jare resolved to give the Government a fair
i chance of proving its ability to conduct the
administration of public affairs with average
This latter motive is nothing more
than what was to be expected from an in-
telligent people. Tho Government is eom-
posed of cloments never before combined or
tried on this Island, The Executive num-
bers men who have long been prominent in
the Colony. They have held seats in Ex-

SUCCESS,

forcible annexation of Alsace and Lor-
‘raine to Germany, contrary to the will)
of the people of these provinces, Terr)
Jocoby had asked whether the people ot
' Alsace and Lorraine are mere ‘soulless
chattels, of whom we may take posses-
sion without any form or ceremony,”’
carrying the Konigsberg meeting unani-

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imously with him, and by way of reply |

-heis himself thrown into prison. Apart
from the tyranny and injustice of this
policy, is it possible that the Prussian
Government is not sensible of the enor-
/mons advantage to be gamed by its viec-
tories that for the fature it may afford
-to let the ultra-Liberals talk as they
‘please, without welding them into a solid
mass by persecution? There is: little
idanger, we fear, of Ilerr Jacoby finding
jmany enthusiastic crowds of German
‘listeners, if he were allowed to say what

+ he likes on behalf of the freedom of Al-!

}eece and Lorraine, Dut there t danger

that iftheso petty tyrannies are pursued,

NYS Vilucses wey wood TULIn, and ro-
turn at atime when the Prussian Goy-
ernment, no longer clothed in the halo
of great victories, will be compelled to
‘fear for its own power,

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Tt seems, says the Minchester Guar-
dian, that the rulers of Prussia not only
jare unable to hear with patience the

warnings and renonstrances of foreign

‘opinion against their imputed policy of

imposing extravagant humiliation on
| France, but they think it consistent with
right to silence the voice of political
jmorality and pradenee in their own
jcountry, by the exercise of an instra-
‘ment substantially equivalent to that of
| detires de cachet under the old regime of
idivice right, This is carrying Mr.
| Lowe's already extravagant doctrine of
the duty of nenfrals to a still more ex-
lisavawent extreme. Not only must
ineighbors abstain from discussing the
'qrestion of moral right raised by sine
| jects of aggression and acquisition lest
\they give offence, but the utterance of
‘independent opion among important
political seetions within the country,
must be sappressed by the police lest it
weaken the arm of the Goveramont in
earrying out the designs upon which it
jis intent. We see in this practical
avowal a sign of exceedingly poor pro-
mise for thejustice and enlightenment of
the influene which, we are told, are
about to prevail in Karope; and we
hope, rathe’ than fear, that we may all
discern in iia bad augury for the tran-
quility and contentment of Germany,
under the @bitrary sway of a Govern-
ment by vhom such principles are
avowed,

Ae

Tire IMemrersan.e Strarecist.—Ru-
mors find thir way through private corres-
pondence ant otherwise of increased im-
sir on tie part of the Crown Prince of
*russin to Ive the sanguinary combat
brought tag dose, Even the hard and ar-
hitrary naturcof his father is said to have
winced terribly on the last and greatest oc-
easion of his ‘wonderful luck.” An eye-
witness of the Jeene has described him dur-
ing the latter part of the day at Sedan as
greatly agitated by the spectacle of horror
around him, As the doomed host rave way
Count Bimarek rubbed his hands and mut-
tered a féw words of exultation. The vet-
eran Mokke, seated on a camp stool with a
map of the game on his knees, remained
wholly @bsorbed in the execution of his
plans and the success of his combinations,
oceasiomlly speaking, as if to himself, when
a wreath of smoke huog longer than usnal
over a distant bend of the hills “they must
have come up by this time,” in allusion to
some column or squadron which had its
orders in the morning to be at a given point
by a given hour, And it looked, in the
words of him who watched the impertur-
bable strategist gazing at his chart of des-
truction, as if he were some prophet wateh-
ing the slow unreeling of the fate he had
foreknown, Moltke’s prescience and pre-
meditation have come to be regarded with
a sort of wonder and awe among the legions
whom he and he alone has moved at will
on the stupendous chessboard. The King,
who has perhaps seen more of him during
the last two months than any other person,
is completely enthralled by his influence,
and maneey carries out his smallest bid-
ding. But it is understood that in politieal
matters the General does not interfere.—
Manchester Guardian correspondent.

The annorncement In Paria of the fall of
Metz, and of the propositions for an armistice,
furnished the Reds with an occasion for a de-
monstration, which they made quite formidable
and for several hours held the Hotel de Ville,
with many members of the Committee of Safe-
ty as prisoners, The mob was at length dls-
poreed by the soldiers,

ecutives before this, and lave given proof of
administrative ability, equal certainly to that
of their predecessors. “They have heretofore
opposed each other; bat the questions which
divided them have boen set at rest, and their
views on them are now identified. New
issues have arisen which require settlement.
| Acombination has been formed to give them

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idue consideration, and sensible people are

| content to watch the development of the
) Government policy regarding them, It is
junfiir and slightly unreasonable to condenn
in anticipation, and raise an alarms before the

appearance even of danger,

ing minds. ‘The most voviferous in pro-
claiming the Church to be in danger” in
the olden times, were generally observed to
be individnals who cared the leas. about re-
ugion. Wesincerely trust that the men who
confederation, and the enemies of the pre-
sent Government, are not of a like feeling
respecting our constitution. The same fate
which befel the youth who amused hinself
with shouting “wolf” when there was no
wolf, awaits those who proclaim danger toa
great popular question, when no signs of
danger are visible. If danger should really
arise, the people will not rally at their call.
We believe, however, that the quostion is in
every way perfectly safe at the present time,
and likely to continue so; what, therefore,
is lost through these alarmists, is their own
| personal influence, if ever they had any.
If they can afford to sacrifice this—it is uo-
thing in our way—we can wituess the obla-
tion without any misgivings,

The proof which the alarmists adyanee,
that the constitution is really in danger, is
very far from satisfictory. It would seem

have been promoted to petty ofices: by the
| Government, Now, to a man who has all
his life panted after Government preferment,
and set it before his vision as the grand con-
summation of earthly ambition, we are
free to confess that there must hover around
\% Justice of the Peace, a loeal Collector of
| Customs, or even a rural Postmaster, some-
| thing indeseribably grand and authoritative.
We, however, with all this, fail to see how

timents and principles of the people's repre-
sentatives, If they can do this, their influ-
ence is too great for subordinates, and should
be made a subject of inquiry. If their sway
over the people be feared, the journalist who
fears it must have little confidence in his
own strength, if he doubt his power to
counteract the influence of a few subordinate
officials. From whatever quarter the next
terms of union may come, we have every
confidence that they will not be forced on the
people, but be submitted to them in strict
accordance with the principle which appears
to regulate the union of peoples at the pre-
sent time, viz: the consent of the people
themselves. So long as the people remain
true to themselves, thei: cunstitution is safe.
If danger really existed, we could see it we
imagine as Wellas our neighbors. But the
reason we do not see it, is, we suspect, that
the ruins of political hopes do not confine
our vision, and our sight is undimmed by
chagrin and rancor.

It is an act of selfishness to strive to rouse
public opinion in order to revenge the dis-
appointments of individual ambition. ‘This
has no doubt been tried against the present
Government, and it has signally failed. The
people have detected the bitterness of private
animosities ill concealed under patriotic fears
of peril to the constitution, and have despised
the factious effort. They have felt no hesi-
tation in re-electing ministers as their repre-
sentatives. ‘This fact, if it moans nothing
else, certainly means that the country will
not be precipitate in condemning before a
chance has been given to merit either ap-
proval or censure. This is a reasonable
course, and shows an amount of fairness on
the part of the people, which some men who
stand forth os their instructors, would do
well to covet and strive to imitate.

We beg to call the attention of our readers
to Archbishop Manning's discourse on the ins
yasion of Rome, It will be found not only
worthy of perasal now, but for inany years
= to come. Some of the leading men of

ngland, in Hteratare and politics, were pre-
sent at its delivery, and #0 deep was the im-
pression produced by g that it was, for a
time, the great subject of conversation.

It is noverthe.|
. * |
less the common resort of weak and design-

proclaim themselves the champions of auti-,

that some men of confederate tendencies |

such officers can effect a change on the sen- |

‘Tne surrender of the French Emperor and
the whole of his army at Sedan, has had its
counterpart in the capitulation of Bazaine,
and hisarmy at Metz, Both facts astounded
the world, and both are almost equally inex-
plicable. A strange fatality seems to haye
hung over everything connected with the
unfortunate Emperor. He himself left the
seene with less of dignity than the world was
inclined to give him eredit for. His Gener-
als have done nothing worthy of the estima-
tion in which they were held. The unae-
countable strategy of one disposed of a gal-
lant army, and the equally unaccountable
tactics of another dglivered over the strongest
fortress of France, and a numerous army to
the enemy. How to account for such dis-
asters without going out of the common
range of causes, we know not; they are
facts without precedents in the history of
wars. Accounts of Bazaine’s surrender in-
form us that his army comprised three Mar-
shalls of France, sixty-six Generals, six
thousand officers, and one hundred and
seventy-three thousand troops—making in
#ll a force somewhat superior to the army of
the Prussians. Allowing for the effects of
fumine which we are told was beginning to
make itself severely felt around Metz, it is
still to us a matter of wonder, how an army
equal in numbers to that of the besieger,
could not eut its way out by sonie means.
French disasters have been accounted for by
the huge masses of men that were opposed
tothem. The French were overwhelmed,
we were told, but in every conflict their
enemies were as fiveto one. ere, however,
at Metz, where their foes were in somewhat
equal number, the same dreary tale of dis-
aster has to be repeated, Allowing further,
for the demoralization of the French troops
in the latter days of the blockade, why, it
enn be asked, was this disorganization allow-
edtosetin? With forces so nearly balanced,
a willing and experienced leader could sure-
ly have broken the line which girt him in,
and made good his eseape. Bazaine sur-
rendered the army and fortifications of Metz
j—-onlled by Napoleon “the bulwark of
France ’—on the same conditions as_ the
Emperor had asked for himself at Sedan,
after which he drove off in his carriage to
‘join his imperial master in captivity. It
‘may be that the brave Marshal will have
something to say to all this—some explana-
tions to make which will change the com-
|plexion of the case; but as the transaction
reaches us now, it wears a startling aspect
of suspicion,

We cannot, therefore, wonder at the Pro-
visional Government of Prance denouncing
Bazaine as a traitor, Naturally enough,
also, the other Gonerals of the Empire who
still retain commands throw them up. The
suspicion of being accomplices of the * man
of Sedan,” rests upon allofthem, Whether,
| When cleared of the growths of Imperialism,

France may not yet put forth a vigor which

will drive back her invaders, remains to be
Gambetta tells the people * that there
-eXists one thing whieh meithe: cea nor Will
capitulate, that is the French Republic.”
We trust that no more ecapitulations are in
“store for the French people. ‘They have
been within the last few months subjected to
enough of them to satisfy any reasonable
enemy, though not the praying monarch or
his arrogant minister. Some have surmised
that Bazaine gave up Metz in order to facili-
tate peace negotiations, The vory opposite
effect is likely to follow. ‘The people exas-
perated by the treacheries to which they be-
lieve they have been subjected, will natural-
ly fall back on the belief, that when led by
able men and true, they are yet able to
grapple with their misfortunes and retrieve
the situation, For the sake of France and
the generous French people, we trust such
will yet be the ease. Paris has in General
Trochu, an able defender, and one who
understands his countrymen well, Tad his
voice heen listened to, France might not to-
day be mourning over the great disasters
whieh have overtaken her. The Ruler of
France heeded him not. lis action may
now convinee that ex-Ruler, that he acted
junwisely when he did so,

seen,

Amapedia anes

ot

Last Saturday's Patriot sets up preten-
/sions to logical science. He heads his lead-
er with a logical term, misquoted and mis-

applied. Logivians call a certain species of

)sophism reasoning in, not within a circle.
An example will shew best what the term
imports, and a glance at the argument in
lust Saturday's Patriot will shew the mis-
application of the term, Anyone who would
seck to prove that the Putriot was stupid
becanse it was edited by Mr. Laird, and
again, that Mr. Laird was stupid because
he edited the Patriot, would be said to argue
inacircle, With respect to the argument
itself, it was adopted, as we said, at the
time, from the Unita Cattolica, of Turin,
and it also appeared in the London Tublet.
The conductors of these journals possess
such intelligence, that we would far prefer
the most ordinary dictates of, their common
sense to the most recondite utterances of
Mr. Laird’s logie. The Patriot further says,
that ho cannot understand a newspaper
supporting liberal principles and progress,
yet protesting against Liberalism. We
never imagined he could,

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Loss ov Tae Camnnta.—The following is
a summary of MeGartland's narrative of the
loss of this ship :—

The voyage from New York was generally
fortunate notwithstanding unpleasant weath-
er prevailed most of the time, until the night
of Wednesday, the 19th, between 10 and 11
o’clock. The Cambria was then under sail
and steaming agp Suddenly, when all
was apparently going well, she struck on
Instrahafl Island, a small rocky island, ten
miles west of Donegal and thirty west of
Londonderry. ‘The vessel instantly began
to fill thro large holes stove in the bottom,
and the fires were soon extinguished, It
became evident that the steamer was hope-
lessly lost, and efforts were therefore direct-
ed to save the lives of the passengers, who
were massed t the deck, Four boats

were crowded with passengers and launched

Gartland entered one of these, and he saw
no more of the ship or other boats. The
weather was very heavy, and ho thinks there
is no doubt that all the were swamped,
and that he is the only survivor. Almost
instantly upon getting into the boat, it cap-
sized and he lost all consciousness, On re~
viving he found himself in the sea, es

the gunwale of the boat, which h
Tle Rosieded in in the hous the sec-
ond time, and found n

the dead
of a lady dressed in black silk, ; iad

‘

McGartland was tossed about many hours
when he was picked up by the Surprise,
Captain Gillespie, who cruised about the
scene of the disaster for a long time, in hope
of saving life ane property. MeGartland
says that almost at the very time of the dis-
aster the passengers and erew were congrat-
ulating themselves ona a voyage
nearly finished.and rejoicing in the fat thatin
one short hour more they would land at
Moville. There were certainly one hun-
dred and eighty souls on board and perhaps
more,

Vessels returning from the scene of the
Cambri disaster in the North Channel re-
vk that they discoyered only a lot of
woken spars dnd a few barrels of flour,
which formed a part of her cargo. Nothing
vet bas been heard of the three small boats
put out from the steamer Cambria when she
struck, The hope for their safety has not
yet been entirely abandoned, but MeGart-
land reports that ‘the wind was little short of
® hurricane at the time, and in which it
would be miraculous for such small craft to
weather,

Tler passenger list numbered 127 persons
and her crew probably from 150 to 160 more.
It is feared that all but the sailor who
bronght the sad news were lost, The
Cambria left New York October 8, and was
due at Glasgow yesterday. She was about
3500 tons Cartiiea, Clyde built, and had
every improvement adapted to her coustruc-
tion that ingenuity could suggest. She was
new and staunch, aud had a very valuable
cargo, and an exceedingly large’ passenger
list, including many children, She was con-
sidered the second fastest boat of the Anchor
Line, and her captain (George Carnaghan)
one of the best that plys the ocean,

Among the passengers lost in the Cambria
was James McBride, proprietor of an exten-
sive supply house in Newfoundland. The
Cambria is the third vessel the Anchor line
has lost.

it att atin
LITERATURE.

“Tar Carnoite Worip,” for November.
—The second article of this number treats
ofa very important question,—the English
translations of the Bible. The current Eng-
lish versions are almost universally con-
demned on account of their many aud great
inaccuracies. But who are to make the new
version? who is to be trusted? This is one
difficulty, Another, what Codex is to be
adopted? anda third, when the new version
appears, will it satisfy everybody, or, in-
deed, anybody? ‘The whole article is worthy
of most diligent study. The history of the
different Catholic translations is given, as
well as the origin of King James’ Bible.
* The Great Commission,” and “ The Invi-
tation ILeeded,” are reviews of two works—
the first written by a Protestant, the second
by a Catholic gentleman. In the latter ar-
ticle, the reviewers may be said to be re-
reviewed, and thatin no very gentle method.
“The Church in China,” is a translation
from the German, and furnishes the yeader
with excellent information upot the prog-
ress of religion in that country, There are
two Biographies in this number,-— one of
Metternich, the veteran statesman, and an-
other of Rachel the great actress. “The
invasion of Rome” is a paper full of spirit
nd learning, and utters an indignant pro-
test against the usurpation of Victor Em-
manuel. We say nothing of Dioa and the
Sibyls. Its increasing interes{-is sure of
obtaining for it readers and admirers.

“BLAcKwoop,” for October.—The_ best
paper this month is the “European Hurri-
cane.” part 2nd, The writer accounts for
McMahon's strange. march away towards
the Belgian frentier; and, in a short di-
gression, with the aid of a small diagram,
explains, in what he ealls the “ vernacular,”
the operations performed by besiegers..
There is a heaviness over all the other
articles, notexcepting even Mr. O'Dowd's.
* Stran-gers in the House,” reads somewhat
euriously in Prince Edward Island, where
the Legislature pays the Press to insert its
discussions. The article entitled ‘ Canada,
—the Fenian Raid and the Colonial Office”
is valuable, as showing what they think of
it at‘ ILome.” *‘ Earl's Dene,” “ Boating on
the Thames” and * Picadilly” complete this
number.

“New Dominton Montuy."—This Mag-
azine is neat in appearance, but its contri-
butors seem to write only for the young.
Tes contents ure made up of the very light-
est sort of fiction, which, however, may
derive some interest from its local bearings.

ee etn a Oe GO

Tur Express Evornte.--An authoritative
statement on the part of the French Empress
has been made to the effect that she has en-
tered into no negotiations looking towards
peace at the expense of French territory ;on
the contrary, ‘‘that so long as there was
any question of the smallest cession of ter-
ritory. she would hold aloof from every ne-
gotiation.” In fact the statement seems to
be a pretty full denial of participation by the

impress in any late intrigues or negotiations
for the restoration of the Bonaparts at the
expense of France.

‘iain

We have again to apologise to “ Stone-
wall Jackson” for delaying his communica-
tion, on account of heavy pressure of matter.

Correspondence.

ttt

Ge cA Fe ene
To vue Eprron or tur Herarp.

Sin:—TI notice a malicious attack in your
issue of the, 2d inst., signed “A Farmer,”
upon a class of traders in this city known as
«Commission Produce Dealers,” which is so
glaringly untruthful as to debar its author
from receiving any notice from me, did T
not repeatedly her similar charges from
farmers who should be better informed.
And, in order to place this supposed griev-
ance in its true light, | challenge “ A Far-
mer” to come out from behind the curtain
he his drawn around his august person, and
prove those unqualified charges which he
has made against the “ cheaters” :

First, That the “middle-men” entered
into a contract with the merchants here who
export oats to furnish them with the quan-
tities they required ata fixed price per bushel.
Secondly, That those “ middle-men” re-
ceived any fixed sum or sams per bushel for
such purchases.

Thirdly, That oats are now below their par
viane, occasioned by the meddlosome inter-
ference of those ‘* cheats.”

By inserting the above in the next IHrr-
ALD, you will oblige

WM. D. STEWART.

Ch'town, Noy. 10, 1870,

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