— ERO prmrese 4 ~~ AMisceltancons. at a tN ENGLAND AND GERMANY. . Seeman 4. The Daily Tetegraph. thus comments ‘on eh a the German press towards “What is the meaning of the anger with which the German people, or rather the man newspapers, are, at present, speaking of Bngland? Why do they Bingle out Great Britain from among all other countries, for their invectives and their sneers? If the sympathy of one nation bas the slightest value in the eyes of another, it might have been expected that this country would have received some thanks, or at least no abuse, from the Fatherland, When the French Gov- erament seemed bent on picking a quar- rel with that of Prassia, and when it is- sued a declaration of war, the English — and press condemned the policy otf which it would be difficult to match in the history of English political discus- “in, 4 Oe 6 8 ee es What, we ask again, is the meaning | of all this animosity? The answer ot the Germans is, that we have been sys- tematically supplying France with arms, and that, by giving her the very kind ol aid which she most pressingly needs, we have virtually become her ally. The journals of the Fatherland ostentations)ly pees the record of every chest of »reechloaders or cartridges which has been landed, or said to be landed, at Oalais or Havre. They complain that we will not listen to the complaints of their Ambassador, and that our Govern- meut has virtually permitted England to be employed as the gun-manufactory of France, The answers to that accusation are at once manifold and complete. This journal has not defended a law which permits belligereuts to use a neutral ter- vitory for the manufacture of its arms and ammunition, liberty is given to belligerents by the Jaws of every country, excepting Bel- rium, but including Prussia herself, ven if England were now sending rifles to France by thousands, she would only be following the example set by Prussia during the Crimean war. And whether the law is good or not, it is, at least, the Jaw of England, and the Government of Berlin knew that such was the case when it accepted the French challenge to war. That was one of the perils which it had to face. Moreover, ut the vutsct of the war, we so changed our municipal law as to confer a direct boon on Prussia, by forbidding the subjects of the Queen to send coalin vessels which might act as store-ships for the French range with an unanimity and vigour) PROSPECTS OF PEACE AND ITS! CONDITIONS. The London 7¥mes lately put forward a basis for peace, which is quoted and commented on by the Figaro, thus:— “Let the strong places of Alsace and | Lorraine be dismantled, we will enter into joint and several guarantees with | each belligerent to join either against) the other in case one should make an at: | tack upon the other without first sub-| mitting to our arbitration, as neutrals, | the grounds on which such an attack is sought to be justilied.’’ In a word, let| us realize the dream of the Peace So-| ciety, and. make war impossible, Why did we not do so two months ago?! Why did we not interfere after the) battle of Sedan? When Pranve deelar- | ed her willingness to negotiate a peace | on any terms, save the cession of terri-| tory, why did we not protest against the | intention of Prussia to aunex French | provinces? Are the friends of Prussia} | disappointed at the slow progress of the | war? Elave they discovered that a na-| tion of forty millions cannot be conquer: | Nevertheless, such a) ed in a single campaign? Are they al-| farmed at the growiug unpopularity of | Prussia? Whatever the motive, any | promising peace proposals are welcome | }—-heartily welcome, Conceive the ‘re- | ply ef Count Bismarck, if Lord Granville acted upon the suggestion of the Zines : “You have entered into an agreement about Belgium, if you would. guaranteed the neutrality of Luxem- bourg. You sia, and you do not even protest, a month after your Foreign Secretary had signed the Luxembourg treaty, he repudiated the responsibility of it in Parhament. You were bound to protect the integrity of Denmark. Did you do so? You were bound to protect the in- dependence of Hanover, Did you do so? Prussia knows too well the value- If we had been faithful to our treaty ob- ligations, the present difliculty would have been impossible. As we have been faithless to our treaty obligations, our guarantee is worthless. We can only regard the proposal of the Zunes as a jest which will greatly amuse the man of iron and blood Whatever may be the basis of peace, the cession of Alsace and Lorraine is not to form it, if the Press of England is to have anything to say in the maiter. | It is admitted on all hands, says tie Standard, that to take Alsace and Lor-} lraine from Irance would be a deed of} unjustifiable violence—that it is a retro- | grade step into the barbarism of the last) ni genom ie You could not fulfil it, Only three years ago you lessness of your guarantee to accept it.” | lceutury—that it is the establishment of Uifficult to. draw the live between articles | 4 Precedent most dangerous to the peace’ which..a neutral may and those which | °! Europe, ~that the addition of any por he may not supply, without giving ation of French territory to Germany | flect in the Baltic, Again, it is very ground fur protest, {would be a source of weakness to her instead of strength—that, even if the) people of Alsace aud Lorraine were to be reunited to their conquerors, lrance | would never cease to agitate for their re- | It might be plan-! sibly urged, that if a belligerent should | not obtain “sniders, cartridges, gunpow- der, Gk any other of the instruments with which soldiers kill their foes, it is equally important that he should not 1¢- veivo army -great-coats, army blankets, vr any other article of clothing which may protect the soldier against the cold. Strould the siege of Paris last for a few weeks longer, warm clothing may be as important to the German troops as needle guis or ogre Oy cannon. Yet Prussia is, we are told, drawing large stores of great coats and blankets from England, and about those ‘instruments of war’’ she dues not say a word. The ene burden of her complaint is, that Eng- lish manufacturers bave sold rifles to the French Government, and she speaks as if they had been exported in vast quanti- ties. But such is not the fact. At the utmost only 10,000 or 12,000 breech- foaders have been obtained in this coun- | try; thesuflicient explanation being that England is not able to supply a large store of rifles to any foreign belligerent. The crowd of minor manufacturers, who work by hand, take a long time to cxe- cute any order; the only large Birming- liam manufactory is, we understand, ful- ly occupied by the commissions of our own Government, and even the German journals do not insinuate that Enfield is at the service of France. Yet France, we frankly admit, is ob- taining a large s1pply of breechloaders and ammunition from abroad, and, were it not for such resources as the arsenals and manufactories of other nations, she could not arm her Franes-tireurs or her Gardes Mobiles. From what country, ihen, docs she draw by far the largest proportion of her new rifles and car- tridges? Not from England, but from the United States. As President Grant took eare to point out in his proclama- tion, the neprsome laws of thatcountry do not place the slightest restriction on the export of arms to belligerents, and the gun-makers have taken advautage of the liberty with a vengeance. One of the chief American makers, Mr. Remington, has been at Tours for a considerable time; has been constantly communicat- ing with the committee which was ap- pointed to negotiate the purchase of arms; and it is no secret that he has en- gaged to supply the Government with a large quantity of his own weapons, Down to this date, as local records show, four steamers have left Now Yor’, for French ports, conveying no less ihan 158,500 breech-loading rifles and car- lines, with cightcen millions of cartridg- es, America, indeed, is notoriously the country to which France looks for arms, and itis equally notorious that she hopes to vbtain, or may have already obtained, a great proportion of those which were employed during the Civil War, and have since passed into private hands. Several American agents have gone to France to conduct the negotiations, and those gentlemen command the services vf powerful politicians, so that it the war lasts for a couple of months longer, the United States may be the means of arming all the Gardes Mobiles enrolled ‘These are notorious facts. They aro as « well known, too, in Berlin as in London, They tly familiar to the I’rus- : at Washington. Yet, the ' eae is denouncing England for committing a breach of neutrality, and sneering alike at her ® and her not a word of or is flung at tho United States, and not et of this one-sidedness ? the cause of hostility? Why is it that the German over, in ibwolute silence, the flagrant sin of the lcovery, and that thus there would be established for ever an endless source of war and future trouble in the heart of| Europe. Even the Zimes, which, to the eternal disgrace of the British Press, was the first to suggest the appropria-| tion of Alsace and Lorraine to the Ger-| mans, is now found to be counselling moderation and magnanimity to the con- | querors, and deprecating the conse-| quences of their insistance upon their} original demands—demands which it- self had proposed and justitied. | But, by whatever means the change | of opinion has been effected, and to whatever cause it is due, it is not a little gratifying to those who have sea: | |dily resisted the German claims to Al- fsace and Lorraine, to find the entire} i voice of the English Press echoing our views. Our readers need not be remiud- ed of the arguments which we have | used to prove that the present war had baric conquest of one country by another | when the cession of Alsace and Lorraine | was set forth as the ultimatum of the German demand. ‘To insist upon these | terms is, we maintain, to make peace | impossible. France willnot and cannot | surrender her eastern provinces, She may be beaten utterly, and laid pros- trate to the ground, but she will not yield to the Prussian claia, This is not) the time to discuss the question of which was the original aggressor, or who was the more wrong in the quarrel, Europe has to consider only how the war is to end. We may presume, by the marked change of tone in the journals, thateven those who have condemned France are not desirous of secing her altogether crushed, and that they are anxious that the quarrel shall end with the present war. Is there then no arrangement pos- sible which shall give to Germany all the legitimate spoils of her victory—at least, all for which she touk up arms— without depriving l’rance of territory ? Is the universal public opinion of Eu- rope to be of no effect in the presence of German ambition? Even in Germany | there is a large and, as we believe, a growing party, which deprecates a con- tinuance of the war for the sake of get- ting Alsace and Lorraine. If the Ger- man people were to be polled to-morrow, it would probably be found that a large majority were anxious for peace upon any honorable terms, The prospects of such a peace are fading every day into the dim distance ; “at something may occur at any moment to render them ut- terly hopeless. Any further defeats in- flicted on France will certainly not be calculated to hasten such a consum- mation as Count Bismarck desires, One effect of every such defeat is to aggri- vate the disorganization and disorder which prevail in the French provinces, and another is to impoverish the people. But it is indispensable to se peace that there should be a settled and recognized authority in Prance, and the Germans will probably consider it 1.0 less cssen- tial hat the French shall not be so tuin- ed as to be unable to pay a large peca- tiary indemnity. 4 The special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that, notwithstanding the enormous losses France has sustain- ed, the towns and villages appoar as fall of nes men as before, armed men are pouring in pal, iy | town, and filling every o a journey railw . iy aks ox Laeeta ie wide of te route, he says, was bristling with bay- nots, Arms did not appear scarce, although the men had no Chassepots, Remingtona, or Saciders. reached the stage of pure, violeut, bar-| . ae BLACKLEAD, 8 caves MATCHES, To which he invites the attention of intend. ing pu Mercantile Advertisement 1870, SPRING, 1870, PPE Subseriter has the pleasure to announce the completion of bis Spring Importations, comprising his usual general assortment of Dry Goods, Hardware, Groceries, Dye Stuffs, Spices, &e.,. Bolt, Bar and Sheet Tren, Carriage Spriugs, Blister & Cast Steel; Cast Stee! Axes and Edge Tools; Wrought and Cut Spikes, * Nails and Tacks, Bellows, Anvils, Vices, Sledges, Hammers, Ecales & weights, Saddlery, Brushes, Window Glass, Putty, Paints Varnish, Linseed, Olive, Kerosene, Seal and Codlish Oils, “Pemperance Cordials, Alcohol, Old Jamaica and Domerara Spirits, Irish, Seotch, Bour- bon, Old Rye and Old Malt Whiskies, Brandy, Gin, Old Tom, Gingerette, Port, Sherry and Champagne Wines, Dublin, London and Edinburg Bottled Ale & Porter, Cordage, Canvas aud Coils Chap, Tea, Sugur, Colfee, Molasses, Contectionary, ‘Tobacco, Sou, Ral-ins, Currants, Sporting Powder, Patent Shot, Caps, &c., &e. Lest Cannda Flour and Cornmeal. A consigninent of Dark and Pale Brandy, in hhds., quarter casks aud bottles, from the celebrated Vineyard of George Sayer & Co., Cognac, France, per Ship dayphion, All of which is offered for Sale, by Whole- sale and Retail, at the lowest market rates, DANIEL BRENAN. June 2, 1870. are aware that Luxem- bourg is negotiating a union with on ly, IN BOTTLES OF FULL SIZE ONLY. | SAYER’S | CELEBRATED BRANDIES AWARDED THE MEDAL, LONDOH, 1862 BOTTLED AT COGNAS AND LABELLED, ACCORDING TO AGE, FINE OLD CHOICE OLD VERY OLD Marked: % ; BR 5 Reg 7] BE HAD OF THE BEST MERCHANTS, Preferred by good judges. N5,-AVOID INFERIOR BRANDIES AND SMALL GOTTLES. D. BRENAN, Sole Agent for P. KF, Island, Fall and Winter GSoonvms? 1870. MACKINNON & MACDONALD Have just received, per Steamers ‘Dorian,’ * City of Baltimore,’ Brig © Argos,” Barque ** Theresa” and others Their Fall Stock of DRY GOObDs, IN Broad Cloths. Doeskins, Tweeds, Fancy Coatings, Moscows, Vilots, Whitneys, &e. Dress Materials. Ladies’ Cloth and Velvetwwen Jackets, Velvetegus, Shiits and Shleing. Fancy Goods, Scarfs, Shawls, Sontags, Cottons, Cotton Warp and Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Ifais, Caps, and Furs. Hardware, Iron, Steel, Plough Metals, Shear Plates, Shovels, Hoes, Traces, Back Bands, Hames, Nails, Window Glass, Vaints, Paint Oil, Olive OU, &e. Trea, A superior article, Sugar, Groceries, &c., &c. All of which will be sold at lowest Market Prices. McKINNON & McDONALD. Dodd & Roger's Brick Building, 2 Queen Square, Nov, 9, 1870. 18- NEW STORE, -70, NEW GOODS! The Subseriber has opened a New Store on Queen Street, in Daun's Block, nearly op- posite Mr. Watson's Drag Store, where he offers for Sale, a care- fully selected Stock of Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing, Paper Collars, &. He, also, calls particular attention to his TreEA. A share of public patronage is respectfully solicited, A. G. McDOUGALL, Ch'town, Nov. 9, 1870. Groceries, &e. “Italian Warehouse.” UST RECEIVED, from London and else- where— 100 chests and half chests TEA, 5000 Ibs. Jamaica COFFEE, 60 hhds. SUGAR, 60 pun, MOLASSES, 100 doz. PICKLES and SAUCES, 400 boxes RAISINS, 10 kegs Green GRAVES, 10 bbls. CURRANTS, 10 * JVondon Crashed SUGAR, 20 casks & 200 cases Brandy and Gin, Casks & qr. casks Superior Wines, éc., G&e., &e. WHOLESAL® AND Reeratt, MACEACHERN & Co. Ch'town, Nov, 9, 1870. lin Tobacco! Tobacco! HE Subscriber having removed next door to the old Stand, begs leave to intimate to hie patrons and the public in general, that he has fitted up a new Tobacco Factory, on an extensive ecale, from which he will supply his customers on the most liberal terme, Also, on hand, a large assortment of Fancy PIPES. 20,000 CIGARS, 400 boxes LOZEN- GES, 800 dozen SHOE BLACKING, 12 a large assortment of GROCERIES, | CHARLES QUIRK, “HATS, CA THE HERALD, CHARLOTTETOWN, eee < ee + eee ee WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER PS & FURS! BoowTs & SHOES. ECEIVED from England, United States, and Canada, a full and complete assortment of the above GOODS, embracing all the leading and most fashionable Styles for Fall and Winter, mADIES’ FURS, No old nor moth-eaten Furs which All Furs warranted free from A. B, SMITH, South Side Queen Square. Latest Styles, all New Goods. have been kept over from last year. moths. Ch’town, Oct. 12, 1870. ee (ee N. B.—Ilighest Price in Cash paid for MINK, MUSKRAT,| OTTER, FOX, and other Fur Skins. +m «+ GEN TLEMEN’S - OUTFITTING WAREHOUSE TO REMOVED Reddain’s Corner, QUEEN STREET. en Qh nee WING to the increase in the Subseriber’s business, he is necessitated to remove to larg- er Premises, and having received, per Etna,” ca Halifax, over Two Hundred Pieces of Choice Tweeds, Beavers, Pilots, Napps, Meltons, Fancy Coatings, &c., &c., TOGETHER WIth E'urnishing Goods, IN GQREAT VARIETY, Ile is now prepared to accommodate his Customers in first-class style. Cutters and Workmen unsurpassed in P. E. Ishand, Nothing will be left: undone to ensure satisfaction,