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v s considerable victory, the sflect I. ‘ , , .Frsnceweuldhsincsleeisble.

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dmw‘w’ F. on as ea. v ' i It“. I“ be! hand. it will be classed no:

new. and will combine the Gsrdes elites use at various depots. the Us“ National. and Prone-tire"- from half sdosee sermuedls districts, Gen- eral new. an efleer e experience and distinguished bravery. is trained for the «(mm-ind; and in this practical work. following almost the virgin success of the war. we see the beginning of a na- tional resistance. There is not the abso- lute necessity of relieving Paris of which so much isetalked. if s couple of pro- vincial armies force the l'russians to raise the siege at any considerable point, this is quite enough for Paris. if a German army is r force withdrawn from the seige to 0 battle in the south- west or with the Army of the Loire, a double advantage is gained. There is more chance of victory for 'I‘rochu, and there is the mbsbility of arousing national enthusiasm. The Prussian line of siege at present extends for thirty miles. lstaersl do Pals llfll s and Gen- crul Denney can engage 100,000 men from the Kin ’s army, that monarch may have stii less cause to vent his

isty. and the Parisiaus in any case will I rave some chance of provision. We have page oi another French victory on the

it .

Tho talegram said it was rumored that they had won a bsttle near Arthcuay, but asserted es a fact that German pris- oners were coming into Blois by hun‘ drcds. The French are observing a prudent rcticence as to their strength and intentions, and the Urlenns despatch of De Paladiues was couched in terms moderate and bot-omiug. llc acknow- ledged 2.000 lostin killed and Wounded, which leads us to place the most confi- dent reliance on his statement that they slew 10,000 I’ruseians. Probably the groatmassscrc ensued at the final cou- tcst when the French so cut the Prussian position with the bayonet. A vital in-l tort-st now attaches to the movements of lie Paladincu. The German force at 'l‘oury rumbcrs about “0,000 man. if Prince Charles can come to the rescue of this force, it is more than possible that Orleans will be retukcn. lfDe I’aladines can crush this already beaten force. Prince Charles need not be feared. 'l‘uru- hing to Pelis.Wn learn that there is now bring matured a plan to strike a decisive blow. Three armies are now organised. and they number in all 250,000 men. it is stated that 'I‘rochu intends to at- tcmpt the passage of the Prussian liuc, making icints at different points, in order to distract the enemy. Uur udviccn from the city assert that the besieged can hold out until the middle ofJuuuary

The London Sprcfalor thcu speaks of the remaining chances of France :

Uutsidc Paris the prospect is by no means disbcarting'. lo the North, Gen- eral llourbaki has not resigned. and is scraping together a force, mainly of sol- dicrs. which ought to be able, when at- tacked by General .‘lonteuil'cl, to main- tain a defence which will neutralize the value of the two corps we believe in be at that oflicer's disposal. it may. if General Bourbnki is equal to his reputation. do mncll more, but for the moment, wish to state the case almost as Germans would. “'0 do not hope for victory there or anywhere, until a victory has been gained; but there is a possibility of resistance of a very curious character. 50, also, there is in drittany. in that great peninsula. filled with men of a very determined type, Count, De Keratry. himself a Breton, as is also 'I'rochu. and experienc- ed in the mlmagcmcntof gucrillu troops, is forming at a point west of Le Mans, nu intrci‘udlcd camp. to which the pea- santry are flocking up in such numbers that the Breton army is estimated at 150,000 men, and will be ready, should a victory be gained anywhere, to raise the numbers of the victorious general to an adequate figure. if the commander can

‘ have taken Mth and Straaburg; but un-

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“ tvssehsry.’ They bend like that all through their in story, end hsve always recovered their nurses It the first gloom of victory. it is this idiosyncrscy which. as it seems to us, the German leaders for the moment fail to sppreciate. , The utter collapse of the regular French army has sosurprisod them-so entirely overset all their ideas and calculations. a pears to them In nearly miraculous, t at they havejnmpn ed at owe to the most extreme conclu- siou. tho decadence of the entire people of France. They have grown suddenly Contemptuous, and begin, unch we misread niany si us, to move about in France like the English in lndia. who know that a transport train will go through the population like a heat through water, and who never Count thcirfocs. Let a man arise whom an!- dicl‘s will follow to the death, or let one German l‘ul‘prt sustain a severe reverse in the open field. or let despair once settle upon the French population. and the German armies will have a rough n~ \vakening from their dream of utter vic- tory. The man may be delayed, the victory may not arrive, the German sol- diery may take Paris and Lyons. as they

til peace is signed, the triumph of Ger- many can now never be secure. One drop of the right agent. and all these floating, gelatinous, half-liquid masses of material may solidify into armies. Powder is a very harmless substance until touched by the match.

GERMANY IfUlllNG THE WAR.

The suffering among the lower classes of the population in Germany since the commencement of the war, is only so- cond to the dreadful state of misery to which the population of the French pro. vinces overrun by the German forces have been reduced. For weeks past an umlcrcurrant of dissatisfaction has been rising from the distressed multitudes, iu the towns. and accounts from the vil- lages and rural districts but confirm the tales of popular suffering and national discontent. In all the towns and vil# logos. from the Rhine to the confines of Poland, Volhynia nud Gouvland. the Voice of distress is heard. and the hand of vitality catcudod so rollovo the dis. tress of the multitudes whom the war has deprived of those who ministered to their support. An armed nation. if tc"t’ilzl0 to the enemy. is scarcely less terrible in its consequences to the nation itself. Bereaved widows and helpless orphans are, throughout Germany.daily crying for bread. » 'i‘hc Timos' cor- respondent. writing from Frankfort, says that tho murmurs of the popularo are daily growing in strength and in- tensity, and that distress, bitter and try-

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Wednesday. December u. li‘n.

Mn. titansme gets the credit of having written the article in the current number of the Edinburgh flu-icw entitled. "Germany. France and England." The rumor has gone the round of the Press without being can. trsdictcd. It is. therefore. cveryvvay likely, that to the lengthy list of .\Ir. Gladstoun‘s ludiscrelions. this novel method of announc- ing a policy will have to be added. Apart altogether from the doctrines set forth in the paper. there is something not a little undiguified in is Prime Minister flushingr a party ltcview the vehicle by which to con- voy his views to the public. He cannot be held respvmsiblo for those views. for they are anonymous. and by allowing it to be understood that ho is. nevertheless. their author. ho communicates to them the sanc- tion of his olllcial position. So. not without force argues the (Note. If. however. We look to the spirit and sentiments of the arti- cle, there will be found in it much that is offensive both to correct taste andjust prin- ciples. The alliance between England and the late Imperial Government of France was always most cordial. The rule 0! tllt‘ Emperor was not without grave faults. and recent events have set these very prominent ly before the public eye. lint a friend should bcara friend’s infirmitios, it was a piece of very questionable taste for the First Minister of a friendly people to seize on the moment of Franco‘s disaster. in order to ex- patiate on her shortcomings. and fillt‘t‘l‘ at her reverses. Speaking oftllc Second I'Im- pirc, Mr. Gladstone suys:—“\Vo feel that for France it was a snare. a cahunity, a hopeless impediment to solid well—being." And again “absolute rule could only subsist by the zealous and energetic aid of it body of satellites. who were compensated for the unsavoury t'llnl'aclcr of their functions by the high rate of their wages." Not coutont with this exposure of his views. with respect to the Emperor and his Government. Mr. Gladstone proceeds to lift the vcil from the domestic life of the lmpnriul Family. and tell us that “its luxury was profuse and enormous." Ilc oven quotes, as applicable to the inmates of the 'l‘uillorice. a sentence from Sallusf descriptive of Pagan Rome. in the most degenerate days of the Republic. “While all was thus unsound beneath," he continues. “on the surface all was gorgeous: and the glare of l‘nrisiun lgn-rilynunl splendor. morn than ever inlposod upon the eye, and fainted the conscience oflho World. It was a vlose and foul atmosphere, of which the evil odor was only kcpt down by clouds of~

ing, is universal throughout Germany, A Correspondent, writng from Ilcidcl-l berg. states that the cry of distress is? heard on all sides, and that the suffer- ing in the winter will be torril-lo. even should the war be terminated immch atcly. Even from lladeu and Bavaria. where the Prussian system docs nob prevail. the forced draft on the manhood l of the nation, and the general absorption

ofsll thought in the question of the war,

has stagnated industry that in the towns

the populace are reduced to the narrow-

est straits, and local subveutious are in-

stituted to meet the pressure of dis-

tress. A terrible feeling of “ depression - and apprehension” is reported among. the people throughout Germany. Dis- tress at home, and the daily bulletins ofi sick and Wounded which arrive, awaken- ing the four and anxiety of the people at home, depress the ardent, and furnish food for the minds of the discontented. The loudest murmurs are heard in refer~ cure to the hard treatment endured by the army from want of shelter and cloth- ing essential to the health and comfort of troops in the field. “ They say that they are willing that their husbands. sons and brothers should go to defch

but get time to educate his men, this army, like that of lionrbaki. may yet be able to make an effort for tho relicfoi' Paris, the object to which all the opera- tions now tcnd. And. finally, there is the army of the Loire. commended by Gcncrnl d'Aurcllcs. and the object of the special care of the Government at 'l‘ours. There has been an immense amount of mystification about this army. someofit kept up, we are Convinced, for a purpose, particularly a statement that it had been sentotf northwards; but a few facts seem abundantly clear and among them are these:—-—Gencral d'Aurclle has collected an am y exceed- ing 100,000 men, of whom one-fourth mo regular soldiers, brought up from Algeria, Corsica, and tho gsrrisons of the South; has kept them for three weeks in the open. svowedly for reor- ganization. and has so far succeeded in restoring discipline that his officers are no longer afraid to inflict punishment. A‘correspondent complains with ex- treme bitterness of his severity. aver- ring that he orders ineessantexccutions, but himself sdmits that the reason as- siprncd for the punishment is always either insubordmation or pillage, both of which deserve death. ll‘a soldier in the face of the enemy will strike or menace his oflcer, he must die, and we rejoice to find that there is one General left in Frsuce who knows that truth, sud arm that will besr discipline with. out not ny. Twenty years of imperial vervllity to the preterians seem to have extinguished amongst them the very lrst es of subordination, and it can be restored only by severity like that of the I’ruesisn srmy, in which insubordinetion to never ever ooked or punished except by desth. With this srmy such as he has mode it, General d’Aurclles is clear: ly in motion, sud without sftschlng too much importance to belegrsms from hours—signed. it should be remember" as, by Englishmen. not Frenchmen- we no, st lust believe thst it hss met the mwithent selerin; a surprise or

Should it. even by accident,

their country, and wuuld not murmur if they should fall victims to the god oi war; but it is quite another matter to have their dear ones dying of typhus fever sud dysentery, brought on by the want of' proper clothing and shelter to » preserve them from the fatal consc. quencca of a winter campaign."

it is the Landwher, it seems, which

suffers most. “The greater part of them being woll-to-ulo shopkeepers and

mechanics. quite unaccustomed to ex-

posure to bad weather, very soon give

way. and fall sick when, after marching

all day in the rain, they have to rest all

night on the dalnp ground, with no pro-

tection from the night air but their drenched uniforms." Poor victims oi

an iron system and u remorsclcss um— bition. they are stricken by the terrible

fcvor pnet,uud die in hundreds. An

Officer in the linden army writes that for fifty days he has Blt'pf in his uniform. And if they took off their boots at night, their swollen fccf. prevented them from putting them on again, so that the men walked barofooted till they fell from cold and exhaustion. He had seen men. when their foot became too sore to bear the boots longer, having them cut off. “ and know many cases in which, where this was attempted, the greater part of the flesh of the feet came off with the boots." Colonel Lloyd Lindsay. writ. ing of the Prussian hospitals liofiiro Paris. says that the soldiers during their illness. have had no Covering but their blood-stained uniforms, and no change of raimcnt when they left. so that they walked about in the garments worn on the battle field. with the blood of their wounds still clotted in the texture, and many of them without shoes to protect their feet. as they crawled like skeletons through the mud of the rrlcam manta. 'l'heso tslcs reach Germany, an add to the discontent of the populace, who hall with "general satisfaction the ru- mors of s rejected armistice," and de- s in thes outs of glory which surround t em, while distress sud hunger stern them in the face.

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Holiswsy's alumni and NHL-3udieimts “newts—Though it II impossible. in this ell-Isa enhancing "superstore. to prevent it.

w lhsr. yet its fem sud fst- uency my Ilw b the surly ,0! to assures. W sacrum-s. cough,

en the stir-ping slight fmr Minibike tie throsth or chest. Hei-

ngisu doses. to mots its «recurs action. . every '0:- ftelfswsy's nae-m which usle

sgss sod conditions sud to every er-

nud fruitful consequences of the war.“ sets forth a falsehood.

tottcr on the withdrawal of the French prop. tndo. and certainly gave no sign of falling till it was attacked and bombarded by u friendly power without any declaration of

incense and floods of perfume.“ Now, we

have no wish to coulvovcrt the statements 5

here mode by Mr. Gladstone. All that he“ says and nun-h more may be quite true. but wllul we are curious to know is. would ho. as First Minister of tho t‘rnwu. have stood up in his place and told the House of Com- mons the things which he has told to the

world anonymously in tllu pages of a lie-

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the 20th ult. . ' and we be as our young friends may live to do better or umny succeeding years."

arm; HERALD. ClIAllI.0'l"l‘E'l‘()WN. - - - - ~ . . . . .

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Itis impossible to believe that it states- mns of Mr. Gladstone‘s experience does not clearly see the precedent which will be established by his approval of the act of the Piedmoutese Government in selling on

Rome. To use the Worth in this essay. there will he culled into existence “tlist de-

gradlng form of human things in which rightis based only on power.“ In it mo- rality of this cast. treaties are at once de- prived of their sanctity. and the faith of nations rendered voiceless. As an example of the iudubitahle tendency of Mr. Glad- stoue‘l principle. we may bring the matter home thus :-—’l‘here is, in these British North American Provinces. u certain number of individuals who favor Annexation. If the Government of the United scum. upon this protest. should. without any declaration of war. cross the frontier with an overwheluo lug force. beat down all opposition, sud after sebum plebiscite. decree the annexa- tion of the Provinces to the Republic. it Would do nothlln,r more than the l'icdmom lose (lovcrumont did at llomo. And should Mr. Gludstol s be bulgnau‘. the Wishing- tun Government has this ready-made ans- wer :«ll’o have merely followed tho policy you so warmly recommended in 1870, in

your article in the Edinburgh Review. on

“Germany, France and linghmd." 00-?

“Tuna Summer. lvilridvve and Frank Ful- ler. two young men bclimglug to Souria. with a boat 13 foot keel. caught 95 barrels

ln-rriugs. ll barrels mackerel and 360 quin- tuls cmiflsll nud ltukc.

'l‘llcy commenced fishing about the first of Mar and left off on This is a good season's \vork.

\Vul-opy the foregoing frmn the Patriot

of the 8th instant. nnd in doing so, We have to express an opinion which we entertained all along since tho abrogation of the rcci~ procllytreafy—nmnoly. that if the fishery regulatioms had been as rigidly carried out in previous years as they have been during,r the past summer. our contemporary could have chronicled many more such gratifying items as the above. and the colony would at this time. be able to boast of a thriving fishing business. which we quote the above paragraph. is an editorial urtirlc charging us with making' “ false accusations" against our contempo- rury. in connection with the ii-du-vy question. It lsqulto natural for tho. I‘lln‘of. having tltkcutln- side it did upon this subject, to cry out “ false :u-cusntions.“ but Mr. Laird t'mlllot suppose that because he has pluch llilusvlfin rt false position. \vourc, lln-rcforo. going to surrl-mior our couvirlious and eat x our own \vords. tllc stealing oftlic ('Iom 1". Friend was the natural result of the doctrine preached in tho Illlrio! all summer. was assured that ho was the victim of per-

In the same paper from

What “'1' nilirm is. that

('.|pf. .‘llll'xllltll

cculiou and that be was ruined by the ox- -rviso of an illegal and arbitrary poivcr.

Nor WM lu- tln- only one u llo rot-vivcdenrour- ugolnvnt from our contcinporary. . skipper, who. in defiance of file American. rut well as the Ill'ilisll law. t-nvl’nat‘flt‘tl upon

lll‘ fishing lgrounds. found urongcnial spirit ll

and sympathisiug friend in the ’uirlol. In

t not notorious. um. ho was the centre of ul

view? We can hardly bulicvo it. and if he Would not have done so. we have a perfect right to say that Mr. Gladstone has taken a most unfair advantage of the public. llt‘ has shrouded himself in darkness to write scutimcnls he had not courage to utter in the light ofday. This acorns to sully sadly that stainless reputation for integrity and honesty hitherto summsod to he enjoyed by Mr. Gladstone.

What. however. more intimately concern; us. as Catholics. is the licvicwor's opinion

regarding the lulu Iloman events. llo writes tllus:—-“l-‘rance. as was natural.

found it novdful. on the outbreak oflllc war. to withdraw her troops from Rome; the do- on?“ structure oftllc l’opo-‘s (‘ivil Govern— ment. on the removal of its prop. imme- diately began to tillli‘l‘. We may now pro- nounce it level with the ground; tin-re seems to bc scarcely a hope or a. four of its restoration, and possibly the day may come when it may be generally believed that the downfall of the temporal power of the Pope- dom has. in its ulterior results. been the greatest and most fruitful of all the great

()ur first remark upon this passage is that if The Pope's Civil lovcrunn-nt did not “immmlintcly begin to

it never bore any trace of dccrcpf— l

\vul'. Sixty-thousand mun overcome some ten thousand, and beat down by brute-force thc oldestmonarchy in the world. Suppose for u moon-at that the "prop" of England were withdrawn from Belgium. Could not Prussia. were she so minded. crush her Government to the earth lry the some means that the Government of the Pope was crush- od? Yet not for flint Would Mr. Gladstone call the Belgian Government decrepit or tottering. As it has happened. the earth- quake which has shaken Europe. to its cenlre. has only su-rvcd to give Ilelgium a. “deeper and more solid standing ground.” Had the arm of a strong povver stqqmrfrd the I’onti- l iicul Government. the same could have been I said of it to—duy. l