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means of which the veteran commander | ful adjustment of whatever has caused this obtained a place in naval history awarded to but few. These were among the grandest achievments of the war, and bore most powerfully towards its termination.

brief and bloody conflict. With all his hatred of Republicanism, may King William be more generous toward the new Republic than he would have been to the Emperor.

So ends the Napoleonic dynasty, as it be gun, in blood, and so, let us hope, ends something of that love of martial glory, of military and civic display, of wealth and fash

steadily weakened the energies and debauched the morals of the French people, and which have made Paris the wickedest as well as the most brilliant city of the world. Such a result as this might reconcile the world to even so terrible conflict, and teach it anew that the madness of men often opens the door to God's opportunity.

Admiral Farragut was of Spanish extraction, a native of the South, born in Tennessee, but as unswervingly loyal as though he had been born in Massachusetts, so that a double honor rests upon his achiev-ion and worldly pleasure, which have so ments in behalf of the government. As true a type of the sailor as was Gen. Thomas of the soldier, he was one of the " iron men" in war, and in his official capacity; yet pronounced by those who knew him, one of the most approachable and genial of men in his private character. It seems to us that the death of none of the great men of the war has occasioned so little comment, none have been buried with so little public ostentation. The President was at Long Branch, and no representative even of the government from Washington took the pains to attend the funeral obsequies. But little has been said of this singular fact, but it cannot but be set down, the country over, to the grave discredit of the administration.

...." Viva la Republique!" is the cry that now reaches us from over the water. It is France and Prussia that are making history now, and governments are made and unmade in a day. The Emperor delivers himself up to the enemy, the Empress abandons her place, and France takes up her experiment of the Republic just where she laid it down in 1848. It looks as if this new state of things might last. It would be hard for even Prussia to seat Napoleon on his throne again; and so strong are now the ranks of the "liberals " that neither of the old dynasties are likely to be revived.

It must be that the war is virtually ended. France is too thoroughly beaten to wantonly continue the struggle, and public opinion is even now turning against King William for what seems an unnecessary exercise of despotism. A war of conquest or annihilation is impossible, against the pressure of the world. Other foreign powers are already looking toward arbitration, and we shall doubtless be gladdened ere long with the news of the withdrawal of the forces now moving so leisurely on Paris, and the peace

Not only in France, but elsewhere, history is making, and in the right direction. The marked hostility of the English government to the new republic causes great indignation among many of the people at home, and quite formidable demonstrations are made against the Queen, and especially against the Prince of Wales. According to present indications, it is a matter of grave doubt if that young man of rather doubtful reputation ever sits on the throne of England. In Italy a government disappears, and its late ruler can only threaten and protest and yield, even though he is infallible, and has all power in heaven and earth. Poor Pio Nono! of what use is infallibility if it cannot help him out of so deplorable a state? France, under whose ægis he has ruled so long, deserts him and leaves him bitter and ungrateful, and his apostate son, Victor Emanuel, steps quietly in and relieves him of his temporal cares, whether he will or no, and consigns the exercise of his infallible powers to the realm of spiritual things. What were the States of the church are now a part of a united italy, with Rome as its capital. This is one of the bloodless victories of the war.

...The great event in this latitude, not only of the month but of the century, is, of course, the Gloucester Convention, which draws near as we write, and which will be a matter of history ere this reaches the eye of

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