It must not lw supposed, however, that M. Poineari , 'a reeusaney
is winning the day. From -every Moral point of view it is losing, and at length goad mav conic out of the evil, though we fear that there will be terrible suffering in Germany and elsewhere before that happens. The hands of justice are being strengthened day by day, though. the results can hardly be recognized, still less garnered. The change of feeling in America is very sig- nificant, and so is the fact that both Belgium and Italy arc now in effect on the British side. We have written in a leading article about the courage and wisdom of Belgium, but in this place too we should like to offer her our con- gratulations. The effect of her new policy at. Aix-la- 690 Chapelle, when she treated the Separatist scallywags as criminal disturbers of the peace, instead of protecting and coddling them, was rapid and wholesome. Every decent person in the city at once drew in a breath of 'parer air.
* *
