10 SEPTEMBER 1870, Page 3

Sir John Pakington was hardly more instructive the other day

at Rushook, in Worcestershire, when he said, after referring to the wonderful series of Prussian victories, " these remarkable events teach us how soon a war may spring up, and how soon that war may be settled,"—which is very like the ordinary pulpit moralizing on sudden death ; and Sir John appears to have drawn the same moral, that every nation ought to be prepared, a view the only point of which would lie in its application. Sir John himself, when at the Admiralty, was hardly as much prepared in vessels and equipments as Mr. Childers.