11 MAY 1867, Page 3

The French journals announce the formation of a "Peace League"

in France, which has apparently received some impor- tant adhesions. The French of Alsace, for example, belong to it, and the German merchants in many great towns, and the co-operative societies, and so on. Unfortunately, the names are even yet inferior to those on our own Peace Society, and we all know what amount of influence that had. 'The truth is, every civilized person is a Quaker until he is excited, and then he becomes a muscular Christian. We would back the Mem- ber for Lambeth to sign any number of addresses in favour of peace as a Christian principle, and to kick any number of roughs who imagined that his principle amounted to non-resistance.