15 OCTOBER 1870, Page 2

The Liberal Members for large constituencies are not very unanimous

about the war, except on the point of keeping out of it. Sir Thomas Bazley, in addressing the Liberal Club yesterday week in the Chorltou Town Hall, Manchester, apologized for the German demand of Alsace and Lorraine, on the ground of their having been a Century or two ago plundered from Germany (which has nothing to do with the matter), and on the ground of their German language (which has very little to do with the matter), and ingeniously omitted to notice the main point,—that the people have been and are fighting for France with all their hearta,'and feel pro- bably just as the German cantons of Switzerland would feel if you proposed to annex them to Germany, or the French cantons if you proposed to annex them to France.