AN ERRONEOUS IDEA.
[To ras Emma or um o Orscrarort."1
Sze.,—Permit me to differ from- the "idea" expressed by your correspondent " H. C." in your issue of Saturday last that "the sole object of her [Germany's] going to war was to get Belgium at all coats." All that happened at that time, and. all that has since transpired, go to prove that her aims extended far beyond the annexation of a province, and may be summarized thus The neutrality of Great Britain- being secured, and Russia held in check by Austria, France was to be subjugated, an immense indemnity extorted, awl then, with ample funds and additional shipyards at her dis- posal, a navy was to be erected by Germany superior in power to that of Great Britain, who would take her turn to fall before the Teuton. The annexation or vassalage of Belgium and Holland would no doubt follow speedily, but these matters were of quite 'secondary importance.-1 am,
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