THE NEWBURY MEMORIAL. [To Tu. EDITOR or TRia “Sl'ICTATOR."] Sia,—On
the obelisk erected in memory of those who fell at the battle of Newbury on September 20th, 1643, are engraved the following three quotations :— "Jueturn Whim quibus necessarium et pia arms gnibus nulls nisi in armis apes relinquitur."—Lrvv, IX., 1.
(War is justified for those upon whom it Is forced, and the taking up of arms is sinless for those to whom no hop. is left but in taking them up.) " The blood of man is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind.. The rest is vanity. The rest is crime."—Bunaz.
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—TIEUOTDIDER.
(For offering their lives by one common impulse they gained individually both praise which cannot grow old, and the most honourable of graves, not that in which they lie, but that in which their renown is left us as an heritage always to be had in remem- brance. For the whole earth is the grave of illustrious tame) Could any words express more truly and more tersely the reasons which led the Allies into the present war, the cause for which they are fighting, and the imperishable glory of their eons, fallen by one consent for their mothers P-1 am,
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