JOHN BRIGHT ON PEACE BY NEGOTIATION.
(To rug Enrroa or rem " fescravon.") San,—In your issue of the 15th ink. you publish some extracts from the writings of John Bright, from a correspondent "A. W. D." on the question of the North not giving way as to the question of slavery in the Civil War in America. What this has got to do with the question of prone by negotiation in the present war I quite fail to see. According to the Prime Minister, it was the question of Belgium that brought us into the present war, and no one whom I have ever seen or heard of suggests that Belgium should not be restored to the position she occupied before the war. The other matters are all surely susceptible of settlement by peace by negotiation. Why not try it?—I am, Sir, Bo., Reform Club, Pall Mall, S.W. L D. N. Mmes.
[The parallel seems to no a very close one. The Germans show no sign of willingness to evacuate Belgium and make reparation for the grievous wrongs done by them to her. Au to the "other matters" of grave importance—Serbia, Rumania, Poland, Alsace, the Trentino and Tri.(e—the Central Powers are equally impeni- tent. It would be as futile to negotiate with them as it would be to negotiate with a burglar. The issue is clear and mud be fought out, as it was in America fifty years ago. The enemy, like the South, will be convinced only by defeat. The longer he resists, the more eruehing that defeat will be.—ED. Spectator.] •
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