The imprisonment of Dr. Jacoby for stating in a temperate
speech at Konigsberg the reasons against the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine, is justified by General Vogel von Falken- stein, on the curt military plea that such meetings as Dr. Jacoby -addressed, and such speeches as he made, are quite inconsistent with a " state of siege." Victorious Germany cannot be trusted, it seems, to discuss her own terms of peace. Mentally she is as much in a state of siege as France, or rather more so, for, to tell the truth, the victor does not appear to con- trol any but French bodies, and devotes his restraints in Germany 'to the field of mind. We are happy to say that not many of the • German newspapers approve this gross piece of intellectual tyranny, and the Cologne Gazette, always amongst the most in- -dependent and weighty of the German papers, is very severe on the German Government. Indeed, it more than half sympathizes -with Dr. Jacoby, altogether abjuring Count Bismarck's theory that -you can only secure yourself by conquest against conquest, and only hankering after Alsace and Lorraine on the wonderfully weak ground that they are philologically German. The next thing will be to reclaim for Germany all the populations with flaxen hair and blue eyes!
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