Mr. Bright addressed the students of Glasgow University on 'Thursday,
as the Lord Rector of their choice, in an address marked by some magnificent passages of his familiar style of eloquence. His subject was the misery and cost of the useless wars of this century,—all wars being to his mind useless wars, and, of course, from some point of view really being so, since, if both the combatants were reasonable and just, they would think alike, and therefore never go to war. Mr. Bright, however, spoke as if it would have been enough to prevent all the wars in which we have been engaged, had we alone been reasonable and just, without regard to the reason and justice of our antagonists, —an assumption difficult to admit. Suppose, for instance, that -the Northern States of America had been perfectly reasonable and perfectly just in 1861,—which Mr. Bright probably holds to be more or less true,—how could that have prevented the seces- sion of the slave-holders, and, therefore, how could it have prevented the war P
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