26 NOVEMBER 1870, Page 2

In his second letter, Lord Russell insisting again on the

duty of embodying the Militia,—in which, we must say, he seems to us to talk plain sense,—adds, "with a sufficient bounty we might easily enlist 100,000 men for five years' service. The late Baron Roth- schild of Paris told me that if at any time the English Govern- ment, of which I was the head, wanted 100 millions sterling,. he would be happy to furnish the sum ;—so that neither men nor money would be wanting." But the late Baron Rothschild of Paris is dead, and the present Baron Rothschild of Paris is shut. up in Paris, and it may not be so easy to obtain at once a credit of 100 millions sterling for a Government of which Lord Russell is- not the head.