26 NOVEMBER 1870, Page 3

The Times, with a faint touch of malice, republishes Mr.

Carlyle's pompous utterance "about the American Iliad in a nut- shell." The Verities were then all on the side of the South, which only wanted, poor meek economist ! to hire its servants for life, and would, of course, win. Providence, however, went the other way. Now the Verities are all with the Germans because they are winning, and we may consequently expect that the ultimate decision will be for the French. By the way, we should have thought General D'Aurelles de Paladines would be quite a Verity to Mr. Carlyle. He holds his tongue, shoots anybody who is in- subordinate, and makes his enemies run away. Is Teuton blood indispensable in an Apostle of Carlylese ?