... strength depends not on the nnmerousnesß of the nation, but on its organisation. If the five millions of Irishmen were all united, all educated, and all drilled, as the Swiss are, they would be five times as strong for all national purposes — for war, ...

... LINCOLN was an act of wild revenge at the conclusion of a destructive war. But nothing in the present position of parties in the United States can, on any ordinary principles of human nature, explain the crime of last Saturday as a deed of sane wickedness. That ...

... Subsequently the House went into Committee of Supply, and the remainder of the sitting was occupied principally with the Civil Service Estimates. The Viceroy of India telegraphs that tlie army of tlie Ameer of Cabul was on Wednesday totally defeated ...