Mr. Ancupato Forses—nomeanauthé- rity—brings forward in the May number of the Nineteenth Century, under the title of "The Warfare of the Futute," what will seem at first to be a paradox, refuted as soon as stated. He contends, and brings facts to prove his contention, "that the warfare of the present when contrasted with the warfare of the'past is dilatory, ineffective, and inconclusive." The warfare of the present began. with the introduction of anns of precision, rifled fire-arms; the warfare of the past ended with the close of the gnoothbore era. The smooth-bore ' rdigued during the first fifty-five years-of the present century; then for teri years the'muzzle-loading rifle; and the last twenty-five years constitute the. breech-loading period. "Considering the extraordinary advances since the end of the émooth-bore era in everything tending to' pre motecelerity anddecisivenessi the result, of campaigus—the revolution in swiftness of shooting and length of range of firearms, the development of the science of gunnery, the increased devotion. to military study, the vast additions, to the military, strength of the nations, looking to the' facilities: for rapid conveyance of troops and transportation of supplies afforded by railways. and steam water-carriage, to the intensified artillery fire that'can now: to bear on fortresses, to' the advantages afforded by the. electric hand to.the crushing: cost of ward the spootly decision of earn signs warfare, urging' vigorous exertions' to-
—reviewing, I say the' thousand aid one circumstances encouraging to shott, sharp, and decisive action' in conteinporary warfare, it is a strange und -bewildering fact that the wats of the smooth-bore era were, for the most part, shorter, sharper, and- more-.decisive." Beaten armies are never pursued and routed nowadays; and fortresses are never stormed, as, they were by Wellington. It would almost seem that in the matter of forlorn hopes the-Cau-
Parkes' lamented death and the departure of Mr. O'Conior, to justify its cost to the British taxpayer. Unfortunately, the China Association has read the sentence very differently, its "amplification being these words: "If however it were still held: necessary that reduction. of some kind should. be effected, this Association' cannot -butconcur with: the communities, the Consuls, who are foreign Office officials, would never see with pleasure their heavy work taken and their decisions appealed against, to the Hongkong: Court, which is a dependence casion is played out." Cen Such' a paradox as that stdtéid in the Jong quotation we have made must -be scouted at once: if it is nobsipported by facts. The Prussiatis' gré- justly eelness which we conceive the Voreiga of the Colonial Office. 'The wronghead-proud of the Seven Weeks' War, They the Bohemian tier. on the goes much: farther oe we imagi Office to have displayed in this matter crossed. 16 front '28rd: of June, "1866, and the armistice imagined. was signed at-Nikolsbiirg on the ®2nd
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