Heine said of his fellow-countrymen, "they are born stupid, and a bureaucratic education makes them wicked." Had he been an Englishman instead of a Prussian he would have said the same, and with even more truth, of certain persons who, not for worlds would I name, but who do not reside 100 miles from Downing-street.
_December 21st._ When the Fenians in the United States meditate a raid upon Canada, they usually take very great care to allow their intentions to be known.

Our sorties are much like these Hibernian surprises.

If the Prussians do not know when we are about to attack, they cannot complain that it is our fault.

The "Apres vous, Messieurs les Anglais," still forms the chivalrous but somewhat naif tactics of the Gauls.

On Sunday, as a first step to military operations, the gates of the city were closed to all unprovided with passes.