But I suppose that it has been by the people not by the prince that so much progress has been effected in the Rhine town.

We left it at one o'clock by the express train for Rotterdam, and were due there at seven in the evening. Being due, however, at a certain hour means nothing in Germany, Belgium, and Holland now. If our train were express in any way, it was in being expressly slow. Troops, troops everywhere; all had to be delayed for them, and we might esteem ourselves thankful to reach Rotterdam before midnight. Then what was to be done? Every hotel was full, not a bed was to be had. Whilst my friend was making inquiries and I was sitting very hopeless in our cab, a gentleman presented himself at the door of it, and, speaking in German, introduced himself by name, and then said, as a guarantee for his respectability, that he was ober-president, or chairman of a certain bank, and politely offered us shelter in his house for the night. His wife was not at home, he said, and he feared he could not do for us all he wished, but at least we should have rest and refreshment.

I was overwhelmed by this most extraordinary act of kindness; it seemed unreasonable to trespass so on a stranger, yet what could we do, left as we were to the mercies of a very bad cabman, who had already made an effort to compel us to go into a low beerhouse for the night? We thanked the good Dutchman in our best German, and took him at his word.

By one o'clock we found ourselves in his handsome house, and we had some very acceptable refreshment and a glass of excellent wine. Then we induced our generous host to speak English; this he did extremely well, though slowly. At six in the morning he had his own carriage at the door to take us to the steamer, and by his influence places were secured for us, though the number of passengers had been completed the day before. After we had shaken hands with him, and had said good-bye! in our hearts, we repeated "Long live the Hollander!"-"Long may France and Germany keep out of Holland, and leave it to its industry and its peaceful acts of hospitality and good nature!"

But, after all, of what have I spoken in this of my personal concerns except again of the trifling? Again it seems to me to be wrong when the condition of Germany comes before me as I have just seen it. Have just seen it for the Saturday spent in the steamer to Harwich is over, and I am in London once more, and have hurriedly put together the events of the last days of the week begun in Coblentz.

And now, that I am in England, I think not of English things, but solely of what I saw in Germany, and still, as I think, the words of our old poet, with a little change, come back to me:

WAR is a monster of such hideous mien,
As to be hated, needs but to be seen;
But seen too oft, familiar with its face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

Yes! such has been the course hitherto; what men shrank from at first, they have at last rushed to as a cure for all their ills. But what ills can be cured by that which I have seen? A whole people torn up, as it were, at its very roots, to repel the organised barbarism of a neighbouring people! and each of these, too, professing to be the leaders of civilisation in modern Europe! But the terrible ever-ready preparations for war are as great on one side as the other. That is an evil in both countries crying loudly to Heaven for redress, yet is it only a small part of the evil of war. The broad, secure foundations of a social state must rest on a hardy peasantry, an industrious class of steady work-people attached to their native soil and to their humble abodes. For these, in the present state of the Continent, all the sanctities of home life are liable to be violated in a moment at the command of some ambitious statesman, or some potentate intoxicated by the sight of the legions that are under his orders.

Still come before me the scenes that I have witnessed testifying to the justness of my feelings of indignation. I see the young attenuated landwehr, or militia-man, not able to find his quarters, sleeping on the bare stones of the street in the exhaustion of fatigue. I hear another, who had asked the way to his quarters when offered a dinner, say sadly, with a shake of the head, "Mein Herz ist zer voll!"—"My heart is too full to eat!" Multiply such incidents by thousands, and you may have some slight measure of the silent woe that is gnawing the soul of the German people. Even among the women you seldom see tears—they, too, must bear the inevitable, the irremediable. They are now going into the fields to complete the labours of the harvest. But, enough! for nothing that I could add would make the picture equal to the impressive reality of the present, and the mind, too, is disturbed by the thronging ills of the future in store for the two contending nations.

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