may convince our readers that Enfant! has not sunk into a condition so utterl defenceless—if money spent on soldier! and ships be the test—as our modern a larmists would represent:—ln 1799 Army, £1,814,800; Navy, £1,943 88? Ordnance, £463,601; Total, £4 222 2fiV 1836—Army, £6,437,183; Navy,' £4*205 726; Ordnance, £1,434,059; tW 12,112,968. In 1846—Army, £6,699 699- Navy,£7,803,464; Ordnance, £2,361 s<u Total, £16,864,697. Thus our military expenditure has increased fourfold since the year 1792; and even since 1836 it - has increased by the very large annual  amount of £4,751,729, or 39 per cent. i n. crease on the expenditure of 1836 / Madame Lafarge Again !!!—Y es from the depths of her ignominy and soli' tude has that restless unquiet spirit found means to inflict a deep envenomed wound upon the man whom she persists in deno minating her murderer. It appears that she has been devoting the whole of her time of late to the study of medicine and among other scientific works which have fallen into her hands, those of Orfila, the great medical authority whose testimony upon her trial turned the balance of justice against her, have met with her most seii> ous attention It appears that on rising from a steady and calm perusal of these works, she has discovered the most gross and flagrant contradictions, not only from, one work to another, but no less than seven in the same volume! Hereupon she has written a triumphant letter to her enemy—in which she taxes him with ig norance and uncertainty, and asks how he dares thus to trifle as he has done with the lives of the living and the reputation of the dead ! She has taken fresh cour? age from this discovery and has risen at length from her bed, consenting to don the prison clothes and take an office in the prison. She has chosen that of wait ing on the sick, and is unremitting in her attendance at the infirmary ! What an extraordinary coincidence with the Mar quis de Brinvilliers!

French v. English Tactics.—The London Morning Chronicle emphatically points to the significant fact that the French papers do not make the most dis tant allusion to the Duke of Wellington's letter on our national defences, or to the excitement now prevailing amongst us on that subject. 