ENQIAND CONQUERED BY GERMANY, The latest British literary sensation ap pears in Blackwood's Magazine for May. It is a narrative of the German conquest of England in 1875, as recounted in 1925 by a yeteran of the Volunteers. Ireland had achieved her independence, Canada been taken by the United States, and the Colonies were in revolt, when Holland and Denmark were annexed by the Ger man Empire. England waxed terribly indignant, and declared war. The army was scattered throughout the colonies; the navy to all quarters of the sea. Aiter stupid delays, the available force—so,ooo men, with a reserve of 5,000 —was got in readiness to repel the invasion, while the artizans of the United Kingdom were set to work building ironclads. Then comes the dreary story of red tape ob structions, and belore anything is in readiness the invaders destroy the fleet; effecting a landing; find the key to the position exposed ; turn the English flank ; and, at the battle of Dorking, defeat and destroy the English army. Then the couutry is depleted to pay the levies made by the victors ; the war debt of Germany is put upon the shoulders of poor cowed John Bull; the navy is seized boldly, and the important fortifi* cations garrisoned by the victors. The resc is a repetition in England of the punishment inflicted upon France by the Germans. The article is significant as a stinging protest against the supineness of England now, while her future conqueror gathei'3 strength for her overthrow." But what can England do to arrest the tri umphal progress of the German Empire!

THE PRAISE OF CHAOS.
