[From the Daily Telegrapk] While Europe is quiet — at least for the present — it cannot be wasting time to bestow some attention upon an army which fights for all mankind, and wins victories that cost nobody blood or tears. The "Society of Engineers" met on Monday last, to review the achievements of the profession and dis cuss the campaigns of the coming year. But we bethink ourselves that it is a shame to apply the phraseology of bloody and cruel war to those who " subdue the earth" m the best and most beautiful sense. These gentle men, with their regiments of strong and patient workers, are victors over the material forces of Nature ; antagonists only of the distances and difficulties which keep people apart ; makers of roads and railways, builders of bridges and viaducts, tunnelers of impassable mountains, delvers of mines, openers up of strange lands, cutters of isthmus necks, diggers of canals, eager pro moters of sanitary science, suppliers of water, drainers, builders, developers, improvers — whose vocation has turned so much of our once wholly wild and rugged earth into the agreeable and convenient world which we know and enjoy. The earth is the estate of our race, and these are the " Capability- Browns" who are for ever improving it. People who live m a country like Britain or any of the Continental States, hardly comprehend what " education" does for the surface of the earth. We are so accustomed to go where we like, and to find train, steam-ship, or smooth high road, all ready for our locomotive impulse, that the unfurnished condition of a wild region is among the most curious surprises of travel. On the map the country looks a« simple and easy as though we were not beyond the sway of " Bradshaw ; " but when the explorer actually finds himself m places where the engineer has never been, he soon learns what a "poor forked thing" man is till the spade and pickaxe have got the world ready for him. It is the honourable business of the gentlemen who met on Monday night to be always making the world more and more ready for the generations which will some day lead a happy and perfect life upon our planet. 