(From the Sjjectatnr.) Mr Lowe has replied in the Times to an attack of Lord Russell’s on “the bandits” of the Cave of Adullura. Mr Lowe points out that he took the same line on the proposal to reduce the franchise in the debate of 1860, before Lord Palmerston’s death, when m Government measure was before the House, and when there was consequently no ques tion of loyalty or disloyalty; that so far from gaining by his resistance to reform, he fully expected 10 exclude himself personally from office in Liberal Governments by his policy; that he nevertheless declined Lord Derby’s advances to him from the Conservative side; and that he “certainly had not the least right to expect the kind and generous treat ment he received from Mr Gladstone on the formation of the late Ministry.” He reproves Lord Russell for not taking the beam out of his own eye, instead of devoting himself to the examination of the mote in Mr Lowe’s; in other words, for not explaining his own abrupt disloyalty to the Government of Lord Aberdeen during the Crimean war, and his subsequent retirement —not “in the follow ing year,” by the way, as Mr Lowe says, but in the same year—after his blunders at Vienna, from the Cabinet of Lord Palmer ston. That is all very well, though it would have been even better omitted, but why does Mr Lowe speak of the last event as due to “ the very serious imputations” on Lord John’s conduct? That is a phrase which sounds more like imputations of corruption than imputations of weakness and vacilla tion. But we never heard that any one charged Lord John’s Austrianising conduct at Vienna with any worse characteristics than complete want of clearness, firmness and diplomatic courage. The German Landsturm Bill is cot yet law, but it has passed the second reading, and is supported by all the Union Liberals. The Military party appear to have carried all their propositions, and to have placed the whole nation at the disposal of the Em peror. All men between twenty and forty two may be called out, should an enemy invade or threaten to invade the country, and may be drafted into the Land wehr, which, it must be remembered, is intended as a reserve for general service. 