19 NOVEMBER 1870, Page 3

Lord Russell has declared for the right of Germany to

annex Alsace and Lorraine, alleging, it is said, that it is her "just and natural provision for security." Why did he not advocate the same remedy for the Russian invasion of Turkey, when peace was made in 1856? The truth is, that no remedy can be, in the pre- cisest sense, more unjust and unnatural than making border provinces suffer exclusively for the whole nation's sins. Lord Russell is one of the old school, who likes a little strong-handed defiance of true principle now and then.