The French Bill for the Reorganization of the Army has
passed the Senate by a majority of 125 to 1, and now only awaits the Emperor's signature to become law. The solitary dissident, the Abdiel who contended with Moloch, was M. 3lichel Chevalier, who argued that under the law of 1832 France could raise 620,000 men, that the Continental armies were mainly on paper, that the finances were the sinews of war, that the nations of Europe were no longer hostile to one another, that France had lost nothing but her ascendancy, that equality was a noble position, and that Europe ought to federate itself to resist Russia and America, who in 1900 would have a hundred millions of men apiece, instead of wasting its resources in internal war. Rather dreamy, all that, but we suspect the Emperor did not wish the Bill passed without a division.
