6 APRIL 1867, Page 2

Count von Moltke, Carnot of Prussia, the man "who organizes

victory," made a rather remarkable speech on the 3rd inst. A proposal had been made to reduce the term of service to two years, but the General affirmed that the short term customary in Austria, eighteen months, destroyed discipline, and that Prussia, under the three years' rule, had 664,000 men under arms after Kiiniggratz, a force at least equal to that of France. He held also that the feeling of unity between leaders and men, so essen- tial to armies, could not spring up in less than three years. As Count von Moltke is the greatest strategist now alive in Europe, thia.opinion of his fixes in some degree the most expedient term of service, a point on which there is incessant conflict of opinion.