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Colonist, Volume VI, Issue 625, 20 October 1863, Page 3

(From the Morning Post, July 27. )

Union is peace. If three great powers join to ask from a fourth what.is both just and moderate, it is hard to see how war can result from their demands. Russia does not yield at once because she does not believe in the alliance. Her first step has been to tempt Austria from it, an overture instantly, and peremptorily rejected. As before the Crimean war, Russia will not allow that England and France can go hand in hand, and, as before the Crimean war, the voice of the false prophet is heard luring her on in thefatal belief. Ten y ears ago the Times wrote down Turkey and the French alliance, and wrote up Russia and Aberdeen, and thus materially aided the huge deceit of which Nicholas was the victim. To day the Times writes down Poland and the French alliance, and again becomes a partizan of Russia. We are told that the treaty of 1815 is' # J dead letter, because in 1831 and in 184(3 we did not invoke it; and because we did not refer to it in 1856, and that we have no right at the present time to appeal to its stipulations. The answer to this is the most conclusive possible; it is, that Prince Gortschakoff and the Russian G-ovennnent admit the vitality and force of the treaty, and concede our right to invoke its authority according to its provir sions. This being the case, our contemporary has recourse to the old stock-in-trade of the "boundary of the Rhine," and" the obliteration of the memory of the latter days of the empire," bugbears once more held up to our view in the endeavour to undermine confidence and to destroy the alliance. What have these things to do with the matter in hand? Does the Emperor push us on? Is France moving, and trying to drag us into movement? On the contrary, it is well known that the Emperor's wishes are eminently peaceful, and that he has declined to take one single step on behalf of Poland unless in strict conjunction with England. As Russia forced the Poles into insurrection, so she forces us with other powers into a hostile attitude. The police of nations must be carried out. Treaties must be referred to, and the laws of humanity must be enforced. It is evident that we can only do so by strong and uniform pressure. Russia does not believe yet that the three Powers are one in earnest. But we have the firm conviction that the question of war is not only far distant, but will not be raised. The three Powers are one in their aspirations and their endeavours, and so prodigious a force is thus in motion that its weight must tell irresistibly on the councils of Russia. Our business is to concentrate otir efforts towards conveying to the Russian governmentthefull import and urgency of the representations we are making. When they are understood and appreciated we may look for a speedy and satisfactory settlement.

How Inoculation Came About.—At a time when smallpox was as destructive as the plague itself, Lady Mary Wortley Montague, happening to be at Adrianople, was struck with the Fact, that the Turks were in the habit of making terms with the disease, by receiving it into their system by way of tie skin, instead of by the lungs, as in the natural mode of infection. Possibly, the lively nature of the lady's letters had more to do with the sensation this new practice created in England than the magnitude of the truth she made known, and to this day ■vre believe that the public have some idea that it was a discovery made by her ladyship, and which she had the boldness to put in practice upon her own son. Yet no fact ia, ; more certain than that throughout Asia the practice of inoculation had obtained for ages; and that the Chinese —the inevitable nation to which we have to go back for the birth of any greafc discovery systematically employed inoculation ' as early as the sixth century. Tefc, strange to say, in Asia this precious knowledge came to a dead standstill, and had it not been for the lively English lady, inoculation might not have been introduced into England for another half-century, and possibly vaccination would nowbeinthe womb of time. That inoculation was a grand step towards Vaccination their can be little doubt, although science. - did not at the time appreciate the fact. It taught us that the desease received into the circulation by the skin was infinitely less dangerous than the disease " caught" by inhalation through the lungs, a circumstance which medicine cannot explain to this day.— Once a week.

Impeeiai Government in France .—The Emperor is a great encouragcr of c xpense in male and female habiliments, and also of extravagance in horses?and equipages. Hundreds of the finest English: .riding and carriage horses are now in Paris, purchased by various functionaries of the Court; for which prices varying from one hundred to five hundred guineas have been paid. The luxury in broughams is very great. Three hundred guineas is no uncommon price to give for a miniature brougham, hung low, with panels highly varnished, and lined in the interior with expensive silks and velvets. Thirty, twenty, and fifteen years ago, the French carriages were 0? wretched build, heavy, lumbering, and cranenecked. They were, then far behind the Belgian and Viennese, and were' not to be named in the same country with the English. Now, so far as the panelling, varnishing, and interior lining and decoration go, the French are before' the English, though their springs are not so strong or so well tempered. Napoleon 111. has done much to improve the breed of horses, dogs, and all animals useful to man. He is also a great patron of agricultural meetings, of dog-; shows, of races, and steeplechases. He was present at the dog show, and also at the races at Chantilly, and the steeplechase at Vicennes. This has rendered him very popular with the Jockey Club, which holds its meetings at the Grand Hotel, Boulevard des' Capucins. The riding of Frenchmen and Frenchwomen has wonderfully ( improved since 1848. Most Frenchmen now rise in the saddle in a trot as we English do, and ladies canter as boldly as our English Amazon, or " loud women." The Empress also encourages hone exercise and sports, and the more questionable, because; ' • inhuman and sanguinary, diversion of bull fights. *. She also encourages extravagance in female^ fcttire, and has perpetuated the odious fashion of crinoline. Fabulous prices are now paid in Paris for female attire,, and a dress is rarely worn twice at court parties and balls. A day of reckoning will surely come for all '•'■"' this extravagance. Meantime the people are amused • ' by music, dancing, and, cheap bread*—JVo**r'# Moga*