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eedily come to an end. What he means by this oracular saying, we are at a loss to conjecture. It is as mystical as a response from the Oracle at Deipht. We are told that when Crœsus asked the latter what would be the issue of a war he was about to engage in with Cyrne, the King of Persis, he answered, "the war will destroy a great empire." And so it did. It destroyed the empire of Crœsus himself, who, interpreting the response according to his own wishes, had taken it to mean the empire of Cyrus. So this war may end in a short time, by the defeat of somebody, according to Sir. G. C. Lewis, but he does not tell us who the ruined party is to be. Let it be who it may, he has so framed his oracle that he will lose no credit by the result. Great Britain acknowledged the independence of the South American States seven years before Spain had ceased to make war upon them, and as for recognition, we do not believe Spain has ever recognised them formally to this day. Great Britain recog