EXCESSIVE BAIL.
Justice (to Bismarck). "Your Client was assaulted, and you ask that the defendant 'shall be bound over to keep the peace for many years.' But I cannot sanction a demand for exorbitant securities."
February 18, 1871.
⁂ The Prussian Bully demands from France the cession of Alsace and Lorraine and an Indemnity of £200,000,000.
