The last time peace was concluded with Ca, was in the consulship of Q. Lutatius and A. Manlius, forty years previously. Twenty-three years afterwards the war began in the consulship of P. Cornelius and Tiberius Sempronius. It ended in the consulship of Cnaeus Cornelius and P. Aelius Paetus, seventeen years later. Tradition tells of a remark which Scipio is said to have frequently made to the effect that it was owing to the jealous ambition of Tiberius Claudius and atterwaras to that of c;naeus Cornelius that the war did not end with the destruction of Carthage 30 Hannibal's Rebuke to the Carthaginian Senate.-Carthage found a difficulty in meeting the first instalment of the war indemnity as her treasury was exhausted. There was lamentation and weeping in the senate and in the middle of it all Hannibal is said to have been seen smiling Hasdrubal Haedus rebuked him for h is mirth .mid the n ation's tears.“If " Hannibal replied. you could discern inmost thoughts 1， yof expression my countenance you would easily discover that this laughter which you find fault with does not proceed from a merry heart but from one almost demented with misery. All the same, it is very far from being so ill-timed as those foolish and misplaced tears of yours. The proper time to weep was when we were deprived of our arms, when our ships were burnt, when we were interdicted from all war beyond our frontiers. That is the wound that will Drove fatal. There is not the slightest reason for sUDDosiney that the Romans are consultinLy vour Deace and quietness 31 1V o great Mate can remain a ulet;it it nas no enemv aaroact it finds one at home. lust as excessiveiv stronz men. whilst seemingly sate from outside mischief, tall victims to the burden of their own strength. Of course we only feel public calamities so far as they affect us personally, and nothing in them gives us a sharper pang than the loss of money. When the spoils of victory were being dragged away from Carthage, when you saw yourselves left naked and defenceless amidst an Africa in arms, nobo dy uttered a groan; now because you have to contribute to the indemnity from your private fortunes you 坛ment as ;loudly as though you were present at your count ry's funeral. I greatly fear that you will very soon find that it is the least of your misfortunes which you are shedding tears over to-day." Such was the way in which Hannibal spoke to the Carthaginians. L_Scipio's Departure from Africa.-Scipio summoned his troops> > , _. to assemDly, anti in the presence of the whole tinny rewarded Masinissa by adding to his ancestral realm the town of Cirta and the other cities and districts which had belonged to the dominion of Syphax and had passed under the rule of Rome. Cnaeus Octavius received instructions to take the fleet to Sicily and hand it over to the consul Cnaeus Cornelius. S Cl lpio told the Carthaginian envoys to start for Rome in orderth at that the arrangements he had made in consul tation with the ten commissioners might receive the sanction of the senate and the formal order of the people.