The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-05 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

IMPERIALIST JOURNALS AND THE
BRITISH GOVERNMENT.

(mom en owN

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.

A semi-official article in the Pays shows that the
French government thinks it expedient (while the
important parliamentary debate in London is going
on) to instruct its journals to speak more favour-
ably of England than they were told to do a few
days ago. It is clear that France does not wish to
see the Palmerston cabinet upset. The Pays com-
mences by observing that Denmark would cer-
tainly gain nothing by the accession to power of
Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli. It then upbraids
the tones as the natural allies of all that is
antiquated and despotic in Europe. That ten-
dency of the tory party was shown during
the negotiations which preceded the Italian
war. It might have been thought that
if ever there was au enterprise with which the
people of England were likely to sympathise that
of emancipating the peninsula from Austrian
domination was one. But when the question
became a practical one Lord Derby was First Lord
of the Treasury, and Lord Malmesbury Minister
of Foreign Affairs—the tones were is power, and
they abandoned the cause of civilisation and
liberty in order not to offend Austria. It is true
that the whip, represented by Lords Palmerston
and Russell, have not always done that justice to
the imperial government which was its due, nor
shown that confidence in it which it deserved.
They are open to the reproach of having
frequently, by their caprice, ill humour, and
jealousy, done harm to the cause of that good
understandicg which, in the interest of the world
and the progress of civilisation, ought not for a
single day to be wanting between France and Eng-
land. But after all the Pays is good enough to
say :—"Perhaps one ought to see in this caprice
and this jealousy nothing more than the natural
consequence of the situation in which England
now finds herself. She feels that she has not done
what she ought to have done, and nations, just
like individuals, are disposed to blame others when
they ought to be dissatisfied with themselves."
Therefore the Pays desires to be "indulgent," and
to hope that time and reflection will bring the
English government into a more equitable
frame of mind as regards the past, and a
better understanding with France for the future,
pursuant to those " moral affinities and matrial
interests" which should ever draw France and Eng-
land towards each other. Towards the end of the
article, notwithstanding the new instructions in
pursuance of which it is evidently written, the
bitter feeling comes out again. England is "humi-
liated as a great power more than she will confess,"
but of course she must know that she has no just
reason to complain of France.• British statesmen
know how to calculate. Lords Palmerston and
Russell must have calculated what a " large
compensation" the Emperor must have re-
quired to reconcile his people to the enormous
sacrifices in men and money which would h►ve'
been inevitable to carry on 1111011 • gigantic war as
that in which France was expected to join. Was

•Y. Prevost P•radol, writing in the Costrrier do
Dimaarhe, doe• not think so. He rays that France might
have stoppxl the +sr at any time, and that the =Tetor►
which bangs over her policy is the preponderant came of
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