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LONDON. TUESDAY, AUGUST 17.

IWO WINO

A SPECI. tL EDITION the " EXPRESS,"
sestaising ihe results of the day's Races, is pub-
lished every sowing dories the Sporting Seamen, at
au 'Week.,

Taal, . is little in thewmiike brochures and leading
articles,' Ake are contheally going off like squibs on a
rejoicing eight =nag wee's feet, calculated to exalts
alarm. Their inanity aeutralises their malice. Eng-
lishmen may sleep in peace if no more imminent
•dssager threatens theta than the invasion of an army
of French propagandism, with a proclamation of
universal suffrage in one hand and the " Code Napo-
leon in the other." Still there le something to war-
rant aseasinem in this sulphurous =ell of the
a:ha/anon* of the prem. The danger is not in the
writers, but in those who can purchase and take a
pleasure in reading such trash. It is a bad sign when
the inhabitants of two adjoining countries listen
eagerly to hear defiance bandied between the prates
of the one and of the other. Strange to say, our
countrymen, who are in general less addicted to this
perilous amusement than a considerable section of
society in France, are on this occasion the first and
greatest offenders. Cherbourg sod its fêtes have
occasioned a vast deal of unneennery and rather
undignified expression of suspicion and blustering
in English circles. If there were any real
ground for interpreting the completion of
Cherbourg into a threat to England, the way to
receive that threat would be by dignified
filets** and preparation. But instead of that we
have had a world of empty and aiming flatter and
cackling. The organs of the ultra•priestly party in
France, and a few renegades from Socialism, of
equivocal character, edger to fawn upon the
Risrutoa if they only know how, might in any cit.
eumstaneee have been sedßeiently willing to rouse
the old cry of perfide 4Thion, but they would have
been more than mortal had they been able to resist
the temptation presented by the anxious screaming
of lobe-inoiscAse ea this ids of the water.
Any prolonged end absent internecine war, like
that which meeseded the Ant French Revolution,
is now out of the quietism. There is not the same
antagonism between the France of our day and the
England of the Reform Bill that there was between
renovated France and the England of the aristocracy
and rotten boroughs. Even though the two countries
could be beguiled into a war, they would soon get
tired of it. Bat the very feet that the war would
necessarily lack the inveterate earnestness of wan
of old times would render it more absurd, and con-
sequently more unpardonable. It is, therefore, more
than ever incumbent on the reflecting portion of
society to study carefully the sources out of which
war might spring, with a view to avert the evil.
It will scarcely be denied by any sane person
that neither England nor France can gain anything
by going to war, nor does it appear that in either
country the national imagination is set upon any
object the prospect of allowing which might tempt
to plunge into hostilities. The idea that war may
be impending presuppose. the assumption that the
Government of one country or the Governments of
both may have some sinister interest to promote by
involving them In war. It is impossible that such
a suspicion can attach to oar own Government. Row
is it with the present ruler of France ?

We have shrank from speaking our mind
freely both respecting the means by which that
extraordinary man obtained his power and the use
be makes of it. The frequent seisurea of the
Doi* Newe in Paris are a voucher for this. We do
not, lathed, hold him in such absolute and unmiti-
gated loathing as some. We can make allowance
for the influence of an idea instilled into him in
ehildhesi and peseimeately fostered throughout lite.
We an discern in the course of his wayward ca-
reer glimpse of chivalrous impulse, aspirations after
what is geed and great. Bat we can have no sympathy
with one who has clutched and retain. despotic power
by alternate( coups liter and coupe de tANt►s.
We believe him to be thoroughly unscrupulous. We
believe that if be saw anything to be gained by a
war with Reglad, he would not for a momenta:tab
from it. Nay, more ; than is something so melodra-
matic and adastemine is hie imagination, that we
amid eerily hoagies him deluding himself into the
belief that a war with England might strengthen hio
pain es the most shadowy and unsubstantial
grand& Bat we see an enWenes that he is haunted
by sash a tishmina, and we see dearly that it would
le, ha se kr as he Is scosiried, a laaistable de-
ludes isissi.

We utterly disbelieve that the pamphlets and
newspaper articles hostile to England, which have
recently Waned from the French press, have been
either directly or indirectly inspired, at even Goan-
tenanted by the Fasrizon. The chenteter of the
!wan ie carefully to abstain frogs thawing hie teeth
till he is rare be can bite. Some of the gewgaws in
which threatening articles hare appeared in doubt-
less understood to be tinder Ministerial or princely
tagoossoe i bat nothing has ever transpired to
mama As citation that the Unto* takes
soy °nelsons* of thew. The teeth is that,
his all w:io wield an authority unconsoli-
dated by time, and obtained by questionable ,
means, he most tolerate such in his eeseetplicee and
supporter*, It is ootorieus that the sound thinkers
of Fences--tin resy,•6 inseiben of society—persist
bs standiag sloe Nu, the Court, and that Nano.
Lao, 111. mast nay upon and employ that motley
WON of fantaetic and unscrupulous adventurers by
whose aid he snatched the three*. He himself hes
woes esoezh to see the injai7 their gabbling dees
Wes, but so jo us as he has no *Cher Moods he met j
with them. That ho Assad be bd."
respoestwo so, every pc,..6011 Mier that image trees
the Prenob rue is a natur,.`l Samallamall of the
isaleway with which he has cans.'d it to Ittl welteitcd
and esatralled, but the lisp of the .taktillsaa is tat
bretregable.