The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-27 00:00:00

BEE-RAN POLICY.

The Pave, Jowrnol de r Empire, is more warlike
than ever. The writer of the following article is
fiettiftd. to ney taket be oar tHiliceeeee his ewe sen-
timents ; bee* Moab be berets in mind that M.
Paul de Coinegnae wee amongst the dooorated of
Angnat 15 last, and that be received through a
alsatniSerieln the delisitations of the %sprees on
thet anspinions event:
As to the attitude of Prams towards Prussia. we have
frequently declared ear convirition that there was but
ems mode ter the empire to be faithful to its traditiois of
glee*, and of setimity, and that was to make war
',as gook as pomade. The Emperor declared at
Troyes' that nothing 0111•11044 tb pesos of Ramps, and
todikapacor did well to thus expressing himself, for the
chief of gnat milieu like France could ant discover his
plans bete band, if be has may, and uneesamiably start
one et those fonsidable miestiesawhiels meat be decided
te-day sad put into caseation to-morrow. For two years
back people in WWII and eirantry have been asking " When
is the war to be ?"- Tburoveraseent WAWA take are. Tb•
wilier' feeling may get cold and blunted, and at a given
moment fail in that *par which con brave einem-
renew that have become fatally difficult. Peace is not
a moietion. It indellaitely pets off the time fer explana-
tions and the remit is that the difficalty increases with
delay. No one loves peace more than ire do, but there is
a peace mere hurtful they war and the peace we enjoy
is a peace of this kind. Upon this point there is but
one opinion in France. Everybody is expecting
war from day to day. All are agreed as to the
necereity of some day flinging the sword of Brennus
into the scales of the balance of Germany. What are you
weals( for, then? Tear army is reedy ; your arinanents
are complete. Millions upon millions come packed and
pressing at your all. Are you going to wait till your
.011[1111811 are better prepared than you, and to repeat the
unfortunate phrase of Fontenoy, " Fire first, gentlemen
Prussians r° If they fire first their bullets may pima-
trate the steeples of Strasbourg or of Nancy, whilst they
have at home plenty of monuments which may serve as
targets for you. If you wait any longer you will have to
fight not one campaign, or two campaigns, bat a der.
perate war of a hundred years. And who knows what
may happen ! " God protects France !" That is true, as
the Emperor says, but we must help God. A remarkable
pamphlet, translated from the German, has been pub-
lished. Its title is, " Who is the hereditary enemy of
Germany ?" Its whole scope is contained in its title.
In our turn we ask this question, ,4 who is henceforth
the hereditary enemy of France 1" and we answer,
Prairie.
The says :

Is it to be wondered at that the country has no confi-
dence in the maintenance of peace in the face of such
language? On whom rests the responsibility of this in-
curable want of confidence which exists throughout
France in the promises of the government? Did not the
officious Pays confess a few weeks back that on the eve of
the campaign of 1859 it received a miniatarial ord,r
to strongly deny the reports of war at the very moment
when the army was preparing to march across the Alps
Can we fail to remember also the superb denials which
were uttered from the tribune when the opposition mem-
bers and journals revealed the intrigues which were going
on to place the Archduke Maximilian on the throne of
Mexico P Who can forget the disdainful gesture with
which a minister, in reply to M. Jules Farris, declared
those reports to be calumnies, and too paltry to arrest for
one moment the grave assembly which listened to him
The Independance Beige observes :

The Constrtutioneel and the Pays are an odd pair of
Siamese twins. Notwithstanding the solidarity of their
interests they are, in relation to the vital question of the
day, at the opposite poles of policy. When one says it is
white the other maintains it is black. M. Baudrillart has
undertaken the difficult task of restoring confidence by
preaching peace, but the Pays would never preach war as
it does if it thought that by so doing it would descend to
" a friend of the second degree."