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London, England, 1863-08-01 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1863.

At this particularly critical moment in regard to
the Peace of Europe generally, the tone of the

French press is, it appears to us, more than usually
worthy of consideration. And it is so pecu-
liarly by reason of the continued pressure
upon that section of European journalism

of the weight of the Censorship. It is precisely
because our brethren across the Channel are rot

permitted (as yet !) perfect freedom in writing and
printing, that we are disposed to look with all the
more eager and attentive curiosity to the views to
which they nevertheless venture to give utterance
at a period of such supreme emergency. It is the
general sense of the significance attached to these
broken or hesitating accents of the publicists of
France, which induces still so many observers, both
in France and out of it, to pore over the columns of

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the principal journals of Paris for whatever hint
they throw out as to their opinions in regard to

passing events oven under the repressing influence

of the Censorship. It is this which drives
so many to the counter of M. DENTU when-
ever that enterprising publisher of the pamphleteers
issues from the press a more than usually apropos

brochure, as, in effect, is actually occurring at this

present moment in reference to one of those myste-

nous little anonymous pronunciamentos, entitled
. .

" L'Empereur, La Pologne, et L'Europe." Although
anonymous, its utterances are, in their way, how-
ever, so oracular of their kind, that—as usual—the
rumour naturally enough gets about that the views
put forth by the writer are penned (we all know the
now familiar phrase employed on these occasions)
under very high inspiration. The mere publication
of pamphlets of this peculiarlybold character has, of
course, a certain air of authority about it. Whoever
the writer may chance to be, his sentiments are so
far approved of by the Imperial authorities,
that they are permitted to appear and
to be read for a franc or two, in those light
paper covers of a delicate lilac or primrose
colour, that have come to have about them a sort of
flavour of Napoleonism. They have, at least, the
timbre of " permission," if not of "approval,"
stamped upon them, in the mere fact of their appear-
ance. Circumspection expresses, it may be said,in one
word, the advice put forth by the new pamphleteer.
It is a word, however long though it is, singularly
enigmatical in its character. It leaves the reader
no further advanced upon closing the brochure
than he was upon opening it. No further advanced,
that is towards the point whence might be recog-
nised the merest glimmering indication of a solu-
tion of the Polish problem by the decision of the
EMPEROR. Still, although all this cannot but be
porofoundly regretted as a rather irritating reticence
e part of the pamphleteer, his argument—
tolerated, if it be not even authorised and originated
by the Chief of the State—is especially valuable at
this juncture, for inasmuch as it reprobates, in
the severest terms, the atrocities perpetrated by
the Russians, with a view to the crushing
out of this Polish insurrection. His conclusion is,
that the unanimity no w assumed by the complete
coincidence of the
pol. England,. cyPut forth respectively by
France, by
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itself a db y Austria, in regard to
Poland,
distinctall security for peace.
A conclusion that would be the more re-assuring,
peace, however, as a security for ace, if it could only
have been accompanied by any
g:arrtee that the
councils of the Russian autocrat
in this
right and
this matter
in any way at all open to the dictates
reason—that the evil passions inspired in the breast
of the CZAR by the Polish insurrection
t in
any way mitigated in their fury by the tee ABCI, be
Bap-
preciation of the force of that unanimity.
Leaving the anonymous pamphleteer, however
for the only too clearly indicated writers in the Paris
newspapers, we find far more significance
just now in the tone of those journalists
than is any where discoverable iu that of
the hidden writer supposed to wield hie pen under
such very high inspiration ! Already we have
said in our remarks yesterday, in reference to the
possibility of a general war in Europe, that it ap-
pears to ourselves all the more of a possibility, by
reason of some among other questions of extreme
importance, and also some of them of extreme
urgency, trending, like the drift of the Polish
Question, precisely in that one direction ! Conspi
cuous among these were indicated at once—as who,
indeed, could fail to do so ?—the incompleteness of
things generally, up to this very moment, in regard
to what some are actually disposed to regard as the
settlement of effairs in the Roman Peninsula. The
situation, there, is as undeniably at this very mo-
ment incemplete,as it was glaringly incomplete upon
the morrow of the Treaty of Yillafranca. And now,