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FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—Of the bombardment of Tangiers
ample details will be found in another column. The
descriptions of the operations, and the comments
upon the mode in which they were executed, from
professional men who witnessed them, without having
their attention distracted by taking an active part
in the scene, will be interesting to every class of
readers ; but will be deeply so to naval and military
men. The latter will know how to appreciate the
tactics of the assailants, and the gallant resistance of
the assailed. According to the accounts of the British
officers who watched the proceedings, the French
have little to boast of in the way of superiority in
naval fight. Their unskilfulness in pointing their
guns ; the fuss and fury with which their ships com-
menced the attack in connexion with the compara-
tively trifling results of their fire upon the forti-
fications against which it was directed, caused no
little merriment among the British officers and
men who were spectators of the scene. The
merit of their criticisms we do not profess to discuss.
That the exciting scene should call up reminis-
cences of former days, when the " tug of war" was
between the assailants and the spectators, was but
natural. That these recollections should cause the
pulse of our brave seamen to beat with a quickened
pace, and inspire them with something approaching
to a wish for an opportunity of proving that British
skill and prowess have experienced no diminution,
will not excite surprise. We can appreciate the
feelings which they express with characteristic
ardour, without sharing in the hopes they breathe,
that their services will be again required to vin-
dicate the honour and protect the interests of their
country. From the attack on Tangiers—which seemed
to threaten an interruption of the pacifie relation
between France and England—a transition to the sub-
ject of increased or diminished probability of a rup-
ture between the two countries, is easy and natural.
The public mind is tremblingly alive to this inquiry.
hope and fear, anxiety and confidence—with the mo-
difications of which each class of feeling is susceptible—
ascend and descend in the scale of national feeling, like
the mercury in the tube. The intelligence supplied by
the continental arrivals of the morning influence the
transactions of the day. As the political vane shifts
its inclination, so commercial operations are checked
or encouraged, and monetary transactions are de-
pressed or revive. The letter of our Paris corre-
spondent states that an improved state of feeling
toward England parvades the piblic mind of the
French capital. It is there generally believed that
the two Governments have arrived at an under-
standing respecting the subject-matter of difference,
which will lead to the amicable adjustment of the
disputes arising out of the outrages committed at
Otaheite by the French authorities ; and also to a
satisfactory termination of the yet more formidable
affair of Tangiers. Of such a result we had no doubt,
if the two Cabinets were actuated in the negotiations
by the sound policy on which the real interests of
their respective countries depend. Our apprehensions
of a contrary result were occasioned, on the one hand,
by the apparent disposition of the French Minister to
yield to the war party ; which has clamoured for ag-
gression and outrage, in opposition to justice and peace;
and on the other, by the apathy which seemed to have
crept over the Government of this country with
reference to its foreign policy. The former acted as
if it were its intention to provoke England to hostile
retaliation ; while the latter seemed to encourage
renewed infractions of its rights, and movements por-
tentous to its interests, by indifference approaching
to insensibility ; or—what was yet more reprehensi-
ble —by expostulation, the gentleness of which tended
to invite a repetition of outrage, rather than a repa-
ration for wrong already inflicted. Most glady shall
we hail a change in the councils of both Cabinets.
A determined resistance of the war-faction, which
has striven to involve France in war with Eng-
land, will be the best evidence of the pacific po-
licy of the French Ministers. Such a determination,
if openly proclaimed, would be received by the bulk
of the French nation with approbation ; and would
crush the hopes of the noisy agitators, who have
sought to advance their own selfish projects, which
are threatened with extinction by the preservation
and perpetuity of peace. The best mole of indi-
cating a settled purpose to preserve peace, would be
to admit the wrongs done at Otaheite—to punish the
wrong-doers. Reparation should be made to the injured
Queen, by restoring her to the throne, with her powers
unimpaired and unfettered, from which she was de-
posed, without just reason or colourable pretext, by
French authorities; and to this country, for the in-
sult inflicted upon it in the person of its Consul.
While France confines her hostile operations against
Morocco to bombarding the fortifications on her coast,
let her expend as much powder and shot as she pleases in
that way : England will look on, without interfering,
or wishing to interfere, in the matter. But not a foot of
land must she seek to possess in that territory; nor
on any other part of that coast—save Algeria; which
she may keep, if she can. This, then, is the course
which a straightforward policy prescribes to the two
Governments. These are the terms which that of
England is bound to require of France, and France
to comply with. They are founded in justice; and
cannot be abated without compromising the honour
of England ; nor refused by France without im-
pugning the sincerity of the professions which she
makes of desiring the preservation of peace with
England.
STANDARD.—We have copied from the Times
some letters descriptive of the late attack upon Tan-
giers. We confess that if these letters hal been
offered to ourselves in the first instance, we
should have hesitated to make public articles
written in a spirit so uncandid and offensive,
and which really tell so little of what the public
can be interested to know. The criticisms of
professional men upon the operations of rivals
are seldom too liberal, but it would be unjust
to the British navy to believe that the letter writers in
the Times are what they call themselves—naval
officers. We think that these letters present, besides
their extreme illiberality, other internal evidence
demonstrative of the fact that the writers of them
are not naval officers, though probably the letters
may have been written on board the vessels from