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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The Times this morning commences an
article on the successful close of the Chinese war,
with the following " amusing" remark :—" There is
something," says our Contemporary, "rather amusing
in the various aspects under which the late English
successes, especially in China, are viewed by that large
body of writers whose duty it is to 'comment upon them."
So far as the Tory Journals are concerned, we rather
think they find their daily " duty" to comment upon
these g?eat achievements anything but delightful. If
there be anything "amusing" in their employment, we
never saw amusement pursued with so evident a feel,
ing of dislike. The contortions of the writers_ ndicate
far more pain than pleasure. The process of " eating
dirt," in which they are now engaged, however neces-
sary in their changed position, is evidently not .to their
taste ; nor can the forced smack of the lips, and
the assurance that the flavour is " very nice,"
conceal the fact that it is ruy-ther nauseous. The
Times has done its best to extricate itself and party
from the unpleasant predicament in which they are
placed. The ill-advised onslaught made by the Tories
in Parliament, under the leadership of Sir J. Gra-
ham, on the 10th of April, 1849, when the Right
Hon. Baronet moved a resolution expressly condem-
natory of the conduct of the Melbourne Ministry
with respect to the war with China, which was de-
feated by a very small majority, followed, as it was,
by the Duke of Wellington's memorable refusal in
the House of Lords to sanction that manifestly fac-
tious movement—and his Grace's justification of
the war they sought to condemn—these Untoward
coincidences are matters of record ; as is also Mr.-
Pahner's pertinacity in endeavouring to bring the
question in another form before the House of Com-
mons, to the great danger of provoking a yet more
stunning reproof from the straightforward Duke.
Take the Conservative speeches during that protracted
debate, the allusions to the same fruitful source of
Tory invective in the "want-of-confidence motions "
which were brought forward, and into which the
Chinese war, with every imaginable topic on which
to hang blame to the Government, were introduced,
dilated upon, and distorted, with a view to make
out a Case against the Government—all. which
topics were duly dwelt upon by the Tory journals
in the same tone of fair and candid criticism—and a
pretty correct estimate may be formed of the
" amusement" which these said public speakers
and writers are now called upon, " in their course
of public duty," to pursue, when they are required to
congratulate the country upon the ." vast," the " in-
calculably and interminably great, advantages" which
may be now fairly anticipated from the very policy
they recently employed all their powers to vituperate
and condemn.
STANDARD.—It is surprising -that men of so
much experience and talent as the gentlemen by whom
the majority of the Paris Journals are conducted, do
not see the necessary inference from their constant
railing against England and the policy of England.
Thit inference is, that much as they muy hate us,
they envy and they fear .us more. Men
may, from mere hatred, indulge in occasional
expressions of ill-will, but -envy and fear
must be added to hatred, in order to sup-
ply the constant and violent stream of invective
which, day by day, and almost hour by hour,
the majority of the French journals pour forth
against England. This war of invective, if we may
call that a war which 'has no reciprocity of injury,
is wholly unprovoked. The English journals, re-
flecting In this very faithfully, we believe, the feel-
ing of the English people, betray no sentiment of
hostility against France ; on the contrary, all of
us of all parties anxiously put the most liberal
construction of which they will admit upon the
nets of our neighbours, and when we must con-
demn a measure we are careful to relieve the
French people from blame, by assigning the
measure and its responsibility to' the real
author, as in the case of the Thiers war
movement, or to maintain a respectful si-
lence, as we have hitherto done with reference
to the origin of the African war. We are satisfied
that the miso-England press 'of France does
not as faithfully reflect the feeling of the French
nation as the press of this country reflects
English feeling, or we should not have to make