The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-29 00:00:00

THE FRENCH PRESS.

The irritation of the greater number of the French
journals at the recepti,m of King Louis-Philip in En.
gland is truly ridiculous. All hopes of war, and of the
probable consequencts of war in favouring revolutionary
movements seemed to be tor the present dashtd. En-
g:and has given to the French mmaich a hearty cordial
reeet ti ,n, and his Majesty has declared his sense of the
importance of peace to the interests of both nations.
This is too much to btar. The war party, that is, the
par y of revolutionists, whether Le,-;itami,ts or Democrats,
tiw party ci those who are out of place and office. or who
are bloken i r fortune, and therefore eeger for change;—
this motley Env too numerous party knows not which way
to turn at toe present moment, and the various grinv.,,ces
by which they express their vtxation are truly ludicrous.
ti'e are not often in the habit of quoting Punch, but has
parody on the Trading aNieies of the French journals is
scarcely a parody, end therefore we publish it .

" BEAUTIES OF THE FRENCH PRESS.-PERFIDIOUS

ALBION

" [From the National ] —France is outraged—insulted ! Per-
fidious Albion has achieved her crowning insult Yes—will
:t be liedeved—can Jenne Frolics for one moment imagine such
an atrocity —the Doke of Wellingt n, who, with his Erigl-sh
gold. bought the bottle of Waterloo. he who brought hack the
Bourbons over the slaughtered bodies of Fienchmeo—he,
above all other men, was despatched by Queen Victoria to wel-
come to Portsmouth the King of the French t And Loui•-
Plinip shook him by the bards—yes, one hand was not enough
—hut hear it France, and let the ashes of Napo eon stir with
indignation—he shook him by both hands!
[t••rom the Siicle.]—k% hat! was it necessary for the full ac-
complishment of our degradation that the King of the Fri nch
should be feasted in the Halt of waterloo in Windsor Castle—a
hall, decorated with the portraits of men who have outraged
France—who have s lit the i-loud of her children ? Had not
M:Guizot sufficiently i.egraded the utif 'titillate country which
mourns his administratiou, but that with a smile upon his
cheek—yes. a smile traitorous to ourselves and our i stitn-
tions—he must walk in Windsor Park with the man Peel ?
had the • man of Ghent' forgotten the insolence of tie En-
giish M ulster when he denounced the doings of onr invincible
Mira% the Minion it hero who has bayoneted the Tali isms, and
all but kidnapped Queen Pomare t Guizot walks, and talks,
and smiles with Peel in the dome Park ! Wby does not all
France, leaping from its lethargy, chant the Mal seiliaise, and
grasp the. sword ?
[F mu the Globe ] —The least that France could expect of the
Duke of Wellington, during the visit of Louis-Philip to WI d-
sor, was dec. nt behaviour. Hitch, from the character of t-e
man, could net be expected. No : the man who had been lase
enough to corrupt the traitors who sold their luiplesi country—
the man who with accurse4 g' bought the halt eof Water-
loo, was not likely to make any large siicrifiee to decency.
Nevertheless, the least to be expected of him w •s, that during
Louis-Philip's visit he would remain within his own doors
Certainly, it was not to be expected that he would have the
audacity to approach the King of the French ! 'lad he pos-
sessed the true delcacy of a hero, lie would on the sudden have
fallen very ill, arid kept his bed until the King had deported.
such sensibility. however, does not dignify a Wellington. Ni) :
on the contrary, even before the French King had touched the
listen soil of Albion. Wellington was on board the Goalcr ; and
what is more—as the Engdsh prints aud:letoti ly declare it
• looking in exceiient health and spirits !' But France—while
the man of Ghent reigns—is doom,d to be insulted."