The violent papers in Paris appear to have taken a
pre- judice against Lord Dufferin and Ave, and never leave off libelling him. He is accused of special hostility to France— a country which he is believed specially to like—and of devoting himself to bribing newspapers in the interests of the Triple Alliance. It is probable that some of these attacks are dictated by the numerous Irish extremists residing in Paris, who cannot endure the Ambassador for being an Irish landlord; but they are kept up mainly because they gratify the anti-English feeling in Paris, which is nearly as .ekoitky as the feeling against the Germans. England, in 'fact, ., suspected of protecting Italy. Many of the attacks *. , so violent that they would justify prosecutions ; but no proseV • cation can be instituted without the consent of the Enibasily. ",` and the Embassies, from their extra-legal position, have a, - reluctance to appeal to the law. There is, therefore, no remedy, and any miserable forger may sell his calumnies with impunity, sure that the paper which publishes them will not .' be prosecuted, and that the populace are too ignorant of foreign affairs to detect the most absurd impostures. There must be limits, however, to insults on Ambassadors, and Lord Rosebery may be compelled to hint that they have nearly been reached.
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