The English newspaper press has taken grelt credit to itself
for preserving more self-command, while discussin; the Eastern ques- tion, than the French newspaper press. Thcre is, however, a measured tone that is more offinisive than angry vituperation—the tone of calm self-possessed, persevering insult—the tone of a man who says to }tine:elf, "I can keep my temper and make you lose yours." We think we have observed a coincidenee in the adoption of a tone of this kind by the Whig and Tory journals when speak- ing of France, quite as remarkable as their coincidence of opinion about Lord PALMERSTON'S policy. Not long ago, an organ of' the Tory party hinted to the Freneh people that the Allies might find it necessary to treat them like a nation uhich had made itself a public nuisance; and this week the ..Tarts'als Chronicle has been strenuously endeavouring, in humble imitation of the Edinburgh Review, to support the opinion that the DAT of BRUNSWICK was bribed not to beat the French at the beginning of the French Revolution. Why are the Whig organs so anxious to prove that the Despots of Europe could have conquered the French Repub- licans but for treachery in their own ranks? Why revive such irritating topics of discussion at this moment ?—unless, indeed, the united Conservative party (Whig and Tory) seek to provoke the French to use more violent language, in the hope that it will make the English angry ?
