It should be noted that while the Press of the
Continent is almost unanimous in praising England for threatening Russia, no Continental Power has as yet shown any willingness to take serious part in a war with that country. The idea obviously is that if England will do the whole work, that will be very pleasant, and the foreign Powers will look on complacently. We believe there is a feeling on the Continent, which explains a great deal of this attitude,—namely, a kind of indignation that England alone in the world should be free from the miseries of war. England, once remarked an Italian of importance, " England is too dam comfortable !" and the remark roughly embodies Con- tinental feeling. It was displayed iu the same way just before the Abyssinian Expedition. ‘• Ah " said the French journalists, not ill pleased, "England also is now to have her Mexico." We did not have one, and may escape one this time, but to quote
lists of the journals which 'are patting us on the back is rather undignified.
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