The French. Press and England.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5079, 25 April 1885, Page 3

The French. Press and England.

The Frtncl^-I^ess"of late Las shown conßidesaMe""animus towards England. A """ftrfwian paper,, called He Grelot, has a colored cartoon representing Queen Tic* tori* holding the torch of civilisation in one hand and a bottle of gin in the other, and trampling under foot the prostrate forms of China, Africa, India, Ireland, and Egypt. The explanatory article is as follows :•—" If England has knowii how to conquer, rest assured that she will know still better how to profit bj her conquest. For, in spite of all the hypocritical proÜBtations of this people, and in spite of all their pseudo-philanthropic declarations, like the ancient Northmen from whom they descended, they never make war except to gain by it. Perched in their isle, as inaccessible as aneagle in its eyrie, they select their prey from the rest of the world. For centuries it was on France that they flung themselves. They were driven out. Then Scotland was ab sorbed, and Ireland pillaged. Next, the, immense territory comprehended between the AUeghany mountains and the Atlantic was attempted, and when she had subjugated this, she, moreover, must needs wrest from us the major part of the Antilles, Canada, the Isle of France, and the Indies, which, thanks to the genius of Dupleix, were nearly ours. Tfcen .she took the Malay Island, and the Bermudas, tore Gibraltar from Spain, Heligoland from the G«u«ans, and Malta from carselves, occupied Aden, stole the Cape and Natal from her alii*s the Dutch, reduced Tasmania, New Zealand, and Aus tralia, massacreing and brutalising the aborigines. Then filched Hong KoDg, juggled their friends the Turks out of Ovprui, and now they arc going to put their foot down on tlve land of the Pharoahs. 'And is this all ? Is this Gargantuan nation at last satufied ? No. She covets Madagascar, where if we do not take good care,,sbe will play us the same criminal trick as in Egypt. The basin of the Zambesi seems destined to become hers, and the success which we have earned at the Senegal and in the basin of the Niger makes her uneasy. When will the sons of perfidious Albion cease from plundering the world in order to carry their prey into their den, where they may feast upon it at their leisure ? Of that we are ignorant, but we hope to live to eDjoy this gratifying and perfectly moral spectacle. England, through wishing to embrace too much, unable to hold anything, overthrown by her united colonies, and forced to confine her leopard in its foggy cage with dropping ears and hanging tail."