THE FRENCH PRESS ON ENGLAND

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2005, 14 May 1885, Page 4

THE FRENCH PRESS ON ENGLAND

The French Press of late has shown considerable auimus towatds England. A Parisian paper, called "Le Grelot" has a coloured cartoon representing Quern Victoria, holding the torch of civilisation in one hand ami a bottle of gin in the other, and trampling underfoot the piosti ite fo. ins of China. Afiioa, India, Ireland, w I Kgv pt Tlie explanatory article i> as follnWH : If Kngiin.l has shown how to conquer, rt'3t assined th.it hho uill know still better how to profit by her conquebt. Foi , in spite of all the hypociitical pio testdtions of this people, ami in spite of of their pseudo philantliropic declarations like the ancient Noithmen trom whom they descended, they never make war except t^ "iin bv it Pe.ehed in theii ible, <n i i utv-w* 1 !)!- «.s .in ea^le in its evii<\ t'loy soWt thn'r pioy from the rest tjf t ho woi'd. Foi ceutu.ies it wa?> on Fi.iuce that they fliuii; themselves. They woie diiven ont Tlien Scotland v,is absorbed, and liel>nd pdl.igud. Next the in ih'ine toi i i*oi y O'linpseheuded between the Vlle^nany inou>'tuus and tlic Atlantic was attempts], and wheu she had subjugate 1 this, she, moreover, mii't need 1 ", witst from us th" m.i]Mi |>art of ti>e Ai.+illi 1 * - Canada the I X fi K'vi-- .■»'-! t' " (Mri,n-- which tti.tu>.i to ti<. .in i-, o' L> pt. is, we . nearlj nui ~>. laeti iht' tcok tin M.vi ■ v I^lan a, and the • ernind.is, tote Gibraltar lioin *>[> v n, lli'M^oland fiom th> ' Jci • ian 3, and .ViaiLd tioinomselves, ocnupiod \tlen, stole the the Lave and Natal from her allied the Dutch, reduced Tasmania, New Zealand, and Australia, massacring and brutalismg the abongnes Then filched Hong Kong, juggled their friends the Turks out ot Cyprus, and now they are going to put th'Jir foot down on the land of the Pharaohs. And is this all? Is this Gaigantuan nation at last satisfied? No. She co\et3 Madagascar, where, if we do n-jt take gooil caie, she will play us the same criminal tiick as in Egypt. The basin of the Zambesi sei'ins destined to become hers, and the success which ■we ha\c earned at the Senegal and in the basin ot the Niger makes her uneasy. When will the sons of perfidious Albion cease from plundering the world in order to carry their prey into the den, where they may feast upon it at their leisuie? Ot that we are ignoiant, but we hope to live to enjoy this gratifying aud perfectly moral spectacle. England, tin ough wishing to embrace too much, is unable to hold any thing, o\ettlnown b> her united coloniu3, and foioed to confine her hound in its Iu r 'g. c i^e with dioopuig card and ban .'in. tail