Loris PHILIPPE is troubled with a naughty boy, who is
out of bounds among politicians, pamphleteers, and Opposition agitators. The Prince DE JOIN VILLE, it appears, abetted Admiral DI:WETLY- Tnoumts, that bugbear to Queen PoMka before her lying-in ; and the Prince threatened to resign his commission as Rear- Admiral because Ministers refused to ratify M. DUPETIT4'HOUARS'S peculiar style of bullying. The tears of his aged mother, however, subdued the wrongheaded youth ; the scandal was prevented ; and instead of resigning he only went out of town in a hum But he wrote a pamphlet, to prove that France ought to be prepared to go to war at sea—with England, for example. There is nothing further from his wish than a war with England ; only France should get and keep the weatherluage us, and be prepared at a mo- ment's notice to destroy our confidence in our marine, in our com- merce, and in our insular position—in short, to drub and scare us. Being relatively thus placed, France is magnanimously to vouch- safe peace. Of course, the young Admiral's essay attracted some notice here : the Times laughed at it ; and the Morning Chronicle called it "a buccaneer brochure." This redoubles the clamour among the French press—who think the Prince "misconceived," as he only prepares for war to maintain peace, and by no means merits the Antigallican asperities of his English critics. The Ministerial Tottrhai des _Debuts first contented itself with copy- ing the English strictures, but at last read the royal pamph- leteer a respectful lecture on his indiscretion. The Ultra-Oppo- sition, on the other hand, are not thoroughly conciliated even by the Prince's Anti-British demonstration, because he excuses the French Ministers' reluctance to declare war with England in 1840! So the fasciculus has actually revived a kind of war-hubbub, when there is nothing to go to war about. Some seem to think this very clever ; others see in it a fore-armed prudence ; but for our part we can see in it nothing but a puerile Indiscretion. War-distinctions being denied to the Prince, he seeks to show how apt he is for them, and meanwhile to snatch a little distinction for an audacious sagacity in a paper-war. It is a pity that his escapade should not be merely harmless, but that there should be older and more influential politicians willing to discuss how England and France could beat each other. Together, France and England could be an efficient police to keep the peace of Eu- rope, at a tithe of the expense which it would cost either to inflict
• mutual injury ; and some day, perhaps, Frenchmen generally will be as willing to learn that lesson, as most Englishmen, having learned it, are to put it in practice.
