"preternatural Suspicion."

PRETERNATURAL SUSPICION

A FRENZY OF FRENCHMEN SHICH ENGLISHMEN CANNOT COMPREHENED

The frenzy of suspicion "preternatural suspicion," as Carlyle called it- into which Frenchmen, when exited, are apt to fall, is most difficult of explanation, especially to Englishmen, who cannot even comprehend why Frenchmen should believe that English gold is expended upon the Dreyfus agitation, and consider the belief either fictitious or simply silly, says the Spectator. The belief with thousand is not fictitious at all, and the French are one of the shrewdest of European races, possessing besides that touch or humor which should prevent any one from believing that an unbroken egg has been poisoned. We confess that suspiciousness bothers us, who have watched French politics through a lifetime. If it were always directed against one set of enemies it might be interpreted as a mere form of hatred; but this is not the case. There is more suspicion in Paris of French. Jews at this moment than of Englishmen, and as much suspicion of a very grave and reputable class - the Huguenots - as of either. The feeling is often set down to ignorance, but classes of Englishmen who are quite as ignorant are comparatively free from it. and the French populace suspects above all men those who live their lives all day and every day under their microscopic eyes.