The New York Herald Newspaper, November 14, 1854, Page 2

a eee AFFAIRS IN EUROPE. Our Paris Correspondence. Paris, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 1854. Hostile Feelings of the Frefch People towards Prus- sia—Resolution of the Allies to Force her to some Positive Course of Action—Louis Napoleon likely to Command in Person the Army of the Rhine— M vements of the Russian Forces in the Crimea— Their Chances of Relieving Sehastopo!— Footing ‘upon which thy Commands of the English and French Forces are Regulated—Dissensions in the Spanish Cabine-— The Pantomimic Campaigns at the Hippodrome— Theatrical News, &c. The sense of uneasiness, amounting to feverish anxiety, touching news from the Crimea, is, per- haps, 8 more strong y marked feature of the ex- isting ctisis than any which has hitherto manifest: ed itself, The craving for intelligence is so intense that notwithstanding the gross exaggerations and unmitigated falsehoods which have come from Vi- enna, men cannot help still giving ear to reporta | from the same quarter, and the public mind is kept in « state of irritable tension, that renders every subject not directly or indirectly bearing upon the great question of the day insufferable. Ame«@mgst those which may be said to do so indi- rectly is the present position of Praasia. The dis- position to measure arms with that power is every- where observable. In fact, nothing that has yet occurred on the part of the Czar—not the destruc- tion of Sinope, the slaughter at Abma, nor yet the remembrance of the Coesacks at Paris, in 1814, has made the Russians so popular as enemies, as would be cither of the great German Powers. Wish Aus: tria, of coarse, after what has happened, all thought of collision is at anend. She who could write conf- dentialiy to Count Ester? It is evident that we cannot expect to obtain peace, which is for us a necessity, from the exertions and exploits of others, and that we cannot bind ourselves to sopport for an unlimitei period of time the arduous sacrifices’ which this pas- sive attitude must occasion’”—must have maie up her mind slready to lay eside an inert position, scarcely leas burdensome aud intolerable than tha of an actual struggle; and unleas she prove the most contemptible of nations, after her servile con- gratulations to thy Western alliance, she must fling her sword into the scale against Russia, although [ believe nv hing would more generally enhance the popularity cf the war than that Austria should be the foe, rather than the ally, of France. Her case, then, being considered disposed of, Prussia stands alone; acd should mattets come to extremity, as they bave st present every appearance of doing, she may look for a clear stage and no favor. With Austria the French have gloriously struggled, tought and conquered; their most renowned vic: tories bave been gained over that Power, and illus- trious dynastic alliances have been formed with her; and though there is undoubtedly a bitter spirit towards her, it is not unmingled with that feeling of respect which a redoubtable foe necessarily com- mands, But there is no feeling of this nature towards Prussia. The days of Frederick the Great are forgotten in the treatment which she received at Jena from the first Napoleon, and the part which she played in the hour of France's grand disaster at Waterloo will never ceage to be remembered till the might of Prussia becomes as broken and rate as was that of Gaul on the 18th of une, 1815. I know, in fact, from authority which has seldom misled me, that in the very highest quarter a deter- mination to fasten a quarrel cn Prussia is most ap- parent. It is remarked that, while Napeleon in no way ceparts from his accustomed silence, his at- tention ls most keenly rivetted on every move or swell of the political surge which seems in any de- gree minatory of that Power; and that something of his imperturbable calm is seen to flit when ai solution of the political difficulty is origi- nated. It was observed only P Sosa by @ diplo- tatist of high standing, tvat the general impression on the minds of the Imperial Council evidently was, that, as in the days of the fiist Emperor, so in the second, « Pruesian King would probably have to cool his heels in the antechamper of Napoleon. Within the last fortnight, since the affair at Alma, messengers from the English Foreign Office have been continually g and repassiog, and M. Drouyn de l'Huys, the French Minister of Foreign Af- taira, baa made no secret of the subject which occu- pies them. The transit trade of.P russia is seriously stirring the bile of commercia! Engiand, while Napcieon bas sn army in the highest state o’ mill- tery efficiency, “straining upon tne start,” and to which Napoleon the Third is only too desirous of giving the word, and it may be of fishing his maiden sword on those whose cruel and terrible pur guit achieved the divaster at Waterloo, to avenge which, as he haa notorioualy put oa record, is one of the chief ca-dinsl pointe of his miasion. The latest communications from Paris and London have coc- sisted of intimaticns that Prassia could not be per- mitted to mediate any longer in the capacity of a friend, and would one be allowed to interfere upon ay im the more positive alliance between the Towers, Prussia shows, in trata, no dispoai- tion other than that of treacherously cultivating au equivocating action, crigivating in blind (so the French pronounce it) devotion to Russia. It is staged that such a state of things may indefinitely prolong the that Prussia is thus at the service of the enemy, there can be no security against her introd mies at s day’s notice to the very banks of tie Rhine, and that thusshe is becoming a serious danger, if let alone. So when Sebastopol falls, the curtain will probably rise on a tableau never before exhibited—as would say the theatrical manager—namely, the eagles of France, commanded by an Emperor whose genius has hith- been pronounced essentially non-military; and “ erto who, within three years of the ripe age of fifty, has a mind to show the world that the qualities by which he has succeeded are not reasons to bim that they can be iaid aside in a new phase of affairs, and that the slow, silent, sluggish knight, who onc3 on- ly “’bided his time,” can, a3 a military chieftian, seize it as is flies, and decide ard re-decide with all the quickness and precision necessary to him who to civil would add military renown. Tothe interest of such a scene it is only required to adi, that Na- , strong in the faith of his own destiny, fear. ‘also by nature, and conscious of the necessi- ty of :ersonally doing valiantly at the outset of a ry career, will be certain to expe bis person to all the hazards of war, the severest of which, should it befali him, might more than atone tothe Ozar for the loss of Sebastopol. if indeed, it is about to ca- ate. The persuasion that Sebastopol is utterly incapa- ble of holding out against the p:wer now brought to bear u; it, is so complete that the excitemen’ on the subject may be said to have almost entirely subsided, and speculation is basy with the visit which is said to be in contemplation on the part of Napoleon and tis Empress to tre Queen and Prisce Albert. There seems little doub: that this event Is really to take place, and towards the end of next mouth. At first, it was thought cesirab’e that the —— accouchement should be got well over; but thet dfficulty appears to haye been overruled, ané for the second time duing her Britanaic Ma jesty’s reign she will receive aad entertain the monarch of France. “ Mutato nominge dete fabula narratur,’”’ she say to Napoleon instead of Louis Piilippe, and it is to be hoped that the same ill fate wili not pursue this last viait which foilowed the other, Lonis Philippe was then at the height of ris larity, a8 Napoleon is at present, with the Brien bic, he inecibed his name on the # book at Eton, adding to his sigcature the bn “the acclamations of the British youth ringing in his cars'’—ac lamations which were truly indicative of Eogliah feelia throughout the empire. Soon afer ths Fre monarch quitted a storm of snch fury arose, that he ‘was obliged to give up the idea of reemarking in the magnificent steamer which bad landed him at He took the train for Dover, ania reglog fire almost simultaneously burst forth, in the mid: of which tre cnterprising monarch shot ahead to wards that Dover where a few years aferwards he ‘was fated, with bis queen, to land, a wretched and 2 exile, from the country be had so skilfally, hn abe for nearly eighteen years; end, to make oe bn | nee ja tbe Spanishgpar which Spain is unhappi 1 fruite—had destroyed every vestige o his popaiarity in Fnglend, the shelter ‘Hospitality of which he now, for the second sought. Speramus me/iora—and, let us |, probamus que—in the event now about to “take place. The reception their ma- if jestiex will meet with will be something quite un- ited inthe anvala of Eagish feeling. Toe , the intensely romantic ca- n me prestige of bis name— io oot need shaa to yicwsitade which, feo an hum- in King, has suddenty transform: ~f one ot the mightiest me will. tend to carry imperial pro ay parterre of to be. revived AY Bhi and Prisoe Ru't » in to blets the Priscely Neto of Alms ain Sebastopol; ond weave the garland of victory round J i f Pd : fh fi Fl ‘i . EEF te se A ag z, i$ a 5 By 3 jour Bp) 4 tide of attention sensi . The |i Ti 3 ef § 2 : F i i t ii Bs a bt to be offended with it er things of a mush graver character which she has d over in silence, she is made to that she highly disapproves of of Mr. "a expressions. It read iy) certainly, “What matters to you?” says the Minister, ad- dressing the be gy respetting their ancient laws and usages, and in allusion to the manifesto of Count Montemolin—“what matter to you what mon- arch reigns over Castille? or what government the illustrious warrior who gave peace Spain by signing the treaty of Vergara, m establish ? tranquil, and whatever , What- ever the principle which makes an sppeal to your be completely indifferent to the which was settied in the fields of ‘a; mever, for any monarch whatever, should their children shed a single drop of blood; but they should shed to the last drop the precious blood which flows in their veins, in case any one should dare to di the Basque rights aie aden oe The day on whi-sh that may be attempted I will be amongst you. You know that José Attende Salazar, new Deputy to the Cortes, has never failed in his word and tis promises.” The Civil Governor of Madrid has issued a decree requiring all persons residing out of the capital, not belonging to the national guard or army, to give up any arms they may be possessed of ; directing that persons not special permission or, it seems, had been alrea: a at Chamberri, a village near Madrid. This arrest, which was ef- fected by the Civil Governor im a, had created @ great sensation, and it was said that a quantity of oma had been taken. of the French, owing to the present | price of grain, has forbidden its use for distillation till farther notice. A decree bas been sigaed to that effect ani pontshed in the Moniteur, but the complaints of distillers were both loud and deep at a measare go fatal to their commercial interests. At the theatres, five consecutive representations of the ‘Bleeding Nun” promise to give it a better establish ment with the public than was at first an- ticipated, and it has been improved by sundry cur- teilments. The talent of the young author, M. Gounad, is unquestionable, and it is hoped that soon better things msy be looked for from him. The “ Etoile du Nord,” at the Opera Comique, is baing played to hovses which are filled to the ceiling. Its popularity. rather increases than diminishes. At Ihe Theatre [ralien, Madame Frezzolini is the soli- tary star, who, together with Battini, fights the u hill game of enchaining public attention. There 8 certain class of persona who will always go to the Italien, no matter who the prima Fetal nothing but the most remarkable dearth of great singers could enable Frezzolini to fill the piace she now occupies in public attention. She is a good actress, a ed singer, but her chest tones are so weak, and come forth with such an asthmatic labor, that it is paintul to witness her exertions. Her isdy-like carriage avd graceful person are, however, lar, items in her favor. She is now playing Otello. the meantime, all lovera of the dance are looking out for Rosati’s ap; but is to appear in “ Jovita.” Cravelli is ati the missing nightingale. Beatie. Panis, Monday, Oct. 30, 1854. Effect of the News of the Loss of the Arctic in Paris— Siege of Sebastopol—French Views of its Chances— Visit of the French Emperor and Empress to the English Court—Afairs of Spain—Sensation Caused by the Ad- dress of M. Salazar, Minister of Marine, to his Consti- tuents—Coming Events Cast their Shadows Before--Criti- cal Position of the Spanish Throne—The Operas, Thea~ tres, de. Deep aa was the public sympathy on the lozs of the Arctic, the harrowing accounts which the Hzr- ALD has b:ought home, have wrung every heart, and it 18 impossible to go into any society or move in any of the great thoroughfares without being atruck by the intense sincerity of feeling on the subject So many of the parties who, it is to be feared, have perished, were well known in the beat circies—so many-were connected by blood or marriage with the French, and so popular is the American charac- ter here, that the subject and ita harrowiag details, for the moment, supersede every other. The dread- fal narrative of Peter MuCabe has flown like wildfire, through the length and b-eadth of the empire, and the national horror of the sea which distinguishes the French character, will not fail to be angmented. The fearless and indomitable genius of the Anglo, Saxon seems to the natives cf France never more striking than in the bold and hardy manner, in spite of wreck after wreck, with wh’ch he continues to traverse the ocean ; whereas such terrible disas- ters as have befallen the President, the City of Glas- gow, and now, worst of all, the Arctic, ave felt as enough to stifle in its birth the nascent marine spir.t mbich of late has been so much encouraged. But the truth is, the social identity with the Ameri- can has increased, and is still so increasing that every throb which pulsates in the heart of New York produces a corresponding vibration in Paris; end ary of those acciden‘s which tend to impede the growing communications between the two coun- tries is felt to be a pational calamity. Apart, per- haps, from the individual m'sery they occasion, these sfttietions are the merciful interpositions of Provi- dence, stirring the common heart to exciaim with one voice, that all people and nations, howeverjdi- verse their interests, are at bottom one common of brothers. To turn to the East, the last news from Sebastopol dates from the 21st, on which day a French steamer left the Crimea, and is announced in the Moniteur. You will receive, by the newspapers, the advantages gained by the alles up to that date. No sort of mistrust prevails as to the result of tae siege, and every day intelligence is expect'd of tae capitulation. The Agamemnon, which of late has been peculiarly conspicuous in the Eastern ex- pedition, and not the less so from haviag on board & gra; hic correspondent in Mr. Layard, M.P., the well known author, of the Times, bas received con- siderable injury during ths attack on the onter porte; ore of her officers, too, has been killed and another wounded by a shell. The loss of the flee's is reported to be 90 killed and 200 wounded. Bat Prince Mens:hikoff’s.despa:ch of the 15th admits the death of Admiral Korniloff and the loss of 500 men, apd if 500 men fell fighting in ‘he casemates and bebind the redoubts of a strongly fortited place, there is no doubt the attack must have been of a truly formidabie character. It ia impossible rot to be struck with the fact that wherever tie Rossians bave been boldly confronted they are found totally unable to cope with the power bonght against them. It is impossible for ths most unprejudiced person to deny the assertios; and when it is considered that the quarrel is the Czar's own seeking—that he must have been Gesvarigg. to meet it for years—that ke has chosen his owa tine for it, while his enemies have been taken by sur- price, and with comparatively little time for pra _a- ration, the who'e cir umatance is a marvel, incredi- ble, when the dignified and astute charac- ter of the powerful autocrat is takea into consideration. The inferiority of the fire of the Russian batteries is remarkable; for al- thongh they have b en lavish in their expenditure of ammonition and heavy,sbot, they have in no in- stance inflicted any serious inconvenience or loss on the men engaged the trenches, and they have wholly fai'ed to prevent the completion of any work which it enited the edgineers to attempt. It fs true that from the natare of the ind the Rassians are obliged to fire upwarde—that is, with heavy charges, at Nigh angles, which is the most ineffective species of fie; but they have at present entirely fi to show any of that fertility of resource and energetic enterprise by which alone interrupted and the fail of a place delayed. Ihave this moment, while in been interrupted by the visit of a French officer who left the Crimea on invalided. He says rotbing can exceed the excitement iMat was going on at his departure; tha! the firing from the besieged is incessant, the waste of amuni‘ion was something the damage dove ~ be being so o' He saya the French are amused by the p! atic | cbavsoter of Engtish labor and endurance; not asong or a sonnd ever meets yout car wherever tha Eag- liehmen works, white on our side it {s veny din | of Babel, and st sunret we Jagh sng, | ard Heten tc out Gelictona hands, a8 MCh eare | and deligtt as though we were i Place Ven- dome, or in te of the : % The Ras | anh have hone fel mt hl obi cad Der: Clomuteff, & in the. Caucasus, who the men believe a very deity of kno longing to Madrid, or not having a | reside there, shall be arreated; | and forbidding innkeepers to lodge persons without | assports. A number of persane of bad character, | ce atthe Grand Opera. She is practising the new ballet which is preparing. , the details of siege operations can be | the act of writing, | 15th, wounded and osherwise | ay | but that | Hoan, | ' texte tn | \ f ibe i 4 F e l i i i i F. H F H i i Hi “Ee aH cE i Hie Ze rif break on the 10th, notwithstanding a heavy fire om our position, where I got this ugly wound in the arm, with twe th id four hundred men we finished a ditch, parapet and banquette 1,200 metres long, at a distance of nine hundred metres from the enemy’s line. was terribly hard and rocky; but after penetrat a foot or two, we found plastic tough clay, admirably suited for the purpose of ein: Each man worked and kept guard in turn, as one of the Medpantd mopar! ag bas finish: ie and by that time every mao metre of work, so that one thousand two hundred metres were accomplished. We have got forty-six ae lying bebind this work, ready to mount when e embrasures are made and faced with gabioss and fascines, ard the platforms are ready. We are about two hundred or three hundred metres nearer to the enemy more than compensate for the difference of distance. The general impression is that Seoastopo! will yet give the allies a great dea! of trouble, and be the cause of enormous bloodshed. If, saysthe Pavs, the information from Germany is to be believed, Prince Menschikoff has de: withdrawn to- wards the North, and is about to plave himself at the bead of the troops assembled at Perekop. His army ig estimated at 70,000 men, but it is tought that it will proceed towards Sebastopol, to relieve that place, if possible. But it will, in that case, find at least 70,000 French troops to oppore it, all anxious for battle, believing firmly in success, and desirous | of seeing ancther day like that of the Alma. Is it too much to believe in a decided triumph in such conditions? For our part, we are quite convinced that Prince Menschikeff will make this last effort; it is evident that, in keeping the field, in place of abutting himself up, after this defeat at the Alma, within the walla of Sel ol, he has had no object or strategy in view. The whole mestion is to know whether he will arrive before itopol shall have fallen. It is said in Germany | that he may be under the walls of that town about the 28th of October. Should that be true an im portant battle may be expected, quite independent of the siege operations, But, we repeat it, that battle, if it tal lace, will be fought on excel- lent conditions, with very sufficient means of attack or resistance on our side, and we feel no apprehen- sion as to the result. That conviction is evident! felt by the eminent generals at the head of the al- lied forces. The very slowness and prudence which they rhow in condu ting the siege operations, prove clearly that they do not fear the reinforcements of Prince Menschikoff, otherwise they would perhaps have Burried matters on, and attempt some daring blow. Lord Raglan and General Caurobert have calculated all the chances; they heve full faith in the happy isaue of this glorious expeditior ; the soldiers have in ‘hem the utmost confidence, and that Relak og sht to be shared by the public. ‘The conolud observations of this, in part, offi- cial journal, are supposed to apply to certain diss OU, is, to the effect e Fast already miss and that Canrobert, althon, ble science, and of a mil superior to that of his late f, has not that br Nancy of character which the state of affairs at the Crimea—so entirely unique—requires. As for Lord Raglan, the French military in Paris would consider a utterly benath them to speak of him ag anything | more than & mere human machine. After the deat of Marebal St. Armand, Lord Raglan might have claimed the command in chief, for he is iavested with a repk to which there is not now an equivalent inthe Frencherm . He is s General—tbat is to say, higter than a Lieutenant General ora Division, and lower than » Marshal. Under the first! Empire ‘life ¢ were four Colonels General of Oaval ry, & Firet Inspector General of Artillery, and of the Engineers, ygher in rénk than a sted tt bes been ttought beter, towever, in order to avoid any utp easart feeling, that the commaad should remain inde;erdent, under the reserve of a previous concert between the generals-in-chief. For this pur- pose, French officers have been placed on toe staff of Lord Raglan, and Sa officers on that of Gan. , in truth, throvghout have shown great consideration for the proverbial amour propre, or rather, most ino‘dinate vanity of their aliy; and it is the only thing which the Emperor is to have shown himself, in the opinion of jish Cabinet, « little exigent about; but ‘allewsky, the French Ambaasador in Eng- land, was obliged to azeure both the Duke of. New- castle and Lord Clarendon that on such a point the jealousy of the French was too painfully and imme- diately rensitive for the Emperor to interfere— that an attempt to do a0 would boulevers the whole a First Inspector General who were Division, and lower than Marshals, Cunrobert, The Engl understood the Ep Count policy. From Madrid, we receive accounts that ssem to sion in the Cabinet, and lists of names of a new administration—at the appears that led about. The who frows more and_ more unpopular with the extreme heaven and sleeping embers of legitimacy, leave no doubt of strong diseen: head of which, bowever, alwa; of Espartero—are publicly hi chief exclusion is that of O'Donnell, beral party. {he Carliste are stirrin, earth to rouse the and in the opinion of those best acquainted wi Spanish affairs, a civil war of unexampled magni- tade isimminent. One would almost euppose evente were intent on re preesly for the benefit of Napoleon the and perbaps to try with better effect than uncle, a Bonapartist reconstruction of the throne of Spain. I mentioned some time ago that pantomimic mi- litary feats were being enacted at the Hippodrome great magnificence, and that in order to give Lago! eclat to them, and perhaps rouse the ind to tte true warrior pitch, large bodies of cavalry and infantry were admitted into the arena to do suit and serviie against a Silistria of card board, and to receive as guerdon a supplementary half frarc per diem from the manager. Now, however, that blood has been drawn, and that their comrades hove fought, or fell, or conquered, at on a ecale of popular m the Crimea, the Emperor is ecandalized that any portion cf the French-army should be degraded to such 8 service, and accordingly notice bas been is- sued th: for the future, no soldier will be a lowed 5) himself of such avditional sources of emolu- ment. The only worder is that it shon'd at any time have been permittei at all, but it ie absard to suppore that troops of cava'ry and infantry, anda megnificert military bard, could be marched ap four cr five times a week through the avenues of the Champs Elysée, and st to work with a suitable trein cf aillery, without such having been the will and dec €e of the chief magistrate. It certainly did excite the wonder of our Anglo-Saxon mind to witzere day after dey such an imposing muster of troops, and eapecta'ly the officers, with vhinisg gold epsulettes, marching as if to the field of ba'tie, only to; Jay Punch at the Hippodrome. However, nous avons chargé tout cela. The honne Sang/ante, or “Bleeding Nan,” has just spreared, a new opera in LSU pele ce l’'Opera ; Delanque, the muic bs whom the Theatre Im; five acts, at the Theatre tie words by MM. Scrihe and M. Gounond, a young artist expence, but does not bid fair to retain any ptrma- renthold on the public. and takirg place at miduight, as from the nature o! the s‘ory, ore of the airs alleviates. cess is doubtful. Bearir. Paris, Ot. 24, 1854, Finances of France, Portugal, and the Roman Stales— The Food Question more Urgent than the Questions of the East and the Immaculate Conception—Constitution Making in Spain, Denmark and France—A Walking Journal—Soldiers’ Toys—American Drinks at Leblond’s A Paris Workman Choked to. Death by Twenty-seven Cossacke—The Cear on the Boulevards—A Pope in Pa- vis—Moving Scenes—LHigh Rents—Lucifer Matcher Cruvelii’s Elopement and Wedding Ring—Rach«l Com- pelled to Keep her Promise to Murder the Children of Medea—Lamaytine and his Publisher—Another Well Digger Buried Alive—Paris Gossip—Coton@ Colt and George Sanders—Life in New York in 1864, Described ty a Parisian, Political economista have latoly found suggestive the comparative tables of French revenues wisdge ; and in from indireot imports; during the firet nine months vite of oll the misfiring and abortive cuenta, we are of 1854 and the corresponding period of 1853, in ate i i i a i sar "a lines than the English; bat the | weight of your siege guns, superior as it ia to ours, will | running of the es the dash of the dead Marshal, h a man of unquestiona- ary education ope ting themeelves, ex- Third, and that while ali Europe, as it were of iteelf, seems about to melt into its original chaos, it is reserved for bim, as the genius of order, to restore all things, 3 rial has brought forward. The piece bas been got up with immense care and The scene ia too ged revrnant, or ghost character, it necessatily does, there is a monotony and gioom about it which no ee = mm wpe! mined eral. 8} ‘oni ay great talent, and the oer} is oa; but its yo the budget of Portugal for 1854-56, andin the new financial edicts of the Papal discover that the diminutions in the French reve- , ainde the | sues bave lessened, instead of au, 80th of last June, and they generally agree thatthe situation indicated by the comparative table, with: out being brillant, may be considered satisfactory, in view of recent political events. They agree also that the budget of Portugal exhibits a se 1aibie ame- Noration in the finsrcial situation of that country. They predict tho happiest consequences from those edicts of the Pope which aim at suppressing pa>er money and rep/acing under the administration of the Btate the important revenue from aalt and tobac- co. But the partisans of free trade regret, of course, the edict which raises the taxes on colonial produce to an incredible figure, almost equivalent to | prohibition, The excitement which the new tariff | bas-caused at Rome is prodigious, far surpassing that occasioned by news from the East. Ramors of distant war, however glorious, reach the ear of the | * upper clases chiefly, while questions of sugar, of coffee, of cotton, of salt fish, affect the daily life of all classes. Such questions touch the business and | bosoms of the people more closely than the Eastern | question in any of its protean forms. Will eventhe grave question of the immaculate conception of the | Virgin—which the Holy Father has summoned a council of prelates to decide upon next December— awaken deeper interest with the Roman popuiatiou? The food question—after all ‘that’s the question:” | can you doubt that it underlies nearly all the pro- blems of this age, when, even in Rome, the city of the Cresars and home of St. Peter's successors, Mars is forgotten, aud Mary herself, with the Carpenter's son on ber arm, attracts lesa attention tfan the ba- ker, the butcher and the grocer! Several American journals seem to have misap- prehended the question which Christendom and and I’ Univers expect to be solved at Rome on the 8th of December. If they had simply consulted Webster's dict: they would have learned that the doctrine of the immaculate conception is the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was born without cri- ginal sin. Webster, however, does not also inform them thats diversity of opinions on this point among theologians cccasic aschism which has rentthe church for ages. To put an end to this achiem by converting the doctrine into a cogma, and solemnly proclaiming it to the world, is the ob- ject of the council which has been convoked at the vane iene of the epiacopates of France and pain. Spain is agitated at this moment, by other than than theological questions. The excitement of the elections has been heightened by the secret animosi- ties of tte old parties. The zeal of the partizans of Count de Montemolin has been warmly seconded of late, by those journale which continue to echo legitmalat ideas in France. The same jourzals, while lavishing encomiums on the royal virtues of the Count, have been Speparing sf, abuse for “the accursed race of revolationists that dishonor Spain.” A.umor bas prevailed that Queen Isabella is de- termired to absicate, and (what is more improba- ble,) that the Carlists are mpidly jing ground. Something like a tusion with the Cariists, on the part of Christina and Sarterius, is apparent. Nar- yaez is now in France. En; in the Spanish courcils is no mystery—is actively endeavoring to induce the Cabinet of Espartero to give inits adhesion tothe principles of European law Pareeee the slave trade, and to denounce all traf: ic tution on the basis of that of 1837 has been delibe- rated upon and rejected by the Spanish ministry. Denmark is struggling to obtain a new constita- tion. Its bases have been submitted to the king, in an address from the Chamber, which has up a sort of chall thrown to it by the ministry. We shall see if the issue will be pacific. Perhaps, after the Danes and Spaniards havetried as man; constitutions as the French, the: is not se 80 Bray as his beard, and that is sti partly black, but who tells me he has already sur- vived thirteen constitutions. ous that he need not di more than the fourteenth, but he sweara he “has had enough of them.” The Parisians manifest no interest in any political question that does not bear more or leas directly on the absorbing Eastern question. While waiting, impatiently enough, to bear the cannon of the Inva- ligesannounce the fall of Sebastopol, they lend ac eager ear to the most absurd rumors from the East, and’to Sil news from every other quarter that re- lates, however remotely, to the war. Meet oue of them at the Bourse, and, while he holds you by the button, he 8 ont a quantity of miscellaneous ives that would filla column of the HenaLp, A few are worth chropicling : thua, he tells you ina breath, that the :umor of the taking, oa the 11th, of Fort Quarantine, at the northern entrance of the bay which gives access to toe port of Seb: I, was the greatest canard, or hosx of laa: week; that the comb'ned army of the allies now count upwards: of 120.000 men—thtre were not more heads at Austerlitz, at Friedland, or at Moskowa; that the Crar is actually (ho (ae visit Warsaw; shat by his yy ukase, express orders— as it were—the fash‘ona ble season at St. Deere has opened with auu- sual brilliency, Leblache, M’ile.de Lagrange and Mme. Tedesco having been engaged, and Mme. Alboni (whom a prior engagement prevented,) so- licited, at fabulous prices, to drown, with the music of Ropsini, the distant rearof French, English and Turkish canron; that the Czar’s decree, ordering the construction of a railway from Moscow to the Black Sea bas not failed to prodace a certain that the Grand Dukes Nicholas and Michae' ve rejoined the army oft the South; that Baron de Hess, the Austrian General, has returned from the Danubian Principalities to take the com- ser an ; mand of the army to be opposed to that of Prince Paskiewitch, in case of a rupture with Russia; that the Emperor of Austria has addressed an autograph letter to the King of Prussia, insisting on the neces- sity of an intimate union of the German governments, particularly of Austria and Prursia; t at Englau. and Fiance have resolved upon severe measures to prevent Prussia from longer profiting richly, in the way of transit t-ade, by her neutrality; that although the Emprees bas sent to the camp of H:lfant tea boxes filled with balloons, ninepins, dominos and so forth, and the Emperor has also sent there wooden bouees, like thote forwarded to Australia and Cuali- ‘crpia, and intended to serve for play Shen, erie rocms and dancing rooms during the winter, it is nevertheless quite possible that before spring vey different amusements may be rn for the aol. diers eleewhere; and that almost all the Paris jour- pals have }artened to translate the pugnacious article in which the London Herald, speaking of the winter's work laid out for the fleeta of the Baltic and the Black Sea, flings a threat at Brother Jonathan, snd alluding to the British fisheries on the North American coast, to the affair of Greytown, and to alleged projects for annexing the Bermudas and the Antilles, buying the Russian p‘ssessions on the Pacific, and building shiys of war for Russia, boasts that enough men-of-war will be still left to fight, if need be, with the Yankees! Here your Parisian gets out of breath. In walk" ing, you have reached with him that part of the Bourse, the Boulevard de: Italiens, iu tront of the Café Lebtund, tamons tor its specialité of Amorican orks. I: is to be hoped trat the recent diplomatic cenfercnce, while washing do#n with Chablis the cyte Sond international questions discussed by it #” Osierd, did not fail to give due consideration to the ontrageous fact, which [ indiguaotly record, that | the j rice of esch of these drinks hes laiely been raved toa fracc! But your companion deems it well worth that, as he sips his grog Americaine. He hes not refueed your invitation to enter the cafe, ood to “tmile” with you, Yankee fash'on, in spite of the Arglo-Franco ail of the London Herald. Recovering bis breath, he kes you again by the button, and re-ovens his budgei of news, But this time most of the “items” that fail ore dated at Paris. The first one, ho vever, by force of habit, relates to Cossacks; but to Cox sacks in ginge: bread and in Paris, not to the candle- eating Corsa: ke in the Pyincipalities. Nor must you believe too readily that the former are not such ter- rible fellews 28 the latter. This mistake, he says, cost & Parisian oucrier bis life yesterday, A crow was aerembled in the rue Bou! cock'+ shop, of which the buge sign indicated that Rarsiers ond Ovseacks—that is to aay, little cakes ataeen apiece, cut in imitation of the groteaque figmes in Chartvari—were sold there. The impru- dent workman, whom the crowd surrounde, had putziotically bet with a comrade that he would ewallow fifty Cossacks, without drinking. Bat at the twenty seventh, he cried for water with a chok- iog voice, rd fell inanimate. He war carried to the hospital, where he soon expired of cerebral con- gestion. Dces this somd like a canard? At any tate, the French, and the English too, are begiania; to believe that Cossecks are less easily devout than the Tartar story of the capture of Sehsstopoi, ¥o greed ily swallowed, teemed to indicate, ‘tbe second item reminds yeu also of “ ATl the Rustiaa” A perfect sosius of their Emperor, look- ing at if one of Charivari's portraits of the Czar had step; ec out alive upon the Beulevs walked the eure Cay sil the way from. the Madeleine to the Vintern d'Eau. It was a Faletel? of 4 Frenchman, rieged in riding boots, backéktn tights and uni tere with a (easter nt i ema bes be couble heeded eagle, ‘by 8 pouler mourlier—a chi ken Cripping. By prestorming this eceen tic teat, our ‘alptafl won.a kiss feom a dit. ficult biatt), Ywhom he had. wagered that on this onciten be would comply wih any terms ehe mipht eboose to itnpose. Moreover, he favored the Par siagg with an occasion tor langhiog merrily. | the golden | to that of Havre. w influence | but, lighting his se; slaves as piracy. A project of a consti- | thus taken | iy | then all these. The will, like the | French, subside into seeming indifference on the | subject. Ihave dined with a Parisian whose hair | His own isso vigor: | air of outliving many | + on eccount of jiance and the bullying threata | Jari before a pastry | Fe z & ry suggested that s practice whit lo} in Hennes in Brittan and 18 provided Yor by the Code Civil—the of 86 of Pardons ct a hace onde adopted in the capi- of France. But to purchase an almost any of the malitude of new balldings erected here during the past two years, would a8 much a8 @ castle anyw! else, save in Spain. or to rent one, it at the top of the house, on fifth floor, costs, in many instances, from 2,500 to 3,000 francs a year. The preprietors, dazzled by perepecure which the approaching, ex: hibition of 1855 opens even to the di imagina- tions, bave run rents up to such an exorbitant rate that it might well muagest to government the erec- | tion of similar buildings for the accommodation of tie world of people with moderate incomes and mea- gre ies, to those already erected for the exclu. rive use of the working classes. As it is now, nota few denizens of that “world” turn their eyes wist- fully towards the route followed by the thousavds of German emig:apis to the United States, whom they have encountered during the past fortnight irudgipg sturdily from the Strasburg railway station Within fifteen days no leas then twenty one id German e: its have epee through Boag their way to Ameria, y Paris and Havre. T » which has just cailed from Havre, took out among its — gers, says the Constitutionnel, Monsigneur Martin, Bishop of Missouri, Leg eye by eight missiona- ieee era ekg tad e Sacr 5 seems, has been “ provoked to works” by the heroic example of the Sisters of Charity in tne East, and | will peas Sian Paris in a few days to solicit the | counsels and aid of several members of that unri- valled community on the journey which she is to undertake with s company of English nurses, to the | csmp of the allied armies. The proselyting zeal of | the London ible Society has o ccaniona complaints on the partief the chaplains of the French army, and the entrance of Protestant pastors into the hos: pital at aries has been prohibited. On the other hend, the Bishop of La Rochelle bas for- mally forbidden the caré of the Isle of Aix to visit the Russian prisoners there. Is this because the Catholic clergy must have mene do with schis— matics, or because {t was re by fcourtesy to the Pope of the Greek Chr in Paris, who lat! visited the prisoners? Did you know before that we have a zope in Paris? Here, again, your Parisian interro ht , he continues, fe have also 8 manufacturer of lion _ eight hundred thousand matches. Bat the ninth wonder of the world is the factory of Baltha- zar Mertens, at » which tarna out daily from seven to eight millions of matches. A single match, bowever—that which Cravelli has just made with Vigier, a eon of an industrial notability of the reign of Louis Phill haa lit more curiosity from the opera has fled to the arms of a husband. was married, it seems, at Frankforton-theMaine. She had pre- viously deposited with the banker Rothschild the one hundred thousand trancs which she forfeited b her flight. A wedding mi cost 100, franks ought to be it! Rachel—that other capricious child of genius and fortune— was on Saturday condemsed, on such days as shall be designated by M. Legouvé and the administra- tion of the Theatre Francais, to resume and conti- | nue the rehearsals of “Medée,” a three act tragedy by Mr. Legouvé, and to play the part allotted to her by the author ard by her; and, in default thereot, to pay 200 franca (about forty each cay of delay, during two months. The ee ee: eee 40,000 fraues damages, the delay which his piece has already encount red, wae not gustaived. The tribunal, on the other band, characterized as chimerical the 8 le etext put forward by the actress for refasal to fulfil her engagement, “the chinerical dread of a check, afailure, at the moment of quitting the French stage.” In the course of the process, seve- rel Plater Bape of Rackel were produced, and these, together with other sufficient evidence, loft bo dcubt that the tragedy hed been read, at her re qvest corrected, and Lot only acce»ted, but re heared. Her lawyer, M. Chaix d’Estange, one of the moet ingenious and skilful advocates in Paris, thought it bard that Rachel should be compelled to personate a monster of s mother, who murders her childrep. The public is also disposed to think that M. Legouvé might have found in sutiquity some lesa revolting ‘acter. The public is malicious er to ask: who is this M. Legouvé, that he should do what neither Cossimir Delavique nor Pon- sard thought of dcing when the illustrious trage- drenne, after having the Fille de Cid of cluded to return both pieces unacted, au- thors? Docs not M. Legouvé, the son of the author of the “‘Merite des Femmes,” owe to Rachel’s mar- vellous impersonation of A ne Lecouvieur, and b ea — foros which Rachel bap aise of laying as Louise de Liguerolies, n sums Hi money, but the reputation on which be bases his cleims to a prospective arm chair at the Acade- my? M. Legouvé was but 8 collaborateur—bat half author of these two playa—the inferior literary me- rit of which has been re only by the splendid acting by which Mile. Mars i Lonise and Mile. Rachel both Louise and Adrienne. Triba- nals of justice, however, are less indulgent than the public, when even a great actress like Rachel fails ta fidelity to an en; t, and the civil tribunal | ive of the Seine has endorsed the truth which her pro- | , asserted, that— | rien ne dispense de la probité, pas méme le génie—not | secuting a torney, M. ‘Matthieu, even genius can dispense with ey: A memoir of Rachel, by M. de Mericourt, will ap- pearin afew days. In addition to abundant bio- - Greece. Theory of the Geological March of the Cholera— Vacant Chair in the French 4c O ui—D The Emperor and Empress of the French it, sp: pears, have decided to postpone their visit to O piegne for the present, and intend to remain at Saint} Cloud until the rews, so confidently anticipated and) 80 strangely prosrastinated, of the fall of Sebastopol, ehall have reached Paris. In aqoordance, probably, with their alleged resolution to withhol{ their pre- gence from public places o amusement until the arrival of that news, they were absent yesterday from the races at Longchamps, which came off bril- liantly, nevertheless, thanks to weather as delight- fal as it is rare at this season of the year. If the sun shines with equal brightness on Wednesdey, the fete of Touseaint will be less gloomy than usual, and France will not complain of the eclipse of the moon which astronomers predict for the 4th November. The Ottoman government is no lees confident than the French that Sebastopol will be takeu. The Kiofas and the Imans have concerted already vpon the signals for thankegivings and illaminstions, A French tradesman at Constantinople has profited by the circumstance, and advertises 100,000 little lamps for sale for the occasion. We have not yet heard hat the lamps are lit. Meanwhile, ‘‘darkness is be- ing made visible” at Constantinople, by the startling developements to which the discovery of s forged seal of Mehemet Ali, the brother-in-law of the Sal- tan, and cne of his principal ministers, cannot fail The eyes of the Ulemas see, Ar eed corr fede od dg a two figures no less than Reschid and Lord Stratford de , in spiracy 80 near the person of the If now we turn our eyes from Teast, 8 carious ee ut Hib iJ : E 3 4 E I BE sess Sasse Ree Hil HEL i ea Elttl: : fo e 2 : Fe fis 8 = 3 4 i > Fe it SRe 2 2, <. Be F J 'S) Fe a ay fie fit i q : f ' Ea Ee ald rabtia Stata of Ne ar! tivguish that of Therese, Queen vera, ardof Marie, Duehe ! i E | z i 3 i ste the cemetery of Montmartre. moerried in 1810 te King Louis, A cation in 1848, bas quietly in erie and literature Mnpich, the embellishments that render it, as. artistical capital of Germany. You protection whi-h he accorded for a Lola Montes, the Countess de Lunsfeldt. the oa chilcren who survive t’-e Queen are = Hien II. Joseph, of Bavaria, and Oi ‘Therese died of the i Hye ei rant H I a fae hati form-is concerned ; not be denied. M. De Falioux, however, oue of chief favorites of the ultraclerical party, said, 9 better chance of admission to the A‘ ae candidate, to the vacant sore aare tom bare ee) A ay tbat bis recent prosecution of M’lle Rachel has made illustrious ac‘reas has a; gouvé, in the Medes case. Although the jourzals intimate to the late M'lle gicr thet her abrupt departure i strendy beginning T al jure Sr falinto oblivion bt cannot conceal the fact that tte public, as as the Opera, is inconvent- ently ble of the loss which ber departure occa- sioned. The Opera is making incredible effo: ts to supply the loss, but has thus far succeeded but inoifferently. It ie even soid that an offer has been made to the wilfal and eccentric truant, to relieve her from the legal difficuities into which she hed ia ¥ graphi: al details, anecdotes, &c., a careful analysis | leaped so sudden y, on oondition that she will re- of each of her principal rd/es is promised. A sale of antocrapbs supplied by the correspon- dexce which the Jate Mr. \vocat for tweaty- five yeare, with the celebrities of European litera- ture, has teken place within a few days pe Thackeray should seize upon the history of Lad- vocat, and use it in his controv with those ahem eniuses” who believe that authors all die | in hospitale, while publishers all live millionaires. | Here, at least, is one publisher who died in a | hog} ital, and he was the first publisher of Casimir Delavigne, Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Villemain, De Baranre, and Guizot. He was the zealous French | Pp opa, ater of Shakepesre, Byron, Schiller, Gosthe, and Alfieri. His boapitable table at his hotel on tre Quui M«laquais used to be sarrounded by miziete's, | acedemicians, authors turned statesmen; and he dies | lostic ahespital, One cf the famous writers whom ( have 1atmed bes not forgotten his first and gen- erous publisher. Tas bonacifal nature of Lamartiae i- uncharged by age and mis.ortune. Straggliog caily sgaicst bots, be is the same ay when he travelled bkea Prince ia the East. Prodigal of his purse es of bis genius, where be cannot give red he xivessilver, aod it is to him that the low of is indebud for an ansuity. chronicle an accident on the Orlears y by which several were wounded and two were Killec, last week, They announce the resoue, after #'x'y houis of agony, of Pilet, who has ropéat- | ed st Bourges the recent drama of the Well Digger | of Eonlly, They give the gloomiy details of the ex- cemmunication, in the cvurch of Niederbreciten, | in Austria, of a young Catholic who had married a | beautiful Jewess. They describe as highly successful the firas recresentation at the Opera of the “Noune Savglante,” or Bleeding Nun. They record the de- parture from their club rooms in the Rae Royale, of ten young davdies, the flower of /a pee dorée, whem the exploits of Gerard, the Lion King, have stimulated to something maniier than dandy life at Paris, and who bave left for Algeria, in order to :e- | lebrate St. Hubert by a splendid lion and tiger hunt | in the cererts of Sahara. These entlemen take with them 25 carbine revolvers, like those of the chessenrs of Vinceures. The journals also publish ® correspondence between Col. Colt and a Brusse!s lewyer, whom he accused of taking his name, ana revolvers in vain int e course of the inferoal machine trial, now pexding. The lawyer ex lained that he bed merels procuced certificates from Mr. J. G. Seables, Americar Crarge at Braseela, and from Mr. George Senders, Amer sal at London, sume her eng! ent. Meanwhile, Verdi has with- drawn, id io widepersd;; kis wow . in whick she bad been expected to appear. Hebert contra- dicted the romor that he was to pubtish a pany e justification of M’lle Craveili’s sudden exit e stage. Dr. Veron, it seems, has jast mieseia chance of revivirg, as director of the *Théatre Francais, the memory of bis directorship of the Opera. As soon as he heard that Arsene Honssaye had offered to re- sign the place of disotorof the Francais, on ax count of invalid wife, whom he wished to ac- company to Italy, tue Doctor felt the pulse of Mie. Rachel, end left on ber wrist a bracelet worth 12,000 francs. But Mr. Houssaye’s offer to resica was not accepted. Only acongé of three mouths if was granted to bim, and nothiog haa come out of the , except the 12,000 francs out of the Doo- tor’s It omer that a ministerial change may oon take place—that M. De Persigny, res'ored to fall confidence, may be called to the ministry of State, from which M. Fould may retire. Figaro. Results of the Ostend ConferenceThe Annex= ation of Cuba Decided Upon. [Frem the Correspondence of the Precurseur d’Auvers.) There is a good deal of talk here—and your corres- pondence from London will probably bave informed you that it is the same there—of the results of the inter- view which lately took place at Ostend, between all the envoys of the United States at present in Europe. It is stated that these ministers have resolved to support, with all their force, with thelr government, the opportu: nity of an expedition against Cuba. All, with the ex- ception of Mit Mason, “Minister st Paris, who ia anid to be of a contrary opinion, cor the present circu n- stances in which the diferent European governments find themselves engaged, as most favorable to the con- quest of Cuba, and they drew up report to that offect, which was immediately despatched to Washington. Mr. Buclfanan, Amerienn Minister in London, who has hitherto slways declared himself against the annexa- tion of Cuba, on this occasion went over to the opinion of his colleagues, perhaps in the hope that-his opinion would be recorded for him when he presents himself as a cundidate for the Presidency of the United States, You will, no doubt, bave remarked that the governments of France and England have, since ginning of Octo- ber, increased. the strength of their naval forces in the orts of the Antilles, and recently the Monileur con- Tained a decisiom which invested the Rear Admiral, with a command in those waters. ‘Theses measures are generally considered as a proof that the results of the Ostend conference. are known. in Londomy and Paris, and that preparations are making for ¥; 4 Harnoox, to show thet the inventor of the machine had been em- | ertntualitice. ployed in Col. Colt’s establishment at London, but |. devies that he said the plan of the masnthe was made there. He or hig’ calls the Colonel Mr. Sard Colt; but ispugtapiteat not the only Orta ‘hut foretaners make whet, ane in _qnestion. ‘Leball leave my readers to discover those whi 6 appear ina. novel, of which the Presse has published two. ,umbers, wise is: ep Moewrs i Usages de Nw York en 1864, Aaroh Cardwell te Na Forked br disiame Mri. Poa’ teray, and cals Castle en as! Gorden, acd in snother Taatle Garden, ‘The Presse | Horhood of Tallalinasee, dated Noyember Fonz, Coron Cnor.—-A letter from, the neigh: the following remarks in relation to the cotton crop:— * |Our crops are not what they to be some time si The rot has been un; ly destrac- » tive to cotton within the last six weeks... Idoubt if we» afte not ort of last yenr's product.” “ ‘The butter and cheese received at the railroad «tation in St. Albans, Vt, during the manth of September, < amounted to Wer half a million pounds, the total value, of whieh was-$75,000, .