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42 im my last, os being to be are badly received. He is Set im the wrong. iney Herbert was very strong in thé Commons ; ‘aud ‘an: vould havepropped up a tottering canse, his would have done so. He is at all times a flueat ppt? mont graceful speaker, and personally a most ‘er member. Formerly he was a great rou, but ii quite reformed and full of high church sentiment. He i brother to Lord Pembroke and heir to the title, inde- Fendently of which he has alreaay landed property to amount of £40,000 a ear, But every wind that blows brings home such tidingy of mismanagement, of uncalled-for suffering on the part of our troops, of the fruits of victory snatched from our hands, of lavish ex- penditure and nothing to show for it, of’ disorder and confusion in every department, of measures saved from utter abortion solely by accident, or the pluck and stamina of men fighting under the cold shade of aris: Secrecy, that murmurs are breaking oft in the most well-disciplined circles, aud an accumulation of feeling is 0 the point of exploding, which must-blow the ground ? from under the feet of any ministry, howover full talent. The Times, too, the great thuaderer, which always reserves its most dreadful broadsides tor those who are socriminal as to be weak, is evidently loading his guns to give them the coup de grace; and if they eannot save themselves, they may rest assured they will meet with mercy from him. Nothing is more probable, in the opinon of the gravest thinkers, than thut the present war may operate an ox- traordinary change on the character and constitution of Bogland. Should it endure for several years the habits of the people will necessarily be much altered, and the elose communion with France, where all aristocratic in- uences have been entirely swept away, wi'l aause com- parisons to be made which in the course of time will wreatly affect. the aristocratic government of England. present the army is still in the hands of the highest lass, but there are already symptoms of a change in this respect, and when the middle and lower sections of society, educated as they now are, come to isarn how promotion, honor, amd distinction are the property of merit in France rather than of birth; how in the midst ef an Imperial despotism there is still a pre eminent so- clalism, they will, on their return home, bring their new ideas to bear upon many time honored institutions. The present war differs widely from all others, and its eventually successful termination a form the axe laid to the root of a tree which bas flourished for eight hun- dred years, There is little doubt that this { enl ment scheme means more than meets the eye. toeratic mind naturally dreads the masses of men trained to arms, which, in the event of the war being entirely supported by the youth of the country, will aubsequent- fall back on its hands—their occupation, gone, their jeas enlarged, their shoulders made heavy with taxa- tion—and if such a future could be avoided’ by the em- ployment of @ mercenary army, it might be thought cheaply bought. It remaina to’ be seen whether the forward in ex‘ enuation, as in-debatowhen mani- county will take the sam forimment Peres ail times, ‘the constitutic ¢ popular voice when once fairly roused, and the aristocracy are so well aware of it, that they owe their lengthened tenure entirely to their wisdom in ceding to the popular wave ere the tide bas risen toits heighth. They did so in the Catholic Emancipation act, they did so in the Reform bill, they did so before the demand of the Corn Law Jeague, and they will not exhibit less prudence now, whould the popular will demand it. UNIVERSITY CLUB. Our Paris Correspondence. Pants, Dee. 11, 1854, The Austrian Treaty—-Russian Policy—Business ts Paris—Change in the Turkish Ministry— Prince Napoleon—Significant Sayings Attributed to the French Emperor—A Criminal Guillotined Movements of United States Diplomats—-An American Newspaper Started in Paris, §c. &¢. The treaty of alliance between Great Britain, France and Austria, on the 2d of December, has oc- easioned all sorts ot conjeciures as to ita terms and conditions. The oflicial silense in respe:t to it which has been maintained, will probably be broken to morrow, when the British Parliament assombles, You may reccive, hy the steamer which will carry | my letier, more positive information on the subject than I can send to-day. If the assertions of the | Ost Deutsche Post concerning the altimatum ai- | dressed by Austria to Russia should prove to be | eorrect, it is not likely thas Rassis will submit to the conditions laid down in that document. | still think that no very sanguine anticipatious of a fa- vorable reply are ensertained at Paris or at London. ‘The rumor, however, that, in the event of an un: favorable reply, Prussia also will give its adhesion ‘to the Western Powers, has obtained so mach credit as to produce, with other encouragiog conjectures, quite a magical effect at the Paris Bourse. A It seems that the natural vexation of the Prince at finding himself obliged to “ p'ay general,” — -qwhat fe actually fs, it newint ned hile ite isa ite ion is no special honor. It is cate hioers that a certain high » a8 well as the public, sioald have been provoked by his cousin’s malady, to say, 23 is ¥ , that woen a man is sick aod quits ‘Sebastopol, he cught to die, like Saint Arnaud, oa the .”? If these hard words had been spokea we have had more authority, if |, not with one’s feet resting on the aditamrtt Se Gioua, ‘Another the same hi Ds hile the Emperor was writing joe flattering letter to ibe ‘Com. her august relative. They talked politics and the East. ern war like else. Tho Marchionesas yoke naively remarked That the situation of things not seem to her 1s wi mar ra Her ‘was not disputed, but reseived tne ‘fo! reply, spoken with an accent in which there was as much modesty as melancholy:— “Que voulez vous, ma cousine? Nous prendrons notrerevanche sur le Rhin au printemps. Je ne puis pas etre en Crimée, mais je serai sur le Rhin.” Que voulez vous (this phrase is translatable only by a )—‘ My ceusin, we shall take our revenge on ine ext pring. I can’t bem the Crimea, but Isholl be on the Rhine.” Did not the first Na- leon exclaim, apropos of the batile of Trafalgar, ‘Je ne Puis pas etre partont”—T can’t be every: where!” Among the local items of Paris last week, figured the crumbling down of iwo old houses near the Hotel de Viile, (one of them a house of ill-fame, and both buit abvut three hundred years ago,) ‘and the execution of Dombey, the youthful murderer of Wabl, a jeweller, whose corpse he cut up and boxed up, as Colt aid that of Adams; and after sending it to the Lyons railway station, finisied the day jovially at the ball of th2 Closerie des Lilas. Dombey was guillotined in front of the prison of La Roquette. A considerable number of Englishmen aud Americans were, it is said, among the apecta- tos. I confess that I was not ot the number. Many years ago, I saw one of the would-be assas- sips ot Louis Poilippe guillotined, and my usjasti- flable curisity was satiated. Mr. McRae, United States Consul at Paris, has re- turned from his visit to Washington as bearer of despatches relative to the diplomatic conferen ‘e at Ostend. ‘Alt has been tianquil” at che office of the American embasay since tae Soulé difficulty was brought to a pac.fic solution, thanks to the conduct, at once firm and judicious, éf Mr. Mason, if not also to the obstinate walls of Sebastopol, that boulevard of Russia. Mr. Piatt is expected to return from | Washington about tbe Ist of January. Meauwhile, | Mr. M. B. Field, of New York, is actiag as Secretary of Legation ad interim. Mr. Fleischmavn, late United States conml at | Stuttgart, ard tor many years attached to the Patent Office at Washington, nas issued from the office for- meriy occupied on the Boulevard des Italiens as a consulate by Mr. Goodrich, a journal of ample pro- tions entitled The American. It is chiefly in- nded, for the present, at least, as an advertising meGium; but ex-Consul Fleischmznn would not be upwilipg, if sufficiently encouraged; to make it, one of these days, a succesefal rival of Galignoni’s Messenger. Figaro. Pants, Dec. 18, 1854. French Opinion of the American Press—The New York Herald at its Head, a Type of an American Journal, and a Model Newspaper for the World —Mr. Bennett—Pope Brownson. A series ot articles, entitled “* La Presse U Amer- vemark ascribed to Frederjck William has been frequently repeated at the Bourse dur- fg the past week. The King is alleged to have easia, ‘I must always remember that the Guar is my brother in-law; but I cannot forget that Prussia is not his sister-in-law.” In Prussia, and im Germany generally, the people manifest their contentment in riew of an alliance with the Weat- ern Powers, and the German press indicate more eonfidence than the French, and espovially the English, press can pretend to have in the chance of a pacific solution of the Eastern question. Qae French journal has expressed almost a regret that the state of exultation in which the war has throwa the popular mind in England would interpose se- sious ovstacies to a speedy and pacific termiaation of the war, even it Russia were to accept without eomment the four conditions of peace. These con- ditions, indeed, admit of such an elastic interpreta- tation that Rassie might accept them without really Josing the vantsge-ground which she already pos- weases, or abandoning her ultimate hopes. At the Bourse, in Paris, as J have intima’ 2d, the unexpected coaclusion of a treaty with Austria, and the partial details which have transpired re- specting it, have occasioned an unwonted activity. All the values which hed not resisted recent dis- eouraging influences, followed the three francs rise of the public funds. To cite but cne example, the Lyons Railway shares rose at a single bou from 9665 to 1,000 france. ique,’ (The American Press,) has lately appeared in the Presse. It was prefaced by an editorial note, which introduced Mr. Bollegarrigue as the author of that piquant and remarkable work, “Les Femmes )’Amerique,” (American Women,) a8 wellasof the articles. ‘“ These,” it anid, “ the Presse inserts, inaamuch as it practices the liberty of the press,”’—“ but,” it pradently added, “ under the responsibility of his name.” The Presse might well be cautious about endors- ing the paradoxes of Mr. Bellegarrigue; for what- ever measure of truth they may contaia, some of them would not only startle all the philos>phers, who, from Moses to M, Guizot, have believed that power (/e Pouvoir) is the product of science, re- vealed or natural, shock not a few subscribers to the Presse, and evan provoke the vigilavce of the Procureuy Imperial, whose notions of authority ac- | cord more closely with these of M. Troplong, | President of the Imperial Senate, than with those of Mr. Bellogarrigue, and scandalize alike the philanthropic and the devout by annihilating the soul and deitying the dollar, but would alsu be liable to be disputed by the very people whom Bellegarrigue professes to admire for having, a3 he phrases it, “ revolutionized the moral world by deserting fictions for facts.” According to him, the American people has done more than emancipate itself from fear, the original link in the chain of power, of autnority, of govern- ment, in the Daropean sense of the term. It has ‘This activity at the Bourse has naturally impart- ed to commercial affairs a stimulus which they had begun to need sadly enough. The agitation which has ensued must not, indeed, be mistaken for a seri- ous return to business activity; but it is a good sign on the part of businesa men of their readiness on the first decided)y favorable sympton of peace to resume with energy their interrupted pursuits, Ex- begin again to show signs of life, and toe manafactories have been lstely visited by Boren: German, and Spanich comuission mer ehants, who have no‘ made larze orders, it is true, bat who have asked for asmules, Scarcely any yecent Englisb orders have been received, hoa- ever, ard the orders made by Americans have been altogether exceptional, and almost exclusively for the spring trade. Scarc:ly,apy token has yet been exhibited of that peculiar commerce whivh, in the latter part of De- cember and the first part of January, avoually con- yerts Paris into an immense bazaar. A few of the ‘would require another Tartar story of the fall Bebastopol, or a Temarkable somersaalt of the German alpl , to give Paris as animated ‘and picturesque an aspect as its uarivalled shop windows and its Vanity Fair of booths nsuaily dis play at this season of the year. Those families jose income has oe Lehane ed a Want their expenses have been yearly mai 4 abstain now from their amiable hapit 4 ex: 1g New Year's gifts, or indulge in it only to pater Rep bl ‘Ten Sapte sents, except cer! pasias of our Athens hore Periolew have been lucky at the Bourse, or, still, have secured heavy contracts as pur- for the army in the Hast. Bat dull iE more than one poor fellow as he gas or while pacing his quarter-deck on tae Sea—blask with storms—or remembers Mu- gard’s music at the masked balls of the Opera, while very balls are whistling about his ear wad falling in the trenches before Sebastopol. ‘The latest news from the Crimea which has been here reaches to the 23d of November. On resulting from the tempest of The ar 1) save proved suc:uss suspended by tae ming for reinforcemouts. by no virtaal ip wif d venier le. Doubtless the Ras- basy on theirside. The on oe [heed econ men. Everything was in preperation for a attack towels the ond of the month. to the 30th of November has beea received Constantinople. A ministerial change his Reschid Pacha Vizier, and Alli Pacha Miais- Fe Affairs. Aali Pacha is more remark: Tis featignce and sympathy with Kuarto- for energy of character. The of the Turkish government will | 4 by this ministerial change; it is | proof of the prep nderating infla- Pacha, Tae yt * NG raga Constantinople on the 2sthult. He from continoal fever. Princo ye recovered his health completely, aad his camp would not be 5 whispered that the famous dysentery | fapoleon was “complicated,” as the i ae 8 i it lit I 8 g A I 4 as Paris is, it would look cheerfal aud giy | | book. It has given a mercantile definition to | honor, to glory, love, art, science, worship, patriot- | ism—to all that traditionaily exalts itself on the dis- | dain of material interests. The basis of American | liberty is mercantile as that,of French liberty issenti- | mental. The Americans assimilate ideas and pastry, | a doctrine and a cabbage, as marketable articles, | They devote three-fourths of a journal to advertise- | ments, which take precedence far before the less | important, that is the editorial, or intellectual de- | partment, because the former “pay better’ and con- | tain, moreover, more matter of practical utility | than all that bas been written, from Confusoins down to Jean Jacques Rousseau. They estimate Finally, God himeeit | worth. is measured and metrical system. The practical atneiem of the Ame- | rican people awakens in their French admirer all the enthusiaem of waich such a cold blooded raate- rialist as be is, or affects to be, is capable. T need not waste my time, vor my readers’ tims, (times is money, as French printers always priat the axiom, which all Americans of course believe,) in controversy with M. Beliegarrigue. To be sure, this #ill confirm him in his notion that coatroversy is forbi¢den frait for an American journalist —for | bicden not because it hangs too hign for him. bat because it really is “soar grapes,’ and “wouldn't point in bis assertions, he would retort upon me as an American who hypo:riticaily foraweara the Al- mighty doilar which he sets up for me and my com patriots to worship, and openly ani reverentiy bows the knee to himself. ‘You have parted with your | household goods in a strange land,” he might ‘say. | And, indeed, in one sense he would not lic, for if | doliars are the Lares of an American, even eoats- er .1)neas, ware he alive, and a Yankee, would, ot ravel far, now-adays, witaout finding hiv sacred burden lightened. Jn the article which terminates his series, M. Bellegarrigue betrays, or rathor ayows, an indifferen to what he sty.es, almost with a sneer, “stwtistic a facts.” This inclines one to suspect that ne is no more solicitous about facts of any kind than bold French generalizers usually are. it 1% obvious tant even with the quick, sharp sense of waich he is not upressonably vain, he misayprehends many a face, and that he either ignores or cid not know many another besides. [If some of bis paradoxoe shock French sentiments, others contradict American facts quice as flagrantly. One of the least important of bis mistakes occurs in his allusion to Browcson, toe doughty champion of ultra cecan-montanisia, as having began woat he calls his cireumvolutions, (diffioult indeed to trace.) by forsaking the bosom of the Mother Church to whieh be has at longth returned. Originally he was, we are wrongly told, a Catholic; then an Anglican, (that is, ah Episcopaliag;) then a Methodist: thes, emulous of Weeley, he attempted, but valaly, tofound @ new sect; aad at last be became gains Catnoli:, and was content to establish himself aad a Quartery Revicw at Boston. His Review, worn, tanks to the great talent and stili grester audacity of thie skilful critic and prilliaut debater, how acquired a strorg intluence over the couse\ences of Cvsnolics in America—who read it as respectfully ss toe coofoe sions of St. Augustine—and himelf ay awork of Pope, the direct competitor on the Wostora Co also referred all moral phenomena to the cash- | . Tn the interest | he may not yet ‘ve exoommn- some of the are confined, rnalypropediy'no galled, » 20 called, gets Pas eg ey over the Maine Liquor law and other He ingenuously confeases derstand the elevtoral which the Americans rendering in dte- violent, dis- values, He forgets that 8 take place 80 frequently that this ex: ception becemes tre rule. le states that the American jo abstains— and he elaborately explains We ery) the personal qua‘ities and the conduct of those mi: 8 of the people who actually com: what is called the government. This statement will seem strange enovgh to American eyes. Stranger still is anoth- erst mp&pich he makes—but itisdue to him to say tha: tens ty add that hedoes not vouch for its trath—to tue effect that the New Your« Hravp, which he places where Baropean opiaion Jong since learned to place it, at the head of the American press, wes “orig! dent” —of no party, it was American, n 6 less;” but that on the double occasion of the election of General Pierce and of the reconstruction of the Native Ame- rican party under the denomination of Know No- ine, Mr. Bennett began to wage @ violent war, onthe one band, against the administration—on the other, against the Know Nothings; and that in consequence of thus “leaving the order of general interests, toenter the domain of private passions, the Hznaup has fallen into a sort of discredit, and the number of copies which it used to strike off daily has diminished more than halt!” Yoo see how philosophically indifferent is our Frenchman to statistical facts. This apochryphal fall of the HeERaxp will be news indeed to its editor and to his increasing aud muiti ving world of readers; but it boundary vartar’s atory of the fall of Se- jaatopol. Mr. Bennett can richly afford to smile both at the mistakes and at the slight infasion © matice (the cause of which he can easily at) in the im- perfect history given by hia French critic, of the oclaens prosperity attained by the New York |BRALD, a8 the type of the American newspaper—as ® model journal. Mr. Bellegarrigue says that Mc. Bennett has profited largely by avoiding the defects which he must have observed in journalism in France, during his visit to this country. He particularly eulogizes the vast system of fo- reign and domestic correspondence which the editor of the Hrra.p has or; . “The Herauo,” he says, “bax a special correspondent,(he might have said “ several” correspondents, who reflecs the va- tious shades of current opinion) at Paris; it has another at London, and a thirdat Liverpool. It naa established others at St. Petersburg, at Berlin, at Vienna, at Rome, at Naples, at Madrid, a: Coustin- fneple, at Culcutts, at Canton, in all the capitals of me id World, in all the principal cities of the lew. “By this means, allthe populations of the universe come directly to reverberate in its columos; aad ia presence of the tumultuous spectacle of the auts- gonisms and civil wars of nationalities thas have, existed for centurice, the Am rican citizen daily learna to appreciate the peace which he enjoys, ard to be proud of the coun*ry which he inhabi's.” M. Bellegurrigue also extols the extraordinary ef- forts of the HERALD to anticipate the news bromght by the Atlantic steamers to Braton. ‘‘The expenses necessitated by this simple detail would trighton the administration of the richest French journal.” “Nor, he adda, ‘‘ia the Herap Jess active or Jess energetic in what pertains to American news.” Ard he fills a colamn with instances in point which seem incredible here, and micht well astonis: even the American readers of the Heraup, if they were not habituated to almost daily exploits of toe same kind, on the vart of Mr. Bennett, with his steamers and the telegraph, with his tost of corres sondeats, with his seventee:: editorial offices, with his 150 em- ployer, with bis powerful printing machines, with ‘is 60,000 copies. Ficaro. SUNDAY, JANUARY 7, 1856. be used as signa of facts, and in those which he em- ploys now, through the mediom of his representa- ve, he believes he ie conferring a most august —and more means to say, in thanking bis ally, be is ready to serve him; and such is the epthusiasm in E at this moment, that were a subscription for the French, such as thet i have just mentioned as falling atill- born, it ‘be:res; to at once, in 6 manner that yh would probably think perhavs do, taat cold blood oatof his senses. But it is reveres as the very and good, The Moniteur of to-day announces the “ receipt of intelli; from up to the 13th io- stant, wi has noting of importance.” Bat in trath private lettezs tell a tale waich falls heavily on the publicear. The Russians, it seems, do not lose a point in this game of war, and if the French brivg to it a singular acience, a well trained bravery, the pres‘ige of ancient success, the soldiers of tue Czar toil night and day, to countermine their pro- jects; aud now that they have arrived at a point in the works of evgineering, which enables them to sey that they can enter when they will, they dare not stir a foot ; the Rus- sians have in the meantime prepared them a reception which may be more warm than welcome. And then, , weather is frightful; it is not a Moscow cold, which smites off toes and fiagers, to nolhing of noses, but a ho:rid eternal mizzle, when it does not blow great guns. The country is turned into s perfect morass for all purposes of treffic, and fever and agneand cholera are decimating the Those wretched animals, the Turks, in themselves scarcely the ninth of aman, in addition, filth, aud stench lence, wherever e their feet; and the tidings that Omer dre bis way baa been received with any- thing )ike the spirit which might have been ex- pevtee from an army praying for reinforcements. To k, asthe Western Ailiance does, of Russia falling on her knees, with the Baltic fleets failure, and 82 bastopdl not evens check mate, is altogether un- ; and the fact of a loan looming in the distance, does not by any means improve the present wena state of the public mind. It may be |, Dever since the commencement of the war, were affairs viewed with a more foreboding The government is doing its very beat the most of the Austrian treaty; every mo-niag te pease of the official journal are fall of some fa- ve je extract or otter fromthe German papers which may tend to exalt it in the public eya; but it must be confessed there is little faith. Tbis morn- ing, however, it recites an article from the pen of Mr. Bodenstedt, a German, ia which all the Powers are called to account for having so long permitted with impunity the Russian Colosaus to bestride the nar- row ear He says—and the Moniteur does not fail to_eulogize it Lp ae pg the great Czar, Peter the Great, was absurdly over estimated; that after all, he was himself a barbarian, and because be docked his subjects’ bearos, built ships on Eng- lish mo ‘¢ls—aided by Dutch mastere—and conquered the Sweden, Europe has stood still like a frigatened child, and allowed him to go on from one aggression to another, till an in:ignificaut monster has become a aes , itis evident the French government is get- ting up the steam to genuine war height. Nothing, atter all, even in the nineteenta century, is found so useful asa little Billingsgate. There is, evidently, a considerable alarm creep- ing up lest the Czar, in face of tha Aus- trian treaty, should hold ou’ the hand to Mazzini and Kossuth. Such a thiog, write: the Mmiteur, is rot to be supposed fora moment; tne Emyeror of Ruesia cannot be so uumiuadfal ef the future tale which bistory will record as thus to staltify his an- tecedents. At the same time, the very utterance of such expressiona is a proot that in spite of the boast. ed strepgth of the Western a lianve, the Ozar ts felt to be in possession of a tornado which he may Je: loose if he will; that once let locse upon the winds, it might scatter death and aanihilation oa friead ard foe, coes not detract from tue terror of its power; and atter what the of Russia has already doue, it 18 thought he is quite capable of taking any desperate atep ratner than say die. From Mavrid we hear that M. Coliado has jast assembled several of the capitalists of Madrid, and stated that the ministry and himelf, ware now ia oye. to make Pants, Thursday, Dec. 21, 1854. Vote of Thanks Passed by the British Legustature to the Muitary and Naval Services of France— French Notions of the Objects of War—Deeds versus Words—Glowing Accounts from the Crimea—The French Government Making the Most of the Austrian Treaty—Spanish Affairs —Coronation of Louis Napoleon and his Empress — The Great Industrial Exhibition, §c., §c. The thanks of the Biitiah Legislature having been unanimously voted to the Fren:h army, a courteous notice to that effect has been intimated by the Eag lish Ambassador to the French government, which has recorded, in the pages of the Moniteur, its high sense of the compliment —one which it does not tail to mention as totally unprecedented ia the annals of Frenoh history. There is always some difficulty about such matters, and the present is no exception to therale. It is no doubt a great fact in Eagland; it isa curious revo- Intion/ in public feeling considering the loog heredi- tary enmity of the ‘two nations, that such a vote should be recorded; it is to the philosopher also, an epoch in the history of civilization; but, as far asI am abie to collect, the matter is not regarded qaite 80 deeply by the French people. It was an observa- tion of the great Lord Chester@eld, that compli- | ments should be in the inverse of their desert—that & beautiful woman should be eulogized for her wit, | while the less favored but more clever of her sex, | should be admired on the score of personal attrac- | tion—and whether the role be just or not in regard to the fair sex, one is almost tempted to believe it applicable to the French nation. For this tribute to their gallantry they consider to be so entirely their due, so entirely a matter of course, as the bravest, most military, most scientific, and m 4st bril- | liant nation in the world, that they regard it pretty muc2 in the same light a notorious beauty would a passing compliment. It is true they acknowledge the gallantry, the | the worth of a man by how mach monoy he is | | weighed in the United States conformabiy $9 the | pay’ for pincking. But, if 1 were to discuss any | | casion, that the project was at once | stolid courage, the impassive resistance of the English, aud as the foundation of an army, d) fall | Justice to such qualities: but to place their military prowess, their knowledge of the srt of war, their | ability to conquer within an hundred leaguos of themselves, would be to suppose the King of the Savdwich Islands on @ pat, asaruler, with the government of the United States. They believe, in | their very souls, that it is rather a piece of con- | cescension on their part, to allow the English to share the honorof battle with them, and secretly sneer and laugh at the perpetual gaucheries, the | eternal blunders and idiotic arrangements they | make in proseontion of a war which costs them double, in life and property, and wear and tear, it need Go; and, 80 fir from being overwhelmed by } the mojesty of the compliment paid thom by the | | House cf Commons, they seem monstrously in- clined to think that & vote of a good pte ma of money, from the rich tills of Kayland, woald have been far mere in character with toe nation, and much more acceptable to themselves. ‘The bulk of the French are sstistied enough that | their love of arms should find a practical indulgence; but, for the very life of toem, they cannos be made to uiderstand tons this war is one that much con- cerns them. They have heard from tneir youth up- wards of the riches of India, and to protect that from interruption in its connectim with Encland,apoears | to them the ouly real object of besting che Cza. This acsounts to them fully for wil che enshusiaem they rear of in England--this accouats to them for the flattening expressions whieh are heapsd ava thir once abused Emperor—tuis accouate to taem | for ube constant to and fro of British minis- | ters and British ex-ministers t> hie court—and this it is also which accounts to them for the nt | somewhat ——— vote of thanks from the Beitish , Parliamen}. here can scarcely be dedaced a stronger proot of the indifsrence with whiea the War ts viewod, than the fact that a fow days ago some of the officials were desirous of getting up a | patrioti+ tune fer che benefit of the widows and or- puane of the tallen soldiery, similar to that which isa0 enthusiasticaily supported in every town and hamlet | io Englacd; but a very little inquiry into the interior o* the psrticuiar department, wheave it had origi- pated, convinced the goverument that the sabscri p- tions would be so ridicaidusiy unworthy of the oc- pat a w, \ stop by wn intimation thas however grateful the Baperor perfect accord on all matters of finance; that the question of octrois would be arrangad. He stated likewise that it was not true that the goverament had received a notification tast it ciuld draw on the treasury of Cuba for 80,000,000 reals, but that be hoped he might obtain such a sam, if public order should be thoroughiy re-establisued, and a friendly a:rangement take place between it and the United States. Reports t at a loan is seriously in contemplation by the government, and that a project to that effect is sctualiy before the Council of state, have had a depresar g effect net tae public fands; aud ru- mors of difficulties the English ministry rather tend to increase it. The circumstance of the Emperor and Empress’s portrait, by Wicterhalter, having recently peen en- (Toe in which they are each exhibited as wear- ing the ermined mantle proper to the coronation, das given rise to an on dit that that ce‘emony was about to take place at the period of opeuing the Peleis de }’Industrie, when the Queea of Eagland and the Prince Consort will be present. It is thovgbt that the Emperor will be glad to avail himself of an opportunity which would seem to confirm the sentiments of his famous Bordeaux speecd, and which, it must be acknowledged, recent events tave somewhat contradicted. Bat tae aai- versal exposition was devised when the world was at peace, and the marbie pile, which is now rapidly approaching completion in the Champs Elysée, ia to be looked on as a temple of Janus, emblematic of the peacefal temper of the Enperor of France, aad of bis desire to be in accord with all the world. What more fitting occasion than the inauguration of such an edifice, ia apite of the myriads of armsd men eee each other, to receive the crown which in the face of the world he has bap- tised asthe Siem of peace—L’ Empire c'est la paix? If war shoul petng fa tte train iltuatrious victories, great as would be national right to rejoiciag, it could not be then that the second dynasty of Bona- oie should be consecrated; but now, when France vites all the world to contend with her in tne lista of social improvement, and to bring the sons of every clime to witness a great civil fete of arms, what more auspicious moment for poari out the sacred oil, which, blessed by priests aud sanctified by immemorial usage, shall consecrate the “nephew of my uncle” Emperor of France? Who knows, too, bat that in addiston to the majest; of England, that of Austria—nay, of Prussia—a: the Pope's Holiness himself, may be present, to the utter confusion and gneshing of testh of lezitimista, Orleanists, and fou!-monthed republitans, who want hberty of the press, representation, as well as taxa- tion, and all such stuff? The greatest efforts are being made to stir up the | country to do its best in the way of mannfactures. | The most liberal promises are made by the prefects | in each of the departments, that the court will look | with especial favor on the exertions of such manu- facturera as exert ves, whether they suc- c0eed or a pe Lm) is ye E ex- pense—su h as carriage to and fro—t may deter, is removed ; and to facilitate the accommodation of foreigners, the authorities are recommending the | house agents to beak tarough the usage of letting sclely by the month, and to take shorter tenures. The impetus to trade that the coronation ard Expo sition will together give, will, it is hoped, atone for @ season which cannot choose but be a dull one. Builders are everywhere making the most energetic preparstions. Whole streets, which three months | ago were a bye-word and desolation, are now re- | dolent ef new houses, ing all sorts of elegan- | cles, and accommod unknown in the days of | Macame Sévigné ; and every house in the capital is | gradoally un going a Papi of external scraping | and cleaning, sufficient to make those who have not | vimted the city for the last ten pe wonder where they have got to, The new Rao voll is very nearly finished, and already presents such an array of beau- tiful shops that for very shame the Rae St. Honoré, which runs parallel to it, and has nothing but its historic interest to save it, mast crumble into ashes, and die that it may live again. And this seems to have been a main object with the Emperor, that, the initiation of improvement once taken, its own trans- parent virtue should do the rest. The Louvre still continues to be a perfect apiary of industry, and i] fea's are now af anend as to its not being fin- ished in time to receive the hundreds of thousands of visiters who are expected in May, ab ERTIE. Our Paris Correspondence. Parts, Dec. 21, 1954. The Political Atmosphere— French Opinions of Gen eral Pierce's Message, and of the Party of Know Nothings--Parlianentary Eloquence in England and Fronce—Gramer de Cassagnac's Hymn to Austria—The Magyars and Professor Bowen— Kossuth a Ghost— Austria Liberal, and France no Longer Revolutionary— New Levy of Ti oops in Russia— Crossing of the Vistula~-Relapse of might be fo r stich solicitade on the part of his teithful peovle ¥ » be considered a provision for the victims of war to be eapeciaily his own duty. | ‘The fact is that toe Eogitsh attach considerably more importance to words than their gallant allies; avd that can waieh every day impels two French | men ieto one anorner« wid induces them (0 | give vent t>* words thy: bars," i looked upon by | the Avw@ Saxon aed wcrizet moaotomsaniam: bat | wheo ite fit stor Peso thi rks words ahoald | Prince Napoleon—Reported Death of the Empress of Russia— The Last of the Montmorencies—IL+on Faucher— Mignet—~Guizot— Fould — Church Paintings-—Difficultics of the Immaculate Concep- tion in France, &e. A bright san and a genial atmosphere sucveed to-day the cold, wet weather which, for weeks past, has made Paris dismal enough, "The meesage of President Pierce, which yesterday filled the Paris journals and is to-dsy discussed by them, has-tended to clear the political atmosphere also. It bas dissipated the spprehensions which had begun to gather, like a cloud, on the Western horizon. It is welcomed, especially by the official press, as, in the matn, extremely moderate, nay, a5 “excessivement douz,” as ‘such @ message as might have been expected from the chief of a great nation —as pradent, reserved and conservative.” “What hi this document,” says the Journal de I’ Em- pire, “is, above ali, ite essentially pacific character.” The same journal does not fail to detect in it the influence of ‘the reaction of public opinion in the United States against the excesses of extreme par- ties.” It saye:— abrese tre seersrs ae erst ad ive Cc ‘vateurs Union, bas, in spike of” the exaggeration of certain of ita , restored the Amerioan policy to ten- dencies gemeraily more moderate and more pacitic, The majority that this new party obtained at the Jata elections, testifies to the spirtt which animates ed's csrites inva on the. general sane of the c'sed & us influence message which General Pierce has just addressed to Congress. The Journal de l’Empire notices also, with pecu- liar interest, that part of the message relating to the prosperity, from dey to day more marvellous, of the American Union. In view of the instances which it cites, it excla‘me: ‘History offers no exam- ple of so prodigious a developement in the double phere of population and wealth.” But it adds:— This 3 this absorption of the soll, will end, we aod ecionatbente , by profoundly the economical and political conditions of North Americs. When Sopeet, po- pulstions shall crowd its territory, when duffi- cult and redoubtable problems which are born ef the increasing agglomeration of individuals upon a limited soil, shall have arisen in their turn, insti- tutions must necessarily, perhaps, be modified. Self government is a formula possible for young aocieties and for vast territories. Is it equally so for a society that has attained more cugertty, and for a soil more cut up into fractions and more re- stricted? That is a question whicn the future alone ia called upon to solve. i‘ The most elaborate article which the President's message has elicited from the French prees appear- ed this morning in the Constitutionnel. It is remark able, not only for its ingenious appeal to the grati- tude and frendsbip of Americans towards France, to their antecedents, and to their interesta in behalr of the »llies of Western Europe against Russia, and | also in tape to the projects of annexing Caba and the Send vich Islands to the United States, but, moreover, for the supposed relations of the writer, who signs it, Paul Dudvis, 9s a sort of amanuensi3s of the Seopertic himeeif It doubtless expresses tha’ present sentiments of the Fieach goverament, agree- ably surprisea, like the Frensh people itsalt, afver the recent ‘‘misunderstandings,” by the pacific tone cf Genera) Pierce’s mes: As the Heaaup wi.) probably éeem it worth while to publieh a transla- tion of this article, { neea not analyze it or farther comment upon it. The British parliamentary debates have lately oc- cupied the first place ia tae columns of the French ra It is not a little amusing to witness the re- juctant homage which even those journals that have most bitterly attacked the defuact liamentary régime in France—most vivlently kicked tnat dead Hon—aie now compelled to pay to the liberty of dis cussion practised by their English allies. Those journals whisb bave hitherto only concealed breic re- grets for the departed days of French parliamentar; eloquence, have seized the occasion to induige in re- tros .ective eulogy of a perioa which now almos: be- longs to ancient history. some of the petty inconveniences of the close al- Hiance between two countries whose governments are so essentialiy diffureat us those of Haglund aad Fiance, have been brought to ligntsiace the de- bates began in the Bvitisn Parliament. I nead cite but one instance. In the very number of the Constuutionne! in which Granier de Cassagnac glorified the Austro-Anglo Frencn treaty of the 24 of December, exchanging, tor that purpose, his own sledgehammer style for the lyri: strains of De la Guerroniére, another bicd of tne same kini, but of brighter feathers and more tuneful voice, there ap- pase the worse than dubious remarks of Lord ichn Russell upon the treaty. Now the sober Kag- lish prose of that Mioister st the Crown threw cold water on the hopes wich the treaty had kindled in the combustibie soul of M. Granier. Even the oil which wae subsequently carried from Paris to London, and pourea out lavishly by the Times, did not suffice to counteract the effect of his lordsbip’s “cold comfort” tor the “bulls” of the Bourse at Paris and st London, M. Granier, in his ehocomontade in the Constitu tionnel, is apitetul enough vo satisfy even Proressor Bowen agpinat the‘ “M»gyars, loaded with diamonds aua debts,” whore hero, Kossuth, he coolly consigas to oblivion as ‘‘a ghos'.” His flatteries of Aastria would delight Colonel Webb. He boldiy an- boon és tw the world that “Austria bas pe:ome liberal, and France bas ceased to be revolutionary.” The Siecle, in r-ply, admits the former assertion, but adds, “we deny the latter.” Within two or three days even the Constitutionnel bas been obliged, upon “secord, sober tasugat,” to change ita toue. I had whistled before it was y out or the woods. The clauses of the treaty, as un- officially published in the Moniteur, do not afford sufficient motives for such a pwan of tri- umph as it had prematurely sounded. It will not be surprising if it again seizes the bugle on whish it bas already blown suco furious blasts, and cries, “My voice is still for war !’’ Now that the Monweur has formal y denied that any propositions of peace have been received gy i and England from the cabinet of St. tersburg; now that the Czar responds to the treaty of the 2d by orig hy new levy for army through- out all provinces of Russia at ones, in. ‘the astounding proportion of sixteen for every thousand; by ing ordera{to crews the Vistula and advance towards the Austrian frontier; as well as to reinforce the gallant defenders of Sebastopol French and English journals begin to regard the treaty of the 2d of December not so much as a step towards peace, as a fcrced march towards battle- fields of wider limits, and, if possible, more terrible carnage than that of Inke:mann. None of the latest news which had been received yesterday evening from the Crimea was of great im- portance, except the announcement of the arrivals of reinforcements. From Constantinople it is re- ao Prince Napoleon—that unfortunate has suffered from a relapse, and, therefore, eae rejoin his regiment so aoon as he had antici- pated. The rumor of the decease of the Empress of the Russias has pot yet deen confirmed. The health of be opm a ong been Arig i — ate. 6 jae old name of Mortmorenci hove. foot exy d in the death ot the only lineal descendant of that illustrious family. The death of Leon Faucher, member of the Insii- tute, and ex minister, bas occasioned many profes- sions of regret from the “party of order,” so seif- styled, whose strong and active champion he was until his services were no longer required, and his enfeebled health counselled bim to eeek repose in retirement. His latest work was a valuable article in the Revue des Deux Mondes, on the financss of Russia. Leon Faucser was not, | believe, a particu- larly amiable person, but even in his rudest asasniia upon the “revoluti party,” so styled by their abveruasiee, I have Deen adbe ‘that the An of his convictions was never questioned. The Institute, which has so often been called upon members, has allo’ eojoyed. ths your; party trom 5 e0; year, from that very cause—thus “ from evil”—an unusual number of gale days. rst came the bril- | Kant reception of M. Villemsin. Then the jon of the Bishop of Orleans, and the response of M. de Salvandy. Saturday there was no reception, to be sure, at the Institute; but the annua! meet- ing of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, wes then the occasion, I almost say, for ® double resurrection—tbat of” M. Mi the the Academy, ifted Secretary of Fiche ate data See iu cont 4 that com- perative oblivion worse than a tick bed, oF even of 1848 sabes peat events had consigned the ex-Minister ¢ i. Louis » It may be said that on Satarda there was a resurrection—for in the mouths of the two brated orators whom I have named, “liberty of thought and ” found utterance at last, after its long silence in France. M. in teint ontat armen tata 10 gently w trait which he, Hike other ‘Freach politiclans. fu common wh the Vi wv car of Beay—fidelity sipeee successively to be un, h Gerando retained through his eventful life, as © semina- ldier, ir, merchant’s clerk, phil , philanthropist and State councillor, member of tne Institute, professor, and path France. But M. Mignet coursgeonsly de nded the eighteenth cent against the ri toon | accusations of 7 and reactionista ; Guizot blended finest railery with the severest eloquence in an admiratte enlogy of liberty. must » however, that “4 eara enoug 1, seen ngs boos iy ex- Minister, guilty of too many sine, of commission and of lover's mistress, may sometimes seem absence. Whatever may be the real uf Es a 2 fi the solemn conclave at Rome, not indeed thrown ‘ainst the dogma in question, but inst the propriety ‘and even the right of the “Pape to jetermine its promu/gation in the a:tual juncture of circumstances. It is now added that the Vis- sho oe eae ak of Seaton” and hehe as & or ie “* Book of friend of Litt:é, ths learned translator of Streuss’a * Life ot Christ.” hes devoted considerable atten- wich he willoftr agenaé aftsing ie imperial seal: wi will offer agei to the seven t that cxalts the late Conception into a d Meanwnile, the Sidcle ‘vawutres to ridicule false miracles. EE ile of the editors of the tae niwers. the epileptic rage e Loree American Authors and English Piracy. LETTER Il. ‘TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Lonvon, Das. 4, 1864. ‘There are no functions exersisedia the commort even's of life which may not be turned to good ac. count at some particular crisis, or made to illustrate the force of a principle. Mr. Carey, in his methodi- cal reasoning against international copyright, and in defence of international plundering, called to his aid aspecies of logic that gave power to the tricks of trade, and made words serve the means of des- troying natural right and property investment. Humbuggery, that function to which modern phi- ‘ losophers and politicians are s> deeply indebted, ia now invoked to prove Mr. Carey’s finely displayed logic eeriously at fault. That quaint old lady Mo- ther, Rumor, with backers of strong calibre, hag lately awaked from her morning dream, and iz strange habiliments, gone forth to spread glaa ’ tidirge to the httle publishing world of London- Two American works of wondrous import | are soon to dazzle the resding world | with their brain-surging interest, and make glad | the expanding heart of each literary thief of this happy publishing fraternity. Filch has been seen ta crook his ear inguiringly, while admonishing the ~ printer to get his types ready; George Run-it-wher- / he-can is said to be well posted on tie character of the works, and, although he repudiates compensa- tion to the authors, has well dsvised plans for frit- tering the very earliest copy from America; Henry Diddle-em-do & €o., have very serious faces, affect not to believe inthe appearance of any such works, ‘y | nevertheless, stand ready with bisck iok and pol- ished types the while; Wags anf Broatpocks:, of the house so celebrated for pilfering wien Cutea , was a partner, aud which said function of the pub- lishing trade (it is pointedly charged) the present partners still “exercise most glorions'y”—notwith- standing Broadpocke’ did commit the doable felony of joining the chur:h and stealing “Bright Recollec- ticns” on the very seme day—go about the city ma- king curious inquiries abou: the worka Mother Rumor has said would soon a pear; while the house of All- worthy and Rightfeldt are heard to say they would like to defend the author’s right, (which im toeir souls they respect,) and well reward him for his, Jabors if but. them secure against the pil- fering propensities of the above named firma, which said firms do business strictly on ths principles laid down by the very honest Mr. Carey. Now, the first of these erteenenine wa meking anxious the little publisuing w of London, nothing lees than a well written autobiography of the monarch of hoc oaggery, pane of showmen, knight of the most doul order of shin-plasters, companion of tre ancient order of very uncertaiz / fire extinguishers, und fellow of the grand order of many memorable schemes for exciting the public mind, and pocketing the resuit; and in bh is well told the mapy ways of makiog money by im- ig on the credulivy of a gaping crowd. Our companion cf so oroers has @ trans- atlaptic reputation of po ordinary character, hence the hungry watchers for this book o| humbuggery. ‘se second work, for the ) arance of which we have some stronger ae Moth:r Rumor, is said t» be a thr Ratra- tive of Southern life, in which are glo and soul-stirring pictures of the peculiar institution, (aa true to nature as ever clever novelist pictured troth,) by the inevitable Harriet Beecrer Stowe. This jatter wo: x, the apvearance of which is caus- ing more anxiety amoug the piratical world of Lon- / don than the former, whicn it will undoul eclipse in interest and romance, (Barnum’s only s living picture of the mind’s appetite for marvels and monstrosities,) is, on or about the let ot January, 1855, to suddenly dart forth upon the reading world, giving more fife to ita kit pas- for news of war and blood amidst the swamps of / old Carolina—where, says ramor, ite scenes are laid —ond there, with yearning hearts, surrounded the while by deadly miasma or chased by viperous rep- tiles, leeding herses ard heroines (black as mee hb Wha beep erie tales to "ashame. How many A tears will bathe earth with sorrow, how maa bair- breadth escapes will be recounted, now many hearts will for freedom, how many deadly conflicts , will be fought for liberty, how many bloody, hand- to-hand encounters, in which an All-wise hand will direct the just, will take place—how many will yiela their flayed backs to the lash, and sink willingly into earth, for right and Redeemer— or how many beautifal on peni- tent knees, with ang babes about to be suld or swopped--is left’ ent! to our own conjecture. who now, with hound. prey, resdy to pounce u} its profitable head, we ance. Some ma t the sheets of the first volame are in of Sampson, Low & Co., whose premises are kept under the gard of the pirate’s koen eyo, the least ion in the world, and under tion of Mr. ’s well develo; ing plunder, these pirates stand market with re of this ‘ize, which tl for the ct of can Mike ole of woullepe perhaps, venture woul vent his eiguhor, Ran-it when-he-cao, spoil on the very next day. 3 E g sanc- vem for protect- Legh to flood the ' American rei