The New York Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1855, Page 2

WHw YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 1855. yearned to do—it J9 pontecly | \inorder to peak to the ° Septet Ce wood Wark riot has induced many of our mos Modemoielle Rachel, 98 if impatient under Spperiacet, wintet ond patriato Matensan to com | $2 SST ace Sean’ capoeeds “hes in “thoes eo tha hee foree of late | last representations, with which she has been favor- peace welkbeing of society. Indeed, time is serving de establiah @ universal iictns that they may be ealy too readily employed for the execution of the de- of a blue beard or a Cromwell. These Hyde fe Tee tet chem are sd ooten them a ° taries upon the bonsted eee the wisdom of her rs, and the expanding uature of Britain's con- stitution. Talk of liquor: aes ote Es ‘Rotion : meeti ii ni! |, OF a ‘ne ghoat the Union—the: <a bat a telle when com) Capt the Sunday trading The cheap ne mania still continues— both parties, those having an interest in things aoe eee and the advocates of the new sys- tem, continue to hammer away at each other with extraordinary zeal. The monopolista resort to all sorte of clap trap arguments, some of them pressing into their service methodistical spouters, whose effu- wions in by their “rant- on th Such characters don’t waderstand the subject; they twist and twine, dis- tort and misapp! ef Scripture in Statistics thereon as they do texts ling exhortations of a Sab- bath evening. be taken by the » Despite of every means which can iy, from the Z'imes down to the obscure high priced paper, their efforts are of wo avail, The ehave got the taste of cheap nals, alrea “pes eres at cheapness will not the’ ity,and that it is compatible with a penny daily journal to compete in talent and ability with a four penny diurnal print. The ex- ample of America, and the prosperous career of the Mew Yorx Heraup in here has stimulated ‘Meany parties on this side the Atlantic to go ahead im providing good, cheap and honest newspapers. Our Paris Correspondence. Panis, July 24, 1855. Wapopularity of the War in France—Interest Ez- eited by the Parliamentary Discussions in Eng- dand— Queen Victoria's Visit to Paris— Prepara- tions at the English Embassy—The Aztec Chil- ren at One of Prince Napoleon's Receptions at Me Palais Royal—Rachel at the Theatre Fran- evis—Effects of Ristori’s Rivalry—The Great Prench Actress Put on Her Mettle—Her Career in America, &e., §c. ¥€ America is only half as wearied with this Eastern ‘Was—as through tracks of disease and blood it drags tes slow length along—as every soul I encounter in ‘this fair and goodly city is—she will not be sorry to yead in the columns of the Heratp a letter which @oes not so much as mention the subject, farther ‘@han to say that the spirit of dissatisfaction in rela- tion to everything concerning it is greatly in- exeased, and increasing. {The army iteelf—where M%shouid be popular, if anywhere—is sick of the very name of it. You cannot meet an officer who are open his mouth who does not speak of it with Jeathing; and it is difficult to believe that such a temper can exist withont spreading its fermentation wider and widex The Parliamentary war in England excites far mere interest than that waging in the Crimea; and secing that they are deprived of the sight of similar gladiatorial feats in their own Senate, the French are disposed to take a malicious pleasure in the surges to and fro of that Parliamentary sea across the Channel, on which such noble ministerial vessels one after another become shipwrecked, aud where the British Carthage herself often seems en the point of foundering. They seize with avidity every phrase, br word, or letter, which im- Plies the possibility of a future rupture. Ido not go #0 for as to say that they desire such a consumma- tion; but in accepting the contingency as ever s0 slightly hinted at by anything resembling political @nthority in England, they do but follow out the secret thought which, in full vitality, lies buried in the bosom of the French mind. My God! if the ‘tricolor were planted at Boulogne for the army of England, instead of at Marseilles for that ungenial @rimea, big with another winter's horrors, how ‘would the heart of every son of France leap into his vbroat! But we tread on tender ground. The en- dente cordiale is still a living reality, and all France * fon tip toe to welcome the sovercign of Great Bri- ‘adn witbin her borders, * What is the exact nature of the hospitable prepa- vations in process, is still, for some purpose or other, @ profound secret. Indistinct glimmerings of a su perb féte at Versailles are perceptible. Workmen are busily laying down additional gas and water pipes; but no signs of any of those ephemeral con- structions with which French fétes ‘are usually so vedolent, are perceptible; though itis said that illu- minations of surpassing magnificence are to take Place. In the Champ de Mars the citizens of Paris are to be gratified with that which most of all de- + Wghts their hearte—a fea d’ artifice, of unusual splendor and ingenuity;—but Paris proper, the un- happy beast of burden, who for so many centurics ‘has cubmitted patiently to have her Joins and reins gerely put upon and belabored, while the Gallic heart drank, danced, feasted and flirted, is for ouce ‘to be left in peace. Her bowels shall not be pierced with cruel flag-staffs; plastered images shall not shout their mushroom triumphs to the disparagement ef her native beauty; and painted arches, epheme- al flowers, impromptu fountains, pigmy lamps, and @azy chintz-covered wood-work shall not dishonor Me fair proportion of those architectural. wonders which render her the queen paramount of the world. At the English embassy, as might be expected, ‘the hive which of late has been so cruelly disturbed and alarmed by the recent frightful attacks on the ministry, and which now breathes more freely in the prospect of another six month’s tenure, is busy turning out, house and home, in honor of the antici- pated arrival of its Queen. Even the duties to Hea- ven must give way under such circumstances, and ‘the chapel doors are closed hermetically for three Sundays, till, on the 19th of August, they once more @pen, upon a disposition of seats and benches ‘worthy the prayers of one who rales by right @ivine! Somehow or other, in preparations such a8 these, one cannot help but feel that human nature, fn this last part of the nincteenth century, is still in the gall and wormwood of barbarism. There must be something wrong when such individual idolatry iw necessary to the government of mankind, and ex- tends even to the house of prayer. We are, in fact, just where we were when, more than two centuries ago, the Spanish King said:—“Why all this to do about a mere ceremony?” ‘Your Majesty's self,” ‘was the Minister's reply, ‘‘is but a ceremony!” But the star of wisdom is dimly seen acrosa the far At- Wantic, and republican common sense lights up o ‘Deacon on the heights and among the forests of America which will one day guide the kindred stock of the mother country to a better estimation of the privileges of humani.y. ‘The palaces of St. Cloud and the Flysée are each, + is understood, to be at the disposition of the Queen; and the British Embassy, which is itself a palace superior to the Elyaée, will be glowing “with erimeon and gold, as her Majesty's own private pro- perty, where she may at any time receive those whom she ma, jit to honor. The house for- merly belonged to the Princess Borghese, «ister of Napoleon the First, and was purchased by the Bri- tisn government after the events of 1814, for £30,000, as an atassaderial residence. It comtains a double set of an, atone reception rooms, one above and the other below; and thongh ‘of no (imposing exterior on the north side, facing the Faubourg St. fronoré, is very beautiful on the sonth, Jooking towards the Champs El, , from which, however, it is separated by a gal of unusual ex. tent and beauty for a town. An orangery rons round the palace, which presenta three sides of a zie, and the house altogether, both as to convenience, disposition and fitting up, is allowed to be the best in Paris, The aml is obliged to retain some five and twenty servants, and thongh ‘the allowance made him by government is £8,000 per annum, independent of the furnished house, the gam is not sufficient for the extensive hospitality Napa held _anott his another reception in apartments at the Palais Royal, on “Story even ng; and to give an impoilse to the soirée, had the Aztec children, who have lately returned from Ang- Jand. Even princes must condescend to take a leaf out of Barnum’s book, and season palatial hoxpita- wv with the atttracions of Tom Thumb. | to iend at court in the shape of ing the Parisian public, been fairly soaring beyond herself. Never, in her most halcyon duys, in the nith of her power and attraction, has she appeared each Sgn nthe within these last few da; To obtain an entrance into the Theatre Frangais, without having 1 wrote a Fould, the Minister of > stating my connection with the Hexaxp, and the object I had in view, and received at once a cour- teous reply, informing me that my name had been i m the list. What a On resenting Bey credentials at the ons tted, but, I suppose as the representative the 60,000 copies of the HeRavp’s circulation, was obsequiously handed to a seat, where, in the midst of a crowd filling the building to the roof, I could see and hear with all he facility of a man at his own fireside. M. Pierre Lebrun’s “ Marie Stuart” is a tra- gedy eminently calculated to attract the ‘ym pathies of a French audience. The relation- ship which existed between the unfortunate Mary Queen of Scots, and the French 4; y—her French education—her Roman Catholic ry a8 itis called here, her ancient faith, as contradistin- gaebed from the new and heretical one of her rival beth—her superior beauty—her Jove ineniring character—the tyrannical conduct of Eng): typi- fied in the ruthless daughter of the house of my all tend to give to give the play an interest apart, written as it is in the simple but elevated language of Lebrun; but with Rachael for the principal cous and straining every nerve to be at the summit of her reputation, it, may easily be conceived the interest is magnified a hundred fold. The Theatre , at least, is common TAAL sede geben be the state of the political ere, and on Saturday night; when I looked round on the representatives of Ess noble honges, whore high deeds will live forever the pages of European history, and saw legitimatist, Orleanist, Bonapartists and republicans, all crowding together, hanging as if spell-bound on each syllable that dropped from the mouth of this actress, T could not help wishing that some political Rachel would arrive, and thus bind together the scattered remnants of this eminently great people. Ra- chel was t throughout. Whether it was with Mortimer she conversed, or with Burleigh or Leices- ter, or face to face with Elizabeth, held her auditors literally entranced as her rich mellow notes tnilled on the Words of the author. The English spectator forgets entirely it isa foreign tongue he hears, and remembers only that it is the voice of an enchantress speaking as never woman spoke before, a language that all humanity may understand, and using gestures not less sloquept, for throughout it is the heart that is addressed; and whether Saxon or Gaul, there is but one tongue, one channel of commu- nication, when this is the case. I felt as I listened, comparatively few fears of Rachel’s success in Ame- rica. A people possessed of such stirring impulses as those which distinguish the inhabitants of the United States, will be as much affected by the tones of Rachel as by those of Grisi, Persiani, Cravelli, or any other of the celebrated birds of song; and I for one, have no donbt of her triumphant pilgrimage throughout the land of the free. BERTIE. Panis, July 26, 1855. The Paris Exhibition—Grand Dinner to Prince Napoleon in the Jardin d'Hiven—M. Vattemare’s Explanation of the Indifference Manifested by American Mauufacturers—Grand . Industrial Spectacle— The Machinery of the Exhibiton—The Panorama, §¢., §c. On Monday last the Exhibition, following the good old Saxon custom of celebrating success by “ a feast of fat things, of wine well drained from the lees,” through the agency of its international jury invited Prince Napoleon to a sumptuous banquet at the Jar- din d’Hiver, in the splendid picturesque salle of which five tables groaning with silver, and tastefully orna- mented with flowers, surrounded by a cofapany of three hundred and twenty guests, including some of the most distinguished men of all nations, received him as the first and chiefest of all. Colonel Cox re- presented America, After a speech from M. Dumas, formerly Minister of Commerce and Agriculture, proposing the health of the Emperor, which elicited the most enthusiastic acclamations, the Marquis of Hertford gave the toast of the evening—Honor to Prince Napoleon, whose energy and activity have sur- mounted the countless difficulties which embarrassed the Exhibition at its outset, and finally brought it through—a triumph and an enduring monument of the greatness of France, with whom his illustrious name was 80 closely associated. The reply of Prince Napoleon was chiefly remart} able for its democratic spirit; I believe the first in- stance that his imperial highness has publicly given of it since he ceased to be Prince of the Mountains. Speaking of the successful result of the exhibition, he sai The rerions lesson which is attested by the success obtained, is to show the strength of an organized democracy. In fact, we are a nation of democracy and equality by our habits, our constitutions, aud more particularly by our object. With us the em- ploye Fecomes a minister; the workman, a manufac- turer; the peasant, a landowner; the soldier, a gene- ral; and the whole people crown themselves by rais- ing to the throne a dynasty of its own choice. It cannot be denied by the most carping of his enemies, that the Prince has devoted himself, heart and soul, to bring this great work to a successful conclusion; and to do so hagwillingly lent an ear to suggestions, however humble the source from which they came. I myself ventured to memorialize his highness with a petition that the rule as to affixing the price of each article should be more rigidly en- forced, and that for the benefit of uninformed per- sons like myself, some short explanatory notices should be appended to the various philosophical and mechanical apparatus so abundantly exhibited. With- in a very few days, a notice to that effect appeared in the Moniteur, and though, for peculiar reasons, the price ix not so generally affixed as one would desire, a few lines of explanation are now, to the infuite benefit of the ignorant, universally attached, when such is necessary. The objection to annex the price is, that it invites prejudicial comparison. For exum- ple: English silversmith would put £18 a £20 to asilver teapot, whereas & French member of the trade might label ove, to all appearance as good, at half the sum—the difference heing where the undis- cerning public would be slow to discover it—in the quality of the silver, in the snperiority of the manu- facture, the nice and perfect finish, &c.—all which would be manifest enough when pointed out, thongh toa casual passer-by unobservable. We are ready at once, it is alleged, to give the price on inguiry, which inquiry at the same time furnishes us with an opportunity of offering an explanation. There is, doubtless, some reason in this; at the game time the Exhibition is #0 multitudinous, so colossal in its pro- portions, that one has not always time to inquire; and | cannot help thinking that rather than be pass- ed by altogether, it wouid be better to incur even the risk of some misconception; besides, such disparity of price in similar articles would surely attract more minute inspection, and thas lead to a just apprecia- tion of the more meritorious. A very excellent letter has been addressed by Mr. Alexander Vattemare, commissioner to the exhibi- tion for the States of New York, Virginia and South Carolina, to the Moniteur, explaining the canse of the comparatively few articles sent by America. He says:— It must be attribnted, among other reasons, to their disappointment at the exhibition of London, in 1851~-the financial crisis which, for nearly a yexr, plunged ail the industrial States of the North into a sort of stupor, which prevented their thinking of anything but their own immediate enfferings, and the failure ofthe late New Yorkexhibition. Roused, however, by their national amour propre, by their sentinents of affection towards France—in a word by their desire to obtain the fellow citizens, profiting by t! yet remained to them, they did at last resolutely un- dertake the task. They reckoned that the federal government would help them in the transport and return of their prodnets. [It had done so in 1851; but in this they wero deceived, and, when account is taken of all the facilities given by governments, on terra firma, and the necessity they Fait of doing £0, it may be well conceived what diMicutties would Jay in the way of a transatiantic country like Ame- rica, exposed, besides, to all the difficulties ineidea- tal to a foreign tongue. ‘The letter, which I enclose you in extenso, then goes on to point out and comment upon some of the articles which, in spite of co many peculiar difficul- ties, America had sent. The number of visiters to the Palais de]'Industrie, ood opinion of their few weeks which on Sapday, at four sous each, wus 86,912, and to the Beaux Arte. 15,247, making a total of 102,159. A re- portymevails that the five frane day is to be reduced to two france, Indeed, some device must be hit upon, for at the langer price nobody will go, and on a Sun- day it is no uncommon ping tease elegant equipa- Bee seanellg <BR door, while their owners avail Ives of that amount for admittance which has ‘been sarecialiy reduced for the wor! classes. No ae “pon franc scale wears _ oe the one it is very respectably » ‘he ndaoneait a8 was witnessed in London, though the superiority of the French exhibition is now established beyond 3 doubt. The annexe, when the machinery is in constant operation, and which, as a practical exhibition of the ingenuity of man for the comfort and well being of his , ia the most unique and beautiful sight the world ever witnessed, is hegiening fp carzy say, the Dal aren from the palatial ndors of the panorama. Here & thousand manufactorics of a thousand dif- ferent articles are seen under one roof, all plying their avocations in a manner and ompe ee to bs nora capacity. Printing, litho; » engray! on steel, spinning, weaving: cloth making calico. putatin , lace makin, every MB in fact, thot electricity, steam, or lication of forees, can effect, is there palpably dune fore your eyes; intelligent agents are also there patiently to coriats the natare and ty of these nfinitesimal wheels they control, and their effect on he industrial market; and the most careless looker on cannot leave the spot without feeling his mind occupied by new ideas and a desire to return for mither improvement. A shaft half a mile in length, in the roof, sets the whole machinery in motion, and when all the thousand wheels begin to whiz round at once, the effect is at first Hisrally confounding. It is now, however, so. mauaged, that only a portion of the machines make their evolutions at the same time, co that the spectator may not be quite deafened and bewildered. A machine for making chocolate attracts an overwhelming crowd of spectators. The pate being placed in a species of funnel, the wheels begin to move and perform the following operations, They eject the paée in the form of a soft roll, and place itin an oblong tin, the bottom of which is ribbed into sectional divisions; they then set in mo- tion a flat circular surface, holding on its border some twenty of these tins, which commences its operations by a slow tremulous motion, gradu- ally moving round; and by the time the péte in the tin hus made the prescribed tour, it is shaken ont of its roli-like form, and becomes thin cake, completely filling its receptacle. Each tin, as it ar- rives, is by some mysterious agency shaken off on to a pivot, from which it is again displaced and handed up to an apparatus, which contrives, in the most laughable manner, to fold it up in clean peer turn- ing up the edges of the paper after the most im- proved fashion of perfect packing, and then, by a sudden lurch, to fling out two tongues of red hot sealing wax, and hermetically seal the chocolate ready for exportation to the farthest ends of the earth. The ingenuity of the thing is admirable, though, perhaps, it causes the philosopher to muse on the littleness and poverty of man’s invention in comparison with that of the Divine Machinist, who, with those tiny fingers he has given to his creatures, enables them ‘60 readily to perform whut, after all, is but clumsily brought about by #o great a weight of metal and complication of motive power. The panorama, sacred to the crown jewels, Aubus- son carpets of peculiar rarity, Gobelin needle- work, and Sevres porcelain, remains the same ; and highly attractive as it is, would be stil more #0 were the light from the roof more full. But the broad ring which surrounds the panorama every day increases its stock of wonderful products, and the whole is now grouped so artisti- cally that wherever the eye turns there ure beauties which none but a limner can depict. Take as an example Neubergicr’s display of lamps, followed by a depot devoted to ornaments in castiron. The back ground is covered with carpeting of such sur passing richness in design and color that no lan- guage can convey it, assisted by lem ay) in Medallions to imitate tableaux im carved gilded frames meenennen against the wall, a species of paper which I ehall have another occasion of reverting to. In front, rises a foreat of lamps, effulgent with gold and beautiful painting, the forms of which, beside, are as various as they are chaste and classical. The visiter might verily believe him- self in the palace of Aladdin. Then the statues and statuettes, of that group in cast iron, many of them painted to resemble marble, and by their sharp- ness of outline and refinement of detail partaking rather of the chisel than the furnace! It is a cluster which would cast no indignity upon the museum at Versailles, so admirably is each article ae sae in relation to the other; and yet it is only a set of cast ron figures intended for a market which cannot afford to buy marble or bronze. — It is thus that th eal taste of the French comes out. There is artistic design in everything; whereas the English manufac- urer sets up his most elaborate workmanship as though he feared any one should accidentally see it. Immediately beside this group is the colossal organ of St. Evstache, But my letter is sabes too long. ERTIES Pants, Jaly 26, 1855. The European War the Tomb of Political and Military Reyutations—The New French Loan— Entlusiasts and Croakera—Preparations for the Reception of Queen Victoria—Coalitions among the French Workmen—Uneasiness of the Govera- ment—The Emperor's Private Life—Old Scan- dals Revived, §c., §c. No news from the seat of war, the belligerent parties being much in the position of two chess players who have brought the game to a state-mate; for until one or the other makes such a mistake as renders the game alive again, perhaps the less we trouble ourselyes about them the beter. The St. Petersburg letters lament bitterly the loss of Admi- ral Machimoff, the hero of Sinope, who was great- ly beloved by his sailors, and whose peculiar quali- ties for command are thought irreparable. It is in- structive to remark, how, one after another, all the chief actors of this terrivle drama are removed from the scene, and give way toa fresh crap of agents only itself perhaps to be Jaid low before even the first fruits of this bloody harvest are gathered. It is not in the Crimea only that this occurs; the Eng- lish parifamentary roll is swollon with the names of those who, having flung themselves into the fore never in front of the battle, are now-civiljy dead; and such | is the disgust in France, that I only speak a well- known fact in assertiug that half a dozen persons cannot meet together without five of them uttering the bitterest complaints. The worst of it is, that, as in the case of individuals who have joined together in an unlucky enterprise, who afterwards strive to mend the matter by tarning against each other the weapons they have fashioned for exterior purposes, so is it with nations; and there is in France, and from what I see of private letters, 1 suspect in England, also, so much heart-burning, that despite the demolition of many of those par- tition walls which interfere with the reciprocity of commerce—despite the advent of the Queen of Eng- land—the entente cordiale suffers in reputation, and may one day have to bear the brunt of the Russian failure. These debates in England on the Tarkish loan, in which so many home truths have been at- tered touching the proverbial uncertainty of all bu- man alliances—the admiration, which not even a state of war prevents the French from expressing, at the splendid resistance made by the Russians, and their popularity generally in their social intercourse with France—are, go where you will, the constant topic of conversation; and, as I have more than once hinted in these letters, if the Emperor is the man of genius bis rapid course of success has often caused him to be called, never did he have a fairer tield for exhibiting it. He alone has uncontrolled au- thority in bis bands; of all living men he has the most to gain by success, and of all living princes he has the least to lose, for he knows ti 9 the same fortunate career which ploced him where he is can alone keep him there. France and Eag- land are alike calling out for the empire of one ruling wind; it is avowed that neither nation haa a wan really worthy to be termed a general—thatt @ foor commander*in-chief now at Sebastopol—Tar- kish, Sardinian, French, and Pnalish—dare not move without consulting cach other; and that unless the force and energy of a single will be brought to bear, the present state of things may run on ad infinitum. ‘The new national loan has succeeded beyond all ex- pectation: never was there exhibited so much enthu- siasm—never such dogged determination to have a slice. All night long have poor creatures stood merrily thronghout the pelting rain and braved the lightning’s flash, the thunder’s peal; and now, it ix said that three milliards at least will have evinced the national support of the Emperor's policy, What an opportunity for Napoleon the Third! Backed by the national will as this materially shows—stimula- ted by failure after failure of men nursed in the school of war-—called upon to do that which ip bis iumost soul he must have lopg earnestly ta be believed that he will not, as soon’ aa the gew- gaws of the British Queen's reception are over, gird on hia armor and wend hie way to the Crimea. Something must be done, for the French will not sit down tamely with the prospect of another winter. Astothe loan itself, the Emperor ia bound to make the most of it; but foreigners would be very unwigely Jed away who should suppose there is any thing in it beyond the agiotage—the stock jobbing spirit of theage. The attempt to cover the loan by sums of fifty francs soom. proved a failure, and lest capitalists should be deterred from coming forward, the government was soon obliged to confess the fact. As an experiment it has untoubtedly suc- ceeded admirably, and the high handed good faith with which the government has returned the surplus each time, has only made the speculators more anxious than ever to get rid of their hoards. But in France just uow we are Lego memora- ble ia jeorge Law, of bubble notoriety. Credit is the order of the day everywhere, and = bere has it hitherto ‘in covering e maguificent works, beantiy- ing the capital, and fin employment for every one, that people aro ready to believe they have so far been living in a state of ,! and have bee the riches of an El Dorado always lying at their feet. Grave men peat a mighty crash; but still others follow like fox hounds on a breast-high scent, and are impatient for new loans, new enterprises, new men: provided that, in the some career, they will only outstrip the old. The city of Paris has had a momentary check in raising 60 millions for further improvements, but the h of sharing in the national 760 millions may account for this. Improvements on the most stapendous scale are contemplated, and doubtless goon the means of cai g them into effect will be provided. The Arch ph is to be surrounded hy a ware of palxces, a branch bourse is to be establish- ed in the Champa Elysées, which is gradually to be converted into a boulevard, and resign ita arcadian name to the Bois de Boulogne, which will really be- come the Elysian fields of Paris. In addition to the féte at Versailles, I mentioned in my last a grand bull is to be given at the Tuile- ries to the Jacen, and another at the Hotel de Ville. It is also said, there will be three visits to the theatres; one to the Grand Opera, where the opera of Duke Ermest of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha is to be brought out; one to the Theatre Francais, where Mile. Rachel is to appear, she delaying her departure for America in order to do s0; and the third to the ra Comique, where ‘ Haydée” is to be represented. 7 There are coalitions among the workmen, in spite of the full employment at present existing, which give the government considerable unessiness. They are instanced by continual litigations with their em- Beam both in Paris and in the provinces; and hough nothing of a political character appears, it is known that something of the kind lays at the bot- tom, and at the fitting time might, by any agitator, be converted into political capital. The Constitu- tionnel, the chief of the semi-official organs, says an this subject :-— “Do not the workmen know, besides, that they have aright to count on the enlightened solicitude of the administration, which incessantly studies their interests, and is occupied incessantly about their well being? Have they forgotten what the govern- ment has done, with so much wisdom and firmness, to render the workmen’s dwellings healthy, to as- sure the means of subsistence, to multiply instita- tions of forecast, to develope those of beneficence— to ameliorate, in one word, the condition of the in- dustrial populations? Have they not seen, in fact— thanks the generous initiation of the Emperor Napoleon III.— veritable prodigies accomplished in the industrial world? Our cities transformed and embellished, railways, embracing ip their net work the entire territory, public credit vated, indus- try flourishing amidst the complications of war, ee- curity 1e:tored to commercial trangactions, labor everywhere in honor—do they not teach, lastly, to all, that frence is placed under the safe; ofa strong and tutelary authority, which, born of the suffrages of the people, ought nobly to pay the people its debt of gratitude? This, it will be observed, is strong deprecatory language, which probably nothing but imminent danger would have called forth. Madame Alexandrine Lanrence de Bilescamp, widow of Prince Lucien Bonaparte, brother of the Emperor Napoleon L., is dead, in her 77th year, and the Court goes into mourning for ton days. The elit departed yesterday for Biarritz to meet the impress. Jt is no small proof of the intense love of scandal which pervades the French character, that notwith- standing the known regularity of the Emperor's life, and his devotion to hia wife, reports are often indus- triously dirseminated to the contrary, When re- siding ut the Tuileries the daily domestic routine of the court is a dinner table of twelve or fourteen per- ons, consisting of the Emperor, Empress, the lords and ladies in veengs and those officers of the ides whore turn it is to be on daty. The dinner ae isseven. Until that time every one knows how the Emperor is occupied. The company does not separate till eleven, and by cight o'clock next morning the Emperor is in his cabinet de travail. conduct to the Em no one can mistake. During the whole of the Sed her voluble me runs on to every person, upon every sal The Exaperor himself says little, but follows with delighted eyes every word which drops from the Fmprees, and seems richly to enjoy every syllable she utters. After dinner he steals away for half an hour, for just one segar, to which his Midge now limit him, when he returns to join the company. In the cabinet of the Emperor, or rather against the door, which is always open, sit two ge en in waiting; and in the boudoir of the Empress are two of her maids of honor, who rise up to quit the room the moment his Majesty enters. Dw the even- ing, after dinner, if the Emperor rises, even only for a moment, all the company rise also, and sit only when the Emperor sits. As far as domestic happiness is concerned, few, I believe, are more fortunate than Napoleon; and it is obrerved that he seizes every available opportunity of being in the company of Eugenie. If he does not o with her on the customary drive to the Bois de e, he is sure to be seen an hour afterwards galloping after her; and if she sets off to the Eaux mnes or Hiarritz, we see, a8 in the present instance, he seizes the first Higecdigetg of joining her; end yet there are people who will tell you that oriental vicionsness is nothing to his private life. a ERTIE. Our Madrid Mannip, July 13, 1855. The Projected Conclitution—FPloating Debt—Catalonian Oufireak—The Carlisis and Clergy—The Papal Leqate— Accusation against the Government—Sauggting—Cholera, ‘The project of the future political constitution of the Spanish monarchy bas been read in the Assembly, Its Aiscussion, ast whole, still affords some debate, on accoun! of the various amendients whieh deputies have pr on different points, but it may be conside ly complete. I will send you a translation of f us one or two points, still doubtful, are settled. article of chapter 1, which refers to religion, and about which there has been suo a furious dispute, will stand thus:— “The nation obliges itself to maintain and protect the rites end ministers of the Catholic religion, which is what the Spaniards profess, But no ja 1 he pereecuted for his opinis hall not manifest them by public acts contrary to religion.” i" The clergy and various corporations have not ¢ ery out and memorialize against this articlo, be prejudicial to Spanish Catholicism, Reason, ne lees, has triumphed, and intolerance is forced to lower ita head. A proposition has been approved, by whieh the govern- ment Is obliged to present its estimates correspondi the first six months of the coming year, with « plan of organization and arrangement of the fances which ba- lances the disbursements and the income. This is thy only way of avoiding in fatare the straity in whieh the government now fx, on account of a deficit, which, in spite of ao much time spent in inventions and progr to cover it, still remains without any definitive res concerning it. The floating debt, or current linbilittes of the gcvernment already overdue and unpaid, amounted on the Ist of this month to $91,971,254 70. Eeents of great importance enehain the almost excli- sive attention of the government. Catalonia fx alm entirely in rebellion, The operatives of the manufiet vies in olmort the whole of that manufacturing provinee, and particularly in Bareclona, Imve aban and" work ed to nes ation doned their factories hops under the pretext that the proprietors will not aagmon the prices of labor. These demonstrations, whi pave already been repeated, are this time the work ¢f the partizans of the government overthrown in July of lost year; who, with the gold they robbed from the trea- sury, leave m0 means untried to embarracs the open march of the present government. Add to this the bulent spirit of the Catalans, their peculiar og: the little love with whieh they regard the oth of Spain, aud your readers will see why the vails here that that province cannot be gowerned oxeopt with a red of trom, a* the Court of Expana guvorw the time of Ferdinand VIS. The rallying ery ci tise Cw lane—** Long live Expartero”’—is sald here to have been suggested by bis enemies, in order to convey thenan- pression that this general is in fact adwerse to the govern. ment of the Queen, and that he desires @ revolution which shall give hito the Metatorship, Bet Fepartero has sent to Catatonia a document ox preesing stroogly the reverse of this, and a committer of ihe operatives which bes comy from Barcelona to Madri:l, purpose troops are and sea, ‘andthe 1 and about Bareelona the last ten, aceording to despat Bareelo: aprears lous Hostile—thwe wotkinee here eethod te neat national militia is 20 ots tte sunpart to the government to maintain order, and the - General is acting with ‘and energy. A strong yar of Carliste, who entered Catalonia from the French ier under the Carlist leader, Marsal, at first caused serious alarm, because his appearance coineided with the disorders in Barcelona; but the bamd has been entirely destroyed by the valor and resolution of the new national militia, whose members have fought like heroes; and the smaller bands, which sprung existence at one point or another, are thus far immediately beaten Lap kere tg by the troops or the militia. CF gga the Carlist fac- tion does not, therefore, cause the Pra much anxiety. The authorities behave well, and the le evidently do not wish for any more civil war under that fag. i fie corates ond other priests continue to take an active art in the Carlist bands in various parts of the peninvu- , and especially ip Catalonia, and furnish them with funds; but the authorities also continue to get holdof ‘hese reverends, giving them generally, the opportunity x0 receive the palm of martyrdom for their evangelical wirsion in favor of Don Carlos VI. Thave told you, in my former letters, that the clergy of €pain, with ‘few exceptions, is wholly immoral, irreli- gious, ignorant, and even imbecile. On one side the curates of the villages are captured heading the factious Dutde with the caseuek tucked up, a great rosary around thefr necks, and « blunderbuss in their hands; on another they are caught in consplracien, their papers are looked over, and they are found inacribed among infamous ma- chinations. Here a bishop protests in scandalous terms against the low of release trom mortmain of the lands of the church, and nothing ean be done but arrest him; there an archbishop makes open resistance to the deli- very of these lands, and the civil authority is forced to teach him the maxims of the Gospel with the sabre; and at the height of scandal and insubordination the Cardinal, Archbishop of Toledo, the and first ecclesiastical authority of the nation, has protested solemnly against the law of release from mortmain, which he believes con- trary to those of the church, to the Council of Trent, and to the last concordat; and whilst he denies the power of the government of the nation to dixpose of the said lands he bas ordered the administrator of ‘ais diocese not to deliver them, nor furnish the inventories or other pers. This proceeding on the part of the Cardinal has caured (he clvil authority to proceed without any consi- aeration to the fulfilment of the law. ‘ It appears that the news that Rome will recall her re- presentative here Mansenor Franchi, guthers probabi- ity. Spaniards say, let him go and welcome, and the quicker the better. o there is a pretty little schism on bend among the other diversions in the Spanish State this summer, and we may be all dried up and withered eway by a thunderbolt of general excommunication be- tore the dog days are over. A committee of the Assembly ix about to present an act of occwpation against the members of the government overthrown in July of last year, for the forced loan, for corrupt grants concerning railways, for their estimates, and for arbitrary transportation of Spaniards into exile; but a prominent part of the Chamber wishes that the ac- eusation thould be extended to the members of for- ety who also viclated the laws, This {x just the boot on the other leg—nothing more. ‘The amount of smuggling carried on over the Portu- guere frontier is immense, and the worst of it ix that it has been going on to the injury of Spain from the time of Don Juan VI., and his mother, Queen Maria; but it has lately been exciting considerable attention, 40 much s0, that if there were not hopes that the young King of Por- tugal, who will be crowned this sumnier, would do some- thing’ to stop it, there is no knowing how much excited the branish monarchy might get with the idea of teach- ing Portugal her duty. ‘The municipality of Mndrid has ordered a great civil and religioux ceremony, to celebrate the anniversary of the 1ith, 18th and 19th of July, of last year, the first anniversary of the revolution. ‘the cholera is making ravages throughout almost the whole of Spain. In Madrid it is still moderate, and has hardly reached the number of fifty cares daily; but some of the litle towns of the province are decimated. In Granada, the beautiful—that enchanting last dwelli place of the Andalucian Moors—it is the worst. There al the cases are death, and the city is almost doserted. The Queen has sent on some funds from her own scanty purse, forscharity in Granada. - ‘Ihe provinces of Galicia begin to fecl again the pres- sure of penury and scarcity, and the government has sent 2 commission to study cut some means of making front to the scourge of famine, ‘the Court has just removed to the Escurial for the hot months, Madrid 'is tranquil, EL CID, Our Frankfort Correspondence. FRankrort-on-Tas-Marne, July 25, 1855. Conduct of Austria in Regard to the War—Her Relations to Germany, Hungary, Haly and the Billigerent Powers—Contemplated Internal Re- Sorma—Austria Cannot Become the Ally of Rus sia—German Sympathies and Enlistmenta—Tur- key Europeanized—Spanish Finances, Cuba and the Administration in Washington. Though the conduct of Austria is the canse of much animadversion in the British journals, it is yet too decidedly opposed to Russia to meet with the ap- probation of Prussia. Austria desired that the Ger- man Diet should recognize the integrity of the Four Points as Austria construed them; but to this Prus- sia is decidedly opposed. Prussia, as far as the go- vernment is concerned, is completely Russianized; the absolutism of the King knowing no bounds, and Russia being looked upon by him as his guardian and instructor. Austria, though feeble and exhaust- ed by civil war and bloodshed, is, nevertheless, mak- ing an attempt to strengthen her position, as op- posed to the further extension of the power of Rus- sia; and for this purpose seeks the adhesion of the taller States of Germany, which, to a limited ex- tent, she has already secured. Her request that the war footing of the States of the Germanic Confedera- tion might continue will be granted; but the troops will be dismissed on furlough, and matters will remain in sta/u quo. The daalism of Austria and Prussia, though it weakens and destroys German influence in the af- fairs of Europe, is nevertheless of some advantage to the German people. Prussia, heretofore, has assum- ed to lead tant bien que mal, the progressive party in Germany—a circumstance which has been of mach advantage to her, both in @ political and commercial point of view. It placed her at the head of the Ger_ man tariff league—the Zollverein—which she repre. sented cntirely in all treaties with foreign Powers. The Germans who looked to the future union of their country, considered Prussia as the medium through which it must be effected, and Prussia, in conse- quence, enjoyed much honor and distinction, to which, all things properly considered, she was not entitled: Then came the year 1848, exhibiting the true object and tendency of the Prussian government, and teach- ing ita fearful lesson to the drowsy and inefficient government of Austria, The Italian States and Hun" ary revolted. The former were put down by the Austrian commander, Radetzky—-the latter could only be subdued by the intervention of Raasia. Aus tria profited by this double lesson. She said that the effort she was making to suppress Uberalism in her States, not only alienated her from Germany, and left the field open to Prussia, but also so diminished her internal resourees and power that she must become a vassal of Russia if she would remain absolute master at home. Ont of the ten millions of inhabitants of Hungary there are but four millions of Magyars— the others are Germans and Sclavonians—yet the whole power of Austria was inefficient to subdue their revolt. So, then, Austria must Germanize Hungary—that is, attach her to German institutions, by developing her industry, her commerce, and by mproving the condition of her laboring classes. This she is determined to do, and with it she is making some approach towards constitutional government, She is about to convoke the States of Italy, with a view of establishing something like a constitutional government in the kingdom of Lombardy und Venice. I readily admit that all those efforts are as yet spasmodic; but.then, a government having for so any years travelled on the road of absolutizm, and having £0 recently succeeded against the most daring rebellion, cannot travel very fast on the road to ra- tional fieedom; nor can it travel safely for a while, till profession and practice shall have convinced the people of its certainty. It is, perhaps, a fearful, comment on the liberaliem of Germany, to say that Anstria leads the liberal party; and this is, nevertheless the case and will furnish you # standard of comparison for the sioller States. In Hanover, Hesse and Wurtem- burg, the Chambers continue the battle with the ab- solute tendencies of the government, and in general, it may be said that Germany only wants an opporta- ty to feel and act as a free and united people. That Gertuauy, with two thousand years history on her ‘back , is not able at once—perhaps never—to establish a republican government after the model of the United States, ecems to be conceded on alj the head of the” government, elected a8 a choice be tween two really great and meritorions men, The example of the United States has, in this reapect, not acted very encouragingly on the republicans of Europe; and has ceased to be considered the patentme- dicine for all political diseases. The United States, secure as they are agaiust any and every attack fron: Europe, and without a single powerfal nation on the American continent to dispute their progress or dominion, may have a weak, vacillating government. for four years, without robbing the soil of a bashe of wheat or a bale of cotton; but the matter migh: turn out disastrously if a similar case happened in. Europe. The very freedom of Poland, and the fac tions in which she was divided, rendered her ap easy prey to Russia, The first step in a commercial point of view which Austria ig about to take, is to ask admission into the care of the government, be able to com, with thoze of Saxony, while the silk manufac ares of Vienna, having the raw material close a their doors, have nothing to fear from their Ger- man rivals. The Al States, Hun, included, will open the trade of the East, through of the Danube, ard beat down from the Rhine to the Turkish It will open a market for the raw porcine ara semen prageissiad oa has lately suf- fered so much by the revolut There way of pacifying Hi ,and that is by ameliora- ting her condition and developing her inex- haustible resources. In connection with her entering the German Zoll-verein, Austria is aiming at gery oy tariff league in Italy; but here whe meets with most determined resistance of England and France, commercial interest of England is opposed to such a measure, and the polftical p1 of Sardinia, the well known protegé of Great Britain, will not per- mit it. Ou Italian ground Austria will not succeed; | for here she has sinned too long, too inhumenly; and here she meets a people more civilized, more re- fined, and of greater historical reminiacences, than she herself can boast of. A people rae” a classical language and literature, and of its former glory by a thousand monuments of mar- ble find brass, with the arta flourishing in every city, aud its master pieces possi te eve! gallery of Europe, can never fone ii origin, or quietly submit to foreign rule, rule be ever so mild. In her Hi and vonian aes, Avstria. may civilization; but in Italy she cannot. It civilized, though less learned, than Germany. elements of a classical education are to be found the language and traditions of the people, instead of being the exclusive ee opeey of the learned, and the whole mode of lite italy is superior to that of Germany. Between Germany and bay Seely and neighborly relations may exist; bat of the last thousand years has demonstrated that the union of Italy and Germauy is unnatural and barren, nd destructive of tle interests of both trivs. Let that which God has put asunder (by Alps) not be joined by the puny hands of man. ave thus entered more fully on the tion of Austria at home, in ngary r many and Italy; because this will the cue to her conduct a8 regards the war in the East. It shows that Austria, in her present condition, will never become the active ally of Russia, and that home and abroad, she cannot fail to become the rival of Russia in the commerce of the East. Her separate treaty with Turkey, her the Principslities, her anta; position to the German diet, all show a policy. though trom her shattered finances the al tion of a very considerable portion of her subjects, that policy is as yet weak in all its manifes- tations. Austria wents peace at all hazards; for it is in peace only that she can introduce those reforms in her administration which ‘may save her from na- tional bankruptcy and ruin. Yet is the ition she has assumed such ibatif she is compelled to draw the sword she must do it in the cause of the and I have no fear whatever of by events. The increased power of patible with ler national existence. Austria may remain neutral eee mile Austrian officials, a understanding ir ion, may misgovern ee eal in “Bln in the Bonabian Princi- but in end she must take sides with ‘rance and England or become a Russian province. As to the war, it is admitted on all sides that it haa only begun, and that no hnman € ae foresee ita termination. sovereign liminaries of peace are signed, ernment may, coaaae before fall of boty yt Te Sees pulse of the allies will only be the signal for a gen- eral war, py tcdldy graben tea ad ggenrg ? Fe f Fe tobe. Let Bessarabia he invaded by the Turks, and the neutrality of Austris will ehanee be Seeeuets leto out in any break the war will at once receive fc nutriment | preaching of a general “ice ne sor ena ments ot the Asiatic power of Tarkey will either be entirely Ruropeanized by the present war, or she will cease to be an European er. Every reform bs change Sa. into er government tends to modernize her institutions, and the creation of a national debt is not the least of these. Turkey must follow in the wake of the ‘ing powers, and she must surrender the very fortresses which might enable her to resiet them. ‘She has already introduced a sys tem of conscription, # bes be ond oe iv’ x Christian popalation with the faithful. it will be which France and England loan, and without auch a guarantee no even Baron Von Rothschild will lend hers penny. ae She Creek sas poor, ein ee warlike, ally fanatic with evident froch dnote’ reaislanns’¥o bees ed con scription. If they were the men Sppertity of rang themselves, cot WY 0 nity armi ves, ohne which is the of a freeman in assert their squnty their former Greeks, however, fly from the conscri; fresh evidence of the historical truth by a single stroke, however well can transform slaves into freemen. It is now certain that nothing im; oi oa Opa may be «track 0; st Baltic provinces sin. The over large naval force new in reems to warrant that conclusion. As tl now conducted in those waters, it is one of sar extermination for no other purpose than to inflict the greatest injury on the enemy's ty. This, unfortunately, is the leading chaactartale of every e English an are Germany, but the Englieh are by far the most suc- cesufnl. This shows sufficiently Which way Ger- ian sympathies are inclined, or, please, on whi eal is the most money. The fact that ao a a portion of the former army of | stein has joined the British foreign legion, men of undonbted worth and character have taken the Queen's commission, furnishes proofs that the liberal sentiment the continent is with the allies, and not ‘This mey be of litth or no consequence now, bat it Ee be decisive toward the close of it some years nee, Hl ig brie Fel tree fie = i The Spanish Cortes have just sine die. They have, in part, been driven away oe cholera, which is making more fearful havoc in Spain than in any other van G Previous voted the loan which they hope will be taken up out of Spain. As Tong as France and rowers in the market it will be di tind customers. Remember the loan is to cover the ordinary deficit between the income and tres. “A committce is appointed to re; the Cxpenditures and the income the recess, 90 as to submit, at the next session of Cortes, a plan or making both ends meet. Spain will Uy deo make both ends meet, and put down the Carlist in- trigues formed in part the absolnte powers of Europe, till she sells Cul There ure many intelligent think so. Let us see whether Mr. Dodge, our new en- voy to Madrid, will be able to profit by stanbes, Would it not be strange if Gen, Pierce’s| Mihoster appointees had been hile} the trnit was no inorder to quit it when it got) ripe. Ina statesman, os ina A the selection of the proper moment for the man of genius, and the neglect of that moment, = imbecile, Does any one that France, or| fere with the sale in bd vufficient yen ret forwaTdness of our # receive a direct proposition. That the admii tion at Warhington lacks discretion is patent eve: where; while foreign appointees are so man) standing advertisements of its ignorance and weak: nest is no prospect of the present wor terminated before Mr. Pierce's successor will elected ty the ple. Let him keep an eye Coba end he bave it, provided he is a man