The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-10-24


ordinary year. The vintage has now commented
throughout the greater part of France, andn about
may be ascertained; as yet, the accounts are
contradictory. From Pezenss to Montpelier,
the vines, favored by some fine days had
SS s 'sd
Gard, and higher up in the Beaujolas, the Macon
nais, and Burgundy, where the vines are seriously
diseased, as well as in Champagne. in Lorraine and
Alsace, where the vines have not ripened the pro-
duce will be deficient and of inferior quality On
the banks of the Loire, however, and in the Cher,
the Indre, and the Charente, the quality is expect
ed to be superior to that Of last year. ALI the
growers in the Saintogne and the Bordelsis hope
for excellent wine. The accounts favorable
from Chablis, in the Yonne, but the vintage is not
expected to commence until the 18th inst In the
Var it is feared that the crop will not produce more
than one.haf an ordinary average: In the Herault
a good crop is announced. The celebrated vines Of
Hermitage, in the Drome, are mu'h injured.
SOCIALIST PROCEEDINGS.
The Courier de Limoges has the following -
INN. Michel ode Bourges) and Nadaud arrived
here three or four days since, but their presence
created SO little sensation that we omitted to inform
our our readers OF it, We only knew yesterday that
two o'clock they went to mandatory Of the
Association Fraternelle des Porcelainers They
we're accompanied it is said, by about 100 persons.
On being informed Of this circumstance the Project
Immediately sent the central commssary of police
with some sergens de-ville to dispense the meeting
if it should have any thing of political character.
The commissary appeared unexpectedly amongst
them, and found M. Nadaud haranguing his co re-
gionsts. The officer presenting the written order Of
the Project energeticaly, summoned the meeting to
disperse at the same time drawing up process verbL
of the infracon of the decree Of the 18th of July
prohibiting clubs in the department of the Haute
Visnne Some little hesitation at first shown
in obeyipg the injunction CT the commissary, but
on his declaring that be woald have the place
cleared by the armed force, the meeting dispersed.
and no one remained in the place but the work.
men employed there. The commissary afterwards
placed sentinel at each Of the doors of
the mandatory to prevent any one returning
One person only was arrested. NJ. Sorbet,
our new central ommissary, executed the orders
which he bad received with great vigor. 1t is for
the Judicial authorities now to proceed against
those who have contravened the prefectoral decree
prohibiting clubs II appears that in the evening,
between eight and nine o'clock, q certain number
OF freres et AIMS went in detached parties, and
singly, to the cafe restaurant of M. Deisnac; but
there also they found gendarmes and sergens-de-
vile. 1t was impossible to deliver the slightest
speech without seeing the Getting Immediately
dispersed, and process verbal drawn up by q COM
missary of police. If our information be correct,
the great citizens Michel (de Bourges) and Nadaud
interview to mere shaking of hands Some
patrols had been ordered by the autho rites, but
public tranquility was not at all disturbed. Is it
not remarkable that in town like Limoges, which
contains such number of workmen, and which
has been in such an agitatd state the presence Of
the coryphees Of the mountain and OF socialism
should have produced so little effect and excited so
little sympathy! The complete fdsco which they
have met is striking proof of the return of tho
working classes towards the principles of order,
and of the confidence inspired by the firm attitude
assumed by the authorities"
The aermanic Confederation.
The following is the protest of the French govern
ment against the German States of Austria into
the German Bugd 1t is addresse to the President
Of the Frankfort Diet, Count Won Thun -
M. lie Comte; As informed your Excellency in
n he If nj / 1oi1 haco-
vernment the communication with which you hon
ored me on the 18th, relating to the project of TIE
incorporation Of the non-Ge rman States Of Austria
In the German Bund | am drectedts answer that
note by the following communication The govern
ment of she republic has remarked to its great sur
Prise, that arguments are advanced in the name Of
the Fund, which we're employed seventeen years
ago, TO dispute the right OF the powers who had
signed the final act Of Vienna to interfere on
a question which, accord dug to their Judgment.
affected the Independence of a German State,
IN which that Independence was violated, though
1t was stipulated by the said act of Vienna.
These arguments were at that time rejected by the
cabinets of Paris and Lsndon, and that rejection ne
YER received any reply Further, when, in s47 Aus
tra and Prussia so energetic Ally protested against
the acts by which the Swiss Federal Council accord
irg to their judgment, violated the rights OF some
o. The caoton', IL was necessarily assumed that
those two powers had seen the incorrecness Of the
prime o they haa some years previously only too
absolutely pr, cliiu ei This assumption was so
much the more justified, sthe Swiss fe ieral compact
11tegrll
the final act of Vienna, and therefore the riYht of
foreign governments TO interfere with the differences
OF the several csntons mus be rega .ded az much
ICE certainly established than the right France
ana England would assert in reference TO the Ger
man Bund. But even were the arguments on which
the German Diet relied, in 1884, as much based on
legal right ms in reality they not it is still evil
dent that they do not in the least apply to the pre-
sent question. IL it must be conceded that conied
GRAFTON Of sovereign states, in ell that regards the
relations OF its several members to each other,
fo inv sf.1 wfth IL
action as single federative State, yet il by no
means follows from this that such confederation
can OF itself alter its relations to foreign powers
without those foreign governments having the right
to protest against IL By the FIRST treaty of Pari.
and the final act Of Vienna, Europe has recognized
the existence Of the German Bund within certain
distinctly hxed territorial limits. From this rscogni-
tion II follows that each Of tho States Of the Bund
with the assent Of the European powers under
the protection Of the whole Bund which is also a-
thonied to interfere In the differences and disputes
OF Its ember;. when they reach certain degree Of
importance. 1t cannot be supposed that the Euro
pean powers can look on with indifference while
similar condition Of things is extended over a
new territory, and If such an extension were
made without their assent, they would certainly
be exercising their right If they did rot permit the
consequences Of IL for example, IL they did not
allow the Intervention Of the Bund in their disputes
WITH the posse q such territory The chances
OF conflict would then be more than doubled; the
political organization Of a considerable part Of
Europe would then rest no more on n generAllv
recognized basis; and International Law, as estab
lishea by existing treaties, would have received n
perhaps incurabe wound. IL is quite supertiuous
to enter more at large into discussion of project
which, II laid before the Diet, will place the gov
eminent under the necessity OF protss,ing ags,n,,
IL The government Of the republic is far from
Wishing TO prolong controversy which does not
appear to 1t becoming IL is sufficient to state dis.
unctly. that France now, a, in 1884, can as little
recognise ths principles the Diet Of the Bund then
aid down, and that these principles, even IL found.
ca IN right, do not At all apply to the great plan
Staining them.
he above protest was forwarded to Count Thur
BY M von Tallenay, Minister Of the French repub-
nc al Frankfort, accompanied by the following
m. lie Comte ;-With the note with which your
'xcellency honored me on the 10th, 1 received the