New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-18
FRANCE.
NeufchateI-Bnslan Politics.
CcussposSepee Of he n. Y. Tribune.

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PANS. Tuesday, Aug. 3. lsS2
The question of Neufchatel, may, amid
the tyrannic repose which marks Europe at this
moment, be considered open. While Chart'Sm
has spent itself in England, and the democratic
cause has suspended it's action on the Cont'oen.'
and the calm Of bayonets rsigns aroHno, tnero 70
one little spot where apoliticaI account MOI
%lea and that is the canton OF Neufchdtel. Prus-
s;s claims the government Of this country and she
has ,em;,ed the four great powers to back her
claim. paltry delusion prevails in America that
a.. Cng,;sb Government differs from other Euro
n..n countries in its devotion to liberal princi-
ples. and 80 far as the speeches of Mr. Lawrence
represent the American people and may be taken
as a standard of liberalism the delusion may ex-
list. When an American Minister congratulates
the Fshmonger's Society Of London, at their
annual dinner because one Of their number former
", Tralworth, Court sycophant, stabbed Wat
Tyler in the back-Wat Tyler, the earliest hero
ofEnglish liberty, the pioneer of Cromwell, and
Sydney and Warren, and ngton-it becomes
a sad and solemn question, what is history what
Is liberty what is truth are we tossed on sea
ofdoubts or have we principles, Liberties, hopes,
and grandeur which characterize us as nation
and set an example to the rest OF the wona -
Now the question of Neufcbdate is one in which
the liberalism of England might have displayed it.
self had any such liberalism existed, but from
nothipg comes nothing With view Of explain
ing this Neufchdtel question and showing par
ticularly the hollow hypocrisy Of England, let me
give you the following precise, unpublished de-
tails from ali authentic source, which you may re-
" on. On the 9th of May, 1852, at the British
Foreign Office in presence Of the Penipotentiar-
les of Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia and
Russia, a protocol was adopted of which this is
the substance. They met at the instance Of Lord
Malmsbury, upon the requirement ofthe Prussian
Minister. The object Of their meeting was to put
back Neufchdtel to where she was in lSl5-as
settled by the Treaty of Vienna-which was up
set in 1913 by the Swiss Revolution. By this
Treaty Neufchdtel was considered Canton but
the King Of Prussia reserved unto himself GER
tain privileges which were denied in 1913. The
Prussan Minister said that if the great powers
would assist in the amicable arrangement of the
matter, 1t would save the King of Prussia the ne.
cessity Of asserting his rights by other means.
The Pmssian Minister did not ask that the inter-
scICnCC vi tHc SIcuJ pOWCIs SHOuu Odhc pldCt
mediately, but that time should be left for nego-
citation with Switzerland. Ihereupon the repre-
sentatives of the four great powers acknowledged
the validity of the rights of the King of Prussia
over Neufcbdtel according to Articles % and 46
Of the Treaty of Vienna, and they recognized also
Article As of the same Treaty as regards Swtzer-
land. They agreed to assume as soon as possible
the necessary action to require Switzerland to
abide by that Treaty. To this protocol the
representatives. of the four powers Russia, Austria,
France and England put their official sigma lures
along with the Prussian Minister
Now, the most extraordinary and unheard.of
diplomacy is that Of France, in thus lending her.
self to Prussia. The rights Of Prussia to Neuf-
cbatel are based on the Treaty Of Vienna, or that
is made the reason for the protocol in question;
and yet by that very treaty the family Of Bona
psrts, then and forever sfterward, we're to be ex-
cuded from the soil and government of France.
M.Waewski, however, the minister OF the Nephew
of the Emperor, puts his seal to a document ack-
nowledsing the validity and virtue of the said
treaty
English Minister'S too, parading in parliament
and at banquets their devotion to liberal pnnci-
pies put their signature to a document making a
combined assault of all the strong European
powers upon one little State of 9, 500,0 900 people
And il the truth be known, simply because Swift
zerland is the only country in Europe which re-
sembles our own in its form of government.
And yet we exhibit the pitinl spectacle of CON-
plimebting her habtually through our National
Representative as the friend of freedom, when al.
most Every act in her domestic history has BEEN
grossly oligarchical, and none abroad can be
pointed out but OF conquest or oppression Of the
weak. Now she succumbs utterly and absolutely
to the dictation of Russia, and the continental
mni0ns Of Russia. Her ministers in Parliament
regretted the freedom of the English P.ess in the
late discussion of foreign afars, and refugees are
rs thoroughly watched in secret in London as they
are in France. and the only reason that they are
mt fnf mil 20 Ana L.,
the G0yernn ent dare not assume the responsibility
Of such an act.
The grand fete here on the 18th will, thew
say, be finer than the superfne illustrations of the
kind which distinguish this artistic platform.
The stall wOmen-large muscular beauties, whose |
grsncmotheIs, and whose mothers perhaps in |
some cases, deploy ed in hne to march to Versailles
and astoblsh the King, queen and court, are too |
important an element IN the epic of Capitalization,
or percbance Imperialism to be overlooked. Ac.
core ingly, IN the Halle quarter, on the 10Th,
there are to be covers laid for 90 900 persons,
where iessting at the city's or the countIy's ex.
peDse will take place; political capital will be
ematsed, and the Savior Of the country" will
be worfhipped in material and immaterial forms,
IN fsfs, hfewoTks and fustian. But we sheud not
wonder at this Savior ship. How often has
America been saved! Ii was saw. d. full half of
the newspapers tell us, by the Missouri Com
promise oil, and by the Tariff Compromise BILL
and go forth. lfso, it was not worth damning.
Inc taii-w0n'n danes de Ia kafte) nave al
ways been an object OF great consideration to the
government. Numbering many thousands, born
OF vigorous parents, and their constitutions forth
ned by exposure and fatigues, equang the men
IN courage, and more lmpulsve and devoted, they
are as terrible as several regiments in fight, and
their moral influence must be counted likewise.
Napoleon, when a slightly formed young man,
iooe down among them with his staff; his
TAX OF amnesty was met with reply from
stail'woman-a huge mass Of bone and
muscle /: 1t is all we'll enough for you fine
fellows 10 talk, you who have plenty of bread
and luxus'ss, but We are poor starved women"
stop, my good madam, If any one were to Judge
Of our eating by our appearance which do Won
think would be supposed to have the ore ad to eat.
you or TT The staveling look of the Young
Gene raj contrasted with the full outlines Of the
glowing dame, compet.l y turned the laugh against