New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-02-22

and few of these favOrs have been granted 10 the
victims Of the coup d'ttat. Some Of them have
been treated with q severity that has destroyed
their physical health, subjected not only TO the
baleful inhuencesof a hot climate, bad food and
worse lodging, but TO the petty tyranny of their
keepers. 1t is not strange, then, that in their
longing TO revisit their ruined homes, these men,
broken in health and spirit, should have i'm
plored pardon in the prescribed terms OF sub
mission. We have semi-official authority for
saying that the psrdons now 30 tardlly granted
have all been asked for on those conditions. But
| the selfhumiliatiOn of the victims would not
alone have sufficed 10 move the generosity OF the
Emperor Even yet in France there exists a
sort of mutlated public opinion, and that opinion
has been latterly growing more and more artic-
! ulate in it's CRY for mercy TO the vanquished.
1t was a motive of policy then that induced
their conqueror TO insist, against the advice OF
a portion Of his Ministers, On their partial lber
alton. They will of course live, on their return
| home. under the eye and within the clutch of
| vipilslt police. There remain twelve hundred
prisoners and eXiles, who must LOOK TO the cor
OnatiOn festivities for the occasion OF the COM
mutation OF their penalties. For their sake, let
us hope that the late rum0r Of this ceremony
occurring in April instead of May, is founded in
truth. A number OF pardOns are said 10 have
been accorded to non-political prisoners, at the
request Of the Empress. This is quite proba-
| BILE; all sorts of means are employed to create
| favorable feeling toward her, and the police are
very active, though not altogether successful, in
their endeavors to suppress the circulation of
| SANDERS on her good fame. 1 know an instance
where the mistress of a washing-bOat on the
Seine, on hint from the police, openly forbid
the wasberwOmeD, on penalty of losing their
.f. il
and did presently put on shore one of the sister
| hood, whose indecent opinions of the Empress
! inyoluntary oOzed out of her. Caricatures
representing the Empress with cigar in her
mouth and obscene mOts and c0uplets more
| dispacefu to the utterers of them than to the
| object OF their illusions, are in circulation. On
! the other hand, well intentiOned Autographs,
bearing general resemblance TO young brides,
| young mothers, aud young women at large,
as seen on wooden clocks and in the par
| lors OF country taverns, and cheap medals with
! the effiQies Of the Empress, find a ready sale.
| A beautiful bust Of life size, cast from Oh Orig-
nal By Niewekerke, is exposed in many shop
windows, and attracts sufficient approval from the
passers by An article written by Guerroniere,
entitled Tie Empress Eusenia, appeared yes
/ terday in both the Constitutional and the Pays.
Having thus the air Of political circular, and
being from the pen of the Grand Sycophant and
Elegant Wfiter-in-ordnary to their Majesties, it
excited some attention. 1t is, in the main, only
the speech of January -, paraphrased in the
| epithalamic vein, with some of its ideas omit
| ted, and three or four columns OF words added
| On Sunday the Emperor went over 10 Yer
sailes on horseback with his wife, TO show her
| in riding habit to the troops there The En-
! press is an unsurpassed hOrsewOman. The idea
| Of Der reviewing the troops on horseback was
novelty; then she is pretty; the stage effect
was good, therefore, and the enthusiasm is in
the Patrie. As another means of commenting
themselves TO popular esteem the young couple
are to 90 the round of the theaters, accompa
MED by the Court. They begin with the Grand
Opera
The latest item of political interest in the
CITY, is the arrest of several writers for the
leeitmist press. They were seized at their
several places of residence early yesterday
morning The names of four of them are given
in the papers OF last evening. The periodicals
20 which they were contributors, have not, |
think, been seized Their published writings
though more distinguished for their lively wit
than for their profundity. are not the ostensible
cause Of their apprehension, though some of the
satirical passages are doubtless, remembered
against the authors. These men were also con.
nected with two legitimist papers suppressed
some months ago. | should not be surprised
to learn that aspersions on the character ID the
Empress-the utterance of which is by no
means confined to the low vulgar-had led 10
their arrest. A more probable cause may be
part they have taken in the composition of an
incendiary legitimst circular, that has been
lately distributed among the workmca and
Others.
The Moniteur denies again that there is any
sort of foundation" for the general rumor of
dissensions and consequent change in the
Ministry. The Moniteurs statements have long
ago ceased topass for gospel. There is preva|
lent belief that the Ministry is divided into two
parties, one of which must finally give way to
the other and resign. The leader on one side
is Persigny; he was with the Emperor, against
the majority of the Ministers on the marriage
question and on the amnesty question; he would,
on dit, recommend bis master TO seek the good
will OF the republican party, follow bold, indie
pendent parrena's line OF policy, and watch a
favorable opportunity OF extending France to
the natural limits"
The journal just quoted from, announces the
composition OF the household of the Princes
Mathilde, which is made up of three danes Of
honor and secretary; the lady's husband,
Prince Demidofi, is not one of the ingredients
There is nothing newer in the city than the
usual festivities of the closing carnival and the
usual repetition of the extremely traditional
procession OF the Beuf-Gras. The origin Of
this ceremony is buried in that very oldfamiy
vault of the might of time" Dead too is the
significance OF its symbols, the grotesque sense
less trappines of al old defunct tOm-ioolery
Strange that this old piece OF antiquity should
have this year borrowed spark of new life and
meaning from the new world. The fat or that
was led through the streets yesterday bore the
name Of Oaeie Tom ! or rather of SieLsy;
still fatter and larger ANIMAL chrisened in honor
OF Mrs. Stoves hero, being reserved TO grace
the procession of MGrdi gras tomorrow As
the oo6sgt then viii be the same as that of
Sunday, one description will serve for both
First came two runners dressed in costume of
the middle ages; they we're followed BY twenty