The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-06-29
Paris Correspondence of the Republic.

once, and shed its rays over that benighted part
of was going to say Christendom, bat believe
that ia the very subject of the difficulty whether
it shall be Christian or not-I think everybody
would be better pleased The papers are filled
with tabular views of the force of the Turkish
English and French fleets, with estimates of the
land forces of Russia along the Danubian pro-
vnces, with estimates of the time this courier will
be on his journey, and that despatch or ultimatum
in arriving at its destination. The question is
remarkably intricate one l never saw anv ONE
yet who really knew any thing about it, however
profound might be his opinions, and however
studied his apparent familiarity with the matter in
all its details. For myself, am waiting for the
first cannon shot, and am convinced that that will
eucidate the whole affair, ust as clap of thunder
is sad to purify the air. A little smoke lust now
far from obscuring the scene of action would aid
in remarkable degree in dispelling all the doubt
and ignorance that are hanging over it. i'll were
your st. Petersburgh or Constantinople correspon.
dent it would be my duty to go into the fullest details
the sub ect, and the lees knew, the more cate.
gorically and positively to speak. Writing from
Paris, however, have nothing to say further than
that the French fleet has sailed in conjunction
with the British squadron; that the combined
forces will probably enter the Dardanelles dav
after to morrow; that we cannot know the Empe-
ror OF Russia's final decision before eight or nine
days; thatit is thought his commencement of hos
tilites will be the occupation of the Danubiau
provinces, which he can very easily effect as no
opposition will be made; that the Bourse of this
city falls on the arrival of every fresh piece of in
telligence, and RECEIVERS again the next day: and
that the adversaries of Louis Napoleon are not a.
much pleased at the prospect of skirmish as
they promised Themselves they should be at the
fret smell Of gunpowder, for he has the sentiment
of the French nation with him and the alliance of
three of the other powers to sustain him. The
Debats of to-day has one whole page devoted to
the Eastern question, column of editorial two
columns OF reproduction from the Paris papers of
yesterday, and three columns Of translation from
the London Times, the Austrian Lloyds, and
other journals printed in English and German
You see that the question is absorbing one
You must have remarked that the imperial Jour-
mails have long found no language too strong to
express their dislike of the London Times for its
hostility towards Louis Napoleon. But it seems
that that newspaper buy them all up with
single word of favorable comment, or the slight
eat dose of hattering appreciation. / remember
that the Pays has often stigmatized the Times as
speaking for Itself and nobody else, and as being
the organ of no greater mass of people than its
own editorial staff. few days ago the Times
spoke commendingly of the Russian article in the
Pays. The Pays Immediately copies the Times's
remarks, and aida underneath
at is well known that the Times is the exact
reflex OF public opinion in England. We have
no need to dwell upon its high literary and polit
icai merits 20
Aias! Poor human nature! And especially the
human nature of vicomte Gueronniere who is
not proof against paragraph of the Thunderer's
palaver. Why, GueTonniere has been called rene.
gade, aPosate, turn-coat, and all other names ex-
pressive of treachery, time and time again, by the
Times, but he brgets it all in the futter of delight
occasioned by seeing his editorial on Nicholas
aPprovingly mentioned by that paper. The Times
has given him good mask for his composition.
There were no mistakes in spelling, and the style
was irreproachable. | remember when the
Times called Gueronniere ass; and | suppose it
was just as much reflex of public opinion in Eng
land then it is now.
Some one was proposing, the other day at the
club, to offer The publishers of Barnum's american
Illustrated Neios some prize worth having, the
very fret time it will appear with less than six
pictures of horrible accidents in it. But f this
pictorial sheet wishes to be like the Times, reflex
of public opinion, of course it must put in the COL
lisions, and the explosions, and the wrecks, and
the murders, and all the other facilities offered
among you for meeting a violent DEATH which
seem to be the prominent fea in American life.
II the accounts receive of the New York
Crystal Palace are correct, that much vaunted
terprise would seem to be in avery bad way. Our
own Palace of Industry is progressing slowly, but
much more surely than many things which adj
vance faster. The cellars and Underground works
a c completed, and the outer wall is perhaps three
feet high, all the way round Very handsome
blocks of granite, OF reddish hue-the material Of
which the Cathedral of Strasburg is built-arc be
ginning TO arrive, for the pedestal, columns, and
piaster5 of the edifice. The men at work upon it
obtain their food from immense kitchen in the
open air, carried on within the enclosed space bv
the contractors, who charge for each plate exactly
what it costs. The workmen say they never lived
so well or cheaply before. The is the fair eide
of Socialism. The Socialists say that ii has none
other than fair side.
We have not done with the Rue de Rivo yet
The prolongation of the street being now nearly
completed, the project of the Seine has caet his
eyes upon that portion of the old street facing the
Louvre, where the arcades come to stop. 1t has
been decided that the houses lining the street
which have no arcade shall be pulled down, and
pilastered sidewalk, already existing from the
Place de la Concorde to the Passage DeIorme
shall be continued to the Palais Royal. The city
has cent the proprietors of the forty five houses to
be demolished notice to quit the 18th of July.
They have every one of them protested, to man;
but their objections founded entirely on con-
sideraions OF private INTEREST," whereas the law of
the Sd of May, 1S4l, gives the municipal caucus
the right to order as much appropriation, pour
utilize pubiique," as it pleases. The jury has been
set to work TO decide between the sums demanded
by the landlords and those offered by the city.
The demolition will be concluded by the end of
the year, and in a twevemonth more the whole
street will be finished
1t seems positive that grindstones do explode;
rather, TO speak scientifically, that the ccntri.
fugal force sometimes overcomes the Centripetal,
and that blowing up of the wheel and a disper-
sion of the fragments is the immediate conse-
quence. regret to say that an accident of this
sort has happened in midst, and that fatal re-
cults ensued. hatter's boy sharpening his
jack knife upon a stone in rapid motion The boy
that was turning it seemed perfectly reckless, and
went on accelerating its speed, till the explosion
took place. The hatter's boy was killed. and the
apprentice was knocked over by splinter, re-
sembling in shape the segment of a cheese. The
commssary of police who was Immediately sum-