The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-14

ne budget Of Portugal for lS54-55. and In tho nsw
financial edicts Of the PApA government. They
discover that tn dimiDutions In the French reve.
nues have lsssened instead Of augmenting since the
30th Of last June, and they generally agree thatthe
situation Ind icated By the comparative table, with
out being brill ant, may be considered satisfactory,
in view of recent political events. They agree also
that the budget Of Portugal exhibits idbie anne
ioration in the insrcisl situation Of that country.
They predict tho happiest consequences from those
edicts Of the Pope which aim at suppresing pa Der
money and replacing under the administration Of
the State the important revenue from salt and tobac
CO. But the partisaus Of free trade regret, Of
course the edict which raises the taxes colonial
produce TO an Incredible figure almost equivalent to
prohibition. The excitement which the new tariff
bascaused at Rome 10 prodigious, far SURPRISING
that occasiored by news from the East. Rumors Of
distant war, however GLORIOUS reach the ear OF the
upper classes chiefly, while questions of sugar, Of
Coffee Of cotton, Of salt fish, affect the daily life of
all classes Such questions touch the business and
bosoms Of the people more closely than the Eastern
question in any Of it's protean forms. Will eventhe
grave question Of the immaculate conception Of the
yirgin-which the Holy Father has summoned
council Of preIates to decide upon next December
awaken deeper interest with the Roman population?
The food question-after all "thats tbs question:"
can you doubt that it underlies nearly all the pro-
blems Of this age, when, even in Rome, the city Of
the Caesars and home of St. Peters SUCCESSORS, Mars
is forgotten aid Mary herself, with the Carpenters
son on her arm attracts less attention than the ba
kerr the butcher and the grocer
Several American journals seem to have misap.
pretended the question which Christendom and
and = Unirers expect to be solved at Rome on the
9Th Of December. If they had simply consulted
Websters dictionary they would have learned that
the doctrine of the immaculate conception is the
doctrine that the Virgin Mary was born without cri
giDal sin. Webster, however, does not also inform
them that . diversity Of opinions on this point
among tbeoloeians cccasioned . schism which has
rent the church for ages. To put an end to this
schiam by converting the doctrine into dogma,
and sOlemnly pr0claming it to the world, Is the OBJ
ject Of the council which has been convoked at the
special instance Of the episcopates Of France and
Of Spain.
Spain is agisated at this moment by other than
than theological questions. The excitement Of the
elections has been heightened by the secret animosi
ties Of tie old parties. The zeal of the partzans Of
Count de Montemolin has been warmly seconded
Of late, by those journals which continue to echo
legitlmist ideas in France. The same journals,
while lavishipg encomiums on the royal virtues of
the Count, have been unsparing Of abuse for I" the
accused race of revoutionsts that dishonor SPAIN
A iumor has prevailed that Queen Isabella Is de-
termiE ed to aboicate, and (what is more improba.
ble,) that tie Carlists are rapidly gaining ground
Something like fusion with the Carltsts, on the
part Of Christina and Sarterus, Is apparent. Mar.
vaez is now in France. England-whose influence
In the Spanish cour ellis Is mystery-is actively
endeavoring to induce the Cabinet of Espartero to
give in its Adhesion to the principles of European law
concerning the slave trade and to denounce all traf
fc in black slaves as piracy project Of consM.
tuition the basis Of that of 1887 has been deibe-
rated upon and rejected by the Spanish ministry.
Denmark is struggling TO obtain new conssitu.
yfo hnv hooy, cv1NV in
an address from the Chamber, which has thus taken
up sort Of challenge thrown to it by the ministry.
We shall see if the issue will be pacific Perhaps,
after the Danes and Spaniards havetr as many
| constitutions as the French, they will, like the
/ French, subside into seeming indifference on the
| subject. have dined with Partisan whose hair
Is not yet 30 gray as his beard, and that is still
! partly black, but v no tells me he has already sur
yiyed thirteen constitutions. His own is 80 vigor
Gus that he need not despair Of OUTLYING many
more than the fourteenth, but he swears he :" has
| had enough Of them"
The Parisians manifest no interest in any political
question that does not bear more less directly
the absorbing Eastern question While waiting,
inpatently enough TO hear the cannon Of the Inva.
eager TO the most absurd rumOrs from the East,
A andto all bews from every Other quarter that re-
lafes, however remotely, to the war. Meet Que Of
] them at the Bourse, and, while he holds You by
the button, be pouIs out quantity of miscellaneous
! lens THAT would fill column Of the HERALD. A
few are worth chropicliDg thus, he tells you in a
breath that the lumoT Of the taking, oa the llth,
Of Fort Quarantine at the northern entrance of the
lay which gives access to toe port of Sebastopol
Was the greatest conard, hoax Of lass week. that
he combined army OF the allies now conn. upwards
| OF 10000 men-thtre We're not more heads at
Austerltz, at FriedIand, or at Moskowa; that the
Czar Is actually going to visit Warsaw; that By his
1 express orcers-by ukase as 1t were-the fashona
Bile season at ST. Petersburg has opened with uuu.
sual brillisncy, Lsbache, Mile. de Lagrange and
| Nine. Tedesco having been engaged, and Mme
| Alboni (wbom prior engagement preyented,) 90
hcited at fabulous prices to drown, with the music
o. Roesini, the distant rear Of French English and
4 Turkish cannon; that the Cars decree, ordering
the construction Of a railway from Moscow to the
Black Sea has not failed to produce certain
ser satQn; tfat the Grand Dukes Nicholas and
Michael have rejoined the army OF the South; that
Baron de Hess, the Austrian General has returned
/ from the Danubian Principalities to take the COM
msnd Of the army TO be opposed to that Of Prince
Paskiewtch, in case Of rupture with Russia; that
the Emperor Of Austria has addressed an autograph
letter to the King of Prussia, insisting the neces
sty of an intimate union Of the German government
particularly Of Austria and Prussia; at EnglaLi
prevent Prussia from longer pro6tng ri ,hly, in the
way Of tTansit by her neutrsity that although
| the Empress has sent to the camp of Hslfant tea
boxes filed with balloons, ninepiDs, donin0s and
| FORTH and the Emperor has also sent there wooden
] houses, like those forwarded to Australia and Cali
forDis and intended TO serve for play rooms fencing
rooms and dancing rooms during the winter, it Is
nswItheess quite possible that before spriag very
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ditrs eeewhere and that almost all the Paris jour-
| pas have FASTENED to translate the pugnacious
article in which the London Herald, speaking Of the
winters work laid out for the fleets Of the Baltic and
the Black Sea- filings threat at Brother Jonathan,
sDd abiding to the British fisheries on the North
| American ccast, to the affair Of Greytown, and to
alleged projects for snDexiDg the Bermudss and the
] Antilles, buying the Russian sessions on the
Pa iic, and building shils Of war for Russia boasts
that enough msn-ofwar will be still left TO fight, If
| Iced be, with the Yankees!
| Here your Partisan gets ont Of breath. In walk
\ ing, you have reached With him that part Of the
Bourse, tbe Bouiecayd des Holcns, in front IF the
Cato Lebiond famous tor its specialize Of American
OH ks. Ii il to be hope t,at the recent 6ipom attic
| csntr nee, lille washing 90 IN with Chiblis the
eyste snd iteI national qushf'ons discussed by it
a. Oset d. Gid not fail TO give due cons leration to
tee OUT fact, which indignantly record that
the pics of each OF theee drinks has lately been
rsreo 10 a fianc! But your companion deems it