New-York daily tribune., 1854-03-29
/ RANCE.


PARIS, Thursday, March ., 1854.
Tie Cars reply to the letter of Napoleon and
Drouyn de huyss reply to the Gar, IN the form OF
circular to French diplomatic agents, you will doubt
less uriut in full That is what has been done In the
columns OF all French journals You viii comment
upon them, you american journalists. That is what
no French journalist dares DO 20 far rs government
documents are concerned, the F-ench press can be
only simple chronicle Opinions are transplanteJ
from foreign Journals The only criticism or sppreca-
ton OF NapOleons speech, for instance mat mas aP
peared in French PRINT has been translated irom Eng
lish or from German. The ministerial papers only
venture upon phraseg-ond very weak paapoFases
az tbat-of tie documents they publish Tor freedom
is not permitted even TO aattery Your readers can
hardly have correct lotion OF the strlctness oil sur
yeDlarce with which Government guards against
printed expression OF opinion ~ least constantly
meet with Americans here who seem TO have no notion
OF IT, Because they zee newspapers ard see nothing
in them opposed TO government, and because they see
peope and he ar nothing from them opposed to overn
nent and because in their minds, pens and tongues
by alacous association OF IDEAS pass for organs OF
orpicn they argue that the people are content with
Government When On e2ith OF some month IN some
future ,ear the next French reyo0ton-which Is al
vays brcwing-shail break out il will take such Oo-
servers by turpre and they will be seeking the ori-
giD Of its causes in the evening OF the I'D =.
There is my friend Green. He judges OF the comm
ton Of Frsnce by What he ON the Boulevard des
Italians Now on the Boulevard des liaiians-as all
the world knows-One well dressed people, Two or
three comfortable. licensed mendcants, pretty shop
windows, and in tie brilliant Gates OF that street 'he
Lewsvapers of tie day ii one Oyerhears anything oil
tie conyersaon of the lOungers there It is only some
scf remark In the fashions, stocks, the weather,
on print in window. And So Green says to me,
walking there with him Yesterday, | DO not see
but hat tie French are well enough off and content
enough under Louis Napoleon Ny dear Green, do you
know that within les than fortnight s during
tic att DAYS Of brUary ana tie first day or two Of
MaIcL-about eight hundred contenred lrenchmen
have been shut up in prison here in Paris Do you
know that sceni Of government went 10 the Office Of
every newspaper in Paris, To the editors against
sAypg word about the arrests, even as an item Of
new. ard that consequently YOU have not word
shout them in the daily prints where !ou look for in
formation Do you know that large force Of soldiers
ard poll, busy last week in preventing SIX
thousand rOn!tnted Frenchmen from following the
deac body Of Republican TO his grave. and that
sen is suffered to mark that grayo-that the sign Of
tie crcss placed over il was instantly remOved, aud
that the guardians and grayediggers Of Pere la Chsise
are strictly forbidden by Government authority to tell
YOU where the body lies Ii the people are content
What need Of sixty h0u and soldiers posted within
hours ride Of this yery spot 10 keep them content
what need army Of spies 70 Oyerhear their content
Cfce TO read their content how comes il that nopop-
ulsr pCet sings their content-hat no popular author
| writes it-tbat not more than one in hundred OF
the most polite ard exciteable people in the world
bow shouts Lis content hen this chosen ruler passes
through their MIDST The French supernumeraries
who beat the COssaeh supeumersries every night up
a the Gate Theaer the learned elephant up at the
Circus receive more applause Of single evening thar
falls TO NapOleOns share in month. When people
are content or when they well enough of-and the
last condition includes the rst-tbere is permanent
moral strength in the Government. But here is Gov
eIumen that trembes at dead mems ghosts nay ever
at dead Womons ghosts.
Not long ago Mcbelet published in the Resiec o
Paris historical essay on Charlotte COTday Tn,
conductors of that periodical presently advise,
of the Governments discomfort herewith, and OF th
danger printing in future articles containing smila
susons n, or aspirations toward freedom. For month
past the AsseHIEs kaiOraic, organ Of the usonst
le,itin ists-snd supposed to be under the drectin
iIfpeIce Of Guizot- has Ientured TO make come im
apologies for Russian policy, and lastly ventured