New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-10-31
FRANCE.
From Our Own Correspondent.

From Our Own Correspondent
PARIS, Monday, Oct. l6, 1854.
Marshal 81. Arnaud is getting inferred to-day
nj public expense, with all the hOI0rs, according
to programme. Paris is out to enjoy the spec
tacle-out of doors and out of windows. when,e
project bouquets of faces, shawls, caps and hats,
which with similar parti-colored objects on all
the balconies, give to the inclosiDg sides Of the
Boulevards as much gaiety Of appearance as the
funeral procession gives to the carrlage-way ltset
The Marshal's remains we're borne along the Bou.
leyards on their way from the Lyons Railway
citation to the t. NIB of the Invalides an hour ago.
They were preceded and followed by some thou
sands of sOldiers-sample companies, battaGOns
CT regiments of every arm in the French military
service. There were store of highly capsrisoncd
generals and other officers near the funeral car;
then came the dead mans horse, draped in sad
housings with the seeming of an honest mourner;
then the official carriage Of the late grand equer-
ry elabOrately ornate and empty-preachipg it's
sermon on the vanities OF the world with two
horse power and the slightest effect upon the con-
RregatiOn on the sidewalk and in the balconies
for presently after came Imperial and embassa-
dorial carriages, English and Turkish, still more
fusely belaced preaching up the pOmps and cir
cumstances with the most efficaciOus visual rhet-
oric The turnout was brilliant, the state of the
atmosphere tolerable order generally preserved,
the military music very fine, and people much
amused. Cafes and wine shops on the line OF the
procession did an uncOmmonly good business up
to the time of its passing in the way OF half cups,
little glasses of brandy, and larger ones OF wine;
and another good business when it passed, IN the
way of letting places at their windows within, and
upon their stools chairs and tables without A
precarious position on rheumatic table near
where 1 stood was sold for a franc; hard by a
couple man and wife, were balancing themselves
each on waterproof; behind me was pretty child
perched on her fathers shoulder, with her arm on
his forehead, mainly Obscuring the paterpal vision
and all around were people, needless Of holy
writ taking painful thought how they could add
to their stature vantage inch over that of their
preclusive neighbors. With all this they were as
quiet as though the Emperor himself had been
passing in gala. The papers tomorrow will tell
you that they filled with solemn emotions-a
nation of mourners. 1t was not the case. They
remarked on the uniforms, they discussed the en-
bassadOrial carriages, they wondered how long the
procession would be, and when the wonder was
solved they hustled away about their business or
their pleasure. There was no special reason for
their mourning st. Arnauds death. He died well
enough for soldier better than he lived, not bet
ter than thousands upon thousands of soldiers have
died within the twelvemonth He gets his blow
of trumpets and frst-class tomb, and more or
less pages in history; the soldiers will be huddled
pell-me into one common paragraph.
As it is quite possible that the last steamer car
ried to you Barbes's letter to the editor of the
Moniteur, l will not translate it here. 1t offers
rare instance of selfrespect of dignity to,oard
oneseg." The difference of external position
between the unsuccessful and the success
fal political coDspirator weighs so little in
Barbess appreciation of the Emperor as not
even TO lead him TO abuse. He feels AS lit
tie need to make up the difference by blus-
terlng as disposition to recognize il by crouch
ing. The imperial policy in liberatiDg so thor
ough-going republican and so thorough going
revolutionist as Barbes can hardly be supposed
to Ind Its motive in the imperial admiration for
Barbes's patriotic sentiments No; Barbes.
broken in health, scrupulousIy watched if he re,
NAMED In the country, powerless if he went into
voluntary exile, would not be very dangerous out
ofprison. 1.-The died in prison-and that was not
imprebable-his death would be remembered
against the Emperor. The order for release. in
the form that il was given, was intended ad Bun
eombe; II not only looked like generosity, but like
the generosity OF strength TO weakness. As
strength and weakness are in public opinion it at
once elevated the Emperor and degraded Barbes
Barbes saw through the trick and felt the insult;
and when at last he consented 10 leave the prison
cent 10 the PreSSe the letter which you have since
In the MORtteM. on course the PrtSSe dared not
publish what would have been its own death War
rant But the Government publishes 1t next day
in the MoRiteur and wisely. For on one hand it
shows strength again, and then it shows the IN
gratitude of Bsrbes and (the inference is patiently
OF all the Emperors enemies. These things the
publication shows-to Buncambe. On the other
hand Barbes, once abroad, would have had this
letter, or probably worse Sne, printed, and
would have procured for il rcViation @y means
that are in constant use for the spreading of for
hidden printed matter in France. If there be
any truth in the old gossip which the death and
funeral of ST. Arnaud revive. Louis Ma, ,Oeon was
much more afraid of his right-hand nan in the
work of December than Of any red repub Gcan in
or out Of Jail.
But to leave the world of politics. In another
II did not say better world-the disappearance
Of Mademoiselle Sophie Cruyelli from the board,
Of ibe Grand Opera, from her lodgings, from