The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-18
AFFAIRS IN EUROPE.


Our Paris Correspondence.
PARIS, April %, 1854
M Progress Of the CampaignProbable In urecionary
Movement in Haly-Cautious Tonecf boti Austria an
Erssia-7he Aontalembert 4gar-Min stsrial Crisis :
Differences betsceeH NJ NJ Persigny and Fould.
The Eastern question is stil at the same point The
Turks defend themselves best they cam but they ere
always obliged in the end to yield ground After having
abandoned Kustendj and the Dobrudscha i Is probable
that they will continue their retreat TO the Balkan ana
viii content themselves with defending this latter me
The European re Inducements arrive with great
and measures are already being taken 10 increase W
$50 900 men the contingent Of the expedtonary ioroe
By Of this the Allies hope to tear
from Russia Finland, Poland, and other mporlah. por
lions Of her territory Al that can be safely predcted
i, the nresent early stage Of hoses is that the war
win be extremely long and difficult Matters may turn
out favorably Baltic for the Western Powers but
in the south Of Europe they thorny aspect, and
the probability insur dictionary movement in Italy
is no traing Of embarrassment for the French
government which fully sensible that ii will have the
effect of arrayng Austria the side Of Russia. The
Of the Court Of Vienna towards this government
has intimated to you in my last letter, been stud
ousy courteous and amicable without engaging it to
anything positive regards the future The conduct
Of Prussia has been equally guarded, although such
flourish made about the Kings letter. in the columns
of the Moniteur.
But you win scarcely credit it, although it is not the
less true that the principal Of anxiety to the
government just is the Montalembert affair The
bring home the offence of copoage of the letter to its
author but it has failed. NJ villeman and number Of
deputies and journalists were examined but they all
stated that they had knowledge Of the letter until
they the copy which NJ Bllault, author of all this
trouble caused TO be deposited in the sale des coece
that notwithstanding the serve zeal Of the tribunals
It Is doubtful whether condemnation will be obtaned
and If be- it will congn to oblivion for couple of
days the question: and resuscitate for the
space Of time in the Legislative Corps the parliamentary
system and all this in order to afford NJ Montaembert
opportunity of washing himself from the faint Of his
previous devotion to absolutism
II il said that NJ. Monalembert having lately
tered the Emperor in of his drives the latter saluted
him gracously and pointed him out to the Empress.
The Catholic orator about to make his re
in the Chamber in the discussion the law of public
instruction
Notwithstanding the inviolability with which the
silence of the and the harmlesness Of the tribune
surrounds the cabinet there has been for days past
sort OF ministerial crisis. NJ Persigny, clever pot
can thoroughly devoted to the Emperor but as an ad
minstrator utterly incapable has received powerful
shock. II has arisen from fresh quarrel of the most
violent nature between him and NJ Fould. NJ Persgry,
1T should be stated represents the fanatic Bonapatsm
de la rele whilst Fould is Bonapartlst from inte
rest The abandonment of his functions by one or the
other appeared inevitable NJ de Persgny sent his
signation, but it was not accepted as 1t would have
been extremely difficult to replace him, few the
men Of political capacity who have given their adhesion
laut scessivey mentioned his successor bit
all these necessary in the position which they occu
py 1t is thought, nevertheless, that N. De Persgny
will not remain. He has been obliged to sacrifice his
chef de cabinet N. Girard
pear the 9th Of May after months of
but the government exacs the dismissal of poor devil
Of an editor-M Charles Leteler, who signed more ar
tces than he wrotethose of Guizot amongst others
that this will be obliged to expate in his
person the past sins of this journal
circular bearing the i'm press Of democratic and
socastc tendencies of the Archbishop Of Pars-who is
not the less the humble courer Of the powers that be-
has excited certain degree Of sensation by its attacks on
masters and employers who make their people work
Sundays The Cure Of St Louis d. Ann refused to allow
it to be read In his church.
his re appearance in part which he plays admirably
in piece called ola Bonnie Aventure" The piece is
the actor who has been studying it for the last six
months, did not scruple to play it upon a Friday.
PARIS Monday, May l, 1854.
Effect Of the Necs Of the Bombardment Of Odessa-Some
Of The Old Leaen Of National Jealousy still Remaining
Madame 81. Arnauds Portable Battery for the Turkish
Cdmpaisn-The Emperor Of Austrias Marriages.
Nan Condemned to Ticelre Months imprisonment for
Predicting the Fall Of Napoleon-7he Loss Of the
EcrO'amo-7he Second Spring sporting Neetino) in e
Champs den Mars-Russian Intrigues in Portugal.
The month of May, which, amid the singing of birds
the carol Of light hearted labor recalls to the
cheek and atenuated form of nature the blushng
and verdant leaf now after the silence and repose of
forty years. awakes the echoes of Europe with the sound
of booming cannon and the cries of slaughter.
The excitement caused in Paris by the news of the
bombardment of Odessa is of character peculiar,
that very much doubt whether any description Of it
does entirely exceed your correspondents ability
If we're simply the enthusiasm which the successful
Of ;ghf nd mic
naturally supposed generate there would perhaps
be no great difficulty. But the feeling to which am
abiding is of much complex character. First Of
all there certainly the qualification Of knowing, at
length tangible property for the imagination to feed
upon The Cerberus Of curiosity was growing mis-.
chevous for lack Of food and this is real scp" But
there is green. eyed monster which has quite much
to do with the Gallo diosyncracy Cerberus and some
how other, Notwithstanding their own feet const
tutes moiey of the Black Sea squadron, this lombard
ment Odessa whether from the circumstance of the
French admiral being second in command, its being
accomplished by that of warfare in which England
ia admitted to be SUPERIOR is looked upon almost
purely English victory.
Puere as all this must appear those afar of, aud
looking down as America may proudly do, upon the
struggles Of the Old World there is in it than meets
the eye The proscrptve jealousy of the two nations
Is In full blaze beneath the crust of the Western al
lance At Gallapo their armies cannot encamp togeth
without private letters exhibiting full indications OF
II and sooner is conquest effected on the Black
Sea- than morbid dread takes possession Of the French
mind lest the power and influence England should be
sole result Of IT, In her increased facility with India
In matters OF this kind there is generally cunning
spirit who pulls the strings and NJ THEIRS whether just
ly no. Is suspected to be very lively at this moment
On Saturday, the goth, Marshal de st. Arnaud en-
barkcd in the Bertholet Madame de St. Arnaud takes
with her it RECORDED wardrobe of sixty Of the most
superb dresses that Madame Camille could turn of to
astonish the worthless at Constant inople.
Admiral Hamelin comm andant- in. chief Of the French
squadron In the Black Sea- has written under date Of
the 10th Of April that the English steam rgate Furious
went the 9Th to Odessa, TO claim the Uonsuls and
such Of subjects might wish TO leave the place at
the approach Of hosties with Russia; that the Fur
Gus arrived there yesterday and in throwing he says
your eye over the report OF the captain OF that gate
your Excelency will that notwithstanding the flag of
truce which she had hoised and which her boat also
carried the batteries Of Odessa treacherously fired
cannon the boat, few minutes after she had
left the quay" This, he continues is a proceeding
without example, is necessary to back to 1922 the
period at which the Dey Of Aeiers did the TO the
Provence (bu this line OF battle ship in order to