The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-09-20

Of judgment may havs been committed his
the two countries The proceedings at the dinner would
not In themselves probably have provoked reproving
wss me isse chsrs,leT given TO the conduct
which has succeeded the entertainment.
Respectfully, your fellow citizen,
GEORGE N. SANDERS.
Our Paris Correspondence.
PARIS, MONDAY, sept 4. 1854.
The Noroleon DestinyRejectiom of the German Proposa
BY Nehosas-No Prospect Of an Aaack on the Crimaa-
Royal Co~0rss at o0ne-Dparturc Of Queen Chris
-Choera--Agricuhural Meeting-- 7heatricals--
Wooden Legs
The historian who shall day present to his readers
and progress and subsequent result of the Euro
pean crisis witch commenced In the latter half Of the
nineteenth century, win find his materials rich in dra
matte Details and We, who obliged to stand by, wait
ing the tardy fulAment Of the various dcnouenH
have to envy the qualification future gen
Grafton may receive from the moving diorama the inter
esting volume viii afford him. With What emotion will
thu author indte the st leaves Of his book-how
cay viii he glance at the winding up of that great war;
ending In the imprisonment of its hero 10 lone inhos
ptatle island In the far far Atlantichow will hs point
to the strange peace that whose tranquility
was that bondage aud whose nightmare sleep
ken by the clank Of chairs-and how will he trace the
singular Of one, the Incarnation Of the spirit OF
ailenee, whc-despissd and moc Cd, and scornei de.
feated exiled prsoned for than lusrn. as
If, ~ the wand of necromancer, suddenly barsts
before the eyes of the afrighted kings, and ia
the Of his martyred ancestor summoned ali Europe
osen TO his word aud the reader page after
page and observes the dromstic exit Of Louis Philippe
the rise Of the second republc It's struggles ealouses
and final extinctionwheD by Its military occupation or
Rome and tho mission Of Lsvalstts at Constantnope
had biindy made way for the g~as its despsed Pfes
dent was wonderfully to follow out-hs will perhaps
think that the world must have been very dsd,ieot in
discrnment not to have foreseen natural of
things
In tho meantime, you and must be content with
living this marvellous history aud conjecturipg welt
may, its future moves its present phases and its
strange contrasts and contradictions. At this very
ment there ID full occupation for minds 1t is clear
that Russia does ne intend to have snything to do with
the late propositions which have been made to her.
Count Benckendorf, as we learn from Berlin,
reached Pathas the 1st inst, and inform
ed the King Of Prussia that tho Czsr entirely
repudated them. Sweden recois from the dangerous
present Of Bomarsund Austria eonceves she has done
enough by the occupation Of the Principalities snd
there is onous sound from the shores Of the East
that the great expedition cannot take place this year.
The last accounts inform that Marshal St Arnaud
then holding council Of to the feasibility, under
the state Of suffering which cholera and fever had sub
jected the army to- Of attempting any attack the
Crimea this season. and the common opinion to
be that such venture win 10 made. Should 1t be
decided. it's quite impossible to ovsrestimats the
pcatioh that may arise. The old proverb about ths
essentially illustrated in tho person Of Lord Aberdeen
In oil English wars the Prime Minister is pinned to the
sleeve Of his TO certain degree and must rise
pected Of having sympathies with the enemy, such
pcstpuuement Of active measures cannot fail to be
Of e ministry W viii be- certain, and some OF tie
consequences limited at in the letter Of your
EDgli.h correspondent who signs himself "Universty
Ciubn will IN all probability, result. But what may take
place in England s nothing to that which cessation OF
active hostes may give rise TO among German interests
on again under strangely different auspices those
1854 Tho cholera and the fever have been bad enough
heaven Knows and no doubt they have loft he army weak
past. he extreme heats have already gone, and the
prospec. Of immediate action, would think, would
tend to revive the whole spirit Of the forces The crisis
Ia Of those which seems to call for some gallant
young spirits such the French revolutionary gave
TO- and who by into their followers spark
triumph obstacles insurmountable to the ssptsge
parians who now monopcze the command Of the armed
exactly The dilemma where as At the bridge Of Arcoa,
tie fight Of genius "a seen TO so and shake her pnions
II is not impossible that the kingly congress. which
takes place to-day at Bouogne, may have something to
DO with this ~ well as other erave matters And here
again. ID rich material for the future Macaulay Of these
tines Napoleon the Ihro like His great ancsstsr ATTY
years since st Dests the centre and cynosure Of
right royal drama The Prince Consort the hing de dco
Of The proudest naticn h preceded BY his guards
ard royal equpsges has t,ben ship for the chores OF
Isnce. over which rules with far greater power
despised and rejected few short years ago. s Eagands
court, and who spit upon absolute nulhty BY
the saees OF the British empire the Of which We'd
with each other In heapDg him abuse and caiumny
There too has arrived another king whose Atful
only less strarg and romantic than that Of the Impe
rial host he visits. II when the star Of Napoleon
setting, and galaxy Of foveregns assembled before
tina wondering eyes Of Englishmen, that precisely ffty
years sgo Leopold won the heart Of the youthful Char
otte Princess Of Wales and inhsrrix Of the most brill
liant diadem In the world With income valued, at
that time, at f8OO by the year, thu fairy wand
Of fortune converted him into the possssor Of $4,000
year, and the happy husband sf for whom oil tho
Who does not remember how that Of bliss
changed when Britain In tears a. for her only
child, when her crown without heir and Leopold
became nothing more to her than knight the sorrow
cbequer his annual Gfty thousand. Bat again the
shifts and the Whoever OF England has become
King Of Belgium and bridegroom; and his father In law
Is the citizen king Of Frarce The star Of his horoscope
Of hs kingdom not extensive they are such they
are, taken from the sucoessioo Of prince who his
ancient rival and they such have enabled him to
teoome one OF the most consEicuous, most wise, and
widowerhs father n law l. no longer king Of Francs,
and the inheritance has psmed away sogsther from hs
limo and now he stands with cap Ia hand before him,
whose great Anossofs fan 6ru called him Into light and
n ne Of whess ascsnansy he tshos the arsr
Of Leopold sxtinct bat hs oontradistion of things
IN Leopohs sAse, = rendered stm co1paste b he
fast that ON this occasion, IN the audsnes chs6e Of