The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-01-07

Try the Air OF Constantinople for q change. It
finding himself obliged to "pay general, r-to be
what he actually Is, but o nominal, q titaor COM
mander-had made his tent ,entre Of annoyancas
TO the successor OF Marshal de Saint Arnaud as 1t
had previously been to the Marshal himself. Tois
accounts, perhaps, for the miraculous recovery of
the Prince, after the commander in.chief (acting
doubtless IN conformity with home instctions) fou id
had made in exposing Napoleon TO the chances of
rldcule. The courage Of CAESARS nephew, like the
chastity OF Caesars wife, should be above suspicion
NO doubt the inexperience of the Prince In military
AFFAIRS cannot prevent his exhibiting the cour sge
which Is so universal trait OF tho Frenchman thas
while rts absence Is disgrace its possession is
special honor. 1t is quite improbable that certain
high parsonage as well as the public, should have
been provoked by his cousins Iuslady 10 ssy, as is
whispered, also, that wnen man il sick aud quits
Sebastcpol, ne ought to de- like Saint Arnaud. on
the passage" II these hard words had bean spoken
they would have had more authority, uttered, not
with ones feet resting the andir0Q8 Ut 81. Cloud,
but standing in the trenches before Sebastopol.
Another mot (expressionl has been ascribed to
the same high parsonage. While the Emperor was
writing his recent tstteriDg letter to the Com.
manderin Chief of the Eastern army, he received
visit from another cousin Princess Of Baden, and
Malchioneas OF Hamilton, who ID sometimes
honoIed with confidential conversations by her
august relative. They talked politics and the East
ern war like every body else. Tho Warehouses
quite naively remarked that the situation Of things
did not seem to her msrveIlously encouraging.
Her opinion not disputed, but she re ,eived the
following reply, spoken with an accent in which
there was as much modesty as melancholy
Cue roules oous, ma cousine? Nous prendrons
nofys reUanchs sur e Rim au printemps. L ne puts
pas etre en- C,imee, n,ats je serai sur k Rhin" Que
coa!es Uous (ths phrase is transferable only by q
shrgg)-"My cousin, we shall take our revenge on
shall Be- s on Re Rhine Sn Did o. no the pss
poeon exclaim. apropos Of the battle Of Trafalgar,
re ne puts pas etre part0nt'-"I can't be every
Amop0 <Na Local tavc. 20 d. -. Ia "a xroob ,,.oS
tie crumbhng down of Two old houses near the
| Hotel de Vile, Gone of them house OF ill-fame,
and both butt Jut three hundred years ago. and
the execution Of Dombey, the youthful murderer
boxed up. as Colt did that Of Adams; and after
sending 1t to the Lyons railway station, dnisaed
the day ovially at the ball Of she Closere de Las.
Dombey WAS guilotined in frcn. OF the prison Of La
Roquette considerable number of Englishmen
and Americ ans were it is said, among the specta-
tols. / confess that ! was not OF the number.
Many years ago. saw one of the w0uld-be assas
sins OF Louis Philippe guillotined, and my uojusti
fable curiosity was satated.
Mr.. McRae, United States Consul at Paris, has re-
turned from his visit to Washington as bearer of
dispatches relative to the Diplomatic coneren at
Ostend. ''Ali has been tranquil ut the office of
the American embassy since tae Soule difficulty vas
brought to pacific solution thanks to the conduct,
at once firm and judcious, Of Mr. Mason. If not also
to the obstinate walls of Sebastopo that boulevard
| OF Russia. Mr. Piatt is expected to return from
Washington about she lst of January. Meanwhile,
Mr. M. b. Field, of New York, is actag as Secretary
Mr. Fleisch mann, late United States consul at
Stuttgart ar for many years attached to the Patent
Office at Washington, mas issued from the Office for
merry occupied on the Boulevard des Italiens as a
consulate by Mr.. Goodrich, Journal of ample pro.
portions entitled The 44mtyican. 1t is chiefly in
tended for the present, at least, advertising
mt dunn; but ex Consul FIeischmSnn you'd not be
unwilling, II sufficiently encouraged; to make it,
one OF these days, successful rival of Gahgnon's
Messenger. FIGARO.
PARIS, Dec. Is, 1854.
French Opinion Of the american Press-Ihe Neuc
York Herald at its Head, Type Of an American
Journal, and Model Newspaper for the World
Mr.. Benmett-Pope Bro,cnson.
A series OF articles, entitled " La Presse y Amer
ique," CThe American Press,) has lately appeared
in the Prssse. II was prefaced by an editorial
note, which introduced Mr. Bslegarrigue as the
author of that piquant and remarkable work,
Les Femmes rAmerique," (Americ,n Women)
as well az of the articles These" it said, the
Presse inserts, inasmuch as it practices the liberty
Of the press"-" but, 1t pradently added, /" under
the responsibility of his name"
The Presse might well be cautious about endors-
ing the paradoxes of Mr.. Bellegarrgue; for what
ever measure Of truth they may contain, some Of
them would not only startle all the philosophers
who from Moses to M. Guizot, have believed that
power (e Ponuoir) is the product Of science, re-
veaed or natural, shock not few subscribers to
the PJesse, and evan provoke the vigilance OF the
Procurtur Imperial, whose notions OF authority &C
cord more closely with these of M. Troplong,
President of the Imperial Senate, than with those
Of Mr.. Bellegarrgue, and scandalize alike the
pbilan.bropic and the devout by snnihilating the
soul and deit tying the dollar, but would also be
liable to be disputed by the very people whom
BellegarIigue processes to admire for having, he
phrases it., revolutionized the moral world by
DESERVING fictions for facts"
According to him. the American people has done
more than emancipate itself from fear, the original
link in the chain of pc yer, Of authority Of govern
ment, in the European sense of tine term. IL has
also referred all moral phenomena to the cash
book. Is has given mercantile definition TO
honor, 70 glory, love, art science worship patr 1t
ism-to all that additionally exalts itself on the dis
dain of material interests. The basis Of American
liberty is mercantile that of French liberty issep
mental. The Americans assimilate ideas aud pastry
a doctrine and cabbage, as marketable articles.
They devote thIeefourths of journal to advertise
ments, which take precedence far before the less
important, that Is the editorial, intellectual de-
paitment, because the former "pay bsttet" and con
tain, moreover, more matter Of practical utility
than all that has been written, from Confuscius
down to Jean Jacques Rousseau. They estimate
the worth Of man by how much money he il
worth. Finally, God himself is measured aud
weighed in the United Siases coniormaby - me
metrical system. The practical atheism Of the Anne
ricsn people awakens in their French admirer all
the enthusiasm Of woich such cold blooded mate
rialist as be is, or affects to be- is capable.
need not waste my time, nor my readsrs tine,
(times is money French printers alsays prnt the
| axiom, which all Americans Of course believe) in
| controversy with NJ. Belegarrigue. To be sure,
this will confirm him In his notion that controversy
i La farlil d1u ftuIt Liz