The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-02-12
ADDITIONAL FROM EUROPE.
ANGL0AmERICAN INVESTIGATIONS IN CHINA.
The Military and fOlltIcsl q citations o fFrance,
Prussia and Austria.
DO, 3d., 30.

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Our Panss Correspondence.
PARIS, Tuesday, January %, 1856.
Reasons for Disbelief in the Probability Of a
Speedy Peace Russia tn a Better Position than
Ever-War 10Th Her Necessary to the Existence
Of the Present French Dyncsty-H,stortcal Sow
vsnirs-Mtrodaction Of Cast Iron Houses into
Probationary Of M. Mason-Anticipated
ARRIVAL of Queen Pomare in Paris-The French
F0uynissenrs in a Ftoer of Anriety, SC, &c.
see nothing in the political horizon of a nature
to induce me to withdraw any Of the opinions l
have been led to form touching the probabilities of q
peaceful termination Of the present embroiled as
pect Of Europe. On the contrary, the further / dive
into those inner recessss Of society, where the secret
spring is thought to exist whence flows the fountain
Of political events, the more am | confirmed in the
views which on this subject ! have ventured to en-
dorse.
There are four active belligerents at present be-
fore public opinion, and It Is doubtful whether, al.
though all are ringing the changes on the word
peace" three Of them, at least, would accept it on
anyother conditions than that of having their own
way; but It Is the peppercorn rent which nations
are compelled to offer to him who was the Prince Of
Peace, to speak with Gospel words in their mouths.
while they harness themselves to the chariot Of the
Father Of Lies. Tat poor, wretched Turkey may
have already had enough of it is quite Ineligible,
but, like the forlorn maiden betwixt two savage
bandits, on which ever side the victory prevails, she
must have some misgiving, by this tipe, that her
fate will be q hard one. But England, though sore
ly vexed and tried, aud perfectly confounded that
"all the talent " should have thus dragged her ar
my into the dirt, and held it up for pity,
and perhaps something worse, in the pre-
sence of that ally with whom for ages she hiss
commended for the mastery OF the world,
has not q notion of making peace, except on terms
which it is absurd to suppose the Emperor Of Russia
would %ssultify himself by conceding. That eyeutu.
ally, q very powerful peace party may not spring
up, do not say; but that Is altoge ether another
questiOn-one which France some few years hen 1
may have to settle with her after another fashion
than the present-for the nom snt, however, Fog.
land is committed to the war, and the sturdy Anglo
Saxon blood will only ierment ths more for wha. is
now going on in the Cfimea. As Tor Russia, she is
wise to talk of it; but why, say the most astute
thinkers, should she seriously have it 10 her
thoughts. The English army offers her a spectacle,
which, since the days Of Wslchsren, has NOT been
seen; she has nothing to do but let it alone; the
OiCuuOnbc III ~ IovauSHoO IL you Will uO LCE u
~unfsiling friends. The accounts which the Bri
tiih press daily supplies the Cars breakfast table
with, must bs as comforting and c~onsoling as the
breakfast itself. He may well believe from all he
reads that the DAY IL not distant when the alliance
against him ehsl assume q new phase. In the
meantime by o lax of peace-how does he not fret
and bamboozle Austria, who, like the tabled ass, is
sofeIy tried between the bundle Of hay and the pail
OF water; and already, BY this dextercus stroke of
diplomacy, he Is enabled to dispatch q forcs TO the
Crimea, which would other wise have been destined
to occupy Bessarabia and defend the Russian from
tier.
There only remains France to speak Of. have
said before that the policy Of the Bonapartist dy-
peror undoubtedly said AT Bordeaux the contrary
''L'Empire c'esf la ~pair'-and yet both opinions
may be true. The great Napoleon always pleaded
that he only fought for peace; in other words, to
t have sa things Ia,s, al h .,;o0 own n way n;y dssce sn1s Is pr SsmoGs
apothegm. Else, what was the meaning of the tete
ds aigies, when all France was called upon to re-
member those Imperial glories 30 cruelty e,lipsed by
the treaties Of Vienna, and the Nemesis OF which
now ruled the destinies Of her rising auspices; and
since that day, when hundreds Of thousands Of her
metropolitan population looked on With distrust--
when every European representative smiled with
scarce concealed contempt, and the very legions,
whose splendid array gave glory to that superb
spectacle, dtfled before the author Of it-msny Of
them in moody silence, with averted look-what o
change has taken place! Now, England, whose
press was then hourly vomiting forth on his exc
Grated head oil the vials Of hatred and wrath, is mis-
sworn friend and %ally-nay, almost leans upon his
bosom for projections lifted out OF the mud OF
Balaklsva by his plying hand, and fed with bis
cult and wholesome coffee to keep her from utterly
perisbing Of raw pork and green grain; and that
army, then bat hall gained over, and concsaling in
its ranss many whose HyDpathies we're more With
the barricsoes than the banner they bore, but nov
rampaIt IN his praise, snd pfuming its ~festhers aud
shaking It's wings, g. il the young eagle or its stan
dsId babe it soar sloft and fly to the nttermost ends
Of the eartn. And the people! what Is their Ian
gusge when he asks for f2O. 600 900 III this very war
po'cy, ana they pour into bis lap more tnan qua l.
-uple the amount. And Is this the man, ana Is TINS
the time for such O man to listen to peace, when,
mailed 10 ne teeth, with an enthusiastic army
wound 20 its highest pitch by n rivalry 10 II suk,
when has In fact ceased 70 be O rivalry az oil, and
with an excLeqaer which over powers nun BY us "a
bulops abuDosuce? The Gar and he stand face TO
face, the persGpihcation OF the East and toe West.
As yet, neither party has lost or won. 1t may be
questioned whether either is taken by surprise, aud
has not long forcseen the hour ~hicn should bring
them, ike the Achilles and Hector of our schooldays,
TO decide By his individual strength and Sslor the
fate OF myriads.
IL Is the general opinion that Prussia would not
be permitted, even were she so disposed, to take
any position which might remove her out Of the
hostile shadow Of France. The enmity OF that power
is necessary to the present dynastic policy which
seeks TO revive the limits 81 the First Empire. Rad
the following from the C0nstitg.tonn THAT semi
Official ioufnal--snd thsu read the contradiction. or
rather comment, OF 10 days Mon'lsar, and judge Of
lite sinceftY:-
"In 1892, when France Was seitated ~ home aod
attacked abroad, Prussia, thinking the position OF
France exceedin gly totternH, declared war against
her. Thrto years after, when France seemed on the
poiut Of tfiamphing over t1e coalesced po scrs, Prus-
Kin abandoned her allies aDd passed over 70 the slts
ot the Convention, and was the first OF the great
powers tina recognized the republic. Four years
after that period, France having experienced The
vicisstudes OF war-battles having been lost Ia Italy
and Switzerland, and the republic being msnaceo
both In the North aud south-Prussia again changed
her views and declared against France. Bat,
some time after, when the Engish were driven ont
OF Holland, and the Russians beaten at Zurich, Pros.
sa again became the ally Of France. Ia 1905 Aus
tria armed, and Russia having joined her, Prussia
signed q TREATY, In which she spoke Of he /" eternal
hatred which she bore to France. But the battle