New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-21

circles "--bungl'ne 40 badly and a. boldly a. the
rest Gen. Canrobert cs1e into Paris = day or
two ago n quietly a. commits poyagow. The
Swedish alliance is no longer mentioned A Poly.
glot edition Of the various interpretations and
dilutions and distortions of few sentences in Ma
pOleon's little speech delivered 1t the close Of the
Universal Exhibition last month would equal in
volume nearly all the literary remains OF classic
antiquity. This week we have an explanatory
note by a responsible editor, the French Minister
of Foreign Affairs, in which we are told, in few
words, over the shoulders of French foreign rep
resentatives (for the circular note Of NJ Walewski
10 directed to them, under cover as it were, for
the world at lsrse), that his Majesty, in that fs-
| nous speech, said what he meant and mean. what
he ssid-just that and nothing more.
II is well enough to observe here that what Ma
pOleon has said out Of his own mOlth-written
over his own hand (his speeches, 50 called, are
| always read from carefully written manuscript,
which geneI ally in the hands Of the printers con-
temporaEeously with the oral delivery for the
past three years. has been passably clear, straight
forward, honest and true When he wishes TO
threaten, promise or prophesy at risk fn,,
when there ia mere tentative bamboOzlement,
polite swagser or Justification in the csse-he
| ratfer employs some one OF the many reader
writer for the Monteur or for the official
journals, the putting at stake of whose character
| is of slight consequence TO themselves or to the
public. His Majesty has an eye to pos serity. The
collected edition of bis discOurses hundred years
hence will read well as nearly consistent whole
| batting the solemn oath of Is49 and the I" Cos
SCREENS nous la RepaHique" Of January, 1852.
Whether Capagnac, or GuerrOhiere, or Grim or the
rest were consistent, will be of course TO the pos
terity, who will hardly know Of their existence a
matter of as supreme Indifference as is to-day
their employer.
To jadee from what Russian correspondents
write, special preparation is making to repel the
nfif n no lies in ha and in
next year. To judge from what appears here, If
the var 5ntiDues, the campaign will open vigOr-
ousy on the part Of the Allies in the Crimea. The
conquest of the CTimea is TO be completed before
the campaign on the Pruth commences More
troops have been cent to the Peninsula than have
been withdrawn from it-so that there are there
to day 10000 French, 10000 English and aboI.
10000 SardiDisns. OF the poor Turks, the nominal
principals In the business, no account is made by
the managing gartners. A side question Id the
general issue Twill some uDprejudiced person have
the kindness to say phdt the general issue is the
future constitution Of the Princpa)ities grows in
immediate Importance There is talk OF erecting
them into al Independent kingdom under protec-
ton (heayen help them y of other European States
with an Austrian Archduke for their ruler with
an Italian Prince for their ruler, and forth The
question of consulting the R0msines themselves as
to their future constitution is not mOOted just 1t
present. thanks Indirectly to the strenuous efforts
.
and that sort of hing, they are ridden and harsssed
by an Austrian military despOtism. Austria is
de jactO Soyere2 n over MOdavia and Wallacaa,
at their present uniting the two mosthspessly i'll
ruled districts of the world this side Of Central
Africa.
Speaking of Africa-nOt to change the subject
teo suddenly-dd il ever strike you to inquire in
your owu mind or of the minds of others whether
those Africans monarcs or people, were capable
OF greater iolles than we enlightened nations?
The question came up last evening at pleasant
table, mainly beset by newly arrived Americana
where i had the good fortune to be guest. one
of the couIiers was m king himself very merry
over the order of the Elephant with which Gen.
Canroberi, the famous missionary to Sweden has
returned decorated. He obtained this decoration
from Denmark by the way, MT from Sweden. 1t
is odd enough, indeed, that any Scandinavian |
monarch should institute kDighty order with |
that tropical animal for its sign, but that the |
monarch of Denmark, the smallest OF European |
States, should see fit to deal out 50 great beast |
in way of compliment, is funnier yet Suppose |
the King of TmbuctOo instituting the Order of
the Great Polar Bear, and then the gravity with |
which these droll signs OF honor are given and
taken. TIE King Of Sardinia (he should come
back to France today carries with him pocket |
full of assorted merits. He makes Prince Napoleon
a knight Of the AnnuncistiOn, and the Archbishop
Of Paris knight of the Order OF st. Maurice and
st. Lazarus. Lazarus in his rags, with the dogs |
licking his sores, could hardly have anticipated
thst he was to bsptize an order OF knightho0d. |
Really, we rather sdIpass the Central Africans
what with our elephants golden feeces, Lazaruses,
holy ghosts carriers, &c, there Ia nothing to |
compare with it, quOth our host of yesterday even
ing, unless it be the whimsical breastpins Of
our American oOllegeboys, the cOlOnelcies of our
American militia, and the judgsships of our Amer
lean bench This led TO the telling of an anus
ing story how one of our five cOuntrymen who has |
been recently decorated with the cross of the |
&C, 600 Frenchman to-day was supposed by some
rank high in our army. The FIVE Americans who
may say here in . historical way, are DIR. Jack |
son. (wbo did not discover the application of ether
or chlorOfOrm in surgical operations y Mr.. Evans,
who takes care of his present Majesty teeth Mr. !
Valentine, the worthy President of our C0mmis- |
siopers at the Exposition; Mr.. Marshall Woods OF |
Rhode Island who, and Lieut. Jerome Bonsparte, |
who has served only two campaigns and thirteen |
months in the French army. One Of the guests last
ewing maintained that the passion for outward |
distinction was not peculiarly French European,
African, military or collegi.n, gave me copy of
an American civilians card in proof, with liberty |
to "make such use Of it as / would" trans.
cribe il as curiosity, emitting the rame Of the
author of this somewhat extensive wOrk-omitting
also the effects of linear arrangement: Mr.. -.
Commissioner of New.York ior the Universal
Exhibition of Industry, Paris. Vice President
Honorary Universal Society Of Industry, London.
"Vice-Presdent Honorary Society Of Inventors
land Artists Of France Associate Editor and
Proprietor Of the follows the name Of news
paper New York" n. b - In emitting prepO-