New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-29
AFFAIRS IN FRANCE.
From Our Own Correspondent

PARIS, thursday, June Ia, 1888.
Pelissier has added to his fast-growing repu-
tation by his reports Of June 6 and T. Govern
ment considered them important enough to post
at the Bourse and at the corners Of the streets
last Saturday. These, with the report of the
evacuation of Anapa by the Russians and the
details we are receiving almost daily of the pre-
vous affairs that have been conducted TO suc-
cessful issue since the new Commander-in-
Chief took Office, warm and strengthen more
and more the confidence in final decisive vic
tory and conquest of Sevastopol Undoubtedly
if that place is recorded to be TAKEN Pelissier
is the man to justify the record. He is full of
daring, of initiative as the French say, and
thIinks from TO responsibility. His hrmness
toward the Allies j. equal to his impetuOsty
against the enemy Poor, gentlemanly, dilatory,
sbaby, dubious, anile Lord Raglan finds in him
the master he needs. The unity of command
and Of action which he insists upon, doubles
the effectiveness of the Allies. 1t may hurt the
vanity of the English as much as il does tickle
the vanity of the French, and may in the end cause
the rupture OF the alliance, which some, with
with that fathers the thought are already prophe-
sying in an early future. Meanwhile ii is as rea-
sOnabe az ii is necessary to the attainment OF the
end for which the alliance was formed, that the
party which furnishes the largest army and the
only competent leader should have the controlling
voice in the Crimea. 1t is for want of common
head and strong one that the Allies passed so
fruitless winter in that peninsula. Canrobert
lacked the bold, masculine vigOr of brain and VIII
to devise and carry out clear comprehensive plan,
and excellent soldier az he is in subordinate COM
mand, retired from enc he had not sought, weared
with its tangled knot of difficulty that Pellssler
does not hesitate to cut The English will do best
10 bear with this trenchant manner In the Crlmea,
and in good part from their own fault, they are
sunk from the equal position of auxliaries to that
of ancaries. In the Baltic thus far, that Is so
far as forms go-and it is doubtful whether their
ships 60 any further than to be in form before
Cr0nstsdt-tLey maintain their old prestige as
maritime force, which was acknowledged the other
day with graceful courtesy by the French Admiral
PeDaud who took, on his arrival with bis fleet,
position behind that of his junior, Admiral Dundas.
In the midst of the war, and in the intervals OF
fighting, before SeyastopOl, the French soldiers
true to their national character, have extemporiZed
theater in the camp, where they are said TO play
occasional pieces with histronlc skill that would
draw an audience on the Bouleyards. Here is
copy of one of the bills ftranslatiOnl
q Imp1ial The0tCr of IakermaHn, Sunday May 20.
-Theepians the amateurs of the Cd Zouaves, these
same amateur Zouaves the nearest 10 mad devils
of any human fighting animals, as the heroic parts
they have filed III recent real tragedies show, give
the following performance: l. Bal dU SdHrdgo-
Vaudeville farce in three acts .. COmique lnterlude.
3. Les FureuTs dc FamoEr-burlesque tragedy in one
act 4. Comic Inierude, sung by an English SER
eeant On account of the length of the performances
the curtain will rice at u O'Clock precisely.
Officers Of high rank, 80 the letter-writers tell
us, are among the most assduous attendants at
these entertainments. Cbaracteristically again,
these French soldier-players turn the profits OF
their theater to charitable purposes. They sent
1900 francs the other da' to their fellowcOuntry-
men, prisoners in Seyastopol
was panied to read yesterday in private let
ter from St. Petersburg of recent date that two
out of the FIVE American surgeons at the seat OF
war, Drs Draper and King, are dead that another,
Dr. Henry, is ILL., and that still another, DIR. Tamil
pied has applied for his discharge. Two or three
young medical men bad recently arrived at st.
Petersburg from America to offer their services to
the Gar. There were also two or three inventive
Yankees there with propositions to blow up his
Msjesty's enemies by the most effective, and con-
seqpently humaDizing explosive and prcjectlle
combinations. The Rev. Mr.. Haskell, American
minister" to the Protestant Dissenting Anglo
American Church, had entered upon the fulfill
ment of his sacred mission Mr.. Schaffener
another peaceful apostle, was seeking encourage
ment for his favorite plan of putting telegraphc
girdle around the earth Mr.. Cr0swell OF Albany
and Captain Field of Connecticut are mentioned
among American visitors Mrs. BodiscO was about
to leave for America. The time OF mourning for
the death of Nicholas has been extended to other
six months Although the city had begun to
assume something of its wOnted galety, the con-
tnuation Of the official mourning sadly harmonized
with the real gloom that hangs like pail over so
many hearts desolated by this war.
Austria, in whose active cooperation with the
Allies for the common defense of Liberty () Eng
lish Ministers lately expressed such hope and the
French Emperor such unqualified certainty of
knowledge, is siding up to Prussia, reducing her
army and pushing her own interests with high
hand in the Principalities Were English Minis
tiers and the French Emperor mistaken only as
we correspondents sometimes are, or did they in
tentionally falsifyl Let them and devout believers
in " high authority" and well-informed circles
dangle from whichever horn cores least deeply.
The Austrian occupying General CorOnini, who
not long ago declared Wallachia in q state Of high
siege, has now extended that measure to Moldavia.
The constituted authority of the country, Prince
GhiEa, the head of its Government protested FORM
ally and strongly against this arbitrary act, and for
babe the local authorities to publish Coronlnis
proclamation. The Austrian General, making as
little account of the prohibition as of the protest
forced the local civil officers to publish this decree
foreign in its origin and CONTEMPORARY violating
the formal orders Of their Constitutional superior
Could there be more futile theme than this for
good column full Of Indignation, poured out not
only on Austrian despotic lawlessness bat on that
Apelo-Galcian cant about the present war, in
which Austria was begged to be an aly-being
wal in defense of Freedom Loving liberty, de-
testing despotism and cant, having withal a sym
patty Tor those poor Wallachians and Moldavians,
| was inclined 10 improve it. What prevents
NE frem uttering my admiration, Indignation and
warm sympathy for freedom, European despotism