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

take II into his head some morning TO sxcommu-
nicate the Pope.
religious and moral discussions which are confined
he Gays, to the organs Of some sect or party, aud
are excluded from the journal, properly 30 called,
in the United States. He gets fairly faddled oVer
lions. He ingenuously confesses shsthe cam i un-
deIstand the electoral system which the Ameri sans
have adopted; but nowise daunted by this fact, he
does not hesitate TO critciseis. He Gays that 30
manifests Strong interest in things alongside Of
profound indifference for principles, not
men, being its motto. Directly afterwards he sig.
nazes an exception to this rule, which Ia occasoned
by the elections, the whole electoral question re-
Stunning itself In proper names, and rendering in lis
pensable . Lively, nay, passionate and violent, dis
cuseion Of their respective values He fOrgets that
the elections take place 80 frequently that this ex
ception becones the rule.
He states that the American Journal abstains-
and ne deliberately explains whyiron discussing the
personal qualities ami the conduct OF those mi asters
of the people who actually compose what is called
the government. This statement will seem strange
enough to American eyes. Stranger still is anotn-
to say thai hastens to add that he does not vouch
for its ,ruth-to the effect that the NEW YoRg
HERALD, which he places whero European opiai0n
lorg since learned to place It, at the head Of the
party, IL was American, nothing less;" but that
on the double occasion of the election OF General
Pierce and Of the reconstruction OF the Native Anne
rican party under the denomination Of Know No
thir GO, Mr.. Bennett began to wage violent war,
on the one band, against the administration
the other, against the Know Nothings; and that in
consequence Of thus "leaving the order Of general
interests to enter the domain of private passions
the number OF copies which it used to strike of
daily has diminished more than haiti" You see
how philosophicaly Indifferent Is our Frenchman
to statistical facts. This apochryphal fall Of the
increasing ard multiplying world Of readers but it
il such news as the Tartars story of the fall OF Sc
bsst0p0l.
MIR. Bennett can richly afford to smile both at the
mistakes and at the slight infusion 0 malice (the
cause Of which he can easily guess at) in the In
perfect history given by his French critic, of the
prodigious prOsp erity attained by the NEW YORK
HERALD, as the type of the American newspaper s
q model journal. Mr.. Benegarrigue says that Nc.
Bennett has proted largely by avoiding the defects
which he must have observed 10 Journalism in
France, during his visit to this country.
He particularly eulogizes the vast system of TO-
reign and domestic correspondence which the editor
of the HERALD has organized. The HERALD"
he says "bas special correspondent Inc might have
said several correspondents, who refecs the va.
rious shades of current opinion) at Paris; 1t has
another at London, aud taird at Liverpool II nas
established others at st. Petersburg, at Berlin, at
Vienna, at Rome. ct Naples, at Madrid, .. Coust tn
tiDope, at Cscutts, at Canton, in all the capitals Of
the OLD World, in all ths principal cities OF the
New.
"By this Means all the populations the universe
come directly TO reverberate in its columos; and In
pr esence Of the sumultuous spectacle Of the auta-
gonisms and civil wars of nationalities thai have
existed for centuries, the Am rican citizen daily
learns to appreciate the peace which he eoJoys,
ard to be proud of the country which he inhab s."
M. Bellegarrigue also extols the extraordinary eff
fcrts OF the HERALD to anticipate the news brought
by the Atlantic steamers to b ston. 1.-The expenses
.necessrated by this simple detail would frgnten
the administration Of the richest French Journal"
"Nor, he adds, ais the HERALD less active or less
enc rgetic In what pertains to American ne vs."
AT he fills column with instances In point which
seem incredible here and might welt astonisl even
the American readers OF the HERALD, il they were
not habituated to almost daily exploits of toe
knd, on the Dart of Mr.. Bennett With his steamers
and the telegraph, with his host Of CORES 1ondeuts,
with his seventeen editorial Offices, With his $50
ployee, with his powerful printing machines, with
his 60 900 copies. FIGARO.
PARIS, Thursday, Dec. 81, 1854.
Vote Of Thanks Passed by the British Legislature ia
the M,ita,y and Naval Services of France
French Notions of the Objects Of War-D Deeds
rasus Words Gio,cing Accoumts from tn,
Crimea-TRe French Government Making III,
Most Of the austrian 7'rsatu-Spanish A6aar,
Coronation Of Louis Napoleon and has Empires,
The Great Industrial Exhibition, &c, &c.
The thanks of the Bitish Legislature having beer
unanimously voted to the Fren h army, a courteous
notice 10 that effect has been intimatei by the EGG
lish Ambassador to the French government, which
has recorded, Ia the pages Of the MoniteEr Its high
sense Of tue compliment -one which il does not fail
to mention totally unprecedented Ia the annals Of
French history.
There is always some difficulty about such matters
and the present is exception to the rule. 1t is
20 ~, Ia &.
lution, public feeling considering the long hered
tary enmity Of the two nations, that such vote
should be recorded it is to the philosopher Also
epoch in the history of civz alton; bat as far as
am able to collect the matter s not regarded qaite
SO deeply by the French people 1t was an observa.
ton Of the great Lord Chesterfield, that compli.
mens should be 10 tho inverse of their desert-that
q beautiful woman shoald be eulogzed for her wit,
while the less favored but more clever of her sex,
should be admired the score Of personal attrac-
tionand whether the rule be just or not in regard
to the fair sex, one is almost tempted to believe IL
applicable to the French nation. For this tribute
to their galantry they consider to be so entirely
their due, 80 entirely a matter of course. as the
bravest, most military most scientific and M IT bril-
liant nation in the world that they regard it pretty
niue ! in the same light notorious beauty would a
passing compliment.
1t is true they acknowledge the gallautry, the
stolid courage, the impassive resistance of the
English, and as the foundation of an army, d, full
justice to such qualities: but to place their military
proves, their knowledge of the art of war, cir
ability to conquer within an hundred leagues of
themselves, would be to suppose the King OF the
Sandwich Islands on par, as ruler, with the
government of the United States. They believe, in
their very souls that il is rather piece of con-
descension on their part, to allow the English TO
share the honor of battle with them, and secretly
sneer and laugh at the perpetual gauchcies, the
eternal blunders and idiotic aransements they
make in prosecution Of a war which costs them
double in life and property, and wear and tear, It
med Go; and, so far from being over shelmed by