New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-26
FRANCE.
TIsn Our Own Correspondent.

JIs0 Ou OWn correspondent
PARIS, Thursday, Nov. 8, 1855.
4 trip to Paris is getting to be rs much the
vogue with royal and high placed official person
ages as with the pleasure seeking valgsr. An ex-
ample wss se indeed, by that large incurson party
of 1915, but they came osten.ibly more for bust
ness than pleasure. When quidnuncs nowadays
wish to point out grave significance In the pres
ence of regal ducA and ministerial foreign guests,
they arc officially eficiously told thnt the
srand visitors come ~ We little ones DO, for the
mere fun of the tbing-or ct most for high court
esys FAKE. After SAKE Coburg, and Brsbsnt, and
the youthful Portuguese King and the suuontly
natronly Majesty OF England we are now present
y to "a tber on the Boulevards and stand agspe to
see the King of Sardinia pass BY. One of his min
isters is already here to take part in the confer
ence to be held in Paris by delegates Of the Powers
interested in the proposed canal across the Isthmu'
Of suez, and also to arrange matter OF more i'm
portapce to the immediate relations Of France and
Sardnia-tO wit, the connection of their respect-
i've railroad routes The King leaves Turin on tho
the 2Otb of thi. month. A have observed that
the lit generally takes great deal Of interest in
the boxes that the lower thousand, especially Ia
eur democratic country. (tbe broad base million
more apt to be intent on their own Affairs, are
very curious about the life and manners of the
upper ten, q b,lieve there are \, more greedy ap-
plicslts for adms ion to court balls, and no more
elated attendants on those occasions than are fur
Disbed by q certain class Of Americans abroad }
! shall be doing some q favor by giving
them . glimpse at the evening entertainments
of St Cloud. And should say at the outset that
my authority in this case is uncOmmOnly we'll
informed. hardly hazard an opinion when | ex-
Alto th.f into
through quite direct channel-from the very ser
wants who carried in the teatray one or more
rights during the time that tie Duke and Duchess
of BrabsDt were at that palace. Before the ar
rival of that princess the ordinary pastime for the
Imperial family sOir6es consisted of charaies But
says my Intelligent informant" the Austrian
Duchess introduced with great success game, like
herself of German origin, which 10 Like to remain
in fame as one of the most piqusnt souvenirs Of
her stay at st. Cloud. this game is called
"soIpas Peter, Black Peter. Ii is game Of cards
where you pay forfeits You are to understand
the word forfeits in fguaratiye sense, however,
" for in the case in hand the losers were simply
marked in the face with charcoal, one mark for
leach trick lost At the end Of the game, every
zone having lost more or less times, every one hal
"a blackeDed face, and that kept up the highest
degree Of nerIiment-" sae totLe gGett"
like that 1t quite humanizes royalty 1t
soothes that most disagreesble of passions, envy
To think that this very whipped cream OF best
society" takes to Schwsz Peter rs . delightful
relief from chara0es. To think that the NEST
"yiquant souvenir that roy al-imperal princess
can leave behind her is the same innocent game
that il playing this evening by many group Of
German immigrant children in our Western cOun-
try-s souvenir to them of the fatherlsnd To
think that they safely presume TO blseken each
Others chubby cheeks and thereuPon scream with
delight, even the imperial circle falls INFO xss
"toQe gate" over TIE besmesring of its delicate
features. But Black Peter is an episode.
Besde the coming Of the King Of Sardinia.
there has been and still is q coming and going OF
Ministers, German and French which strengthens
IN some iDds the likelihood Of rumors of re-
sumption OF negotiations between Russia and the
Allied Powers. This likelihood il boldly stated BY
twoerfhree Prussisn journals. 1t gains, however,
ne general eredence in the public mind There is
little TO confirm il in the high state of tension at
which the three great Powers continue to hold
their military preparations. In fine, there is no
more definite ground for hope of peace than is
10 be found in the waste and WEAKNESS which bur
| deDs all parties TO the war. The question now Is
simply which can endure the longest. Active
! operations seem over for the sessOn. IL may be
that the quiet Of Winter, like night, may bring
! COUNSEL. Gorchakof has issued an order of the
! day, in which he informs his troops that the Car
has left II entirely to his discretion to sti attempt
10 hold or to evscuate the Crimes. The essence
of the order lies in the following paragraph:
! valiant warriors you know wha. our duty
quires We wOl not Voluntarily sbsndos this country,
TAfre ~ Vladimir recctred ths EGtsr OF craze after
tH ecsreTHSR 10 the Chris,tGAity rhieh Te s<fsId
But there are toIditi' ne that sometimes rodeI the