New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-10
FRANCE.
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nor to London, which city, By way OF vari,;ion
portion Of the pen.ive public have recently
been skiing the Destination OF his impending j0ur-
ney. We hear from Vienna ths.they are expect
ing i'm there en- rOnt. for the East. Ga Tdes1V
he held q review of portion Of the Imperial
Guard, about ~ 20 to the Cfimei asd that w.s
held by some TO be 80 strong prem,nitoy sympH
tom of the fnal start, thss funds fell th,. d.y
There ives IunOr afro OF discovered pos
against the Imperial psr"n, that should have
been put ia execution on he occasion Of t1e re-
view. I;isx enough to sugge.t here that
Napoleon courage In moving a5ou: Pasis with
a very tltnder and some times no aPpsreni guard
ism Of bis person, ia more lauded than Iced be
That he IL sufficiently fe,rle's man, / do no.
doubt. But tupposiOg even that he has no
watcher in disguise immediate y a5ol: rim 10 his
Jrcmens5ss, there is the entire police System
rlways qua .diDg bim-aud sganst what In
deed, TO bear some people talk, oae nigh: inis-
inc that the general tendency OF ali PaeislAns
was toward assassination of their ruler OF he
day. This is a mistake. They have no such pre-
yalcnt passion. They incline now to dancing, Tor
instance. ErGhfS, Republicans or Lestimsts.
assume party title-ihe only persons likely to
attack his Msjesty's life, are under constant sur
reliance of the police. If, by the way, we are to
admire courage above all other qualities, let US
admire il in the few men who attempt assassina-
ton of the Chief of the State. They run risk
that does amount 10 something-to an almost alb
solute certainty of their owa death, whether they
succeed or fail in their attempt. There has not
been any time during the last seventy ye,rs,
head Of Government who should net, from political
or from other causes, have excited as violent en-
mites ard enemies as the present head OF Gov
eminent Not one has come to his end by assas-
sination And there is still less danger to life
FROM coLspiratOrs than from an individual Henry
WITH. Barat the Duke of Berry, owed their deaths
10 solitary murderer's fixed idea. Louis NaPo-
Icons chance Of dying out OF bed I'm Paris) be-
fore the Iext revolution comes, is considerably
less than that of an ordinary (American) steam
boat or railway passenger, or New ork hre-
nan, or Crimean soldier or South western
(Amercan) Legislator, let alone schOolmasters
aud ni2gers whose courage excites very little ad-
miration.
His address TO the soldiers at this review IL
nOteworthy-especally its opening sentence:
"soders, the army is the true nobility (reritabis
"noliesse) Of our country; IT preserves intact,
"from age to age, the fractions OF national glory
"aud honor" Then, pointing to the flags he ex-
claimed: ." Behold your genealogical tree. 80
it is: nobility has come round again to ITS Old
savage starting point, the hghtlng.Inan; the
French legiOnary corps and the military medal
correspond to CEngi. Chakuks extra streak of red
peint Your modern successful French fighter is
rewarded for the exercise OF his destructive iacu-
~ with rank, honors and the material god thInga
Of life: really, he drinks his high-przed wines out
of his enemies skulls. 1t is pity that the true
nobility Of the "most civilized nation In the
word is not its academicans, It's writers,
thinkers, producers, but Its army. In some sort
it is true. The EmperOr's words are, 10 Ia.
mel table extent the expression OF the nation'l
feeling. A marshal outranks a philosopher as
well in popular estimate as in the estimate OF his
Majesty. Although the cross of the legion OF
honor IT, theoretically the decoration of all kinds
of merit one rarely hears complaint from civilians
that four.ffths of the crosses are allotted 10 light
ing man. Nor, by the way, is such allotment
greatly unjust so long as there is no graduation
in kinds Of merit That of the military sort be-
ING once recognized of as good quality as others
must naturally surpass them by quantity; for It Is
made up of submission and ferceness, discipline
ard bravery the qualities Of your dog and common
nan. There is also this good in the imperial aud
national notion of true French nobility-that il
give. the eoty to the old hereditary, eneryste no.
blesse yicoultes aud vidames, dukes and mar
auises no have less than destructive qualities,
mere dead mems names, roI d pTGerea HAii, for
their noble qualities. SO that sad as II IS 10 one
sense, there is yet large comforting democratic
element, or better 10 say parrenu we foohshiy
misuse the word as term OF reproach, We Amer
leans. all nori homnes, who should especially re-
sptct it's meaning, a p0rrenu element in the
fmperor's notion Of modern French nobility. IL
il. after all, better than the Virgnian notion OF
sristocracy not quite unlike the common
American notion if one might Judge BY the politi-
cal elevation through the popular vote, OF Mexican
and other Generals.
OF course there is nothing new from the seat oil
war; uulees il be that, according 10 last Accounts
Of the uneuccesful attack Of the Allies on an ad-
vanced work Of the Russians, the Russians seem
TO tea "leetle" ahead. If il were not for the
name of the thing, one might imagine that the
RussiaDt were besiegiDg the Allies If there Is
nothing new from SevastopO there is nothing true
from Vienna. Not indeed that the Diplomatic Coz
ference lust opened there could, under circum-
stances, be looked to as an especial source OF
truth" ON the contrary II is diplomatic, and
hence we DO not discover truth; but, in the pres
ent case, its members have resolved not only net
10 permit On the part Of others to make them
selves, truthful reports OF what passes at their
II ceilings, but not to contradict any false reports
that hall circulate in public. This leaves un-
bounded room for conjecture. 1t is nuts 70
editors and correspond tnts. as yOu may see by the
shucks in the German, French aud English Journals
The Sublime Porte (Which NJ Ponsard calls
The Porte rdicrle ever since il called 10 inquire
last winter, after Prince NapoeOn's more or less
well. founded bowel complaiht) has been sending
messages OF thanks and coincidence 10 the hlns OF
Sardinia, for his Msjesty profered military aid ana
recent family Affections. The King Of Naples mas
notified TO sther Courts the birth OF daughter
The name of the infant is characteristc-in virtue
of course of its allusion to the ne~'maae
dcema-of that pitfullest of royalties; the liIue
princess is named Marie immdeuite Los,se. euea !,
christening for a sin-beeotteu child; mtsh'
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