The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-12


ample Of America, and the prosperous career Of the
NEW YORK HERALD in particular, has stimulated
many parties on this side the Atlantic to 90 ahead
nproviding good, cheap and honest newspapers.
Our Paris Correspondence.
PARIS, July "a, 1866.
Uhpopsllarity of the Tpar in France-Iuterest En-
cited By the Parliamentary Discussions in Eng
And- Queen Victorias Vsit to Paris Prepare
Sons at the English Embassy The Aztec Chi
Sren at One Of Prince Napoleon's Receptions at
Ne Palais Royal-Rachel at the Theatre Fran
sGs-Efects Of Ristori's Rvalry- The Great
French Actress Put ON Her Mette-Her Career
n America, &C., &c.
America is only half as wearied with this Eastern
wSas through tracks of disease and blood it drags
~ slow length along-as every soul encounter in
this fair and goodly city is-she will not be sorry to
Yead in the columns Of the HERALD q letter which
does not 30 much rs mention the subject further
han to say that the spirit Of dissatisfaction in rea
ton to everything concerning it is greatly in
creased, and increasing. sThe army itself-where
should be popular, if anywhere--s sick of the
vsry name Of it. You cannot meet an officer who
Aare open his mouth who does not speak of it with
bathing; and it is difficult to believe that such
temper can exist without spreading its fermentation
wider and wideh
The Parliamentary war in England excites far
more interest than that waging in the Crimea; and
seeing that they are deprived Of the sight of similar
gldiatorial feats in their own Senate, the French
are disposed to take a malicious pleasure in the
aEges to and fro Of that Parliamentary sea across
the Channel, on which such noble ministerial
vessels one after another become shipwrecked,
and where the British Carthage herself often seems
mint of coi1o xritt
avidty every phrase, Or word, or letter, which i'm
Pies the possibility Of future rupture do not 60
80 far as to say that they desire such consumma-
Ton; hut in accepting the contingency as ever 80
slightly limited at by anything resembling political
authority in England, they do but follow out the
ecret thought which, in full vitality, lies buried in
the bosom of the French mind My God if the
trtcoior we're planted at Boulogne for the army of
Eghnd, instead Of at Marseilles for that ungenial
erimea, big with another winters horrors how
would the heart Of every Of France leap into his
throat But we tread on tender ground. The en-
Acde cordiaie is still living reality and a France
\ on tip toe to welcome the sovereign of Great Bri-
1aip within her borders.
What is the exact nature of the hospitable prepa-
nations in process is STILL for some purpose or other,
. profound secret. Indistinct gimmerings of q SUI
Derb fsts at Versailles are perceptble. Workmen
are busly laying down additional gas and water
yipes; but no signs of any Of those ephemenl con-
structions with which French fetes are usually SO
Dedolent, perceptble; though it is said that u-
limitations Of SURPRISING magnifcence are TO take
place. In the Champ de Mars the citizens Of Paris
are to be gratiGed with that which most Of oil de-
lights their hearts, fsa d. artifce, of unusual
splendor and ingenuity;--but Paris proper, the IN
happy beast Of burden. who for 30 many centuries
has submitted patiently to have her loins and reins
serely put upon and belabored, while the Gallo
heart drank, danced feasted and irted ia for once
10 be left in peace. Her bowels shall not be pierced
with cruel fag-staffs; plastered images shall not
shout their mushroom triumphs to the Encouragement
Of her native beauty; and painted arches, ephene-
ral flowers, impromptu fountains, pigmy lamps, and
crazy chintz-covered woodwork shall not dishonor
NE fair proportion Of those architectural wonders
which render her the queen paramount Of the world
At the English embassy, as might be expected.
he hive which of late has been cruelty disturbed
and alarmed by the receut frightful attacks on the
ministry, and which breathcs more freely in the
prospect Of another six months tenure, is busy
farming out, house and home, in honor Of the antci-
pated arrival Of its Queen Even the duties to Hea
ven must give way under such circumstances, and
Sundays till, on the 18th Of August, they once more
open, upon disposition of seats and benches
worthy the prayers of one who rules by right
divine Somehow other, in preparations such AZ
shese one cannot help but feel that human nature,
IN this last part of the nineteenth century IL still in
the gall and wo,mwood Of barbarism. There must
be something wrong when such individual idoatry
h necessary to the government of mankind, and ex-
tends even TO the house of prayer. We are, in fact
inst where we were when, more than two centuries
ago, the Spanish King said:-"Why all this to do
about mere ceremony" Your Majcstys self"
was the Minister'S reply, sis but a ceremony But
the star Of wisdom is dimly across the far At
hntic, and republican common sense lights up .
beacon on the heights and among the forests Of
America which will one day guide the kindred
stock Of the mother country TO a better estimation
Of the privileges OF humanity.
The palaces OF st. Cloud and the Elysee are each,
: Is understood, 70 be at the disposition OF the
Queen; and the British Embassy, which Is itself
palace superior to the Elysee, viii he glowing with
crimson and gold, as her Maiestys own private pro-
perty, where she may at any time receive those
whom she may delight to honor. The house for.
merIy belonged TO the Princess Borghese ds,er OF
Napoleon the First, and purchased by the I,ri.
tisn government after the events Of 1914 for
$40 900, as an aubassadorial residence. It
contains a double set OF magnificent reception
rooms, one above and the other below; and though
Of no imposing exterior on the north side, facing tho
Faubourg St. Honore Is very beautiful on the south,
looking towards the Champs Elysees, IRON which,
however, j is separated BY garden Of unusual eA.
tent and beauty for town. An orangery runs
round the palace, which presents three sides OF a
quadrangle, and the house altogether, both rs to
convenience, disposition and fitting up, y allowed
to be the beet in Paris. The ambassador il Obliged
to retain some five and twenty servants, and though
the allowance made him by government Is fS,0o0
per annum, independent of the furnished house, the
expected from him.
Prince Napoleon held another reception in his
apartments at the Palais Royal, Saturday even
ing; and to give an impulse to the soree, had the
Azfac children who have lately returned from Eng