New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-29
EUROPE REVISITED mo. "
PARIS IN MAY.


Editorial Correspondence of The \. Y Tribune.
PARIS, Thursday, May 10, 1855.
1.-the deicate-footed SPRING is here at last,
but cold, damp and disagreeable, despite the
decetful sunshine of to-day, and the giant straw
berries (from the far South that blush Cat the
atrocious prices asked for them, | fancy in
sundry restaurant windows. Yes in spite Of
the strawb berries, in spite of the freshly pucked
cucumbers and purple grapes Qrom hot houses,
no doubt that support and give them counte-
nance IN the windows aforesad-in spite OF the
warm sunshine of to-day rendered doubly CRATE
full by the cold fogs and damp cloudiness of
many days past-in spite of the Worlds Expo
sitiop, which stands advertised to open next
Tuesday, though il still remains mere Babel of
fast-bound OF but halEemptied crates, bales and
boxes--in spite. even, of the incaicuahle bless
ing just accorded to the champions of Family,
Mrs Towards, Property, Louis Philippe's
heirs, and Religion, lof the Sunday horse-race
pattern, in the miraculous preservation of the
hfe His Majesty Napoleon III, Paris not gay, but
pensiye, moody, triste-almOst morose. What can
It mean The season, the fortunes of the Exposi-
tor the interests OF the Empire, the National rep
utaton, all unite in requiring that this Metropolis
Of Civilization should be merry as lark; yet John
Bull himself-with Palmerston and his squad oil
equity ncapables ON his back Chancellor Lewis s
new mammoth Loan and new Taxes fOuted in his
face and the means of his late gallant army starv-
ing aud freezing in the trenches before Sevastopol
still ringing in his ears--is not gO0mer in mood
than his consututionally brisk mercurlal yiyacious
neighbor across the channel, whose overflow OF
animal spirits he has been accustomed 10 remark
and sheer at though il were b0rn OF trog-eatng.
Verify, Jacques Bonhomme has been very grossly
caricatured aioretme, or his present hunor is UNI
accountable If not pOrtentous
In free country tho journals afford AT once a
vent for and an explanation of the moods OF the
hour; but here. under the NapOleonic regime. the
Press is of as little weight or worth IS in Iimbuc-
too or Japan. The Impoverished Journalists, fore
warned that they can only comment on Transporting
political events at the peril of the existence of their
respective concerns, either insert without com-
ment what is sent them from the Palace, or main
tain discreet and stubborn silence. Hence the re-
cent virtual dismissal and disgrace of the Empe-
rors first Minister, Drouyn de lHuys, has pro
yoked less comment here than the dismissal OF the
Mayors Clerk would have done in New-lork. AS
Tread the semi-ofcial manifesto, the Minister was
in earnest in seeking peace at Vienna, and hence
acceded 10 the admissible condition suggested by
Count Boul; but the Minister'S master was not
in earnest-or rather he ielt that he could not az
ford TO make any Peace that did not wreath with
laurel his B0napartean brow so the proposition OF
Austria was rejected, and de rHuys goes to the
wall. don't know how he takes it, but think
he ought 10 bethaukful that he is fairly aud finally
out OF lofty but ticklish position.
But though affairs of state, even the rise and
fall of Ministers are not here accounted legitimate
Subjects of newspaper criticism, yet there are still
some topics that may be handled even by French
Editor; and the Constitutional yesterday gave
the Partisan spectators in food and shelter tenn
perate but very thorough dressing Promising
that tie anticipated influx of visitors had yet IN no
degree been reslized-Paris having to-day fewer
foreign sperdthriits within her walls than usual
the Editor proceeds TO set forth that the exorbi-
tant, unexamplod prices now asked for lodgings
of every grade above the poorest and for every
article of food except bread, (the price of which
is kept down BY direct payment OF Government
money to the bakers is strongly calculated not
oply TO repel the expected influx OF visitors, but
IN drive away thousands already here whose in
come is no, boundless and whose attachment to
the banks of the Seine is not absolute infatuston.
An this is very obvious; yet what do you pro
. nose 10 do about iti" II the owners Of fresh
meat can obtain thirty TO sixty cents pound for
n can they be expected to sen it for less from
nsfriotic any more than philanthrople consdera-
iona, So long as the owner or speculative
renter of an eligible suite Of rooms imagines that