The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-03-23
AFT AIRS IN EUROPE.
Oux Psxis correspondence.

PARIS. Feb. 20 1856.
French AcqaGintann soh American Agasrs-.Mr Banks
Black5dl'ed Jy the Patrie A Tribute aie Memory
ofHeinrich Hfne the Grman Pod-Hii Conversion rom
Aheis~-Analysis of his Character anf Writings.
II the Paris journals have obstana1 In from
comment on the Conference AMI thtr ssiolites, Of
which they can know little, all have in ugsd imuode-
rately In comment Ame rfcan afs aoput which taey
must know less if we 10 judge by the following ex
tract from late number of the Patri:eTns new Pra.
dent Of the House Of Representatives." says Mr. 4.
Mouttet, who "does" (crueiy enough "ometimss) the
American for this journal "ar Nathsnie Backs il
black belonging to the repu ocsn epresen suon from
Massachusetts,. In his double charac Of colors
aud aboIitionst Mr. Banks inspires the representatives.
OF the Southern States with proto aversion This
nomination is double check, ~hic, gives blow on
side to the democratic party to shc the administration
OF President Pierce belongs and the the Know
Nothings."
The Pat'fe like the other Paris journas hiss been
careful to state that while Banks 103 votes and
Aiken l00 Scattering got Is. 1t wi psrnaps publish
In day or two as interesting and veracious biography
Of Mr. Scattering that which the Constitutional lately
published Of Col Sothorpe. This tim It la to be hoped
that the Pae will not mistake the complexion Of
Its subject.
As further illustration of the familiarity Of French
writer's with American topics and ms may mention
that lie Correspondent grave religious magazine caps
the climax Of highly sudatory article CAtho ic tera
ture In the United States by calling oeses A. Brownson
In French and English Americain dc Ia Vietc Roche
Gan old fogy). fear the late of Col sibthorpss bio
grapher ia intimate with this French admi,er OF the
doughty American champion of Ultcamontanism.
Heinrich Hene the ilius'rious German poet, died at
Paris on the 18th Of this month Up to the very last
moment Of his life the disease with wal n he had strug
sed herocay for eight long years failed to vAaquish
one Of the brightest spirits clothed in flesh In &C.
cordance With hs request he buried s'quiety"
without the Alterations of grief aad admiration which
are usually displayed ct French funerals No minister
Of religion oicated, and yet person present could
feel as if it satkest's funeral for all remem.
bered the ned cupa of Heinrich Hene in his ApsuS Fun
Poee, published not long ago in the R.o1e des D.ur
Aonde where he formally recorded MA adieur Pahe-
isme and related how, after having vanly been the
rounds Of all the PHILOSOPHERS, he found himself az
kneeliDg before the same holy from which, hs
says "Uncle Tom in his simplicity, derived at
ISOLATION and wisdom" Heine had made the roun
of all the PHILOSOPHERS, ancient and modern. He had
mastered more completely than Coerdge or De Quincy
the most difficult systems Of the German meta physicians
and had too much good left the trouble Of
constructing system of his In fast like De
Quincy he bad been repeled with profound ahosk
frt German philosophy. And unlike Strauss the Au-
profess to write for the people at ags that he had no
idea Of disturbing their belief" Heoe was acute enough
to discover that the vulgar listened ndscr sey az tae
door, and we're ready to ho the bon % of learned and
elegant free thin kers transang hem into pro-
family, even criminsi deeds and making queer hash
OF the feast Of reason" at those rs souprs philo
sophigues" Listen to tie concession Of Heins: 20 Whsnn
says he 81 observed that the people sought to discuss
the fame themes in drunken symposiums, where the
candle and the lamp replaced wax lights chandeliers
when atheism began to smell of taiow brandy sshnappi
and tobacco, then eye6 opeood; comprehended
BY the nausea OF disgust what could not comprehend
by reason, and bade adieu to atheism"
Familiar with German Metaphysics, With the subtle
ties Of the schoolmen with the conferences Of the
my with Raboinca lore With 0reat.l theogonies with
the sublime theology Of the Bible. with ltera
lures with universal history Heine have said with
one OF our own poets -
I am owr Or Of the Spheres
OF the feven stars AMI the solar year,
OF CHsars hand and Plato's brain;
OF Lord Christ's heart and Shaksperes strain
His erudition encyclopedias for German sup
plying him with wealth Of illustrations less fsci
tous than curious, without ever clogging his naive
As sAtiIst his irony sharp and terrible not to
say at times, diabolicai The very bissphemies, how
struck Mlon's Satan with AdmIrng awe. And IL
lurd glare now and then ADDS horror TO . page black
with despair the next page may be bright with almost
celestial splendor. Byrons poem OF Don Juan does no:
" from grave to gay, from lively to severe than many
but his fun and his pahos are equally Irresistible He
Joined the French wit (espr) and Ebgish humor with
the highest Qualities 81 the German MIND and With the
Heine exhibited rare union OF poetical genius and
the higher critical faculties. Pure and his
@shec sense his taste catholic as to recognize
in the Gothic cathedral in the Greek temple the
charms peculiar to each. The fantastic, and even the
nS him Sg
exquisite music which Schubert married to Of his
own favorite Liedsr! The unequAlled Chopin never
nom him, Notwithstanding his special aversion to the
piano And no one has celebrated like him the inssru-
most wonderful Of al vion.s The last masissl article
which he wrote for the Augsbourg Gozah Was . notse
OF Jenny nds Incredible success in England In 1S4O
and although he could not refrain from ridcuung the
alteration of English prudes for that "puxtags
chaMan he rendered justice to the extraordinary gitts
tenderness did he dwe upon tbs talent and the tate Of
Leopold Robert noticed on Wednesday engra 'ngs Of
Roberts celebrated pictares "Ths h.ryssers and
the remains Of Heine were lying. Il our critic fayed
Victor Hugo alive exposed him IS hansoback, and de-
suggested "ried ice genial is bis appreciation Of
the msenassnt style Of George sand whose
very "mducdis suje5 I" indeed Who has ever had
draft cashed Rohsshid without remembering Heinss
mock tevout description Of the private cabinet Of the
great banker, the inner shrine OF the temple of Man,
mon? "Is Is indeed . most remarkable place. and
awakens sublime thoughts and feeings-hke the aspect
of the ocean, like that Of the starry heavens or of
huge mountafss of vast forests. We there how
Sod Of our ago and Rethschiid is hi, prophet" Hsne
Know VlCUOr fle6r0 leEOu tuAn eltner
of those rival philosophers knew himself What mimi
table portraits has he left Of Louis Philippe Of Guiso Of
Thss; q Mole q hgnss Of Louis B.ns with what
Eastern question, concluding with the exclamation
Quepe terrible question que cee Dc pOren (How terribles
this Eastern queonD So in Ny Of the year $780,
he wrote It would be easier % found in France
Bonapartist reign than republic The French destitute
of ali republican qualities, BSnapSrsts BY nature"
Heine did not spare the weaknesses Of his French
publican friends and he almost the Hrst to descry
the little cloud bigger than mans hands that after
wards darkened al Europe With dread Of the commu
nsts, called his radical philanthropy, nevertheless
broke forth than once, when he exclaimed, Un
lass deny The premise that ali have the right to
eat, am forced to admit all its consequences -
Let Justice be done. Let the old system be
broken up in which innocence has perished, in which
sgotsm has prospered In which man has been tracked
in BY man." He, too, dreamed Of the good time COM
ing.b
These illusions to characteristic passages IN L,aece,
collection Of Heines letters to the Augsbourg Gazette such
collection the world owes, and is likely to owe to no
other "Pars correspondentO serve to show how dis
tinctly his works stamped with individuality. These