New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-31

| support were withdrawn; that has not i4il room
enough to imprisOn its subjects; that has no bette
means than the extremely Intellectual one Of ,
premium On treachery and perjury for apprehend
nm the leaders OF bandltt that nfr.t the country
this Government is declared good, sacred. NOT tc
De deraDged by profane hands. As for Naples
the CRirers tells us that King Bomba ia the mos,
clement Of soveregns The reports Cd the sbom
lnatioDs and desolation that reign in his king
/ dom are the devises Of the eneny-revon
lonists, professionals, socialists, Voltarsns
the Cnirers Jumps them all together. A Jumping
process, unhappDy not peculiar to the Editors oi
the Unirers
: One Of the arguments in favor Of the clemency
OF Ferdinand III. Of Naples brought forward by the
Cnirers is too striking not TO be quoted II is the
iact, taken on the authority Of Nespolitan Jour
nal, the Echo Of Hope, (what title for a Neapoli-
tan Journal y that the number Of Royal pal dOss
for political offenses granted by that Monarch
amounts to 1884 The whole population Of the
Kingdom Of Naples, Sicily included, is less than
nine millions One man in every Thousand has
been pardoned for political ofenses and the gene
raj amnesty, Of which 30 much has been ssid, has
| lot yet gone into effect And this is the Echo OF
Hope.
When the Italian revolution comes again, as in
Heavens good time, let US fervently hope it will,
DO let US try to 1--WE up cantDg about its horrors
and estimate Them only at their comparative value
Q
had everything its own way these seven years
Another question, also dating the origin of its
present special agitation from the Congress Of Paris
rather from the publication of the protocols OF
that Congress- is the question Of the freedom Of
the Belgian press. 1t has of late been discussed
and with most unbecoming violence by the Coy
eminent journals here. They have taken advan-
tage of the gross and utterly ine1cusable violence
it were better to say absurdty Of very small
portion Of the Belgian press, to attack abusively
the freedom OF the Belgian press in general. The
official organ of the French Government 10 much
more moderate in its treatment Of the question,
although its recent brief article upon the subject
breathes a sufficient spirit of arrogance: "All
that the French Government had to do, says
the Moniteur Of Tuesday, twas to point out the
"eyil and its consequences it belongs to the Cab-
net of Brussels alone to seek, find, and apply
the remedy; the Government of the Emperor
"cares only for the efficacy of the remedy, not for
" the nature of it,.
Letting pass for the moment general treat
ment of this question of the Belgian press, let
note its bearing one single point. The teIt Of
Walewski's speech in the congress directed against
the Belgian press-the pretext of the claim of
France against Belgium in the matter Of its free
press--is to be found in the foolish extravaganza
of one or two Belgian newspapers of limited cir
cuation, in whose columns the assassination of
Louis Napoleon was, either allusiyey or directly,
recommended as good act. The absurdity, the
mad wickedness Of such sentiments is surely
worthy of all condemnation And here let me
say, since have spoken above of the Jumping"
process, that the liberal press of Paris have not in
this case committed the folly of which, unfortu
nately, they have sometimes been guilty of
Jumping" this stupid licentOusDess of free print
ing in a common defense of freedom of the press
On the other side, Humping of this feeble
ravng with all liberty of printing has been carried
by the writers of the Constitutional to its last ex
treme. But to return to the single point Of which
| proposed TO make note. Two or three Belgian
newspapers, whose combined circulation can
amount to but few thousands the statistics of
Belgian newspaper circulation as recently given in
the London journals, is shown on good authority TO
be grossly erroneous are yet of such Importance to
Louis Napoleon, the nominal ruler over sc, 0Og, 900
of people by their will and the grace of God, that
be must make their suppression subject of diplo-
matte negotiation, that be must bully and coax to
have them suppressed. Can there be more forcl-
Bile comment than this on the cant that is constant
ly dDned into our ears, respecting the force the
strength the solid basis of Louis NapOleOns thrOne
Constitutional liberty is attacked by the French
press in all ways, by argument and by abuse. Bu
Queen Victoria King Leopold, King Victor Em
manuel, never dream of applying to the Emperor
Of the French for the suppression OF the Cnlrer'
or the Union of the Pays or OF the Pafr,s. While
TO Louis Napoleon, Emperor by the will OF the
people and the grace of God beside, newspaper
editor in Brussels, is an antsgOnistic European
ROVER. feared and ne gOtated against as though he
were a great State with standing army and M
tiOnal loans at command.
/ said, q paragraph or two ago, that l wished
to touch upon one point of this ques-
tiop The fact of it is, that on the
this or any other political theme your London cor
respondent can dispatch much better than myself.
Much better not simply from his superior endow-
ments but because of another great advantage.
He is surrounded by people who speak, think and
write at liberty. Why, the ablest the most re-
garded discussion of these very questions Of the
Belgian press and the Italian reforms, TO be found
in the Paris journals, are the reports q9oted lnto
them of what is said in the Chamber Of Deputies
at Brussels, in the Chamber of Deputies at Tnrin,
in the House of Commons at London II is
curious and cravely significant to see how French
men follow the debates of these different parls-
ments For thoughtful Frenchmen, the discussion
of the treaty of Paris or of the 10th OF April, Is
carried on in Sardinia and in England. The In
terest with which reports Of such discussion are
read in French journals is striking proof OF the
essential power of constitutional governments.
And now for Paris theme:
The two most successful dramatic authors OF the
dsy are Alexander Dumas, junior, and NJ. Ponsard
The only two plays that in the last i've years have
been repreeented more than two hundred nights,
are the Dame auI Camelias and l. HonReWdf Ar-
gent long ago endeavored to give to your read
ers notion of both these plays. The Dame oax
Camelias is poetcsl play in prose; and aPothesls
of Danes auI CdmeliGs in general-n0t utterly
lacking in a moral for all that For let its moral
faults be what they msy-its artistic merits are
extraordinary-it was picture of phase of Pa
risisn life; and life has always its moral, if you
win but look it up. L. HoaneSr ct Argent was
rerv prose play in its proposed moral is that
honor is better than money; It's practical teaching
is that money is the main chance after all. Alex
ander Damas, junior, is the son of bis father. NJ.