The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-12-27

Russia has thought Of stirring up the ashes OF the
dre which was fortunately for her damped out in
March of the present year. She will be satisfied by
having gaiheo the point off conference at all, after
each defiant terms had been used in reference to it
by England. After a show OF resistance she will
find occasion to add her croehets to the mediation Of
Fr,nce, and great object viii have been gained in
exhibiting before the nations of the continent and
the world ia general, the increased and increasing
am ty between herself and the great military nation
with whom she has been SO recently at war; That
she day is not far distant when this amty will take
practical character and assume hostile front against
England ia certainly very popular error II error 1t
be; and many do not scrnple To assert the renewed
conference will form an admirable screen for some
secres treaty highly preudicla to the liberties OF
he world. Ii is the opinion OF many sound thinking
men that the present denouement OF che political
events which began in 1853 and ended with the
treaty Of Paris, Is precisely such as the Emperor
Napoleon had been throughout laborng to effect. AS
things were Russia could never have been anything
- the dynasty Of BoDaparte but cold friend;
but little good humored wrestling and an
awkward black eye or two, has now rem
dered the parties friends for life. These long
sighted men content themselves with expressing
their firm belief that whenever another war shall
break out, whatever may oe its nature and its
cause, France and Russia will be found the same
side.
ton. There are those who persist in believing that
Russia is still menacing and redoubtable, Tor she
will gain from the allies money for those railroads
which ten years hence she will not fail 10 turn
against them. With these, il is said wnen Louis
Napoleon and Lord Palmerston have long passed
away from the scene, she will transport so ne ve or
six hundred thousand men to those frontiers where
no fleet OF France or England will be able to with
stand them. Then she will only need TO cross the
Danube in order TO cutter tia. land-always to her
flowing with milk and honey Turkey the pos
session of which she believes will endoS her vita tne
domination OF the world. Austria might, indeed
oppose her by means of Hungarian ana Wall chlan
railroads, but much cannot De expected from that
Power. In the meantime ths part which the West
Is performing Is instructive Journalists, diploma
psts, and influential parties OF all kinds, ar blsy
squabblng about Naples, and other matters, which,
in comparison with great danger, are in the nigh
est degree trivial and absurd.
The Emperor, accompanied by an officer of his
household, both in plain clothes drove on Monday
in phaetOn through different parts OF Paris. Hts
Majesty followed the Rue de Rivoli as tao Is the
Faupourg st Antoine and returned by the Rues De
Ra nbuteau. Train6e, Coquiliere, &c, to the gate
way of the Pont Toarnant, where the Emperor
aighted, and walked through the gardens ~ the
Tnileries.
TIE Project of the Seine has just delivered his
annual report ON the financial situation of the Guy
Paris, which, from cent reports has been looked
for with unusual interest
The land tax personal and furniture tax aud that
on doors and wiBdows, for 1856 amounts !,
7,774OS6 fr., and which will be still greater by
357 .3S9 FIR. in 1857. In other words the taxes
of Paris IN twenty yeas are half as much
again. In order to remove impression that
generally prevails that il is the richer quar-
tfrs of Paris which have most been bench tied
by the number Of new buildings, the report states
that the eighth arrondisst ment, which comprises
Ahe Faubourg st. Antoine, and where the working
cases principally reside. has only had $50 hoases
taken down while one fourth OF the total number OF
buildings is in that quarter. l. also declares Il
to he q mistake that the new buildings are not as
much subdivded as the old ones, and consequently
less efficient in accommodation. 81 am" however.
says the Project, far from dsputing that greater
number OF dsposabe accommodations would not
have been useful in order To keep oown rents; but
what deny Is the cause which IL genera " assigned
for the increase OF rent, and which appears have
also taken place in all great towns where the ex
tension OF railway communication has caused sad
den Increase OF population The report goes on -
throw all the blame OF financial difficulty on the year
ls3S, which, from a disastrous law OF the l0th o.
May rendered the city OF Paris incapable of meet
ing the charges imposed upon II. Thanks" 1t
ADDS, ito the measures Of finance of 1856 We have
now entered on q new era, and we henceforth hope
70 he able TO maintain an equili brium between the
receipts and expenses. This will not at first be ef
fected without difficulty, but the government Of the
Emperor. who has resolutely undertaken the difficult
work from which former governments have shrunk
that OF re establishing order in the departmental
budgets-wii devise means for preventing u recur-
renee OF the embarassments Of the past"
PARIS, Dec. 1, 1856.
Sno1 in Paris-Ihs City Finances-The Imperial
Prinec-The Imperial Displays, in Public
&c, SC.
The ground is covered with sno~, and the frost
Il ~ sharp that all building operations are
pended: ard there is that dull livery of gray per
vading the atmosphere which promises contina-
ance of severe weather. The appearance Of the
city a. the eye wanders over 1t from the heights
of Psssy is sngularly picturesque; the domes VI the
Hotel des Inyalides aud of the Church Of the A
somption and in the far distance that Of the Pan
theon, have majestic effect, as. looming through
the frosted atmosphere, their snow-white robes,
like gigantic parachutes, swell over the panorama,
and spre, and tower and auted portico, gliseniny
In their pure wntcr panopy. are only relieved from
a monotonoly of white by the thousands Of trees
which, leaness and gaunt shoot up their hard
black, staring boughs, Ia living testimony Of the
heeting nature Of beauty and luxuriance. The
accounts ron the departments all concur in speak
ing OF a very marked change In the weather since
Sunday. Snow had fallen heavily on Monday az
Lyons. valence Bordeaux, HAvre, Cherbourg, and In
the whole northern part Of France in fact, winter
would seem TO have set in With considerable severity
In Paris Yesterday morning, snos came down
heavily, and continued to fall during the day. The
thermometer IL now at &c Fahrenheit.
Il is impossible not to feel some misgiving as to
tranquility being preserved should the present
w,a'her prove a presage Of heightened severity.
The government, 1t is vel known, has made ample
provision, far a. regards Paris, to meet casual
necessities The manufeniion Is stored with every
description Of corn, and government puryeyors are
preuared In enter the arket ae nurchasers for the
relief q those whom the inolemeucy Of the season
shall have cast upon their hands The power Of alb
solute government l. complete that has nothing
but TO will an interference with the laws OF CON.
merce, in order to meet an exceptional demand.
and lie will becomes law. Still, the distress In a city
gorged with tens Of thousands OF lsborers, attracted
70 IL by such gigantic works a. have been going on
for the last five years, cannot but be enormous; II
from any circumstance the employment Is suspend.
ed, Il win require common vigilance and pr1yi.