New-York daily tribune., 1856-03-15
F. i r O p E.
BY THE ARABIA'S MAILS.
THE STATE OF EUROPE.
TIL bIAIL OF LUhUI Il.
From Our Own Correspondent.

N-A'~N~eNhAD
Defeated in the House of Lords about the question
Of life-peers, it had to withdraw Mr.. loves bill
for the abolition Of some shipping dues in order to
escape defeat in the House of Commons; beside,
the Police bill is in such a precariOus state that
Government dsres not press il. Another source OF
annoyance is Sir John Macneils and Col. Tulloch's
Crimean report. You remember that at the time
of the ROebuck Committee the Government sneered
at the inquest ordered by Parliament, and took the
necessary steps to have matters thoroughly inyest-
gated in the Crimea, pretending that the Commit
tee could not get at the root OF the evil not being
on the spot. The Government Commissioners
went 10 the camp, investigated the con-
ditiOn Of the army and its deficiencies,
and wrote their report leniently enough. Still, 1t
contained severe structures on Gen. Airey, on Col
Gordon, and on Lords Lucan and Cardigan. All
these men are high in favor at the Horse Guards
with the CoInmander-n Chief and Prince Albert
and they found themselves hurt by the publication Of
the official report. Accordingly, Lord Pamerston
had to appoint new Commission to receive the
explanations of the officers who felt themselves
iDured-in fact. Commission to screen the favor
ties of the Horse Guards, and expose Sir John
Macneil and Col. Tulloch, who stupidity believed
they must report the truth, and did not under
stand the hint to throw all the blame OF the "sys-
TEN on the " routine"
The Conferences in Paris have fairly commenced
but the PlenipOtentiaries having pledged their
honor not to disclose what might pass at thelc
meetings, we are of course unable to give any au-
thentc information about the state OF negotiations
The armstice concluded on the first day OF the
Conferences extended only to the operations by
land, to last till the end of March; ii does not IN
terfere with the blockade. Should the negotiations
lead to peace, then Congress of all the European
powers will be held, in order, as the diplomatists
saw - TO establish new international balance of
power, in harmony with the changes which have
:" taken place during the last forty years" Nap0-
leon wishes now most intensely to have his dynasty
recognized by the European powers, and the first
point of the treaty of Vienna bl0tted out from the
international law of Europe and this can
scarcely be obtained without Congress. 1t
is strange to see how English enthusiasm
for the French Emperor gradually sinks to the
freezing point Mr. RathbOne Gregg, for instance,
in sn article in The National Rerie,o (January),
which is now very extensively read q mean the
article not The Rerieto,) describes him in the fol-
lowing words: - His principal reliance must ever
" be, as it ever has been, on his own character
" and talents These have never been Justly est-
" mated. 1t was the fashion to underrate him for
- merly; it is the fashion to Oyerrate him now.
" Personally we have had no means of Judging,
" though we have gazed with intensest scrutiny
% on that hard, sinister, impassiye countenance,
" without one noble lineament or one genial ex
preston: but we have had opportunities OF
90 ascertaining the judgments of several who have
known him intimately and watched him long;
- and their opinions are neither doubtful nor dis
. crepant His forte lies in medltatve habits and
90 a strong vOlition. He has genius, his educa
I" tiOn has been imperfect, and his knowledge IS
- not great. His views are usually narrow, but
- sometimes singularly sagacious; and when he is
- on the right tack, his courage, cooness, delber
d" alton, and unscrupulOus resolution give hlm
Il" enormous advantages lie IL tenacious
4" resolute, and yehemently imperiOus in carrying
- out the purpose of the hOur-but this purpose
d" often changes. One project or fancy sue
- ceeds another with strange, almost lnfantlne
"rapidity. Hence, though anything but
% vaeating. he is very changeable lie
learns little from others for he rarely listens TO
reasoning or exposition though he is silent with
an appearance of attention, while in reality he
{" is thinking, not hearing. In one
"point be is sngularly at fault. He has slight
insight into character, and is apt to choose his
"men ILL.," If his natural capacity
were greater, he would be safer man, and his
course far more predctable. He has made the
most of the faculties with which he was origin
" ally endowed but these were both limited in
range and incomplete in number, and il is i'm
pOsslDC 10 say WutH lDtl VIII ihil hiiii VI
whittier they may lead him." AS to the financial
position of France, Mr.. Gregg says: " Including
''the two great loans the belief is that since the
coup detat Louis Napoleon has borrowed
81, 700, 600 900 francs" The expenses incurred by
the municipality of Paris on account of the ar
raDgement as to the price of bread, reach between
fifty and one hundred million francs. For the
establishment of the city, the Partisan authorities
have contracted three loans to an extent of 49,
coo, 600 francs 1.-The sums borrowed for similar
purposes by the departments and cOmmunes are
stated TO us as at BOO, OOO, 900 francs
"These facts and figures are alarming
enough: what is yet more So is the
establishment of the Credit MObilier,
"a society for borrowing and lending on various Sc
"curities. and on an enormous scale. Scarcely
lone of the Ministers, or men connected with the
Emperor, is free from the reproach of stock
"iobbing; their fortunes have been made, either
"by gross favoritism, or by speculatiOns in the
"funds, which, III men placed as they are, ana
with sinister and secret means of information is
little short of swindling; and the riches thus
questionably won are spent in style of lavish
"and somewhat vulgar luxury, peculiarly Often
sve, both TO the taste and the poverty OF the
cultivated and the noble" Now, all these ex-
tracts are made from an article essentially favor
able TO NapoleOn; they are an example OF the
concessions which even his partisans in England
must make to public opinion.
The Paris correspondent OF the IndtpenddRes
Belize writes that in case Prince should be born
to the Emperor, the Pope would visit France TO
baptize the Imperial child. The Emperor of Aus
tra is to be its godfather according to another YER
sion. In any case Napoleon wishes to have his
dynastic pretensiOns acknowledged ss solemny as
possible by Pope and Ksisar.
Your late correspondent from the East, Princess
Christina Belgioioso Trivulzio, has obtained com
plee amnesty for her person well as her proper
ty, from the Emperor Francis Joseph.
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