New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-25

Wv bctN'to hutttA tbO NO ~ ~
signed tlsn tie interested parties disasree upon
the Interpretation Of its provisions. Cardinal
Wissmau, taking Up its defense the other day
agsntt the popular English prejudice. told his
audience with III amusing naivete. that though the
o0ro0r9Gf was LotliDg but simple treaty. nobody
bot sdeps IN ecclesisstcsl Latin could understand
it. Ecelesiesticsl diplomatic Latin, be said. was
4 language Which the profoundest student OF the
classics. and even Of law Latin writer's could not
understand.
There is deal Of idle talk in and on. OF the
;ournsls just now on the question whether Prussia
20 take part in the Paris conferences or only to
lie offered chance Of signing the deh0ltys
treaty. After. or cotemporaneous with the
neeOtiators, sre 10 come So run0r begins to say,
such OF their respective sovereigDs as hsve not
already made their trip to Paris Alexander, tho
sultan, Francis Joseph, and some OF tho Royal
ard ducHl little ones from Germany. About
tie same time the new French prince everybody
ia agreed that it shall be sprince-is expected.
Tie story always goes that the Empress will
be delivered at ST. Cloud. She does not but re-
mains at the Tuleries as policy requires that she
should. The heir of France should hrst see light
in the palace, which IT, par eTeslisnts, the tradl-
tional residence Of her rulers. palace that to-
day. when the Tueries aud Louvre are completed,
one. is the largest grandest palace of the world.
Critics may quarrel about its want Oi
harmony its rupture of the rules, but
tie wealth of ornament and the beauty OF
details III the different parts OF this Immense eji-
fee excite tie admiration Of every spectator who
will trust his own eye and sense rather than
critics carpirg. The cos, Of the new parts OF the
buildinc-the monument which Louis Napoleon has
been raising to lis memory for the last five years
L.s been thus far twenty seven and half millions
of francs. To complete tho worn will require still
about fourteen millions. You may calculate the
political importance of this outlay ~ means OF
pscfy ing Paris, when you learn that the first men
toned sum Las paid, among other things for
9. I67 ,g72 days WORK. The sOundness of the pol
lev here di'plsy ed, however it may be judged by
Americspe and Epgishmen, is hardly called in
question here by friends or opponents Of the exist
ipg Government ! spoke 4 moment age of tue
wealth Of ornsment-to give any definite notion
of il would be difficult for an artist in forms and
words for me- impossible. A little statement
of figures will justify what bave said in gen-
ersl. ard may in itself interest the reader. The
facadcs Of the newly constructed portions OF the
Place du Carronsel and Of the newly christened
Place Napoleon these great squares being
sin ply courts OF the palaee-are ornamented with
single statues caratides groups in full and figures
in Iieh ard low relief to the humber of two hun
dr.d and sixty .One, executed by one hundred and
ffty.fye sculptOTs, at an expense oil more than
million and half Of francs $500 OOOl
With this magnificent monument, to show them
and a grand baptismal ceremony, TO which if peace
and the Pope cen be brought in aid, will be a cor
onation ceremony, the paiyenu Emperor may e4-
cite TIE envy Of the prcudest OF his legltnately
royel guests-snd nothing will tickle the French
more than that five eau judge of their admra-
ton Of the mon by the eagcrDess with which they
sue for admission to the imperial presence, many
of our model American Republicans will be equally
pleased with his triumph in such case.
Nv Old friend POupard asks very embarrassing
questions about this eagerDess OF certain OF our
republicans to be permitted to trc- IN queer raj
II tnt, for the sake Of being locke 81 "y IN empe-
Tor. And PUupsrd furthermore, is puzzled at
American sympathy with autocrshc Russia as
against France and England, and with imperial
Trance as against constitutional England, aud
with Prussia aud Austria, the real all rs Of Russia
n against German liberalism and Hungarian aud
Polish and Italian nationality. He is puzzled to
learn that the most Intelligent people in the world
with the best constitution in the world cannot get
Themselves governed by that constitutions; that
the representatives of the most Intelligent people
| in the world cannot form themselves into legs
Iature after more than hundred attempts to do
80: that the great obstacle to their perfor nance
Of functions for which alone they woro chosen and
are paid by the freest, only s. II governed people IN
the world, is dispute about Slavery; that the
same document in which the freely chosen spokes-
man of the freest people in the world maintains
absolutely the ffetOOm OF Tue conIaus ou
arpun ent the drift Of which is to defend Slavery
on land. | ON puzzled myself can ouly say to
| NJ Poupsrd v bat DickeDss collateral neighbor at
New-York hotel sad to him, when tue great
humorst expressed bis surprise at seelnga gentle
man On the opposite side of the table pick his teeth
with fork: "Ah, you foreigners do not under
stand our institutions"
The difficulty by the way, which Foreigners have
in understanding institutions and other matters
Of ours quite remarkable Itimpresses tself tho
more forcibly on bn American mind from the fact
that we have not the least difficulty in the world
in understanding institutions national chaIacterls-
tics, manners, ETC. of any and oil foreign nations
A foreigner goes to the United States, remains
there several years, ard shows at the end OF the
time whether be becomes a citizen aud votes, or
author aid writes book, that he cannot judge US
rightly. An American, OH the contrary, who landed
| ht LiyerICOl last month at Houlogne last week,
will tell you definitely what all the English are.
what ali the French are. When he returns next
| lure from his comprehensive tour through Egypt,
| Italy. Germany aud Russia, his mind is made up
as 10 the respective peoples OF those countries
| 81 d, What is pleasant il made up without preIu-
dice and rightly. 1t is noticeable enough IN this
copnC xon that while the English are full OF insuar
prejudice boastiul, and rude withal in their man
neIs We their descendants, are free from those dc
tets, which We replace by broad cosmopolitan.
| ly mOdesty, and graceful potsness. Let any En-
| piislmGn who doubts the statement frequent the
smo hing room of the Hotel du Louvre OF an even
Ing whtn there is full attendance OF American
| guests.
A portion Of the Americans in Paris are pre-
Isring to dance to the memory of the father OF hi'
| country on the 22d Of this month Our efficient
| Cplon attic representative near the Court oil the
Iuieres, assisted BY bis secretary of legation and
bis private secretary, are to be among the ball
managers. Col. WapsbOt informs me that "no
efforts will be spared to make is eminently re-
"ehsreLt and patriotic" To secure the former
quality, the tickets are put at So the latter will
| be represented by the starsowed banner; i say