New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-03-04


was speaking, the other letter, of the fresh
impulse which French activity, on the industrial
and commercial side received frOm the pacific
news. then not three weeks old. This activity IL
nowhere more potent than in maritime matters
The French commercial marine has of late. and
especially within the last two or three years, at.
traced the interest Of not only theoretical states
men but of investing capitalists. Ii il in a wsy
which seems 10 be rapid way, of DEVELOPMENT
To history, even to q brief survey. of this new
sesward movement / cannot at present largely
contribute. One or two salient points in it. how
ever, may be set down here a. significant ipdicea
of its Importance. La PresSe, the most widely cir
culated of any French journal, publishes weekly
maritime bulletin" No such heading WAS ever
seen in a Partisan newspaper until within ak
months. A regular line of four steamers ia r..
Gently instituted, connecting Hayre and Rio ia
nero touching at Lisbon, Bahia and Pernambuco.
Other transatlantic steam lines are contemplated
and Government aid is assured to them. Two
large companies, whose operations have been with
foreien-trading sailing vessels, have recently en-
larged their sphere of operations-having won the
confidence OF Partisan capitalists by the best of all
persuSslves in such case, an exhibition of their
balance sheet" The Company of French
Clippers" bought last Saturday, from the English
General Steam Screw Shipping Company, eight
screw steamers for the sum of f500, 900 sterling.
Was Russia sincere in her unqualified accept.
ance OF the AustrO-f raDeoAUglO propositions /
ventured some letters ago to hazard the opinion
that she, or rather he, Alexander. was. The
opinion was based on the suppostion that Alexan-
der and self took the same sensible view of the
true interests Of Russia. The true interests of
Russia, considered simply in reference TO her
growth as warlike, aggressive, Turkey gObbling
power, are only to be promoted at present by
peace. That was my view of the case. | had
the mOdesty-nOt usual weakness of correspond.
ents-tO conceive that the Car looked at it in the
same manner. If he did, his assent to PROPOSE
tons that at first sight and in certain respe cts
that is in respect of certain traditional prejulices
about national honor, glory, and other such intan.
gibles-were painful to accept, was explicable;
much more applicable than that he was scared
into submission" by the half loss of SevastOpOl or
the fear of a reconstruction of Polish nationality
If it was modesty that then led me TO suppose the
Russian autOcrat on an equality of shrewdness
with &. X. r., it is now vastly tickling to my van
ty to find the hypothesis correct. If we may
Judge nom what is written in and from ST. Peters
burg by native journalists and foreign correspond
ents, public and private, there is no difference to
speak of between Alexis view and my own. 1t
would appear that the ambition of the au-
tocrat is to bring up the Russian arrear of
civilization as near as may be to balance with
Western European civilizations that he has
a large-nOt sweeping, but general-plan of ref.
ormatiOns the aim of " hich is TO develop both the
resources of Russia and the resources of Russians
What clearly and definitely his plan is, whether it
yet is clearly defined in his own mind, and what
are all the impedlments In the way Of lis execu.
ton, cannot be told. But trusting to the author
tiles referred TO above we may inter that he does
not estimate his applicable forces so highly as
some Of his foreign sympathzers, or even as some
Of his foreign enemies. Prominent features in his
l. l.. Al.
corruption ingrained In the Russian administrative
service; gradual emancipation of the serfs, who
are in time to become reehOlders-whence comes
development of agriculture; transfer of the SUI
pervislOn of primary instruction from the priest.
hood to civil officers-whence comes growth in
intelligence and knowledge, the base of all other
development; system of common and railroads,
by which the parts Of the realm may be brought
together so that the latent dead wealth of distant
fertile plains and rich mineral deposits may be-
come a revealed, exchangable, living wealth in
the seapOrts OF the Baltic and EuXne; u tighten
ing OF the heavy chain that weighs down Poland;
and an abolition or, more probably modification
of the literary censorship that shackles thought.
Trusting always TO The same authority, st.
Petersburg journalists and published and private
correspondence We may infer that the Russians
themselves, who sufficiently raised above bru-
tai ignorance to be capable OF opinion that is,
the great majority of the mobiles, and the CONNER
cal and industrial population of the large towns,
are not only content but delighted with the pros
pect of peace. The relative proportions being oo
served, it would seem that the fresh impulse
recently given to commercial and industrial activ
ity is as marked at st. Petersburg as at Paris.
Once for ALL it is worth noticing, not to say worth
careful thinking of-what The Car and G. K. b.
have thought u good deal Of-that Russia, with a
large territory and more men and better generals
than the Allies, with soldiers equally brave aud
numerous, with engineers, to say the least
equally skilful, with the advantage of fortifica-
tons and abundant crops, has been beaten. BY
what them BY the forces OF civilization. The
chiefest Of those fOrces-the base on which the
others rest Il am looking at the material side)-
has been really the greater pecunlary resource OF
France and England The pecunlary resources
money or credt-haye for their base, internal and
foreign commerce.
To change the subject. You remember that
sOmewhile ago there an article in the MoniteW
"a sort of official lecture, addressed to the Senate
reminding them of their duties and functions. 1t
made people stare-SeDat0rs as widely as any one
Theoretically, indeed, on the paper instrument
called constitution, Senatorial functions and duties
are laid down. The Senatorial and popular i'm
preston was, that they were laid down to be kept
there-a constitutional provision sailed away for
the use, if OF any body, OF some remote and face
Nous Senate of the future. The general cOmpre
hension of Senatorial duties and functions any
time the past four years has been to draw 10000
francs annual salary to pray that II and the pre-
sent form of government might last lifetime
and to promulgate the ready made laws sent from
the Emperor cd the COaSeI dEtat and the so
called Legislative Body. Some of the Senators
were quite aggravated by the tartness of the
lecture aforesaid-by its implied reproach that
they had neglected the performance of their proper
service. Some of them talked of resigning, and
took it out" in talking. The resignation of
Drouyn de rHuys had another origin The wonder
and the talk had mainly died away, however, when
il was all revived again few days ago by report