New-York daily tribune., 1856-03-22
9, IL the Five Points by Russis. Lord Palmer

as p-elrninary treaty in day or two. this pro-
~eedi, Of the Congress stands in audable contrast
.,r;,, .be ordinary slow ard circumlocutory forms
y, a;p]omatic action. Lord PaImerston does not
aem 10 attach q very serious Importance to the
aew signing. He has even forgotten on what day
Il toek place. although it must have taken place
,witbr the seven days preceding the date OF his
yrep afks but adds with accustomed levly, that IL
occurred lately.
The Brussels papers, much better informed than
his I,ordshp published with great flourish OF trun-
pts snst the peace was made and that II wouid DC
,5Dnoupced by tho Emperor IN his speecn 10 the
"Bodies" One Of them went so lar as 10 report
a passsre from the discourse delivered by Count
Orlof :, the very secret bosom OF the Congress
ftse'' SOme of the Brussels papers have great
a.. ssion for issuing similarly advanced news.
PR. correspondent Of one Of them told us last
z eei at he had seen letter from the Archbishop
:. Lyignon, who had just returned from Rome;
that the Archbishop writes that in farewell audi
epce the Pope announced bis purpose of presently
coming to France, in case the Emperor sbouid
have a son, &c. Several OF the Paris Journals
h. 20 received and published this week letter from
& q Archbishops vicar-general, stating that the
archbishop left Rome more than year ago, and
tbst the rest of the information contained IN the
= ais correspondence Of the Brussels papers 10
ally truthful with that about the date Of his
iordship's arrival at Avignon.
10 do the baptizng, crOwning and other spiritual
. chores of the Imperial household remains much
~ debated question. The safest provisional settle
!, ment Of il is TO confess according 10 the New
n. England formula, 1--WE do not know as ne WILL
ebpd we do not know as he WILL -
~ AYrYos Of what is coming here is sometnns
q, ,p, the Montexr that reminds Of the title or
C,,rsrdib's Decrets de PArenir: "By Imperial de-
cree dated March d. Madame rAmrale Bruat
is appointed GOverness OF the Children OF
"France."
Marshal Pessier sends word that news of the
armistice was received in the Crimea on the 2Sth
February At q conference of the allied aud Nus
lian commanders held on the 29th suspension
4 of hostties was agreed to- While abundance
I regns in the English camp and the Engnsh SOL
diers are enjoying rare exemption from disease
the suHerDgs from want and illness among the
French troops are said 10 be very severe One
could imagine, from some reports that the French
and English cOmmssariat and medical stan had
changed places, or exchanged the objects OF their
respective care and neglect since last year. but
if the present condition Of the French In tne
Crmea bears too sad resemblance to that OF the
English last year. you find no likeness III the french
press to those free and full exposures with which
the English journals excited sympathy Tor the SUI
ferers and indignation against the maladminlStra-
ton, and finally strenuous efforts at reform
The first thing for the Legislative Body to do is
10 look at talk about mildly, and vote for the
budget of 1857, as prepared and laid before them
by the Government. Its essential features are
as follows: Calculated expenses for next year,
l695. .O57 164 francs; calculated ways and means,
17IO,474.5l2; excess of receipts 15,4l7,34c.
II is claimed that the receipts for 1857 are very
moderately estimated. Ii is understood that this
budget, with its excess Of receipts over expendi-
tures does not take into account exceptional ex.
penses caused by state of war. Exceptional
expepses must be covered by exceptional re-
% 10 hvl loap IN Wauld tamntpd
10 think, from survey of the French national
debt that the ex xceptiOn very much like rule.
In the year lo2S the debt amounted, in rentcs at
g, a aud per cent, to 2OO, OOO, 900 francs On
ahe 1st of January, 1854, Notwithstanding very
important reductions in the ives and fourand-a-
balfs and otherwise it amounted, IN rentes at A.
and per cent to 222, 686, 242 francs, repre-
septno nominal capital of 5,669, ,655, OH francs;
10 this we must now add the last three loans,
making together $50 900 900 francs capital, PAID
for By about 76 600 600 rencs. SO that to-day the
French debt is represented by something more
fbsn oe9 GOO 900 francs of annual interest. The
writer. however, from whose pages borrow the
nhove 6ouIes sees no cause for alarm In the ln-
crease. which he remarks 10 "only 100, OOO. 600
francs more than in 1928" 1t is his opinion that
the substantive wealth and pecuDary resources OF
France have augmented during the last - years
IN a still larger proportion. To leave to MS
opinion whatever value properly belongs TO II, L
should say that commerce and finances are tne
sspeeialihes" of the writer's studies, and that his
optimism in the matter of French finances has no
connection with his political opinions respecting
the present Government.
Now that am once so deep gone in money mat
ters, must speak of colossal fortune, about
which, OF rather about trial regarding 1t, there
is, and for month has been much talk in Paris
What shall have to say of it is gathered from the
somewhat volumnous, though still abbreviated, re-
port which fills nineteen columns OF my evening
paper of trial that has occupied the attention Of
our chief cyl tribunal at intervals, from the 10Th
Of last January up to the present time.
Once there were two brothers of the name of
Michel whom il will be convenient 10 distinguish,
in the French manner, as Michel jeane and Michel
sist. In their catechism, the chief end OF man
was to make money; and with remarkable faclli-
tie to that end were they endowed. They began
their operations in the troubled times at the
CLOSE Of the last century. In the year OF the
Republic they went into gartnership with capital
of 500 00e francs furnished by Michel jeune-
the elder Michel was then worth nothing. Ii is
proved that in 1902 five years afterward, the COM
pany was worth seventeen millions, which by loOo
had grown to twenty feur millions. But this was
only the beginning: what this fortune, or rather
1he two fortunes, finally came TO, Will appear
presently. TO make money, have money, see
money, and make and have and see more money,
was the ruling almost the sole passion OF the two
brothers After the dissolution Of their part
nership they became almost at enmity with
each other. With the relatives, whom they had
left behind them in the Provinces they Kept up no
intercourse When well advanced in years, each
2 ,ther, not from frsterHal affection, but out OF
Aa Z aud regard to gold and accumulation of gold,
IA, de viii insttuting the other as sole heirs only
in the will Of the elder brother were few excep-
tnal legacies, amounting in all TO less than mil
lion. Ii is proved in the course of she trial that