New-York daily tribune., 1857-04-18
FRANCE.
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PARIS, April 2, 1867.

ADerican subjects. am sorry TO give them again
ssn> paragraphs this week. But how can help
nyseff Our countymen here have been talking
ever sinee kst Saturday Of the failure Of the we'll
lAswn American banking house Of Greene Co.,
y Place st. George. am told, do not know 10"
correctly, that they failed for about three mnnon
francs. 1t viii prove an unpleasant 'nc''en' "
travel to many Americans who have deposits WIN,
40 letters Of credit on that house ana may hiu
1Asmselyes suddenly short of funds IN strange
>hre anywhere between st. Petersburg and Jeru-
sakm.
Mere sad than this is the report OF inc nearly
A.,eless condition Of Crawford the sculptor. His
usaly, ~ you are aware, is tumor, SAID TO DC
sfs eapcerous nature, growing behind the eye, and
.rovdins on the brain. His physicians dare not
,ttsmpt m operation, and give no encouragement
"a the hope of cure by any means. At the risk
n beine guilty of an indiscretion and Of woundlg
n nOdesty of an estimabe artist, cannot osht
praising here the generous devotion OF Mr.. Ierry,
uhs shut up his atelier where be was ousy WIN
abundant orders to accompany ana care Icr MI.
Crawford on the painful journey from Itsy 70
Paris.
Rut still worse than this, putting us Americans
IN sb,me are the articles and paragraphs IN all the
Pan, journals reporting the facts as they were (and
iudyps them as they deserve 10 be judged) Of Mr.
Rrst.ed's conduct before Commissioner Belts
Then I left ew.York Mr. Busteed WAS about to
,Yosecute THE TRIBUNE and the Courier des Etats
iris for telling the truth about him. | thought my
self that nothing could be more painful to him, and
could conceive, though not synpathize with his dis
trees on the occasion. But what would the Bus
teed say and feel were he TO read (does he read
French, the Busted y what the Paris papers say
OF hm7 Paris is courteous, more so, il il thought,
than American Journalism. But Partisan journalism
does not hesitate to express Hs contempt for Mr. b.
in language which 1 dare not here translate, for
FEAR Of drawing down on you another threat of
prosecution from the injured b. Paris jour
nalism has no hesitation in calling the Is. not
only a heavy bungler and an but
" man Of three letters" Is the Busted a
scholar Is he at home in the classics Does the
Burteed read Plautus7 If so, repress, pray, the
hst three lines lest that trium terarum homo vt,-
perate me and prosecute you for the mprnting of
the same Would it be safe 10 quote few words
from ono of series of articles in La PresSe the
administration ofjustice in the United Ststes-art-
sles, by the way well worthy our cOnsderatiOn--in
which Busteeds performances are treated of serious
" and at length The writer says: we must add,
"for the honor of the press of New-York, that all
"the journals of that city, with one solitary excep-
"ton, have branded the conduct Of NJ. Busteed asa
Irrational disgrace"
Yes Thanks to Busteeds, and Congressional ruff
fanisms, and Kansas denominations, and steam explo-
sions, and Ostend Conferences, and Foreign Lega-
ions and New-Y streets (ther drtiness and lnse
curity) and fillbusterlng in general We have fallen
IN European estimation. Ten years ago the simple
designation of American citizen little better
worth to the traveller who bore it on bis passport,
than ribbon in the buttOn-hoe or a cross on the
breast 1t was of pointed value as means
10 and oh rla
an intelligent traveller might desire to fire.
suent and visit. To-day, it seems to me this is
not the case. The material prosperity and the
crude force and commercial Importance yearly bet
Ter aud better understood aud Of course, in sort,
respected We find also little difficulty in obtaining,
through the vigorous and valuable interposition of
our efficient representative near the Court as even
ing gentleman at Madame Busque's round table,
vas regfeting the distance which he must traverse
from bis hOtel-the Rue dc Ia Paix-tO remote
quarters, when Our Legation is settled) Of the Tu
leries i'll obtaining the hatterng privilege OF bowling
and duckug, and even dancing (awkwardly), in pres
ence of majesty. In fact am inclined to think some
tmes that Napoleon Ill. takes malicious pleasure
b. facilitating such voluntary degradation of
American Republicans. As | am assured some
of the French guests Oct alone Americans) at
our Minister'S drO soirees, have almost forgotten the
obligations of courtesy Of which they are ordinarily
20 obseyant, in the excess of their amusement at
the ncongruites and unsuccessful mimicrics Of
high French style, 40 patent in those entertain
ments. But your plain, quiet traveller, who desires
10 learn something from his European experience,
has not to-day, / fear, the same advantages with
sentlemen and the guardians and heads Of various
institutions, which be earned with him s0me years
AGO by mere virtue of bis quality as American cltl-
zen. For the mere travelling convenience OF the
thing think to-day had as lief in passing through
Europe, hail from Moscow, Naples or London, as
from our own "ger-reat and gel-loriOus ked'nfry."
Col Lafayette Washington Bowie as Sala calls him,
has somewhat fallen, and, nm sorry to say 1t, de-
servedly, in public esteem. We still hold high
place In the regard of shop and inn-kecpers.
The last American, who has been treated with
real respect at the Tuleries, is our Scotch conpa-
triot, Mr. Hume. You will tell me that spoke of him
ut sufficient length in my last letter. Yet let me
add for he is still the talk Of the town, one or two
anecdotes Of his palatial experience.
And here, since speak of the Tulleries pray LET
the readers of THE TRIBUNE, with the utmost dis
6nstness Of the humbest confession, under
stand that l have not been inside that build
ing since January, 1850, when the then
President of the Republic had the grace
TO send me an invitation through Mr.. Sanford,
which he being but President, and no personal pre-
sentation being necessary, thought could accept
With no loss of self-respcct; for then held that
had much right to enter the hereditary palace of
the rulers of France as Louis Napoleon himself
And furthermore, though l read occasionally the
gossping feuilletons Of the Independence Beige and
The pages of Figaro, and of other soi-disaHt
amusing Paris papers, have not personal acquaint'
ance with single distinguished man OF let
ters, or q fourth-rate actress, or niece
or cousin, tenth removed, of general or
Of other parsonage of note in all Paris. To make
clean breast of it, do not frequent the first society
though it is always wide open To correspondents OF
American newspapers. Pretty much all that L know