New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-22

troops on the Champs de- Mar ct 100000 The
sight for any ono who likes that sCvt OF spectacle.
was hne ooe. We hear good deal Of the food.
| ness Of the Parsians for such military fetes. |
should j.dge. from What have seen and hard bars
Of late years, hat they were equally suitet a. tho
! taste OF American civilians. As Cor the numerous
representatives Of our gallant militia. hardly q
| Colonel Of them al in Paris failed 10 attend That
nc0nyenientiy inquisitiVe old Frenchman, ~.
| Poupard expresses interroyativc surprise that be
| never meets Am-ricsn Captains and LieuteuantS
here and wants 10 know il their pay is too small to
permit Of foreign travel
Young c. was much impressed by the grandeur
| of the review and above all, by tbe brave show
offered to bis admrins eyes by the Emperor and
his brilliant cortege Of Dukes. Nsrshsls Generals
snd Cent-gardes. He was more than ever con-
frmed in his opinion of the strength Of the present.
Government aud the stable conditiopo OF things gen
erally in France. On those points Grcen seems
more confident than his Majesty. For "a, Will notice
that the next Consumption Is liked at loo0o meu.
and is TO be so continued annually hereafter. a.
though previous to the Crimean war the normal
conscripton had been but 30 900. But tina ast num-
Der ofyesry recruits did not furnish army cfmorc
than 500, 600 men. and Government says frankly
that TO meet the exgencies OF police duty snd pos
sible extraordinary contingencies, 1t has need OF
100000. Green and jenkins may think that
Government sitting on that number OF bsyonefs is
strong one. must agree with the present Hsad OF
IL,
such propplng.
| did no, GO 10 the review but making my wsy
down town 10 dinner in the attereoon met several
regiments returning TO barracks. The men were
rather small but were mostly well looking, young
active men could not but think what yeomans
service they might do the world were they planted
and planting in Iowa, or even occupied In product
i've labor on the uncutiyated and lllcultiyated land
in France Had but half of them and Their fellows
been SO employed instead of being mere consumers
of fruits We should in spite of short crops, have
heard little of famine IN the past three years and OF
the death Of 50 600 human beings for want OF suh
Gent food But neither NJ Legoyt, whose estimate
of the less by famine l have already copied in
former letter, writers freer than Ministerial
burraucrat can be expected to be, from preudices
ON this point who have been lately gravely dis
cnssno the question of French national decline.
speak Of the fearful absorption by the army of pro-
ductiye force as one of the large causes OF that de-
cline.
And although the figures of the Official census
prove that the increase of the population OF all
France has been but one-seventh Of one per cent
per annum for the past FIVE years. Green and Jen-
kns seeing that new buildings going up in Paris,
and that railroad shares and real estate assessed
| at increased rates. cannot get it into their heads
| that the people ct France are not in state Of
| blooming prosperity and economic happiness
Desiring to speak on question of political econ
| omy with humility proportional to my ignorance
of that science venture TO suggest that its pro-
fessors have tendency TO overlook the distinction
between national wealth and popular prosperity,
analogous TO the tendency of professors in another
kind to overlook the distinction between speculative
orthodoxy and vital piety And cannot help think
inc that the nation which hardly holds its own IN
numbers, and reckons its wealth only by the assess
ment list, may one day find itself in an economic
condition which ont he score Of painful surprise, VIII
not be- dissmilar to that which Charles Lamb, in his
theologic questions doubts may beial certain Chris
tians at their last awakening.
What time the Grand Duke does not spend IN
visiting public monuments, and attending balls, din
ners and the like, he passes, by way ct relaxation
AT the theater. Aud relaxation is hs object, ho
prefers the small theaters to the large. and tho
broad farce of the Pslss Royal to the more classic
entertainments of the Francois By rather
curious coincidence while honors ana attentions OIL
all sorts were being bestowed upon this Russian
Prince the Polish Prince CzsrtOryski was presiding
last Monday at dinner given by his brother exlles
1t was the Sd Of May, the anniversary OF the pro-
mitigation vf the Polish Constitution u that date.
The outer walls Of the restaurant where the dinner
was given and where Czartor,sk patriotic speech
was loudly appauded, and Polish-patriotic toasts
were drunk, was decorated, i am told, with the
peculiarly ugly Russian national flags such ~ are
mapping their hattery to the Russian Prince in the
| idle wind along all the large streets Of the city.
Mr.. Spence is here on his way eastward. bring
| ing from Washington eur treaty with Persia.
The report received here from England day or
two ago Of the refusal of the Persian Government 10
approve the treaty recently negotiated with England
| by Feruk Khan, Is denied here to-day. 10 is GER
tain that no official Of the rejection had reached
the Persian Embassy, in Paris, two hours ago.
| Still the report may be- true. English cOuriers
would be- very apt to precede the Persian, il such
| news were to be brought. And 80 there may be q
| a war and plenty of butchep, and new diplomatic
note writing and embassies, and treaty making all
| because Mr.. English Diplomat Murray would have
| lsison with the Persian Shshs niece and protect
| her miserable husband against the ayeDging wrath
of the adys uncle. For that Is the true motY
| Of the kngloPersian difficulties.
Apropos of dirty subjects: There has been, Of late
weeks. more than enough foolish scandal about the
Countess Castiglione and the Emperor (pOOr mani,
| and " all about how the lady was finally ordered
not 10 appear at Court, and urgently recommended
TO travel in Spain or elsewhere hey ond tina frontiers.
As she has not left Paris, it might be as wei Tor
men to let her reputation, TO say nothing OF that
| of poor Majesty, alone.
A scandal Of quite different sort, the. promise Of
whose publicity excited last week the mouthwater-
ing appetite OF lovers Of causes etebns, has been
shut up within the four walls OF the Court OF Appeals
nj Grenobe BY order Of the presiding Judge OF that
| tribunal The case il curious one, growing out u
the famous ppearance of the Holy Virgin OF Saette.
| Salette is mountain valley in the French Alps,
| where some years ago the Holy Virgin presented
herself one day 10 a boy and girl who ware watch
| iup cows at pasture, and revealed TO them, what
| science could not explain, the cause OF the potato
rot She told them that il was all along oi the dS-
regard of the Sabbath The children told the story
If the Vision. which. strange as il may seem in the
country of Yotaire mot stranger, BY the way thu
| Mornonisn and certain other phenomena IN this
| country of Ben. Franklin was soon accepted as
| divine miracle. The place where the Virgin pre-