New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-08


mohtha ago; i!s SUCCESS, 30 far as carrying ID As
candidates is Governed has been probably e's 1nan
wa. anticipated two weeks ago. NsPoIecns wy
eminent. 70 far ~ It has popular basis, shom w
trmer than beSW. He has bayoDcts and oaiie!-o"A
on bis side Now, if ever, is the time Tor nun 70
give 10 France what be has, in the same Pnrase'
Confessed that bewithheh from her but INTENDED u
due time TO give her-Liberty. VIII hei lou
have DO faith in him. have little, but am in'
cIiped to think that be will endeavcr to grant
not 40 right so much az privilege, waich indeed Is
not true hberty-such additions to the small degree
Of freedom at present enjoyed by the French as WIZ
not interfere with his own safety. Something the
French will gain by this eectien from their ruler;
il cannot be much. With the hest will 10 the world,
Napoleon could not give much in the way OF Pohti,
cal liberty and remain Emperor. 1t Is the ola
trouble Of mixing the oil and water. Something
more, if they have the capacity OF political HE IN
them will the French have gained by this cleo
ton in that it has been another exercise OF pol'i
cal function.
WbatIenders the French " not fit TO govern them
selves" ia not lack Of intelligence, nsr with the ma
jority OF knowledge; it is their Lack OF Po,itlcai
robustness, their quick WEAKNESS OF the hoor Oh
sefgovcrninent. Instead Of the wear ana Tear Vi
yearly elections and quadrennia elections, OF ire
quent active participation in government they pre-
fer 10 have the work done for them, and all the
trouble spared, by a strong central power. But
thew have no dissemination to an occasional efort and
SO when the central power that has taken the work
of their bands does it too badly as when lett TO Itself
and in the long il is sure TO do, they then crowd
all the turmoil, confusion, iuegality, mobbing, row.
ING. lynchng and general obstreperousness which we
of the robust model republic distribute pretty evenly
over the whole course of our lives, from twentyone
to the last time We vote before dyng-they crowd n
saw. all that is bad in twenty years experience OF
a free people into fierce revolution, and in the course
of three DAYS fight and few months of general dis
traction anarchy, followed by dictatorship exhaust
themselves and accept readily the repcse offered by
another strong central power that undertakes the
job of governing them With all this, there Is an
advance Each new central power does, in certain
respects, do the work better than its predecessor,
for sefcOntnuance sake: and whatever 1t does right
well remains done through all revolutions
Thus it is certain that since 1889 France has
made great acquisitions. Among these we may
count civil liberty: with Sigh. qualification,
religious liberty; great degree OF social equality
as Iegns many country on earth and, on the political
side something very like demOcracy-whch astls not
necessarily political freedom. The elements OF Tue
real subsO French constitution to-day are, deInoc-
racy, which is checked by an autoeracy, which is
checked by fear of revolution, which is checked by
anxiety for material interests. Well this is better
than Louis XIV.
The weather is warm the town is quiet; the
fashionables have begun their flight to the sea side
and provincial or German Springs; the Court Is at
St. Clouds the Emperor, they say is going soon to
PlOmberes, where he spent month or two, you re.
member, last year-and whence he returned, as quid
uuncs and Manchester Guardians and other Origl.
nal sources told us, deranged in his intellect and
fast failing in bodily strength. The two items OF
his insanity and cOrrodng disease, steadily contra
dicted by bis official acts, and his firm seat IN his
saddle, o. n b., to give all parties even the hoof-
footed party their and his due, is an uncommonly
fine horseman,) seem to be exhausted by the news
mOngers, and Of late We hear as little OF them as
of the Young Prince Napkin his blindness, which
last year was for time accepted fact among
the Paris Jenkinses. But there is good story
about the Emperor, which l must relate. / do not
care to name my authority; suffice 1t to say that
it s as good as that of most of my stories of the
palace. As for the story ITSELF to say that had it
from man who had it from Countess, who had it
from the Y Of y, who had it direct from
Senator whose name prudence forbids me to men
ton would be the simple truth, and would imply that
was in intimate personal relations with the noble
Countess of the FaubOurg st. German, with the
distinguished u of y, and Senator =
hmself-none of whom ever so much as laid eyes
on. Iprefer rather to state on my own response
bty that the story is as true the book of Jasher
only regret that cannot tell it with such enibrO
derry of grace and wit as il was told to me.
His Majesty's respect for witches, fortunetelcrs,
sooth savers, (whO rarely say sOoth), Homes (as
they steadily spell Hume, the be-deviled, in these
parts) and all other COMMITMENTS of the upper and
neither spheres and the outer limits to beyond the
mOsn is well known. by the way it was just be-
cause of his known respect for this sort OF folk and
their dicta that the Rev. l. Prime wrote some
years ago to New-York religious paper that the
Prince President would never make himself En-
peror fortune telling female having prOphesied to
HIM that he would come to grief if he attained
throne he Rev. l. p, for whom, as brother cor.
respondent entertain fraternal regard, having the
story on good authority" put fall faith in it at the
time. Facts must have turned the faith to more
than skepticism very shortly sitter.
But to return to my moutons, as the French say,
which in the present case are three rats.
His Majesty dreamed the other night, as he lay
son his d0wry couch succumbent, that three long
tailed rats marched gravely about his bed. They
marched and marched and marched, the sharp,
shrewd knowing eyes Of two of them, winking at
him all the night long. There was stout, rakish,
fat rat, and thin, melancholy lean rat Ind stone
blind rat. The vision had such an effect on the
Emperor that he sent next day for medium to in
terpret IFS meaning. "Sire," said the interpreter,
q lie meaning is clear, but dare not tell it, you
would be angry and l should be punished" My
good fellow imam brare hommeC' answered the En-.
peror, with the friendly smile and pleasant manner
which have become celebrated for their charm since
1852, 81 give you my word that no harm
shall come to you from the Interpretation.
." ,Je vous demande mile pardons, Sire, but you
'recollect that your word in 81" mo
''more of that; here ale ten napolecns. Now
:" tell NE the meaning Of those rats" Coniiding
in the golden napoeons, which the soothsayer
ncobtinently pocketed, he interpreted as fol-
lows: 1.-The fat rat, Sire, synoolizes your
"courtiers and intimate adherents who have ac-
" inundated swollen fortunes at the Bourse, and
have made rich marriages, and have built fine