New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-01
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THE STATE OF EUROPE.

LONDON, Tuesday, June III, lc57.
The French elections, fixed by the Emperor for
Sunday and Monday next, promise to DO Of great
importance. The Republicans have resolved to
come forward at Paris Lyons and Lille, and, by
the election Of their candidates, to show that Re-
publicanism is not yet dead 10 France. The En-
peror is considerably alarmed by this resolution,
since large fraction Of the Oreapists will join
the Republicans in order to protest against I'M
perals. There is scarcely any doubt that at least
four Of the ten opposition candidates at Paris will
be returned, though Mr.. Pietri, the Prefet de Po-
lice is hard at work to prevent this result. The
very first idea was, of course, that of sowing dis
cord among the different shades of Republicans, aud
Of dividing the ticket This stratagem failed since
Ledru R0llin and the exiles ut London advised all
their friends to stick to the ticket Of the Steele The
Imperiasts next tried to detach the Oreanists (Of
the fraction of the Journal des Debats from the CO.
aliton. But even this dodge did not succeed. The
Orleanists certainly hate the Republic which
overthrow the throne of Louis Philippe, but they
hate still more the present Government, which has
robbed the of the Duke Of Orleans of their pri-
vate property which the Republic had respected.
Besides, the Orleanists hope to get an opening for
their Pretender in any free elective Assembly, while
the iron rule of Napoleon prevents even the utter
ance of Oreanist wishes and excludes the Orleanlst
bourge0ise together with the rest Of the nation.
from the liberty speech and of the press In such
state of things should not be surprised to hear OF
the discovery of great Socialist conspiracy, got
upby Mr. Pietri himself, i'll order to brighten the
electors at the eleventh hour and, if such maneu
yer should be deemed inexpedient, of baot-stuAng
in the best Californian Democratic fashion. My
French friends in London do not believe that ballot
stufing be- practced at Paris at the present no
ment, though in the Provinces it will certainly be
resorted to; and accordingly they bet two to one
that Carnot, Goudchaux, Cavagnac and the editor
of the journal des DeJats will be returned on Mon
day next. The Paris correspondents of the London
papers favorable to Napoleon begin already to speak
of the fckleness Of the Parisians, and their
nveterate spirit Of opposition in order to pallate
the probable defeat of the lmperaliss and to reduce
the anti Imperial demonstration to the proportions
of freak among the waggish Parsians. The Con-
tinental despots are on the lookout, and Napoleon
feels that his prestige will receive terrible shock
unless he can show that the people of Paris are still
his adherents il matters little whether for love,
money or fear.
The Jews bill has been carried in the House Of
Commons, but it is still very doubtful whether the
Peers will not throw 1t out, though Lord Palmers-
ton has secured several Bishops to vote for Roths
cbild's admission to the House. The Peers have
passed the Divorce BILL and actions for Grim. con.
will now cease to disgrace the law reports OF the
PAPERS Otherwise Parliament does not excite the
smallest interest in the public all great questions,
and, with them all important political ntrisues, be-
ing adjourned to next year.
The Manchester Exhibition is, financially speaking,
failure, and the Guarantee Committee will sustain
a heavy loss, unless the visit OF the Queen should
impart new life to the undertaking. 1t seems on
the whole that the managers of the affair were not
equal to their task, even in the arrangement OF the
treasures exhibited. They have not yet succeeded
in compiling decent catalogue, and the exhibitors
complain of the way in which their contributions
are arranged. The Handel festival, with its cho-
rus Of 1900 voices, succeeds beyond expectation.
All the fashionable society of London, to the number
of IL 900 were yesterday assembled in the Crystal
Palace; and tomorrow, when the Queen, with all
the court and her guests from Prussia aud Austria,
will be present, it is expected that the company
will clear above &C., 900 in one day. The effect OF
the music is wonderful, and the aspect of these
thousands of gOrgeOusy -atired listeners surrounded
by all the beauties of art and nature, cannd De sur
passed in any country of the world.
Poor Douglas JerrOd was buried yesterday.
Dickens and Thackcray, Albert Smith and Tom
TAYLOR, Blackstone and Matthews, Sir Joseph Pax
ton and MmktOn Mines, John Foster and Hepworth
Dixon, accompanied his coffin to the grave. The
Athtndum says of him:
His place among the wits of our own time is clear
enough. He had less froc than Theodore Hook, less
elaborate humor than Sydney Smith, less bubble and
quaintness than Thomas Hood. But he surpassed all
these in intellectual fash and strength. His wit was
ali steel pOints-and his talk like squadrons OF
lapcers in evolutions Not one pun we have heard,
is to be found in his writings His wit stood nearer to
poetic fancy than 10 broad humor. The exquisite
confusion Of bis tipsy gentleman who, after scrapng
the door for hour with his latch key, leans back
and exclaims, BY Jove! some scoundrel has stoeu-
stolen-the key-hole! comes near farce as any of
his illustrations His celebrated dehnition OF Dog
matism az PuppyisIn come to maturity looks like
happy puL-but is something far more deep and phil
osophic Between this, however, and such iancies as
his description of Austrailia-A land fat that if you
tickle it with straw it laughs with harvest-the
distance is not great In his earlier time, before age
and success had melOwed him to his best he was
sometimes accused Of Immature, a charge which he
yebemently resented, aud which seemed only ludi-
crous to those privileged with his friendship. To
folly, preense and assumption he gave no quarter
though in far fight; and some of those who tried
lauces with him long remembered his home thrust
We may give two instances without offense
for the combattants all gone from the scene
One of those playwrights who occupied Old Drury
under the French against whom he waged ceaseess
war of epgram, describing himself as suffering
from fever of the braiu. Courage, my good fellow
rays Jerrold, there is no foundation for the fact.
When the fight of Guzot and Louis Philippe from
Paris was the fresh talk of London writer Of no
great pdfts was Tue IeVOutloh anu PtylDS
tiui1ot. You see, he observed, 'Guizot and J are
both hisf0rians-we row in the same boat Aye
aye, says Jenod, but not with the same SOULS. Yet
such personal encounters were but the play OF the
panther No man ever used such powers with greater
genteness. Indeed to speak the plain truth his fault
as man-if it be fault-was too great tenderness
of heart. He never could say No His purse
when he had purse-was at every mans service, a.
also his time, his pen, and his influence in the
world If be possessed shilling somebody would get
sixpence Of it from him. He had a lending look, OF