The Washington union., 1858-03-17
EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENTS.
The Yankee Hall In Pnris-IlrilIiart Dspia y-Emect
OF the Overthrow of PaimeEston Mlnnsiry--Nlis-
eeilaneous News.

200 The hotel occupied by the United States legation
rue Bearyon thrown open to the throng of eager Wis
tos all anxious to meet each other such OCCASION
ana To give mark OF their esteem and respect to the
representative OF their country His Excellency and Mrs
Mason were standing in the nearest the entrance
and as each person announced he greeted with
smile and cordial shake of the hand The daughters
OF his E1cellency most tastiy and elegantly dressed
busted themselves with attending to the comfort Of the
visitors, and had smile and a courtesy for all The
music was very good and the national anthem well
executed It being the first thing played, of course On
entering the attention OF the visitor attracted by
most perfect and beautiful bust General Washington
Close to this bust another one remarkable for its
finish and resemblance of President Buchanan and oppo
site, hung up high, portraits of General Washing
ton and of his Majesty the Emperor of the French.
The eyes of those loving their country gladdened
by sight of the stars and stripes and altogether
the Yankees had to be proud of their annver
sary ball No ball of the season has been well at
tended by the diplomatic corps and the Russian
bassador sent word to minister that he would
attend this ball. exception, the rules Of his
church the Creek rather opposing party attendance at
this time The Emperor and Empress had delegated a
representative and altogether the most strict attention
and respect paid to the Yanaee ball it is termed
In the papers here There were many persons Of dstnc
ton and emnence present the ministers of England,
Prussia, Denmark Austria well the representatives
OF all the smaller powers In Europe having embassies
consulaes in Paris But few Americans IN Paris not
present. and of fair countrywomen were indeed
most splenddly dressed and covered with jewels Con-
splcuouS among the ladies' having prOfuSon Of dla-
monds Mrs Bnterfeld. This lady literally
cred with the most lustrous and magnificent ewery,>
and had on her head tiara worthy Of royalty To
any Of the ladies being beautiful would be nvidious
did not say that not being acquainted with them ALL
name those whom knew, giving your readers to under
stand that many beautiful persons not included in my
list as do not know their names l hope the apology
will suffice for those not mentioned by me, and the
Der is great
At no ball of the season have seen such beautiful to
lcttes and such collection of really beautiful
Mrs. Paine, of New York accompanied by her husband
was present, and tlsty dressed she is
This lady has attracted attention at the Tuilleres
balls and many compliments have been paid to her
good looks and beautiful toilcttes; with her Mrs.
Meagher, also looking very lovely in fact may say
that noticeable among the pretty women present were
Mrs. Curbin Mrs Moulton, Mrs Barney, Mrs Labrox,
Mrs. Bigelow, and many Others unknown to ME Mrs.
Le Sieur covered with magnificent Jewels and several
of the leading Mexican and Spanish families in the city
made like great display. The Ageros the Evrazzus,
and the members of the Mexican legation the wife of
the minister of Wurtumberg. formerly Miss Lee, and
her sister present and the minister of Denmark
was accompanied by his daughter NJ lie Dirck-
inck, most lovely young lady General Morgan,
consul at Maseilles was present rs also Gen Thomas
and his lady Mr.. and Mrs Spencer present This
consul in this city has right the thanks
of his countymen in this place for tho unbounded hospi
taty he has shown them since his arrival here. The
crowd great that it almost impossible to dance;
In the different the ladies' packed tight
crnolnes would allow and for the gentlemen they
seemed to be trying to settle the fact of how small space
might stand upon. The attempts to get up quad
iilles polas signal failures until late hour in
the night and then the older and dancing portion of
the visitors having left the young ladies and gentlemen
had the finest German of the season Great
praise due to the Misses Mason for their energy in get
ting through the masses 80 ns to say kind word to all
and show the attention to the wants of the dancing
and non ndancing portion of the crowd The ball was
kept up until daylight, and doubt the young people
present will remember with pleasure the Io'hce ball.
You will, OF course have all the of the change
of ministry in England by your London journals. The
excitement in Paris is very great regarding the Gibson
amendment, and the action of Parliament upon it, and
doubt harm has been done to the alliance than
Mr. Gibson dreamed of National susceptibility
of course of the for the action of the
British Parliament in the matter The people here look
upon the rejection of the bill almost approval of
sassnaon This is of course i'll founded but still il
may be readily understood that it exists among The peo
ple shocked and cXpeated by the attempt of the 18th
January They do not understand why reason
able in itself should be overthrown, unless from enmity
to France and some of the journals fostering feeling
of irritation mean London ouInas by loud ontcres
to the determination of Brtons not to be bulcd in
manner into measures not suiting them The want of
tact in all this is obvious. Lord Derby will have many
difficulties to he gets his administration into
working order. The Count de Pergpy who in Paris
on leave of absence returned to London at upon
hearing of the action of Parliament and failure of the bill
elegraphic despatch received to-day from Madrid
mentions the fact that in the Chamber of Deputies
era members hau pointed out different acts OF violence
committed by English vessels those Of Spain the
coast of Africa and elsewhere letter from St Peters
burgh gives the following information relative to af
fairs in Russia The reorganization of the admnista
ton of justice has been delayed in order to afford time
information the subject to be received from the Rus
sian funconnres who have been sent to examine into
the systems of Germany and France. The working of
the mines in Russia instead of progressing during the
last few years, has declined in profit In consequence
the government has decided that all mining operations
undertaken between this and 1868 by private persons
shall be exempted from ordinary taxes In the of
the Crimein campaign los Tartar villages and 1872 farms
destroyed and the occupcrs lost hs Of their
beasts of burden At Sebastopo only fourteen houses
perfectly ninured and only sixty capable of
being repaired The inhabitants of Bessaraba and those
of Taurida have had to pay contributions to the
amount of IL 5OO 900 silver roubcs and consequently
the prosperity of the provinces has been destroyed for
long time to come, and the government unable to
isfy the legitimate demands made upon it, Advices from
state that the weather continues most
severe at TINT place Sickness very prevalent In
consequence. Most Of the ministers were indsposed
which accounts for the fact that only of them was
present Mt the grand ball given the tn by the French
ambassador Accounts from the Herzegovina received in
Vienna state that comaeeia operations had completely
ceased In that country, and that the insurrccton has
caused the ruin of several firms Many Christian mer-
chants have transported their goods the Austrian ter
ritory.
Prince Alexander yolknsu first secretary of the Rus
sian legation at Vienna has been appointed Russian min
lister at the court Of Wurtemberg
Prince Napoleon is now nearly recovered from the ac
cdent which he met with from tho fall of his horse His
foot was somewhat crushed but IL now nearly we'll
The Emperor and Empress enjoying the most robust
health, and may be daily walking in the reserved
gardens OF the 1ueries The little Prince Imperial rides
out daily, and is u healthy and beautiful child. d.