New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-12

Biarritz with the Empress; then he mas t,'t ~ "
make into the provinces, and may be q UP " Us
borne and presently 10 Fcntainebiean anu " y.
ceive the Queen Of Holland, who VIII De accom-
panied by Madame Van Buigeren, lady IN WaIius
whether Burgomeister Van Peereboom VIII oiine
10 the suite, the reliable authority from when Tue
above important facts are drawn uni'rIuhiEF
does not state. ,
Meantime, the Emperor s in bother, the sIanu-
ing family bother: what TO do with Prince NaPo-
leon. If there ever was young man In tne way,
hanging about home, the Prince lie the man. AZ tac
imaginative AssOlant writes of him - fnnce WV
has seen the Orient, Greece and Italy, VINO nas
visited Iceland and harpooned the white bear on
"the ice of the Polar sea, has built him house Id
"the Champs Elysees" The house BY the way
Ia ngeniously modelled, so far as Partisan climate,
and the conveniences and necessities OF modern
civilization will admit, after the house OF Dlomed
at Pompe and is well worth visiting as CURIOSITY
But seeing the East where he did not hight; gong
on Summer sailing excursions toward the rom
seae, where be did not harpoon any large num'er
of white bears on the ice and where be did not get
shpwrecked; building Pompeian houses, where ne
does not as yet inhabt, and which, in any case
cannot be expected to be buried with tnell
inhabitants, in ally deeper dust than what
is blown IN from the Avenue Montague;
none of these are permanent emPloyments. 30 tne
question always remains for his cOusiR to solve
ing hin to Algeria, the government OF when
Colony, now that the Kabyes are quite subdued;
is to lose something of It's military character, ana
take on more civil forms; there is talk also OF send
ing him 10 sea again to look on at the operations Oh
LAYING the ocean telegraph; by this last l suppose
il intended the branch from Brest that to connect
off ireland with the Transatlantic cable, charter
for LAYING the which, with certain favorable condl-
tions. has been granted TO Mr.. Field for the com
pany But the queerest talk about the future DIS
position of the Prince-queerer than anything the
imaginative AssOlant could inyent-and Alfred, that
is the rest of AssOlants name, who writes pro-
miscu0usly on all sorts Of subjects, on American
politics among the rest, with an astounding loose
ness from the trammels of facts-queerer, | say,
than any of Areds ictions, is the talk that Prince
Napoleon is to be disposed of in marriage to the
English Princess Mary Of Cambridge
To come 10 GRANTEES again. The statements re-
Gently made in Belgian and other papers that great
"maritime armaments are making in France, AMI
that any extraordinary appropriation has been made
for the naval service, are authortaiyely denied III
the MOniem.
Slavery was abolished in all the French colonies
by decree of the Republican Provisional Govern
ment in April, 1eiS. One of the articles OF this de-
cree forbade any Frenchman residing III foreign
country to hold slaves, under penalty OF forfeltldg
his citizenship; out of consideration for material In
terests, however, it was provided that TINS article
should into tHecD only at the vi tiIec ytais
from the date of the decree. In February, 1871,
law was passed adlOurnng the enforcement for seven
other years A bill has now been sent into the Legs-
lature modifying this article as follOws:-l The
claim of property in slaves acquired by possession
anterior to the date of publication OF the decree
of April, leis, is recognized as lawful, and subject
to 10 limitation of time. III. The claim OF such
property acquired by French Shareholders at date
posteror to the date of PRONUNCIATION of the decree
ui~e1 hV iuhp
cognized as equally lawful aud unlimited In dura-
ton. This il simply abrOgatng the eighth article
of the Republican decree abolishing sayeholdlng
by French citizens resident abroad. The billwoud
be more complete, rhetorcaly and theoretically, II
amended by Insertion after the words inheritance,
gift, or marriage" the words or by hook or by
crook; but practically it could not be much I'M
proved in the interests of foreign resident French
shareholders.
The Paris correspondent Of The LOnfon Times
writes:
1T is stated by persons who occasionally have &C
to official quarters, that considerable relaxation
in the present system Of administration Is not merely
probable, but certain. >,
The rumor was repeated that NJ. Espnasse would
retire from the Ministry of the Interior. sew.
eral names mentioned to succeed him, the most
prominent being NJ. Vasse, Project of Lyons. j,
Prince Napoleon is said to have accepted the post OF
Governor Of Agiers under the title OF Lieutenant OF
the Emperor, instead of Viceroy.
The sitting Of the Corps Legislatf had been pro-
lopged by Imperial decree to the Sth Of May.
a comparative statement Of the voting for the
three Members of the Legislature from Paris shows
that the general result the present occasion con-
sderaby in favor of the Government.
The Moniteur Of the 29th April says:
"The Pepipotentiares of Austria, France, Crest
Britain Prussia, Russis, Sardinia aid Turkey met TO-
day at the hotel Of the Ministry OF Foreign Affairs 10
take ccgnzance of the final act signed at Constantine.
bic on the 9Th of December last for the purpose OF
coDsecrating the resul. of the labors OF the Com,
mission created by the Both article In the Treaty OF
Paris for the definition Of the Russian and Turkish
frontiers in Asia. The Conf acknowledges for.
mally to the Plenpotentares of those TWO powers
the receipt of their communication
The came Jour- al also contains the following semi.
official statement:
"a meeting took place Yesterday at the Foreign
Office for the purpose Of examining proposal made
On behalf of DR.. Morse, citizen of the United Staes
f America 10 whom is due the system OF tet graphic
COMMUNICATION which has received his name; No
Goubt the discovery Of the principles upon which that
system il founded does not belong u d. Morse, but
he the fret to transfer that discovery from the re-
git of speculative science into that OF rachca app
cation. IL is owing to his LAHORE ana 70 Investigations
the onor Ct which is iLcontestsby due to him. that
electrical commub alton, which before his time WAS
but fact asserted by science, has become re-
ally, snd one OF the most useful acquisitions which
our age has made and hss 10 bequeath u po'eflty.
The important service which Mr.. Morse hiss rem
dered 70 the whole world 10 governments as we'll "a
to individuals is attested by the admiration which his
system, when applied has universally excited and by
the use which has immediate been made OF i.
throughout both continents. In almost all the cour-
tries Where the electric telegraph is used it is his ap
parstus which We find at work. Mr.. Morse being I'M
able meanwhile, 10 obtain patent for his invention
in Europe as in the United States, has thereby found
himse deprived of the profits which he ought % have
derived from the working of it, and which would have
sfforced lin a legitimate recompense for his lsbors
and his pecuniary sacntces.
ct thence appears that i, would be injustice if