The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-09-19
LETTER FROM EUROPE.
TspeoIal Correspondence Of tho rnion.l

urpiAg the necessity of decentralization and greater mt-
ncpa liberty in France, nothing Of importance has oc-
CURED In France since my last letter. The Importance
of Mons de Pegays speech and the suggestions Of Count
dc Mony are perhaps better understood out OF France
than in il but If the Emperor wills it, the French viii,
at his command even accept municipal liberty and make
suc use Of IL as the Moaleup SHALL from time to time,
Indicate The French eminently civilized peo-
pe they are it is pretty generally admitted, at the
head of European civilizations they set the fashions and
are the models whom others proud to imiate they
arc sprghtly polite epigrmmatic spirild, amusing,
agreeable but they must be governed and all political
questions thus far debated in France referred simply to
the party or VINO shall govern the country and not
to the manner in which this TO be accomplished.
Mons de Persigny speech is hardly the result of sim
pe detached individual inspiration, but rather semi
official prougation of the views of the Emperor afford
ing new proof of his productive mind and his capacity
for governing that extraordinary people
While the Emperor Napoleon il fortifying France
against her foreign enemies If any such she now has.
and developing her internal resources, the Duchess dc
Bery has arranged meeting of the principal members
of the old dynasty at Bree, in Styra, Aistria The
Count de Chabord will be there with many other no
liabilities after which the Pretender will repair to Venice
where he viii pass the winter simultaneously with
these proceedings to which very little consequence is
given anywhere an effort is making to establish
French Review in England devoted to the Orleans in
terest do not know whether the late trip of M. Gui
go to England had any reference to this project but
large portion Of the hyai of France belong up to this
moment the Oeanist faction, the Review, iii should
really be established, will not be deficient in talent
While these gentlemen write, the Emperor will be
tent to act and so the effect of the Review like the
ranged family meeting at Brumse will not lead to any
serious changes in the situation of Europe.
of more Importance to the United States may be the
transfer of the Marquis dc Tnrgot from Madrid to Bee
in Switzerland and his being replaced by Mons. dc Bar
rot at Madrid The nomination of the Count of Monies
sy Az minister to Brussels is equally important in
nexion with the late ministerial attempt to fortfy Ant
werp while that of Mons dc Slignac Feneon to Frank
fort on the Main hardly attracts much notice The En-
peor has declared that the question still pending between
Denmark and the Germanic confederation in regard to
the prncipalitcs Holstcin and Lauenburg is purely
federal one not concerning foreign nations at all, and
this is undoubtedly the position which Mons de Salgnac
FGnGlon will occupy at Frankfort. The present French
government seeks maintain friendly relations with all
foreign nations but the Emperor is determined to show
the value of peace by the immense preparations he is
making for war; should that dire necessity be forced
upon him. .. rs ..E.
The amount to be paid to Prof Morse for the use of
Is large sum considering that the leading Parsan jour
nails do not look upon the telegraph cable the At
antic as likely to benefit France in the degree it
does England and that the highest degree of enthusiasm
to which the semi oificious Constitutional could up
his intellectual capacity to frankly admit that France
could .snot be altogether Indifferent to the connexon
The members of the late Paris conferences have for the
most part left Paris but persist in my belief that they
will once more be brought together before the naviga
ton Of the Danube shall be deiinvey regulated The
commission from the River States appointed for that pur
pose will not finish its work for several months yet, and
until then no general ratification of all the stpnlatons
agreed upon can take place. There exists rumor that
for the purpose of coming to some satisfactory arrange
ment this point which, at the same time, shall bo ac-
ceptablo to Russia and in order to smooth the way to
more friendly political relations between Russia and Ans
tria the Austrian minister Yon ProkeshOsten, will not
return to Constaninopc. This may be 80 but the tone
of the Russian and Austrian presses and of the journals
known to be in their interest respe lively has not yet
undergone the least change and is still quite hostile
against the other The relation exists between the
Austrian and French presses. The Repuo Contemporaries
periodical quite devoted to the Emperor Napoleon
Austria that she must not expect to regulate the
navigation Of the Danube if she possessed the right to
dictate to which the official Journal of Vienna Die MI
Zung, replies by charging hypocrisy and adven-
tuous politics France all which proves at least that
peace is preserved in Europe it is from economy
than from choice. War don tpay, there would be
teria enough for getting up rstratc With half
the povocation, fifty years ago before steam and
telegraph had changed the face of the world general
war would have been unavoidable STILL in connection
with this friendly exchange of cvtics between the press
OF France and Austria will not be difficult to understand
the meaning Of the French Emperor speech at Chcrboug
in which he ayowed that Cherbourg was built to save the
necessity Of fighting another battle of Wagram The EN-
peor Francis Joseph undoubtedly understood that deli
cate auson to the fortunes of his predecessor Francis
in 1909 hence the peculiar potencss of the Vienna
Moniteur
The Duke of Malakof g (Aiarshal Pelsser s. marriage
with the Countess of Panega will bo celebrated the
anniversary of the taking of Sebastopo 1T seems that
on that day nothing resist his Grace In political
point OF view the marriage which makes the most prom
inent Marshal Of France relation of the Empress can
only serve to honor and insure the adhesion of the ary
Some doubts expressed whether the Duke will return
to his diplomatic post in London,
The ZOioeren conferences which lately assembled at
Hanover do not to have decided that the present
moment is the best for admitting Austria into the
Customs Union The duties on articles are simply TO be
sniated between Austria and Prussia and the coinage
oi Austria and Germany to be the uniform twenty
nonn ratehat is to say, twonty forms are to be
coined out OF mark of silver equal to about $40 of our
American coinage, This, believe, is what the Austrian
ministers, Bach and Bruck, two OF eminent talents
and progressive views, have desired to obtain in the
course of this year but there be no doubt of the
hnai near admission of Austra into the ycreina meas
ure which, as il has eytenJcd tbrouol C,ruanv