New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-05

Now. there ia perhaps nothing which the patriotic
eve views with such romplacency az the faults ana
weaknesses Of foreign governments and peoples. II
is among the pleasantest Of foreign correspondent
functions to point them out 10 bis comPatno'lc ~
ers thus furnishing them grateful occasion 70 eIscu
late, I hank God, We are not as others even a.
those Frcncbmen, for example. And, beng IN the
vein. We continue the service. with prol0uhd sell
tment Of pride tina: mocks humility. BY putuog up
the Oft-repeated prayer 20 some unknown power lVi
the gift Of seeing ourselves others see us-reaiy
Intending il. am afraid like masses for The dead
for the benefit of third parties Such oil your leau
ers however as prefer it with lively sense OF u.s.
tnction between the first and third personal pro,
nouns. will not object to finding it partially answered
in the columns OF the Partisan papers for fhis "eeh
Nearly all of them contain brief report, borrowed
from New Journals Ofthe trial of one IhaddeuS
Lewis for having brutay elected from the SINtn-
avenue omnibus cars one Madame jenkins, gravei!
wOunding that woman, causing her premature de
livery of a child and Il two months illness. Ihese
other FrencAmen locking at the case as others WILL
are utterly incapable Of seeing why Ihaddeus was
not severely punished instead of being JUSTIFIED by
the Court; the accidental fact that Madame jenkins
was black does not enehten them at all as to Tire
merits Of the decision, and Judge ThOmpsons address
TO the jury with reference 10 the bred Scott decision
only opens their eyes with further surprise ana in
digDaton. They look at it thus, these Frenchmen;
The American Journals inform US OF an act OF odious
" brutality, which, however, would present n0thpg
" remarkable in ITSELF if il had not been judged and
"pardCned (amnistit) by New-York jury, alter
" an address from the presiding Judge, wherein JUS
tee reason and Christanityare invoked to justify
" Slavery and the execrabe abuses which il begets.
" Such facts furnish standard of the average mo-
rality of country which has so often been held up
to Us as the type and ideal of civilization. am
sorry to say that translate the above, not from an
organ Of NapOleonic despOsm, but from one OF the
most liberal Of the opposition Journals And writer
in Figar0, the substitute there Of this very NJ de
Pene, Of whom 80 much has Just been said, after
quoting the cl sing lines of the report of the trial.
which read, "The woman jenkins is condemned to
"pay costs, and withdraws, weeping, although
" her lawyer declares that he asks ID fees tor his
" services this Figure man, | say, undermining
the "aithOugh," expresses the opinion that the
word, in this connection, " does no honor to young
America" And So it is that these European others
see us-with that great black patch of Slavery aud
black inequality before the law unknown in despotc
France.
Commercial affairs are reported by Laayray
(whose name your compositor rW misprnt Launay,
and whose commercial and money articles are
printed, without any name, i'll the Paris correspon-
dence of all the London journals) as slightly lm-
proving the whole; financial matters, AS repre-
sented by daily quotations in the reports OF the
Saturday publishes quite eng article in Its non
official columns which is, nevertheless, supposed TO
have been written at the Ministry of Finance If not
by the Minister of Finance himself, the sum OF which
is that the budget does balance; that the floating
debt does not increase and will dlmnlsh: and, III
fine that all the cheerful views OF the state OF the
Government finances as represented IN the treasury
report of last October distinct, sound and true
The death of the Duchess of Orleans is simply
oa1 tIa Do
than accompanied the announcement last week oil
the little lippOpOtamus at the Jardin des Piantes.
! make this unseemly comparison with no sentiment
of dsrespect fer that truly excellent ana unortu-
nate princess and woman. | state the SIMPLE TACT.
The Republican Steele alone says few generous
words Of the deceased Others, in time, VIII
doubtless hazard some cautious eulogy of the
mother of their lately presumptive King.
But the French not only tOngue-ted by
reasonable tlmidity; it is TO be feared that, like
some other people, they are toTgetiul. lhose
bourgeois who could not stretch Their throats WIDE
enough in loud acclainls, when Lanartlne was In
power and in fashion ten years ago, have as yet eX-
pressed their diminished gratitude to the eloquent
orator and preserycr Of order by only about 200 600
francs, though the aim of the subscription was To
attain ten times that sum. The subscription for
monument to Marin, the noble chief of the Nene-
tian Republic i'll its last days, has better funed It's
purpose: its true object being rather the demon
~
by reflection, a general Republican demonstration,
tlan tie mere raising of costly monument. The
sum handed over to the Italian Committee, amounts
to IL, eco francs only, but was paid III by 23,OJO
subscribers.
You Will not have forgotten the celebrated trial
of Count Mgeon and the annulment of his election
to the Legislative BODY last June. The adjourned
election was held in his district some Gays ago, when
the brave little man. Just out of prison, offered HIM
a ~. Al. *
staunch friend of Government, to the electors. 1t
will strike YOU oddly that We have not as vet any
official report of the result of the election, although
it is officially known at headquarters any time since
Monday night. 1t VIII pr. badly strike You more
oddly that the rumOT two days ago was current and
accepted that Migeon was reelected.
The trial of the rioters who attempted to declare
the Republic at ChaOns-s -SaOne on tue nlgat of
the 6tn of March last, is going on before the
binary tribunal at that town. IL does not excite
merit great attention. The number of rioters on
trial is thirty. FIVE. There does not seem "a have
been any strong head among them, nor any relation
between them and other malcOntents more than
what exists in that " state OF expectations, the
rather general existence OF which throughout the
realm was confessed 10 and given reason for the
new stringent measures by the propOsers and de-
tenders OF the LOi G6S Suspects
The hppOpOtamus, referred 10 above. was ma
tive of the Garden of Plants and, the first post
diluyian European OF his race, object of great iu
terest 10 naturallsts. He lived only ieg days
having been unmtentionallS done to death by the
clumsy interference of maternal tenderness with his
infantle gsmbos. Portraits snd plaster.casts have
been taken of him as though lie were celebrated
criminal; and Geotirey de 81. Hilaire pronounced
with these in hand, sort OF naturahhistOrcal eulo-
ey on Lin before the Academy of Sciences Rlqvi-
escdt IN GqsG forte.
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