New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-21
FRANCE.
From Our ovs CcreSporesn-

ard, excepting in style E. fsolistlJ our Congress-
men lately talked about the outrsses 10 the Euli.
The real invasion, meanwhile, 10 the Invasion OF
Frarce by Cherbourg. Cberbourg and the fetes
of Chertourg have taken possession Of oil peosand
toDeUes-oppre,sirg with gearicess readers and
hearers. Give HE credit for having until to-day
preserved free, peaceful silence oo these themes;
for nothing was easier than 10 have written yards
of historical snd col jectural paragraphs on the
port the basin, the breakwa.er, the En2sror's
,ptscb, and the Anglo-Freuch alliaIce. 1t was
oDly to copy ard compile at will from whole kil-
ometres Cf that sort recently put in print Some
Of the historical and descriptive articles in this
kind iaye doubtless attracted, IS they deserve the
attention Of your SCISSORS. The frat accounts Of
the festal ceremonies, which are now begun, will
resch you from the faithful reporters Of the Lon
little to say about them.
The progress Of the Emperor ard Empress is
reported TO have been accom- panied thus far by the
customary official and popular enthusiasm. The
Anglo.Gac alliance, which is in almost as great
danger srd is about ss often preserved ss our
American Union ia TO be represerved and kept
sweet by the visit of Victoria and the presence of
Pelissier in Admiral Lyons ship 1t was endan-
gered in the newspapers, by the fact OF the First
Napoleon his bronze equestrian statue its horses
head (Which is now set up and TO be inaugurated
this week at CheIbOurg) being turned invasiyely
toward England as if smelling the battle afar of;
il was preserved by application Of the compass,
which proved that the beast is looking east and not
north-towsrd Belgium, say. Apropos of Belgium,
the semi-oficial journals say that the French Gov
ernment does not care a fig whether Antwerp be
fortified anew or not. Their statement may not be
true TO the letter. but 1t is certain that no fortiying
of Antwerp by any possible engineering could pre-
vent France from taking possession of Belgium if
she once set out in that direction. Meantime, the
plan of strengthening Antwerp, though of not so
ancient origin as the Cherbourg works, which last
have been uninterruptedly pushed on for more than
sixty wears last past-tO the sudden surprise of the
EDpli.h for the two msnths last past-is no nv'ciy
hayirg been devised and openly discussed IN lclc,
and revised in le50 or thereabout.
The number OF peIsOus who are gone and are
going to CherbouTg. for what they imagine is
pleasure, is incalculabe, and, therefore, con-
f6enily calculated at anywhere from fifty
to two hundred thousand. The calculation has
been accordingly made by the natives Of the place
that horizontal area of the dimensions of coffin
should bring for one nights use anywhere from fifty
10 two hundred francs. The Mayor of the town
having been ordered up TO Paris to make arrange
ments with the Court Quartermaster for the recep-
ton Of the Imperial suests, and fearing that the
story Of these exaggerated prices would deter Wis.,
i,ors from prof'iDg the town trade by their
presence. did, thereupOn, send to the Paris papers
a wonderful note, wherein he declares, on his Off
cal authority, that lodgings at Cherbourg will be
cheap and abundant He is only a Mayor:
but this note of his surpasses in obtuse
dlyarcation from the right line of veracity
the boldest bulletins of Napoleon l., or Mr.. Ab-
bolts history of the said Napoleon. The proof s,
that speculation in iron camp. bedsteads the only
speculation now active, has risen to fair compari-
son with anything in the way of Dutch tulips or
American hines. Some body or corporation, the
Railway Company, l think, ordered one thou
sand iron bedsteaos for the night camp meeting
in their depot at Cherbourg. The subscription
price for right Of use OF these aids to bamy restora
ton high, but, under the circumstances, not
unreasonable. ~ the opening OF the subscription,
some persons subscribed for twenty and even forty
of these sopoIifc gridirons. The explanation was
that they had large families or acted for numerous
friends. The beds were all taken by Thursday;
but il is reported that they were disposed OF on
Friday and Saturday at private sale at $50 and 525
francs, and the market was rising.
Beside the naval and military and ordinary civil
ceremonies for which the Emperor and the Empress
are engaged for this and the coming week, they are
underlined for religious performance that deserves
mention Ii shows the versatility of the chief actors
taent-equaly great in trsgedy, high comedy and
farce-equaly capable of charming dress circle of
crowned heads. bishops, projects and generals or
the pit at Auray. Aursy seems, at first glance,
limited stage and poor set of properties in compari.
son with CheIbourg and Brest, and their grand
mise en- scene. 1t is little four thousand souled
town, situate ten miles inland the river OF the
same name. But consult the map and you will see
that Aursy il in the Morbihan; consult your history,
and going nofrther back than the time of the Ven
dean ar, you will find that Morbibsn isthe seat and
stronghold of what Is peculiar 10 Brittany. There
time ard change have left unetfaced the chracters-
tic traits Of the Bretons. History has made those
traits familiar TO all. But msreading of history
has led many 10 cOnfouud the accidental ex.
pression Of one Of these traits with the es.
sential feature; and so Brittany passes in general
estimation even in French general estimation,
for the supereminently legitimist province of
France. A survey OF their history, however.
before l7S9 ard after ls0i, shows that this
is an error The obstinate Resistance Of the
Vendesps hsd lis csuse less in their attachment
10 the Bourbons than 10 religion of which the
BourbOns were accidentally the nominal repre-
seutatives and the revolution the apparent enemy.
The Bretons accepted Napoleon /. when he be-
came pious IN l-O2, as they had &C ;epted Charlie
mscne and as they accepted the revolution of ISIS
Nowhere in all France, outside of Paris, was the
last revolution sni the commencement of that Of
l7s9 more frankly accepted than 10 this same
Brittany. They were disafectsd toward Louis
Philippe, not because Of his seniibe: al notions in
politics but for the semi Votaranism of his Gov
erpment. Loyalsi they are, royslst they are not
specially: they hold 10 the pres. rather than 10
The prince. TO religion rather than 10 pohtics-to
the Church s;de Of the State rather than TO the
State.
An Of which our imperial Garrick. who studies