New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-24
NEW YORK. DAILY 1Rlp,ONy THURSDAY JUNE %. lsss

war;, Ilsh offer rnstter of profitable coas. lors-
ton % American railroad directors, stockholders,
engineers aud passengers. The American, oOm-
petent b. tne ta.k, al o would extract tom this
report. and poDumizc, so muchoi Ne essence rs ~
Of practical application IN Amcnca. woald do Us
ycCman's service.
Pr0uJhon vas tried and CONDEMNED las week b
1.CCO francs fac and three years imprisonment, rr
offenses against religion, morality, etc, contained
IN MA book entitled d. Ia Juslcs daHS Ia Rco0iati0a
q dams rEghse. Tho trial was public, bat Nd-
not able 20 attend it. BY law no full repor' OF It
ear be published. To Judge from The published
decision Of the presiding magistrate, Which - ac-
companicd with ITS reasons based on extracts from
the Suppress work, itwould seem that the pel'ly,
thoua6 perhaps al H. silly severe in degre was Justly
inflicted NJ Proudhon IS undoubtedly thoroughly
sincere man: those most thoroughly opposed "a bis
theories if sincere and unprejudlccd themselves,
admit thai. apart from his theories, ne 10 an honest,
GOOD man. Ills private life is more thsn unexceP-
tonable i. is sad IL be- admirable IN - unafec'ed'
philosophical simplicity. But il cannot be Denied
If the magistrates quotations and declarations are
not false, that bis book CONTAINED expressions al
which equally sincere persons of different Opinions
might well BE- often led in their moral aud religious
sense-expressions. | am apt 10 think, when IN
ENGLAND or New England would expose thelr
ayowcd author 10 legal prosecution. The seYeIi'y
Of the penalty inflicted has excited some surprise.
Proudhon has appealed from the sentence, winch,
il is thought. will be mitgated ny higher eourt-
1t is SAID, with some Likelihood OF truth, that me
Emperor regretted the Zeal of inferior 0fhcials III
suppressiDg the book and prosecuting the author.
The result Of the whole affair has been 10 raise an
iutercs. in the work Of which a considerable num-
Der of copies had already been sold and have since
been circulated from hand to hand, and sympathy
for the writer.
Prince Napoleon, apparently satisfied for the
present with the African temperature OF Paris and
its vicinity does not make haste TO depart for the
healthy Algeri1e Niceroyal.y 10 which his cousin
has so CONSIDERABLY and seasonably promoted him.
Meantime, the story goes, he pursues the formation
Of his Niceroya administration under insurm0unta-
bic deiculties Not Girardin, nor late republican
Bixio nor other of his little opposition set, show the
slightest eagerDess TO accept the Offices he oilers
them. Whether they, like most Frenchmen, are
averse TO emigration, and above all 70 emigration 10
Algeria (where laying out of the account soldiers and
political exles, there at this day fewer French
men than natives of other European cOuntres), or
are disincncd 10 service under such a master, or
are doubtful of such service being, as Susan Nppcr
would say, "a permanently" let each reader guess.
have only room 10 insert here without apparent
onrectng link, queer sign of the present mixed.
up European times. Spanish Queen Isabella
went the other day from Araniuez, 10 honor with
her presence the lnau guratiOn of the Alicante all
road In the same ear with her was placed richly
ieweled and bedizened little image of Notre Dame
de rOubl in whom, or in which the Queen puts
great faith having had the same in her bedroom on
the occasOn Of her last accouchement the happy
issue of which was duly attributed to the Holy Viz
gin-Of wood or other material, much 0nanented
with Jewels. In the same train were the directors
and managers OF the road-Jews, Protestants, aud
uncatalogued cOniessors of other or no faith mere
unsayable representatives of souless corporations.
Is it not queer Can such mixtures fail to end in
the generation OF explosive, revolutionary gases
A wooden NOtrc Dame steamng away at the rate OF
thirty miles an hour through the nineteenth century;
Can she escape explosion when running 80 madly Oft
her track