New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-08
FRENCH AFFAIRS.
From Our Own Correspondent.


PARIS April %, 1853.
In the matter of domestic politics, notwithstand-
ing the imminent election of next Sunday, Paris is
as tranquil" as Warsaw was in the second week
of September. 1881. We interest ourselves, there
fore, in our foreien relations. There is Turkey,
very poor relation whom we Frenchmen are get
ting to think and speak Of, as Car Nicholas was
wont to do as decidedly sick patient. Nothing but
the disagreement of the allied doctors keeps that
diseased body polite in existence. Their general
consultation, the much. talked.of adjourned Con-
gress of Paris, will take place. it is said. in May
For light reading its niembep will have the report
Of the international commission on that tough piece
de Resistance, the Danubian Principalties question.
BY last advices from Bucharest the commission had
written up the holsandth page of their report. The
Principally question, the Danuban navigation
question, the lsmentabe position and insurrecton.
airy disposition of the Christian subjects of the Sui
tam and the watchful, intermeddling flchng dispo-
.itOn of Austria, and the watchful, ntermeddGng,
protecting disposition Of Russia; aprOpOs of that,
EnelaDd's Austrian tendency and Frances Russian
tendency in these respects; the French theory OF
the Suez Canal and the English fact of annexing the
Island of Perrin; these are some of the = compca-
L" tons of the situation in regard to foreign rela-
tisns-themes of actual diplomatic correspondence
and of possible discussion in the future conferences
of Paris Then there is the large branch of ltsisn
complications Austrian Italy in more than ordina-
riy excited state Of uneasiness: the Csglari quar-
rel between Sardinia and Naples; English diplomats
preterdDg that they cannot copy ten lines of
diplomatic note correctly, and so, under preteX ola
clerical blunder, playing fast and loose with Sar-
dina King COmba, great icOundrel but not exact.
r Of 1Iuln afia LOT.
with France and England, managing the affair with
more than diplomatic ability, 20 as to remove Eng
lands cause Of complaint, and leave her to indulge
in her tendencies to Austrian alliance; the sound.
est, the best nationally liberal statesman of Sardinia
forced by this English shutting and ever threatening
neighborhood of Austrian army and influence, and,
too-this is saddest to confess but it is proved to be
true-by their experience of deceived hope Of aid
from the late French Repubic-the soundcst and
best nationally liberal statesmen of Sardinia forced
az it were to put their best hope and faith in Louis
Napoleon Such are some of the interesting features
of our foreign relations. In the recent extremely
utere sting debates Of the Sandman Parliament upon
the new law of the press, law nterded to punish
apOlopsts of political assasslnatOns, and proposedOn
occasion of the Orsni sfair, General La Marmora
gave curious testimony from personal experience 10
prove that in lc4o neither Cavsgnac nor Lsnartine
was more friendly than the Government of to-day
10 italian Independence. La MarInOra was sent
trom Noyara TO Paris in that time to ask not for an
army. but for q general He wanted Marshal
Bupeaud, who was ready enough to 20. Csvagnac
said q. You shall not have him / tell you before.
.'hapd. he is watched" Lamartine said in reply to
the Generals applications for aid II will never suf
'.fer the Mediterranean to become an Italian lake ="
The real question with the Republic and leading Re.
publicans of France was then what il is now with
Frencbmen, not question Of liberty but of nation
atty. There are undoubtedly individual exceptions,
but the controlling majority of French Republicans
sre-lke French Imperiaists, or English free Const
tutionalists, or American Democrats-as patriotic as
YOU choose but strictly selfish. So is and has been
the controlling political party or sentiment in all
nations present and past that are known TO history
The last, newest complication, connected with
those already mentioned, making noise enough for
the last three days, filling large space in the field
Of vision of those imaginative seers whose specially
it is TO prophecy violent rupture of the Anglo
Gallican alliance, but likely 10 be lost sight of six
months hence is the acqulttal by the English Jury
of Simon Bernard. The trial, the result, and the
attendant circumstance of popular applause, are
nothing but what must have been generally antici.
psted by Englshmen and Americans. The French,
who lido not understand our institutions" particle
better than We understand theirs, are, some of
them, az surprised and indignant a. some foreigners,
for the same reason Of ignorance, have been SUI