New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-12-09


sign his functions into the hands of Prince Gang
nan, objects, with becoming reason and dignity 70
this disrespectful and utterly unauthorz lnterpre-
tation of the Asseinblys vote But he VIII BE- Ike
enough to Weld his objections. For the present we
only bear that Buoncompagni Is accepted by Mo-
dena Parma and the ROmagna; that Is, yielded 10
by Farini under whose sole dictatorship those three
States had already united Themselves.
pass over what no one al all interested M pass
ING European history should, the more than intel
lectually able State paper, sent out To the world
bv the Tuscan Government; one passage VIII SUI
foently indicate not its great ability as state
uarer but its noble spirit: If the verdict OF the
y Corgress1 is against us, we shall be- in the pain
ul necessity of not accepting IL; and If attacked
although of defeat, We shall endeayor 10 re-
pei force by force" / pass over the brief proc
lamation of that other Italian power Garbaldi;
you will reproduce H. may say, in passing, that
the rum0r of his having Influenced Louis Napoleons
policy in respect of the Regency by an autograph
letter addressed TO that Imperial gentleman is very
slightly probable and that the other frequent ru-
mors current this week of his coming and being ac-
tualy arrived in Paris are, If possible more slightly
probable / pass over Minister Da BOrmidas
diplomatic circular explaining the nature of Buon-
compagni's sub-delegated Regency, noting only Its
date 18th November, and that il makes bis Office
something more like Regency than the following
explanatory note published in the MOHieu OF YES
terday-with the quotation Of which complete the
rough historical outline, guessed and got at, OF this
oueerly confused Regency business; which, by the
wav. in spite of notifications, distortion from its
original proportions, and temporary suspension Is
perhaps, not quite failure after all;
"The Government of the Emperor sole responsible
editor of this sheet fearing that the delegation oil
powers TO NJ. Buoncompagni would as much anticipate
the Judgment me pr<jHgedt pas m0iRs) of questions
whose solution is to be the object of the deliberations
of the Congress as the regency offered TO Prince Cang
Id 1aIt ba Of meas will
regret The force of this impression has been dmin-
ished by the voluntary explanations Of the Sandman
Government from which il appears that the mainten
ance of order is the sole and only purpose confirming
annexation doctrine by fat accomPii in advance
Never thought on, selp me OF the delegation lof
powers TO NJ. BuOncampagn and that the eoncentra-
ton in lis hands of the powers Of the Governments
OF Central Italy Racasol must give in is not at all
of the nature of regency"
Apropos of this, we must again observe that the
MORitsHr is the only organ of the policy OF the Gov
eminent.
/ was saving the other day that the post of
political editor of so-caed semi-Official newspaper
in France was the lowest to which a man of letters
(unless he be the Homo trium Hterarum) could de.
grade himself This last sentence of the Monitorial
note can only alude to those misnamed seml-0fclal,
rightly and cOntemptuously styled "Ofcious, Gov
eminent papers, of which the Paris Constitutional
is the chief Officious is not nice translation al
o6fcieuI in this connection; superserylceaby Hun
Y.
But a superservceable editorial funkey under the
present regime is not even suffered to wear and be
protected by the Imperial livery
That quite clever Young man, VI. Grandguill0t,
principal editor of the Constitutional newspaper,
did between last Thursday and last Sunday, take
three perfectly distinct and contradictory views OF
the Regency business. pensive, qudnuncish or
Indifferent public stupidity attached an unfounded
Importance to these views as bearing with them
sort of official quality. Now comes this Monitoria
note telling the pensive, stupid public, native and
foreign, for the twentieth time at least in the last
eight years that the sO-called semi-ofcial papers
are in no sense official. Clever young NJ Gran
guillot will not only kiss this rod-he will SLAYER
over it, and before a week Is over, VIII issue one
of his rowey-powley- gammon-and-s spinach" sol
EMMY constituted, loaded sub-sem-ofiical, super
overwhelmingly, two-cOumn articles, talking
about and about some subject or other with grave
emptiness-HonO deiiTus qua Uerb0ruR mlnutlis re-
rum Jfrangit poHdera-which article the stupid
portion of the public and wanton foreign corre-
spOndents will persist in interpreting into an author
tative indication of Government policy.
And this brings NE again to the condition of the
French political press--a subject that can be
treated exbaustively," only by revolution.
Awaiting that event in Gods good time, when
there is no good in hurrying nothing is more
curious than to note NapOle0n's treatment OF II.
We have this week n seizing of the Inn de Ia Ret,-
gion "a daily clerico-poticO, Parlsian Journal Tor
having published letter. falsely attributed to Victor
Emanuel, represented TO be his reply to Louis
NapOleon's recent famous letter to him; the seizng
or warning of both these provincial Journals Tor
having copied il. may say, IN passing, tnat the
sentiments of the letter are probably those Of VIC
tor Emanuel; the form was doubtless an invention
Please observe that this is the fourth "selzure "
that has been made within three weeks, the third
within ten DAYS. Provoked by the censure of for
egn journalists those of Paris began to ask whether
it was to be permitted in France that newspaper
or political pamphlet could be seized at will by a
magistrate and no legal trial follow. The question
is an exceedingly grave one; for if political pamph-
lets, why not other property OF political opponents
why not, in fine, their persons az well The anxious
setting forth of il in some of the daily prints drew
out from Government a note in the MOHiteHr as
surfing the public that on this point it purpOsed to
observe the forms Ofaw; that the seizure pro-
visiOnal during the time requisite for eXamna-
ton of the incriminated writing and could become
defini!ive only in OF judicial condemnation
following upon legal trial before the Courts; that,
should the preliminary examination (iHstractioR)
not furnish material for prosecution then the
seizure is raised; that such are the provisions of
the law, and that they will BE- faithfully observed by
Government. Now, these are brave words"
Though the laws bearing on the matter are severe
enough and trial is not byjury still they are laws,
and French Judges, be il said TO their honor rarely
sink the esist in the politician when the bench.
But here is the trick: the provisional seizure may
be made to last through an indefinitely prolonged
preliminary examination. Your pamphlet of TO-
day, treating political questions of the day, is
sezcd-as Emile Grardins was last week-in !
press Two months hence the examining maeis- /
trate comes to the conclusion that it contains no
prOseeutable matter and you and your printer will
be free TO send it forth to an utterly Indifferent
public who this week would buy ten thousand cop
les of H. The shirt and sale of II ara "a counltaiv