New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-07

80 and ma ulactOrfk; tAitDhNc usei"i P""""""
"aboltion of prchioitory duties; treaties OF coai-
"merse with foreign Powers" Certain classes oil
manufacturers are greatly disturbed; the merchants
Of the seaport towns Bordeaux, Nantes, Ha're'
&c are greatly delighted with the programme.
Naturally il does not suit the theoretical free.trad
o,-s nor the high protectionists. The English are
Immensely tickled with IT, to judge from the Lond0n
newgpapers They do not appear to have read the
letter carefully. A.
Nanoleon evidently purposes to change the
old traditional French policy OF prohibition, or ex-
cessiye prohibition, to what VIC should call dls-
terminating protective tariff To let in raw ma
terial free OF duty; t. gradually reduce duties on
certain articles of popular c0nsumption TO enlarge
The home market by developing agriculture ana III
ternal trade; to encourage manufactures ny U0v-
eminent aid, ut the same lime that ne proVoRes
an effort to improvement by exposing them 10
moderate competition with foreign products; 10 Oh,
tain better market abroad for manufactures ana
wines by commercial treaties, and especially to Sc
cure the political entente cordiaie with England by
n COMMERCIAL treaty with that P0wer-these are his
pu poses There is no indication either in hrs letter
and his lrCwn opinion, or in his character that be
purposes 10 inaugurate a system Of free trade, or
that be purposes to make any sudden nhoteSae
changes in the present system. Real and great
changes are undoubtedly 10 be- inaugurated and, IN
There are, as have just indicated, classes violent
" opposed 10 any change, and other classes dsron-
tented that the change is not to be radical and i'm
mediate. But the programme" IS addressed, over
the shoulders of Monsieur F0uld to the great mass
of the nation, will be approved of by them, and will
be prudently carried out. IL is to be noticed that
Napoleon generally looks to them for support in all
his great measures, and generally gets it. The
Army, the only class he has ever appealed to, il
more direct and complete representative OF the ma
ton than any other. He has greatly favored the
Clergy too, that they might az they have until
within six months. greatly favor him. But he has
carefully avoided putting himself into their hands;
for here too he has shrewdly made party with the
religious masses to oppose to the efforts OF the cler-
cal leaders In this very letter, he makes provision
for carrying on more actively than ever the ex-
tensye work of repairing and building up the
/ churches all over France. So that the repairs
and embellishments on Archbishop Dupanloups
own Cathedral of Orleans more than counterw0rk
in the eyes of the simple faithful the eloquent vltu-
peration and cunning abusive attacks OF that fac
tlOus prelate.
Undoubtedly. Napoleon is a man capable of TAX
ing desperate measures in desperate cases. and had
tie opposition of the Clerical party become really
dangerous LIE might have sought alliance with their
and his natural enemies, the Liberals. Ash is, he
has received valuable aid from the latter, without
being forced to ask for it, or to.Oer anything in re-
u
and Papa wrong the priests and the Legitimlsts
have taken ground not more opposed to Napoeon's
italian policy, and To every notion OF human and pop
ular right than TO French patriotism in general; it
was foreign ground they took. For the love ofop-
position few disappointed old Orleanists Joined
them. Fillemain was among the number, and came
out last week with an elegant and eloquent pam
phet (the one hundred and seventh pamphlet on
the Italian Question published within a twelve
month"; in which he argued, from the point of view
of public law or European law, or law of Nations,
in favor of the nyioable right of the Pope to mis-
rule again his rebellious ex-subjeets of the Ro
magma 1t was plain {, every reader, that 1t the
Pope's claim, and Monsieur Villemain to-day were
right, then had all Monsieur Vlemain's political
life and doctrine up to this time been wrong. The
same argument that would defend Plus IL.
sbculd have defended Charles X; the ROnagna
EVOLUTION is analogous TO tho revolution OF July,
and ROmagna independence is like, in essence, TO
the independence of Belgium and Greece. Now,
Monsieur Vemain was, as every one knows a
eulogst of the revolution of July, Minister of
Louis Philippe, eloquent apprOver of Belglan
and Grccian independence. Theirs, shrewder than
his brother AcadenIician aud brother ex-Orleanist
Minister, has not entered the pamphleteerng lists in
defence Of the Pope. Whether he was really in
tending so TO do, as was reported, l cannot say.
think net. But to meet the possible ease, the Lib
eTal journals published several extracts from his
historical works which were in advance sufficiently
strong argumeRta adhOmintm to anything NJ Theirs
could now write in favor of the POpe's temporal
sovereignty.
The Clerical campaign against Napoleon is about
over, though scattering FIRE of pamphlets Is still
keptup. The Clerical party has been beaten by
weapons OF its own choosing; by publicity and dis
cussOn so far as they were permitted, and by ex-
cessive suppression on the part of Government.
Now, suppression Of journalism was formerly, and
until within six months a favOrite weapon of the
Clercals, though welded by the Government 1t is
only within this time that it has been turned against
their organs. The hope, by the way, that some
saDgune Liberals have conceived that because Ma
pOe0ns policy was comparatively liberal in Italy,
therefore it was about to become in some limited
measure positively liberal in France, was insane
and is now reinqnished. Icannot recall any con.
secutye three months since February, 1892 in
which the iniquitOus organic law on the press, then
promulgated has been so frequently applied as in the
three months last past. That the larger part of the
applications were to the UltramOntane aud Legit-
mist journals, is true; but that is an accident
During this time the Liberal press has enjoyed a
certain, or rather uncertain limited license, more
than ordinary; that is not liberty, nor an approach
to it. venture to prophesy that with in two years
from this time the relations of the Clerical party
and the Ultramontane press, with the Government,
VIII be much as they have been since 1851.
And yet the Pope must give up the Romagna, if
not something more: The Marches the next "out-
side row, are growing aarmngly uneasy since the
publication of the famous pamphlet. The uueasi-
is not Gained by NapOleOn's letter to the Pope
of which spoke last week. 1t is said and is pr b.
able, that the Pope has replied to the letter. and
persists in holding to his old claims That is all well
enough pro lorna. But if, is also said, do not
know with what likelihood of truth, Antonei-Pius,
trusting TO Austrian recruits and aid from Naples
and backing from legitimate European Powers, |