New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-10

LIE rage oi ire clerical party aroused, oil course
The VotariSn Paris spieisy who regards with an
inisDse delight the Imperialst dissolviDg views,
first exhibiting the Pspe before all Europe ia the
shape Of the quasi chief of tse intended Italian
! Confederation. 70 order 10 change him afterrard
into sort pfholLpay etictr But still the delighted
Pie'er bnself shuket his head knowingly, and con-
sdrrs that things drawing Ia a crisis. II the Man
OF December, il is said dares to provoke the " ros
efeses" Of the clerical party he does so fron, nece,
sity, rot from choice. He plays out this card be
/ cause he sas hardly anything ia loee. The Second
Empire was reared upon the broad shoulders of the
| French peasantry, whose golden age is blended
with the First Empire. 1t was the peasantry whose
votes converted the needy gambler OF st James
street into the lucky inmate of the Eiysfe BOURBON.
Row, after the establishment Of the Second Empire,
the uturper had only two courses open 10 himself in
| regard TO those true pillars of his regime, the
F1eLch peasanis Either he must mend their mate
| rel condition, or compress their mental powers
Taxation was 10 be lcssened, or superstition TO he
/ increased. Pockets We're to be filed or min Is 10
! be omptied. For the latter process Louis Bona
IaIfe expended altogether on the Catholic Church.
"iach offered the more willingly to march with him
| as lie made concessions unsurpassed even in the
time of the Restoration aud the drapeau blanc.
ID
| tie French peasantry, so loudly trumpeted by Bo
| nopartsm in l84S such thing was quite incom
ratble with the vital condition Of the Second Empire
The latter meant in fact pushing the principle Of
state Capitalization TO its utmost limits and, there
! fore, tretlus the bulkiness and the cost of the
state-maohinery. 1t meant, besides, corruption en-
! ployed as the first motor OF Government influ-
ence. II meant buying off the dangerous working
classes Of the towns at the expense of the country
1t meant Asiaiic court-splendors and localized
wars, whose glory France herself had to pay for.
1t meant, in word, spending of public money on
The largest scale and where was that money 10
| come from if not from the most numerous and
meet squeezabe part Of the nation, the French
peasanTyf The lot Of the protetairr foncisrs az it
Is now the usage to call the nominal proprietors Of
tree-iourths Ut the French soil, has consequently
been impSred in geometricel progression. The i'd
crcese CT ihe French city population, altogether to
be traced to the decay the rural districts, tells its
ON woelul tale. Besides, the quack medicine of
the Crtdu Fonccr intended TO alleviate the mort
gage debt that rests upon small freeholds has proved
effective only in acoeleratiug the alienation of the
latter and the concentration of landed property
i'll fewer hands.
TO prevent, under these circumstances, the ac-
GEES Of the revolutionary propaganda to the hus of
the rural districts, 10 resource was lett save the
high pressure exercised by the clergy on the rural
cOBsciences. The peasantry might furnish the army
indispensable for keeping in check Paris, Lyons,
ard the other great towns; but the peasantry itself
was in its turn only TO be held in eadngstriDgs By
the host of The Pope, and it is tie Popes own host,
hsholy gtnd'a rmtrs, to whom Louis Bonaparte has
low been forced to throw down the gauntlet, with
cut by this desperate measure concilatng the good
viii Of the opposite camp The Republicans and
Tie Curriers' Of the Faubourg ~. Antoine say that
tie Man of December means To cheat the Pope out
Of the R0mogna, in order to have something to sell
at the forthcoming Congress, and that he means 10
make Rome the scapegoat Of the European status
Grc, in order to revenge himself on the Roman
iriumvr, who, in his last pamphlet, characterized
Louis Bonaparte as pendulum balanced 10 the
hands OF Satan there ~ vbr3te between cum
a. nirg and voluptuousness."
The Orleansts lastly give out that Bonapartisn
has turned into Prtchardism, the Pope being sacri
feed 10 get the good grace of the evangelical freuds
of London and the sctismatcal Pope OF st. Peters
burg. Coming now 10 the La Guerroniere pam
pbct, IL suilices 10 say that it is written in the
usual Decembrst style of mock grandeur lts
IaetbOd of reasoning is plausible, but illogical. The
Pope cannot be Invested of all temporal power, be-
cause, from the Universal Poutih be would then
become degraded TO the position Of q French, Span
ish, Austrian, or Italian subject. On the other
hand, the same person cannot act simultaneously
tie psIts Of the Prince and the Ponti8. Conse-
qucntly, bis temporal power must be reduced TO
mere pasteboard sovereignty. 1t must exist with
I" cut an army, without O parliament, without
" code of laws, or n court Of JUSTICE and even
without territory. II must be circGmscribed
within the precincts of Rome" small corner of
"earth" presumed TO be 'iree from the passiOnsand
d" inter, SITS which agtate other people," and 10 live
upon the study Of ruins.
There, in that snug corner, the Pope is to WELD
a paternal power, protected by detachments OF the
Italian Federal aImy--tbe municipal sell-govern-
ment of his subjects relieving him from all admins.
traiye troubles. The Romans, Of course, viii feel
bu, too glad 10 renounce all political life forming
flock instead Of a people, dd najordn gtoriam
dbl As TO the Romagna, it was given to the Pope
Nv the Congress of Vienna. So it may be taken
from him by the Congress of Paris The Romagna
has, in fact clipped away from Ills hold. Who 10
TO restore il to hint Francel But, by her armed
Intervention, France gave the signal to the Romagna
for breaking loose from bis holy rule. Austria !
But this would be equivalent to the resump-
ton of Der domination in the Peninsula. Naples
1t can but Keep of revolution at home by keeping
quiet abroad and, besides it will not be allowed to
interfere Being therefore, unable to regain the
Romagna by his own forces, ana beng lnterdicted
from doing so by foreign aid, what can the Pope do
but bow TO the dictates Of the Paris Congress, pre-
announced TO him by the Oldest son oil the Churcn
But then, there il in store the great Bonapartist
panacea for all human frailtes. The Pope, for his
loss of power, and the Romans, for their exclusion
from TIE ranks of history, are both to be eompen'
sated by large tribute paid to the Holy Father on
the part Of the Catholic powers, instead OF by his
own hccL 10Th are TO be bought of in hard cash.
Buying of in fact, the upshot of the pamphlet
Buyng of was the last word of the peace of Villa
francs. Why not try it with the Popef Pro
batnn est
"A REVIEW OF EUROPEAN POLITICS.
Cex.spsnssn.s Of Tie N. Y. Tnbsse-
GERMANY, Dec. ~ 1859.