The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-05-16

for good or evil fortune. Railroads and tele-
graphs, and every other agency whereby dis
lance and time are overcome, and the people
brought into closer communion, are the strong
est bonds Of union, and the eagerness with
which every method which can accomplish
these results ID hailed BY the people Is the
best guarantee that the masses, at all events,
desire union and harmony throughout the
whole country, no matter what way the po-
litical storms may blow.
WHAr WILL BE NAPoLEoN's NEXT M0vE!-
The new pamphlet, BY NJ Edmond About,
which has just made it, appearance In Paris,
has given rise to good deal of speculation.
1t is entitled La Nouvelle Carte dEurope,"
and, although protesting to be merely politi.
cal squib, deals with the questions of the day
in manner which reminds the reader forcibly
of the imperial pamphlets on Italy, The views
of the writer are conveyed through the medium
of an imaginary conversation, which is sup
posed to have been held at the Hotel du Lou
vre, between French officer, an English lady,
a Roman monk, q Piedmontese subaltern,
Turk from Constantinople, a Russian, Prus-
sisn. an American, and two brothers, the one
born at Naples and the other at Vienna. Here,
ii will be seen, are all the nationalities neces-
sary to represent the leading political interests
of the day.
1t is needless for US to particularize all the
changes in the political relations Of Europe
foreshadowed in this conversation. Suffice 1t
to say that the Turk consents To abandon Eu-
rope and retire to Medina, to keep watch and
ward over the tomb of the Prophet; the monk
to give up his Italian patrimony and to take up
bis abode in apostolic simplicity in Jerusalem
the English woman to take Egyp. aud to give
up Corfu, Malta and Gibraltar; the Russian to
content himself with the semi civilized pro
vinces of Turkey, its European provinces to
be given to Greece to build up great State,
whose capital would be Constantinople, and
furthermore, to reconstitute Poland rs an indie
pendent Kingdom; the Prussian to cede the
Grand Duchy of Posen to Poland, and the pro-
vinces on the left bank of the Rhine to France;
the Austrian to sell Venetia to the Italians,
Hungary to the Hungariane, and Gallicia to
the Poles. in order to save the rest of her ter
ritory. The French captain alone, Of all
these amateur diplomats, declined to &C
cept anything out of these carvings
and slicines Of the European soil, refusing
equally the Rhenish provinces rendered him by
the Pruseisn and Belgium pressed on his &C
ceptance by the fair English woman. He made
war, he said, in the interest of great principles
and not for sggrandizement and he wiahed
that he might die at St. Helena If 1t ever again
occurred to him to covet a foot of territory
after the cutlery raised against him in the Eng
lsh Parliament on account of that small affair
of Nice and Savoy.
All this sounds uncommonly like what the
French would call maurdis p'aisonterie. The
Joke il, in fact, too serious to make any one
laugh. 1t will be recollected that its protested
author, NJ. About, wrote the celebrated bro
chure on Rome and Roman institutions. which
did 20 much injury to the cause Of the Papacy.
For this work a ahsm prosecution was instituted
against him by the French government, which
was dropped as soon as the Holy Fathers posi-.
ton was felt to be hopelessly damaged. 1t is
now generally believed that the book
received. like the present pamphlet, Its inspira-
ton from an imperial source.
Europe has reason TO dread the appearance
of these literary rockets in Its political atmos
pbcre. They are the certain precursors offresh
political agitations and troubles. They are
launched 10 test the current Of public opinion,
and TO ascertain how far it is prepared for Me
fresh schemes which have been matured in the
imperial brain. The programme described
above is an extensive one, BUTT should be re-
membered that ii is in great measure expert.
mental Il says more than is meant, and sup
presses more than Is expressed. The policy Of
Louis Napoleon has never been direct aggres-
sion and conquest His is surer system-that
Of continually embroiling the other Powers, in
order that be may profit by their differences
and jealousies. He disclaims Interested mo-
tves, and wants nothing for France It will be
found, nevertheless, that as often as matters
reach settlement he will come In for his
per centage, jsst as he did in the affair of Nice
and Savoy.
DIRECT SOUTHERN TRApE-We perceive, by a
despatch received from Norfolk, Virginia, yea
terday. that bark has just srived there from