New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-28

wait long time before ostrich eggs become plenty
at the Central Market, although Prince Demidoli,
at Florence, and somebody whose name now slips
my memory, had lately succeeded, by squeezing and
coaxing, in getting them laid and Matched for the
first two times in Europe But let the pert nincom.
poop who three hundred years ago, more or less,
ridCuled the idea of the practical worth of such
trafsplantions consider the Persian peach orchards
of New-Jerspy and the American corn-felds OF
Southern Europe, and the East Indian hor'e-ches-
nuts of Bonn and the Tuileries garden, and Cncin-
nati-let alone his Peruvian bark, and his Chinese
tea, and his American potato and tobacco
Each part moy call the fsrhes brother;
Nothing hath got 80 FAY
But man may catch and keep it as bis Irey"
OF this good earth, Gods garden,
"Th- whole is either our cupboard Of food,
Or cabinet Of pleasure"
Coed and revered George Herbert, forgive this
Matching and stretching of your harmonious verse TO
the Pr0crustean needs my i-treated theme The
Geological Society aims 10 acclimate beauty az well
as use ordinarily called, seeing that the eye is az
noble an organ, and az well worthy of being fed as
the palate. Hence these numerous fowl, gorgeously
and gracefully plumed rich and harmonious in color
as a picture by Diaz, or by our cOuntryman Bah
cock, who has caught natures trick, and grinds up
precious stones, I" bdellum and onyx, which are
good, and Jet and flashing diamonds, and emeralds,
and tOpazes and amethyst, with sunlight and CON-
poses symphonies of color on his canvas Like the
T" bdeum and the onyx" the compositions that
ray out their harmonious beauty from bis easel are
good. but can almost think (thank Heaven and
con mon sense, | am not critic of art)
that when LOphophOres are to be had at something
less than thousand francs apiece, the price that
the Society pays for its pair, ! had nearly az hef
have one of them as one OF BabcOcks gems. The
objection lies, TO be sure, in the fact that the
LCphOphons-which, You must understand, are
really " humming-blrds as big as turkeys"-haye
no beauty of expression, their heads go for nothing
In that respect BabcOcks genius gets the better of
nature But then, thanks 10 the Society of
Accmation, they viii be encouraged TO lay and
hatch; and in that respect-important to an
economist--their natural trick will get the better
of BabcOck's art, which s emlnenty creative but
not pTOpagatlye.
Speaking of American artists, Of whom we have
20 many now in Paris, learned and learning, must
notice, in passing, some beautiful gimpses of sun
and architecture that Cranch has just brought
away from recent visit TO Venice. One loves to
imagine and finds encouragement for such love and
imagining in Cranchs sketches that this warm vi.
tally OF the Sea brides beauty she presents her
self constantly TO the artists sense ia Of good omen
for her political resurrection She il not dead but
sleepeth--in uneasy slumbers now. Cranch is work
ing UP his sketches, or rather from them and poeti
cally sure memory, faithful transcripts of the forms
of Venice bathed in Venetian sunlight and NOON
light. He has brought back to our foggy Paris
sunrise effect among the rest OF his skeches-tO my
poor notion Il insist that am not critic IN nrt-it
is 40 easy 10 seem one and 40 rare 10 be One), the
best of all HE rich ROba di Iene;io. Venice now
lies restless disturbed in it's morning hours; but the
morning dreams will prove true. The sun is strIg-
Cling up bringing libcrty's light, through the thick
accomplishing, oppressive Austrian clouds Through
the murk We catch gbmpses OF Hungarian liberty
flags and strange new harmonious notes OF swell
ing chorus, shouting Erica HdtiG EGeu Ganbaldi.
Bless my wandering, cratic falling stars, what
has m our reporter 10 do with these hlgh-fylng
phrases about Italy, and art and so forth With such
waste of talk have / filed nearly all my allotted
space substituting private appreciation for faithful
recorders statement IN q way TO crowd out whole
" lot Of interesting facts. Queer, but true-Very
queer and uncOmmonly true. "own correspondent"
are several degrees this side of perfection that
nobody else presumes to aim at. hay and DANA
and of the Younger American artists Rowland, and
Baker, and Coleman, and BoughtOn, and several
others not of the twenty or thirty American Brush
men now in Paris, ought to be mentioned they and
their works in detail. Time and paper do not serve
have only room left to say that the alarming re-
ports of George Sands Illness which reached Paris
in the beginning of this week, are now happily quail
fled ty the latest Corners from Nonant Who repre-
sent her malady quietly yielding to the skill OF
her medical attendants-or Ia the better curative
powers of nature In either case, yielding and re-
moving al cause OF feor for her life. Leopold de
Meyer has been attacked with u paraytc stroke.
Felicien David author of Z" Herculaneum," The
"Desert" The Prele de Breuil," etc. has now
secured 10 him pension Of 300 france from the
Emperor. Prince Napoleon's often-proposed tour
Of decentralization half ali way about globe is
now sem-oiicialy ard Indefinitely postponed. One
of his stations was 10 have been New-York. Qudn
whether the A" stunning receptions that have beie
japanese ambassadors and Tommy, and the Primes
Of " aes may not have led the Prince Napoleon To
doubt whether similar apotheosis could be- got up
for the third time and in his favor in the Of
one twelyemOnth Needless ~ say, that the noble
Prince NapoleOns courage in Drawing sea perils il
az uIdoubted "a his zeal for the general advance
pent of science; and that he would at any moment
risk his Gfe without hesitation, in voyage from
H0vre to hew-YOrk, be would devote his scien-
tifc powers and requirements 10 an elucdation Of
tie marvellous phenomena that would tau under his
enlightened observation, IN the course Of so sol.
EMMY grave excursion.
The report is revived that NJ Thouvene is likely 50
leave the Ministry of Foreign Affairs shortly.
Tie Bank Of rance, the l2th raised its rate OF
discount from 81 % - per cent.
The formation Of squadron Of reserve, 20 be ready
in the Spring, il positively announced.
In future each transport il TO have steel lighter
which can be taken 10 pieces and will be able ~ land
800 men, a rifle 4-pounder ind ammunition Carts aud
Xix horses and twelve men.
Detachments Of troops were being Dispatched every
day by the Lyons Railway 70 harseilles These troops
10 proceed TO Rome 10 complete the war bnttalions
OF the regiments stationed there.
II was stated authoIatiyely in Pads that ell men
unlimited leave OF absence had received orders
min in the localities where they registered,
that ii wanted they may BE- called upon u she earliest
moment.
Accounts from the French manufacturing districts
are saiiffaciory.
Wheat continued firm in Paris