New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-05

/ q convent, But This Fesis, who took advantage o
the unruly passions Of child, who gave tho mother
10 intimaliob Of the girls strange conduct t0wart
kin-wbich began two years before he took the last
advantage Of it-ths fellow IL not 70 much az tried;
he appears only o. witness In the case-seems "a
! lave committed no crime, onense c0gnizable by
French ustice-whieb, in this respect believe, ID
| no binder than American justice. i am glad TO
add that several Of the Journalists tere with us,
more advanced than appointed Legislators, have
pointed ont, with able and earnest protest, this
defect in the criminal code.
Another trial that has drawn considerable at
tention here ia The trial Of John Brown and bis
associates Brief but in the main quite accurate
reports have been Published in all the large Paris
papers. They have served as texts for commenta-
RES to writer's of the most opposite 0pinions-.t0
he editors of the Unioers and toVictor Hugo These
commentaries differing in spirit as widely as their
authors in opinion, are alike painful to an honest
American reader. The malicious pleasure with
which your Unirsrs commentators compare the
proceedings of O Court of so-called justice in
q Protestant democratic country to the proceed
inQs in the tribunals of the Reign of Terror when
Fouauier Tinvills was prosecutor, the indig-
nant BORROW with which Victor Hugo excaims
in speaking of that trial and it's result, :" de
clare on my honor that this took place not in Tur
key but in America" and again, 1t is possible
Slavery in Virginia. but 1t would certainly unsettle
The American democracy. You save your shame
but you kill your glory; "-this malicious plea
sure and this indignant sorrow, say are the type
feelings of the two great parties in which Europe
is divided, the retrogades and the progressists.
The awaited representative of the great "Model
Republic" near the Court of the Tuileries viii come
of course from Virginia
Old Prince Jerome ia alarmingly i'll these two
days with hung fever. Baron Meneval the French
Minister at Munich, has resigned bis post and is, it
is said, going to Rome to take holy orders. The
cause of his retiring from bis honorable position IN
public life is grief at the death of his wife.
young Marquis de Califet, who got himself
very deeply and ceebratedy tangled up in loyeknot
with famous Dame aux Camelas q few years ago,
which his friends cut for him by packing him off to
the Crimea, where he fought properly like French
man, and whence he returned cured and rid of the
naughty female, somewhile afterward married q
very pretty wife. With her he went to the opera
the other night, Monday week, think. There she
was very much lorgnetted from the parterre, with
The intense rudeness that persons, in some other
respects gentlemen, habitsally degrade themselves
to in such places and occasions, by Count Napoleon
Law de LauristOn, son of Napoleon's Marshal Laur-
iston. Gafet beckoned to him from the box to come
up, went out into the lobby to meet him, and ex-
press becoming discomfort. Hence an exchange OF
sharp words, and an insult and challenge, and
duel near st. Cloud, in which both parties received
flesh wounds, and good argument for Partisan talk
for the rest of the week.
There ia Prince Van Buren, here; was presented
to the Emperor yesterday; calls himself Count de
Buren,, that il, the French write him &c. but de
is French, as every one knows, for Dutch van, and
Dutch the young man is, and Prince; though no
relation to your John the fact being that bis yam
Buren, is {" all my eye and Betty Martini" he is
Prince William of Orange, son of the King of Hol-
land, out on his travels incog.
The Count of Paris has undertaken quite extern
siye tour in the East. He is accompanied by bis
brother the Duke of Chartres who has years fur
Tough from the Sandman Government, in whose
army he serves.
Count Montalembert. has visited that illustrl0us
academicap, since the prosecution was instituted
against Montalemberts article in the Correspond
ent, and perhaps, too, out Of sympathy for MOnta-
lembert's recent affection. The brother whom he
lost, and on account Of whose death the trial was
referred till to-day, was in the army and gained his
grade of Colonel, at Solferino. .1gti
Dumas, jr., sold the copyright of Tn Pers Prologue
to Michel Levy for 25,00e francs. A little while
before its first representation, Edmond About wrote
in one of his Lettres fan Bon Jeune Homme: " The
"Pere Prologue which they are now rebearsng ut
+" the Gymnase viii be worth so, 900 francs to NJ.
Dumas, jr.. if the success be moderate. IT, as
81 kpe, II De great success tne sum Will DO
"doubled. His droite d'autear on the Dame asz
" Camolias ut the Vaudeville brought him l2O, 900
" francs." This, exclusive of his copyright, Of
whatever be can gain by special bargain with the
theater manager, and Of oil he may gain by repre-
seniations in future years, and his heirs for thirty
years after death. 80
About has just presented new comedy at the
Theatre Francois which has been received. The
company had accepted only lew weeks ago another
piece from his pen, on condition that it should be
approved by the Government censors. But it was
90 confidently believed that they would refuse their
sanction TO 1t in ts then form, that he preferred
Withdrawing to altering to their tastes the Education
dan Prince.