New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-19
AFFAIRS N FRANCE,
Frex OR Own Ce1e,rors,r.

Net being permitted 10 NEEDLE with their home
politics, the French continue 10 take the deeper
Interest in foreign affairs. rde feelings and
opinions have undergone curious changes dur
ing the week Tive days ago the friends OF Italian
independence were fled with gloomy apprehen.
sions. Gar;baldi seemed obstnately bent on doing
the imposs;ble; that Sicily and Naples were i'm
perfectly governed by frequently changed ineN-
perienced Ministers, whose authority was over
borne hy BertaDi, was certain; that the Dictator
was beset by such councillors as Mazzini, Victor
Hugo, Ledu Boilil the assassin Rudi0, a1d otter
blood.shot red republicans (nOne OF whom except
Mszzini have lef. their usual places Of exi,e) was
currenil, reported and partly believed; tie disSen-
sion between Naples and Turin seemed hoPees of
cure. The clerco-lcgitimists were rrOpOrtionately
elaied: the threatening clouds that h)ycred thick
ever the good cause, rendered their prospects loss
dark by comparison. The last news from Italy
has changed al that. Your other correspondents
will give il 10 you in detail; l have only 10 spsak
of its effect upon public opinion here. Carl
balds tri,mphs over temptation such a. few men
have ever been exposed 10, and fewer ever resisted
are more wonderful and seem 10 have been less diff
fcut t. this singular man th9n his extraordinary
military successes.
The .gallantIN " the t1rDcl Volunteers ~ tle
Papal service M the battle of Castnidardo, and at
Ancona il appreciated by all parties. Frenchmen
are all sOiiddircs in the matter of their national
character for military bravery estrong Roman
ISIS AID leuitnnists are delighted, in wOul kind OF
Way at the good behaviour Of the young lighting
crusaders under the enemy fire. Many OF their
letters are published Of late days in the papers here
and do great credit 10 the sincerity of cOnviD ton
offhcse Young gentlemen who seem "a have slipped
down 10 us from the middle ages by the way Of
Versailles and the Boulevard de- ltahens. The
VTcomte III. de- la Bcrandiere writes 10 his father
All account of the battle OF Castelhdard0, wherein
among other characteristic passages, are tbsse:
. Around us entire ranks were swept down, and
my domestic, who was behind me with secOni
horse vas cut in two by cannon ball, SO that
- lost all nv baggage. The horse lslilgton, evil
IDENTITY an imported boOded English beast that
used 10 ride out 10 the Beis, was killed also.
When the list of the missing which was large
one, was handed 10 our commander, he re-
marked which was immensely gratifying TO us,
and must be 10 you ST. that il was Ike list Of
- invitations ~ Court bah under Louis XIV
The Vecount gives quantity Thames Of killed and
wounded, all bearing the noble prefix dc he also
gives the name Of his horse, but not that Of the
Oisected domestic. The Italian soldiers Of the
Papal force we're towards" The Belgans fought
well; although Belgian paper declares that they
were mostly Iih-rat, quite vulgar. Ot the other
foreign troops, no mention il made N These letters
One Of the letters. from young Breton nobemln,
written tO his mother from the hospital bed, where
he lies in evidently dangerous estate from his
wounds, j. beautiful with It's spirit Of fal and
Christian devotion aud II 4nk soldiers gaycty
The special courtesy shown by the Pledmontesc
al niral To Gen. LamOIiciere-whOm mO,t French.
men, however they detest his political tergiyersa-
tons have certain pride ia an one of the Wastrd
tons Of military France, and consequently to be
respected by all Italian inieriortes-has gratifed
f,-t q. H., h.. 49,,
rous effects of Fanti's mpotc and unjust illusions
10 his .figh from Castelidsrdo.
Ii must be borne in mind that the pretty nearly
universal French opinion among al parties Ii, that,
for whatever il good or bad IN the last two years
charges, Italy has to thank or blame France For
the rest, the French are more eXcusable for this
vanity since foreigners largely insist upon encourag
ing tocm in Its indulgence. The English journalists,
for example. are constantly saying that Napoleon
could have prevented, by word OF his mouth the
annexation Of the DuciIes, the Sician expedition
Of GsTibal1i, etc, a. though he were the Omnipo
tent god Of the dcstinies OF n3tOns-as though any
one man can make or unmake The course OF history
You have a similar confusion Of the pilots with The
winds and currents in the United States whore
solemn myOpes see the beginning and end of Slavery
agitation in the control of Congressman or OF
newspaper editor. Had Martin Luther or Horace
Greeley may his shadow never be- less never eX-
isted, We should have had reformation and an
irrepressibe conflict all the same
II Louis Napoleon had such complete control Of
the Italian neyt ment AZ most Frenchncn and sb-
surd'y large numbers Of foreigners, suppose, il
never could have come through such phases a. il
has passed 70 II present stage Of progress. No
thoroughly French statesman, for example, could
wish for great nation OF twenty millions pOpU-
laton, strongly constituted and seated in the Medi-
terraIean-which, when once constituted, will hold
the balance Of European continental power To-
s'ard that cOnsumma ion the Italian movement is
now fast drifting, in despite Of Louis NapO.eOn.
e has brains enough TO 500 the drift not 30 radically
oppose it, h. try TO modify ts resulta. Meantime
he istbe botheredes although with perhaps, ths ex
caption Of the equally RbTewd, clear sighted, far
seeing and uDscrupul9ue CayoUr, the coolest and
abest of European politicians. The Pope, not by
virtue of his intelligence bot by virtue Of hs peculiar
pOstioo, and The temporarily powerful q. @ power
fully embarrassing policy of 0tS inertia and non
pOSsU,R,ts bOthers him 10 the last degree 1hitthe
king never die: e a fiction: the Henri W as king Of
France, is dead as a nal in ths rre50;aby closed
doors of destiny. The Pope has " as many lives as
l'lItaTch o, Ii cat in Rome or out Of Rome,
Plus IX. in robust physical condition, despite twO
years and more of unaleviated tears, anguish grief
and ether spiritual distractions enough to tear al
into baby.rsgs crosswoys' or Pope, |
y. y. T. his SUCCESSOR, exits indeitruetiJly as /
Pope with certain lard Claims ;hat France for the
past ten years by garrison Of troops, for llo past
thousand years BY policy, hs5 undertaken tcprgect
md defend.
If Inc Pope recent conditi onal purpose Of lclV-
NO Rome had meant nbdcation, L0lis Napoleon,
NAH satisfaction az he might have feltL view Oftle
Implication Ot tie question OF Italian unity
Which such n measure would have pcJlucei,
you'd hardly have objected 20 ITS iulhlluant. But
D Spain, Bavaria OF Austria (lt was evident that
is iloliusss could not geek refuge IN Franco, the
'Ope would still be Pesc and what ID worse aud