New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-29
FRANCE.
From Our Own Correspondent.

turned toward Italy, hungary D'' i"o"s"'-
ful Parisians were all busy in thought at Rome,
Vienna. Copstantinople. Certainly foreign affairs
aimee that time have lost none Of their claims to
interest. OF the italian, Austro-Hungarian, and
Fasterp questions, none has reached solution.
Francis Joseph's patent is confessed patent
failure. At the same time he shows no purpose
az vet to sell Venetia. Francis, Hi OF Gaeta,
still obstpately sits in bis little casemated king
dom despite diplomatic missives from the Great
Powers and bombs and balls from the Piedmont
csc great guns counselng him to withdraw. IL 10
said. and getting to be believed, that Napoleon,
whom poor Francis his Minister lately excepted
as his masters only friend among all the m0narcns
whose general desertion Of their common cause IN
his Signor Casea 80 bitterly censured, has gwen
notice that he shall withdraw his defensive fleet
from before Ga6ia. by tho way, let us say
good word for Francis. Not to pretend that
Frank is Iong-headed politician, he is better than
some of his partsans and adversares are themselves
or would represent him to be. Lot alone several
other considerations this is to be noted that ne,
very erroneougly, doubtless but not without some
show of reason, hopes for the success OF counter
revolution to turn up oct OF the actual confusion
and distraction rOting in his ex-kIngdOm. 80 long
as he remains ut GaGta, he furnishes head,
cessiyey TO the embaTassments of his enemy, VIC
tor Emanuel from which he may be excused I'm
tellectually) for hoping az much fantbearted lib
erals are beginning to fear. A mans convictions
may be no honest and sincere in bad cause as III
good one. have no right to question Franks sil-
cerity more than Garbaldi's. Sincere men are the
men to believe in possible success. Ganoaldl sue
ceeded against all rational likelihood, and 30 has,
perhaps aueerly enough, become an encouraging
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sepb, represents also principle, great European
party. Its numbers here in France encourage him
In his persistence and volunteers have lately gone
from Brittany, as volunteers are said TO have gone
and to be going from other parts of Europe to wage
sort of Vendean war in the Abruzzi in favor OF Dl-
vine royal right Reasoning dispOssessed Italian
King, Frank may say, Z" cannot be worse sff than
am so let US hold on while; TO calls OF Gar, or
Lord John OF Louis Napoleon, and retire. Anon,
anon, Sir, something may turn up. At least, am
bothering my cousin Victor and that is some COM
fort Then, there s the principle of the things
religion for me- the dying Ii. e. other peoples get
ting kled) for which is q duty independent OF
of worldly success. | am on Gods side, at least
the Pope, who il His agent, is on my slde-An-
tOneli, at any rate, who is has agent says 30.
Frank is a Bourbon, and has, doubtless, the family
quality of forgetting nothing, learning nothing, re-
membering only what he loves to remember Quite
like the rest of u.s. those Bourbons, in that respect.
He remembers, probably that his family has had
worse days than these that turned finally to better
days. That after the French Revolution and En-
prc there was q Restoration.
The Pope who, after having suspended payment,
as said two letters ago. has resumed payment, as
should have chroniccd in my last letter, still sits
at Rome. Ssdd dternumgus sedcbn as has beep
quoted of taiors, from Virgil, think. Only the
Holy See is got TO be a sort of rocking-char,
swaying now this way, now that. won't venture
TO say that the Pope will never leave Rome, but
that it will be good time to speak at length of his
departure when lie goes. Same remark applies to
the French garrison which has been going and
about 10 90 anytime the past years. Although the
wisdom of nations" has expressed itself in the
proyerbial formula that all roads lead to Rome, it is
evident that neither Pope nor French Emperor
sees d clear way out of it.
As well 10 mention here as anywhere IN this ram
sbackle record that About'sRome ContsmpOraine has
already, in the second month Of it's publication,
reached its third edition, 10 the great yexation
of its clever authors cercO-legitlmist and equally
viruent literary adyersaries.
The Monitsur this morning publishes an Imperia
decree, nominating four Bishops to bishOprcs, re-
Gently vacated by the deaths Of their former occu-
pants. 1t is said that there has been busy negota-
ton between the Tuileres and the Vatican about
these new Bishops. Your readers have not 10 be
informed that French Bishops, by the terms of the
subject to the spiritual authorization of the
head of the church. Not oil of them may bear
in mind that one of the many unsOlved difficult
ties between the Tuileries and Vatican is the
question Of the spiritual confirmation of the Able
Naret as Bishop of Vannes. He was Dean of the
Faculty of Theology at the Sorbonne. Napoleon
named him to the vacant Bsh0prc many months
ago, because he fit for the place by his learning
and piety, and because he was not an Uramon.
taue. I he Pope has up Ia the present time re-
fused to issue the bull of inyestiture under the pre-
text of the Abbes unitness because he is deaf
Since approach religious topics, let me go quite
over to the dam-I mean over the dam--tO the hard
Gaze of the late NJ. Fdry drticr piece of religious
tieotiy than the foul sectariaD linen of the Augs-
burg Aims House. Fidry was a tailor, who few
years ego left his Paris bench rich and went to cu
tyate cabbage and geese in rural retirement to his
native village of Labry, in the Mosele country
There, while he was getting up large, handsome
house, strangely cut up into rooms for q
single man, be rent blood-vessel, and relentless
Cotho cut his thread of life. Like Stultz and other
members Of his most ancient, decent useful, and
therefore honorable guild whom the low vulgar only
teat fractions of humanity, he was a whole
sOuled, noble man. and dying at peace with the
world, the single, unhelred remnant of his race he
left this house TO be school for children and an asy.
lum for six inrm old persons of the two sexes and
oil bis fortune TO educate and support them respect
lively therein. Naked he came into the world and
so, preparing to 20 out had in anticipation, stripped
hin sell of II, iswordly goots to feed and cothe the
needy in their right minds aud their suffering old
bodies wrapping himself in this great charity man.
tie for his last journey. Going off in hurry, as
men must when bloodyessels start, he did not ask
for the last sacrament. "No church passport"
said the clergy of Labry in the department of the
hOselle; bad ease suspicious character slipped Of
IN spite Of u.s. can't answer for him, cannot accom-
pany with prayers to ST. Peters gate, must not
let sexton toll the bells to let them know he is com.
ing, doubtless has gone the other way" And so |
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