New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-14
FRANCE.
Trsm Oar Own Correspondent.

PARIS, Jan. 26, 1860.
The politico-economica questions raised by the
Emperors letter to Minister Fould, occupy public
attention this week in successful rivalry with the
Question Romano. The Monueur Industrial pub
lsbes and other papers copy, an altogether remark
able address to the Emperor from the nanufactu-
rers of Lille, Roubsix Rouen and other industrial
centers The object of it is to protest against that
part of the Imperial programme that relates to re-
ducton Of probbitory to moderate duties on wooens
and cottons, cloths and yarns. The argument Of it
is, that the programme" contains not only gross
economical error but moral one; that bis Males
ty is pressing on a measure not only contrary to
their interests but, in the time and manner oft, at
least, contrary to his promises publicly given.
Without indulgiDg in the violent rhetoric of the
bishops the spinners and weavers are equally bold,
and more plain and direct than the preates. Read:
Thus, the promise bad been made andrepeated buta
few months ago. that the question would not DO decided
until The representatives. of The manufacturing interests
of the country had been heard in preliminary exam
nation. And yet, what happens Your Majesty is
going 10 change from top bottom the most important
articles Of our customs laws. Is going to eff
feet these changes without any preliminary
inv esiigaon, without our being heard, without our
having been able TO obtain hearing. We
asb yOu then, SIe what becomes OF the promised In
ye.tigatioD which we had right to depend upon
IA LdQueHe nous dr0ns d. fer./ IL s not my
busness TO drcuss here the economical question: nor
the question of veracity. only point ont as curos-
ity this remarkable piece of plain speaking TO Imperial
ears which, since they were Imperial, nave not heard
the like"
If the worthy lubricants had shown any time in
the past ten years, half the zeal and bodness in de-
tense of common rights that they now display in de-
tense of their pockets one could admire them. As
il u.s. their protests and grumbngs, and beseging of
ministers (there were more than 400 of them come
up to Paris in these last days to plead their lost
cause), and other attempts to change NapoleOn's
mind are like to prove mere waste of power. he
has thought over his measures and decided upon
their main features long ago; and only awaited the
favorable moment for inaugurating them, which
now he thinks has come. de has 80 combined
them, as appears in the programme that, however,
much certain Of them may offend the real interests
or the fanced interests OF certain classes, they WILL
as whole, meet the appreciation of the people as
whole. His economical policy may be wrong; 1t is
caulated skilfully to appear right to the great
of FreRchmen who not enlisted by direct inter
est or theoretical opinion in the prohi oitionist
camp, nor the free traders camp. That the dis
content Of the manufacturers OF Lille and Null
house and ROuen should amount TO an alarming
political disaffecOn, is not possibility likely TO
keep the Emperor awake nights. Should tney De-
come as warm friends of the Papa temperatures as
Monsieur Villemain and other recent converts from
Orleanism to characterization and Legitimism, it
would not greatly effect the Emperor's home nor
foreign policy. In both cases he is carry
ing the national feeling with him. Meantime, if
Lille is discomfort, Bordeaux il delighted; If the
programme provokes protests from Rouen and
Mulhouse, it calls forth addresses of felicitation
from Marseilles and Nantes if the operatives in
the manufacturing towns are alarmed by stories of
the closing of factories the oucrsrS Of other towns
lick their lips with pleasure in anticipation Of cheap
ened sugar and coffee. More thoughtful folks say,
with show of reason, the manufacturers have had
century of prohibition and high protective tariff
long enough time to solidly establish themselves;
they have had three or four years warning OF
coming change; they yet have year or two to
prepare for III IT, with all this, they are not able
TO bear competition still largely qualified by con-
siderable duty on foreign products, tant p,s pour
eur. II, with labor "a cheap and the raw material
as cheap the English, and All unlimited right Of
improving their mechanical processes, they cannot
bear concurrence with English enterprise, let them
90 to the wall. Our merchants and wine-growars
will gain more than the lubricants lose. Besides,
the programme" is not TO be judged by its sepa-
rate measures but TO be taken in its ensemble the
commercial treaty with England if it let in yarns
and cloths one of these days, lets out our wines;
tural reform and widely-extended internal improve
ments.
discuss the argument of the thoughtful moder-
ate folks little that of the alarmed prohibition
ists I0nly report that 20 far as can discover,