New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-13


life and death have vsiny turned the pages Of a
volume Of legends, and consulted the good Madame
Busque, generally well informed on such themes.
| Ever since last night, when my eye, accidentally
falling on the postman's calendar, was filed with
the name tie image Of that lively old tristan has
been dancing through the chambers Of my brain,
upsetting al the political and other grivities ar
ranged there for this correspondence. Needs must
chat put.tbe present writing under his patronage;
may be III livelier for it.
The week has been lively enough. The rhetorical
vvacit5of English parliamentary orators and news
paper editors, apropos Of the annexation OF Savoy,
is agreeably exhlarating to the French Under
| other circumstances, the warmth of expressions
might kinde French anger into blaze; now they
cen hardly scowl for smiling. They were already
| in high gee with the annexation of Savoy. That
was already thing done, not to be undone but by
general war, of which from that cause there is not
| the least, nor from any other any great present
danger The mere addition of more territory, the
partial recovery of the natural boundaries is graft
fyng TO this people, The vexaton that it seems to
cause the English hghtens their pleasure with an
exquisite relish; the more the English don't like it,
the more they do like it. tits ayenging Waterloo"
violently at France and the Emperor-if charges of
double dealing, robbery, trickery, and the rest, are
repeated often enough they will lead to some re-
turn of compliments from this side of the channels
| a newspaper war; such as we have had half dozen
of in the last as manyy years. will rage for month
or two, the entente cOrdale will lose something of
| its af1ectionate cOrdiaity and that will be all.
/ am the last person to defend ambitious terri
toria annexation; but cannot help noting, with my
French friends, the aughable side of this sudden
British indignation on the subject The truth of it
is, that KiDglake and Lord John Russell are both
talking more to BnncOmbe than to the question.
Lord John must be sir gularly innocent if, with
Pamerston to help him interpret, he has been de-
ctiyed by ThOuyenels dispatches or the Emperor's
speeches. The sudden arrival of faith of Venese
treaties" (which 10 human being of the ruling
orders has put the slightest faith in this many a
year. is stl more ridiculous. That miserable
parchment security was rs good for Archducal Tus-
cany and Modena as for the neutralzed Chablais
and Faucigny. The English made little of it four
weeks ago. In the matter of strict morality, it is
greatly to be feared that there is not sou to choose
between Count Cavour Lord John, and Louis
Napoleon. AS between them and our American
rulers and statesmen-let us loudly rejoice that
there are dollars and dollars Of difference.
think no one is alarmed here at the loud talk in
London. The possibility of Congress is again
rumored. 1t would meet to see the full "exposi-
as to discuss and sanction some arrangement for
protecting the neutrality of Switzerland
The French garrison is as usual, always about
to 20 AWAY from Rome will try to let you know
when it starts The only certain truth about it s,
as-in view ofthe uncommon long stretch from now
to eternity-Napoleon has more than once re-
marked OF late years, that it cannot be kept there
forever / should say that it was rather doubtful
whether Neapolitan one gets there this season.
The Pope and King Francis have had talks on the
subject, but neither Of them peach. Whether the
Papal accommodation, with its lea len ball aud
henpen string. has yet been cent TO Victor Emanuel
is not certainly known. Louis Napoleon is supposed
TO have urgently advised against such folly. The
Siecie newspaper, last Summer, treated its readers
TO translation in full of the formula of excommu-
ncation say in full there are three dirty words
IN it that they bad to be left in their original Latin.
1t contains, past question: the most comprehensive,
detailed curse ever put into language; it curses,
literally, up and down, from the crown of the head
to the ends of the toes hair and nails inclusive; In
ternally also it is terribly searching" as they say
IN New England of Spring medicines. liza canal COM
missioner, appointed for the purpose, should make
digest of all the obligatory declarations emitted by
all the boatmen on the Erie Canal, and incorporate
with il whatever all the teamsters trying to drive
al the overloaded "balky" horses up all the steep
bills of the world, could contribute of rich and rare
to the cOmpend OF profane eoquence, it woald be
ong-rolling Illumination. / stepped in tn reading
room this morning to extract passage or two for
the amusement of your readers. The dame dH
compton told Inc that she had sold her last copy, alter
if had been read almost to aters, for forty sous.
One might nearly as well search for Vinegar Bible
as for the last Sundays Steele at any of the numer-
Gus newspaper stalls in the street. The avidity
with which il has been read and bought up as a
curiosity in this Catholic country s striking proof
of the quite dead and fossil state into which the
once dangerous breed of Papal bulls is sunken.
Such of your readers as are curious in the case will
find the same formula, or as good as the same, IN
Tristram Sbandy, which is very proper place for
it. The tale of Slawkenburgius is not more extray-
agant, nor, if one can get over Amouf or
Emulphus his blasphemy hardly more entertain
ing. 1t is an old bygone blaspheIny. see no harm
now in laughing over it.
I notified last Thursday the appearance OF
Thiers's seventeenth volume OF the Consulate and
Empire Its publication, announced for the pre-
cedng Tuesday, had been retarded by family
quarrel. Here is 4" the humor of it," In volume
VII. of this history, printed many years ago, on
page 90 of the same, NJ. Theirs gave his notion of
the first marriage of Lieutenant Jerome, Prince,
Westphalian King, ex-King, now Prince again and
moribund French Marshal Jerome. Mr.. Jerome
Napoleon BonapaTte or, his princely halt brother
persists in invariably styling him, Mr.. Jerome
Bonaparte (PatersonC'-he never does forget that
parenthctical ACCOMPLISHMENTS, by legal
right, OF Ihierss publishers that they should alilx
TO the present volume his corrective notion of his
fathers first marriage. Not from slavish imitation
of the Prince, and still less from any disrespect to
the gentleman whom the publishers speak OF as
"a French citizen residing at Baltimore" but for
convenience sake, and to avoid confusion, will
call him sometimes Mr. Paterson. He states
with becoming brevty in his note the facts
of his fathers marriage, according to the rites of
the Catholic Church, performed in the Cathedral OF