New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-07-28
money, sake than for the high pleasure of the game

few wears ago he was as poor az the young heu-
tenant of artillery at TOuloD. One year ago nc
threatened to overtOp, with bold success Tue 9;u
established royalties Of European bnance' His
career offers sort of carcatured analogy 10 wa.
of the First Napoleon. And he carries WIN
him 10 prison sort of carcature OF the sym
pathies that accompanied the fallen Emperor 10 Oh
Helena, His great ruin draws OH the eye OF u,o
pensiye public from the numerous runs vi h'le
folks over whom he crushingy III ms ia!e career.
This cheaply generous sympathy ls mncn increased
in view of the strictly legal and ubiquitous hardTIp
az his preventive Imprisonment, during which he
,vos shut ont from communication with his family,
and could only learn through bis ailor of Pie birth
az his ornnd.chld. noble POlgnac; in View of his
evidently sincere conviction that he was an honest
man in his ,oay, and must be acquitt d, and surely
would bring up his house to its ola financial good
credit and in view of the terrible revulsion of his
despair when bis condemnation was pronounced
His partner, Solar, reads the common condemnation
at his ease in his comfortable cbatelet by lnterla
chen. He escaped in disguise from coming legal
wrath long ago.
/ stated in my last on the strength Of generally
accredited report that Russian authority had been
anew murderously asserted in the streets of War
saw. This erroneous report grew by lamentably
justified induction from the fact that the streets OF
Warsaw were militarily occupied by the Command
| ing General, SanhaZOnett. Has Russia night TO
| blame all Western Europe from concluding to o
| bloody consequence But this is true, it now
| seems: that the General took this precautionary
measure in fear that the agitation among the peas
ants now stirring the political subsOil of Southern
| Russia, would have IFS cOHtre coup in Warsaw.
| The Russian earthquake reminds US not to sleep on
our Polish volcano.
This never-setted Polish question ia again stirring
up discussion in Europe i'll the French Press and
! the English Parliament. The old Prusso-AustTio-
Russian iniquty of dividing Poland still, like other
| misfOrtunes and chickens, comes home 70 r00st.
| Crime is misfortune. II is all very easy and not
well for PhO- Russians TO say what is partly pausi-
bly, true, that The Polish movement is q movement
! of the mobiles as class, not popular movement.
Well, what then As against injustice it is good
movement; a national movement. Set aside broad
reaching equity and human right, aud still Poland
presents an unrequed claim to mere treaty right.
Her nationality, the beginning and necessary base
of popular freedom, was assured 10 her by solemn
treaty to which all European Powers were pledged
paItiesin mOchery of which three of those Powers,
most strenuous opponents of revolution most noisy
advocates OF law and treaty, had violated her ma
tionaiity. Not ON the whole with impuny, the
reader of current European history guesses The re-
atons Of the RusSO-POlis 10 the Austrollungarlan
question, happily for the thoughtful readers of The
| TRIBUNE, enters into the polilcO-geogrnphicaI do
main of your Turin correspondent.
| But viii you and he excuse me for encroaching
| mornentl Garibaldi was voted for the other week
as Member of the Italian Parliament by consider
| able number of the citizens of Mantua. Your
readers do not need 10 be informed that Mantua lies
in Venetia, and is held by powerful Austrian
garrison. But there is real Italian party in Man-
| tua and l could not help thinking that if there
really did exist Union party in our Southern
States itwould vote for Members TO our sitting
| Congress. In the past centuries Italy was Eu-
ropes teacher. Nay not America learn from Der
| now
The new Sultan of Turkey is quite in vogue, he
does and promises so we'll i'll Western Europe. lie
is cutting down palace expenses, selling his late
brothers extrayngant accumulation OF Jewels to pay
that feeble genteman's debts, keeping but one wife,
looking sharply into official Manifestations Of the
last reign, declaring his fixed purpose of really
executing the verbally proclaimed clVibzng edicts
OF has predecessors, aud at instiuting vigorous,
economical, EurOpeaLi2ed administration = that
hopeful folks getting 10 believe IN the political
REGENERATION of Turkey. Bosh which is, an told
a Turkish word is the fatal sentence of such hopes.
Ii ia lust as impossible TO radically, vitality reform
Turkey with the Coran Rome with an infahble
temporal Pope, or the United Statesswth tho co.,
secratiOn OF Slavery.
project is afoot here for reproducing on the
nights OF MOntmartre, where, in the time of Roman
, domination stood temple dedicated to Mars the
ParthenOn of Athens, in its primitive majesty Of
proportions and slightest details of perfected beauty
The means for constructing this trumphal mOnu-
meut OF modern archaeology, are to be raised by
| national subscription. The subscription 10 to be-
| managed by a Committee of artists and amateurs
among whose names figure those Of Prince NapO-
leon, painter Ingres, Charles Blanc, the Duke Of
Launes, and Of others high placed in the Partisan
81 stem of social political and artistic worlds.
Speaking Of the artistic world, must note that
in the late distribution Of prizes at the close of the
biennial exhibition of the works OF contemporary
artists in the Palais de pIndustrie in the Champs
Elysees one George Washington received an
a. honorable mention" The Princess Matbilde was
honored in like kind. with less reason. Artst
, George halls" from Bordeaux, and haS, 80 far as
/ can learn, no connection with the late Father Oi
HE late country OF Virginia.
And. speaking of world, English astronomer, Hind
sets forth in The London Times the probability
| that we of this earth have just passed under,
and, indeed through The late comsts tail. The
fact, if it be one, though rather bumiliating TO
the hitherto-sustained dignity OF our earth o
heavenly corporate body, is comforting 70 the
timOrons believer in DR.. Cummings and j.
Millers plogistOdoxy. French astronomers,
meantime, are at handgrips, Leyerrier pulling one
way B8binet another, at the fast disappearing tail
of this comet which one declares the other de-
MES TO be Charles V, his comet its tail turned up
| again. Heaven in its remote open spaces alone
can tell who is right In reading their long, learned
disputes Oh the matter only feel hnnbly The lit
erul truth Of the lirst and the doubtful application
Of the remaining lines of the reyerent Geo. Herbeus
stanza:
"The feet astronomer coz bore
And thread tie 81 heres with bis quick piercing mind
lie views their stations walls from door to DOOR
Surveys az ~ be- bad defigued
10 rake q purchase there; he their dances,
And knONseth long before
Both their fuley ed aspects and secret glsnces.
Only unscientfcally report that it is raining