New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-26

much more fundamental part Of him, to wit, his
Imperial seat he would have this public opinion ex-
pressed agreeably, with safety-wOuld have Olks iet
out everything they think and feel about his Govern
ment except what they think about his nght 10 gov
ern France at all. Last week Liberal Minister cer
s'eny who really is liberal to the utmost verge OF inc
Napoeonc limits gives the Courier du Dimancne
warning and it's editor notice to quit the country
because the editor had printed in that journal an az
ticle of publicity and control" Still, there is
very positye visible gain on the side OF Liberalism
The more or less vailed but general expression OF
surprise, not to say Indignation at the hard sentence
pronounced against editor GanucO, proves IT. such
sentence FIVE years ago would have been regarded as
matter of course. Again. 60 soon as the Cham
beers were organized, there We're laid before them
two printed documents. One Of these presents an
expose of the condition Of the Empire. IL fills, IN
some SORT the place of our Presidents message, and
of the reports Of our Secretaries. The other, a
more yolumin0us work, resembles the blue book that
il presented to the British Parliament
If louis Napoleon were the omnipOteDt god OF
the situation as some of his foolish admirers est.
mate him. or the temporarily plus-semipotent mend
| that equally foolish Manchean opponents make him,
| these concessions would amount to little. In SOL
emn thoughtfully considered historical TACT, they
| are the beginning of the end OF his autoGracy'
They are the letting of the nation into hali CO.
| nortpership with the Government. If the nation
does not acquire full copartnersbp, it Will be from
want of manly fiber political muscle, 10 acquire II
| sad proof that it has no right toit. A.
Quite the most curious, interesting pages of ibis
French Blue Book are those filled with diplomatic
notes and other documents relating TO the Italian
| Question. A..
The public has already had, in most part, the
reading of their contents, but scattered through Tue
last twelve months issues Of the newspaper press
| a. ~ nd pd N
mediate connection they elevate the peruser TO the
last stages of fabbergastment. The impraetbIify,
the insanity, the imbecility Of the Papal Cabinet,
| here made apparent, are something wonderful.
| That Louis Napoleon has done his utmost 10 pre-,
vent the Italian Unity is proved, and 10 10 itseli
perfectly ineligible. But how the en-Dukes, and
| The Pope, and King Francis, have played into the
| hands Of Cayour and Garibadi, weakening, de-
sroyng all the effect Of NapoleOn's counter efforts,
! ia eously proved and utterly unntelligble. II
ever, here Is the case TO apply the old dictum;
Quos DEUS ruh psrdtre dementdt prius-stark red
| wud mad, from the insane little Duke OF ModeDa,
up, or down, as you choose, TO Kings Pius and
| Francis.
Groups Of passengers gather this week in front OF
the Boulevard printshOp windows, to LOOK at 'lc'
tor Hugo's John BrOrn. II is strange, weird en-
| grnying after high fantastic sketch by that
| nobly ianatical poetical artist. Out from deep
background of muTky gloom projects gallows-tree,
and hanging from il a human form. The only light
that relieves the grim horror falls from Heaven on
this gallows-tree and the head and breast OF the
victim. No feature Of the man, NO single, slightest
other object visible gibbet, martyr, one ray
of Heavens sunlight falling on them, and all The
rest black as Slavery black az he'll. Hugo's legend
| in the original drawing was: Pro Christie, sieu
Chrisfw. don't say that Hugo rightly conceived
the Gaze You published long ago his letter aProPoo
of the John Brown execution. You viii Ind II
your French files his letter 70 the Empero
of this design of his. But that liugos way OF look
ing nj John Brown and American Slavery lie o lnrg'
pnrt Of the European pubic's way Of looking a
those two phenomena, is a fixed fact, cannot b.
disputed. Cotton may be King, but let the Soutl
American branch look TO il that its European sub
ects arr rising in formidable rebellion. The Cotto'
states can Judge, perhaps what rebellion means