New-York daily tribune., 1861-08-11

tually decided upon, and Will he annouh eo AT VIC %
favorable opI o-tunity Furthermore, M. Mcnlnoion,
French ConfnLGene at .New-York, will send
Charge d'Afiaires or Minister to represent ffahoe
'near President jefferson Dayis.'
Which triple statement merits several brei com,
ments. The writer information on either day uu
not proceed from pure French ofhclal sources
that is patents; did flow, on condition 1t was ho. VI
pure original invention through Southsde chahneis,
with natural mixing of muddy exaggeraiion Ina,
the e. S. A. will have ss Independence recognizes
on the first tarordtie oPporn,sty Is for The res',
iudisputably true-no uttcrance of inspired Deipmc
oracle truer. The rub is the I" "taroroue opPoTiun-
ill.," NJ. Montholon, who was for years the french
Copsul. General at New-YOrk, who has been here I'D
Paris for the past sir months, seeking Dettei
place, who has been superseded lately by Monsieur
T., Just appointed to ill his, is stl here nat
is the unquestionable grain of truth IN the ABOVE
statement The inference, that he Is tue M
ninebt Charge d'AtfaIres or Minister - near Tie
Court OF JEFF. Davis, is simply ingenious,
Illogical abduction from his vacated premises 'he
NeW.York Consulate. In the first place, 1t is hot
Likely that Napoleon would 60 out oi hls wa! W
offend the United States by appointing us ms rePIe
sentative 10 the &. S. A. a man who LAD Deeh iol
wears tie French representative to tht onioh NJ
la1te generally. and 10 the Northern paIi oi ~ Pai
ticularly In the second place, 1t Is not Lke! tlu'
NJ Montholon (althOuGh his excellent lady ls NH-
come back TO France wearied with hs long eAiie Ill
the best part of our late country, TO seek new
e,Ie in the less-trequented aud cIyllzed parts oi
the same. But, thirdly, if this paragraph from its
Partisan correspondent had appeared III ine L0hao"
Morning Chronicle year ago, II might nave AHa q
sl,b semi i-qiicial significance. III lEOse da!f, 'ha'
pauer and its Paris correspondent were Sa'te"-
tontd by the French Coy trninen', ana nois VI pes
inspirtd ditto. Since then, the relations between
the two have been ruptured utterly The then
Partisan reporter for that PAPER certainly, the pro-
prieiors of that sheet probably, would prefer that
fbe causes and occasions OF that utter rupture
be not laid out in eItcnS0 even III The columns vi d
distant New-York journal. l only refer to this
scandal now TO say that Tie London Morning ChToR-
icie Of to-day whether speaking Dy hs ediioLs or lis
coresooudents is mere likely not to reveal the plr-
pos, Of Louis NaIOlcOns cabinet thah any o'ner
European journal eXtant.
b fore leaving American themes entirely, peg 10
cor Get an error into which your comrostor was
led some weeks ago. doubtless by my scanGallu'iy-
bad Lapd Of write. He " set up the inai sentence
of your correspondents letter dated, L thhlh,
Paris, June u, as if / had written MI L au!h-
ner is sound" Now, l never thought. sad, or
meant TO write that that wcl-meaning ience-idlng,
Diplomatic gentleman was " sound" l do not did
not. never shall think that be was patrotcaliy or
even automatically sound" But justsce forbade
that should cay that be had the independent orce
10 he vigorously treacheIous. Therefore believed,
and made, pcn scratches at the close of that letter
that were meant to signify, as the only possible ex-
planaton OF our late Minister'S course, That he Was
- scared"
must also note that the Fulton, that took ont
NJ. Faulkner oarIied also the explanatory dr.; y ngs
for new kind Of gun invented by Mr.. Chas j..
Fleischmann, SO long known in America and Europe
by his connection with, and valuable reports 10, Tie
Chief of our Patent Office. American exhibitors
will not have forgotten the grath ing results ol MS
intelligent jealous and successful advocacy Of their
Il inns TO lions share OF the prIzts awarded by the
.Jury OF the International Industrial Far held nj
PARIS in 1885. Mr. Fieischnann'f waiiiAe Invention
is hey, nd doubt d novelty TO the public although II
has been ripeng in his mnnd TO its present devcl-
olment these past three years. Ii has been sub
ntled 10 one of the first artillery ohiccrs III TIE
French service, aud met with his warm approval,
as highly ingenious in theory and iull OF practical
plonlse As IN instrument Of war, 1t " his n
- place between rfed muskct and canIon.
The proeoiile oonbines the destructive powero OF
ball and rocket. The prCectile is sent further
than a Mimic rife ball, from disch1rging instru-
meut so light that two may be transported by aud
DISCHARGED from n hone, with all the deonraey ~
am, of q rilied cannon. The radical yet rah0nai
noyety of this new instrument Of war coIslsts 10
auplyIng the principle of riilng inlerfely That IL,
lie rocket-bonb or ball is itself rhed iutenory. II
is sci ged ortT n rfed rod us the bail OF Mime
gun is discharged through q nhed cylinder. lhe
purl osed aud probable result, then, wiz he, tha'
t,vo roo ket.boubs or grenade shhs With their red
hot jgniting and explosive qualities, can bc sent as
fast and as accurately as rifle ball, as tar as n
cam on ball. and III numberless cases more rapidly
and effectively than proectiles irou either OF those
two arms.
must pass the 'commotion raised here by the
recent discussion in the English House OF Commons,
of the probability Of Sardinia being annexed 10
France Lord John RusselPsspeechtO to Buncompe on
the OCCASION has rritated the French and set item
10 thinking more than ever OF the possibility and ad
yantaqes OF such annexation. La Patrie newspaper
has received d eommunigut from Government saying
that tie Patries talk, favorable to annexation Of
Sardinia WAS IN no sense whatever seull-Oficlnl
utterapce But the Constitutional came out next
day. denyng indeed that France had the remOtest
purpose of anHexng SardInia, but declaring with
marked significance that 1t was not threats from
England that could prevent France from prosecuting
any purpose. Meantime the English Parliamentary
debate has revived attention TO the subject: aud the
future possible annexation OF Sardinia 10 France as
n compensation for French aid in annexng Rome
and Veneta to the kingdom of Italy, seems TO be on
tie way to popularized, natlonalized, manifest
French destiny,
The new loan, for it amounts to that, that took
the name of Trentennial Bonds, to the amount Of
1872 OOO coo francs, las been taken by popular en-
thusasm. The sum called for was nomnally 132,
0OO GO francs. The bonds were issued nornlnaly
at 44O francs really (aking into account facilities
granted for payment and ante-dated starting point
from which interest was TO be couned) 432 francs,
II centimes they are to be reimbursed at the end
of thirty-one years, at 800 francs. They offered
then somewhat better investment than the Gov
ernment per cents at their present quotations.
The public, especially the little public, have grown
precious shy OF late Of what, few years ago. they
were passonatey fond OF, speculative investment in