New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-04
FRANCE.
From Our Own Correspondent.


cusion Of the armistice. That ends tomorrow
at shutdown. 1t is probable that the Emperor
has advised Francis II. to relinquish his obstinate
defense of Gaeta; the advice not being taken,
the Emperor leaves him to the care of the Pied
montese General, Cialdini and the PiedmOntese
Admiral by sea. There are indications of good
understanding between Napoleon and Emanpels
manager, Cavour. Neither OF them wishes for
war at present. To prevent Garibaldi from pre-
cipitatiDg matters, his friend, the Hungarian
Tirr who is also on good terms with Cavour and
King Victor, has gone 10 Caprern Oh mission
from them. Cayour believes that circumstances
will force Austria to yield up Venetia peacefully
If not, that time will be steadily weakening her
aud strengthening Italy for war. To distract
Garibaldis attention, from the French in Rome
and the Austrians in Venice, be is to be urged
to undertake campaign against the Francisesns
in the Abruzz who as yet defy the efforts at their
defeat of the Sandman General and his regular
troops. Ii is strange, but true that the European
crowned heads are so largely dependent on felt
hatted Joseph OF Cnprera for the decision OF the
great question, Peace or War, i'll the Spring. II
Joseph of Caprra Will put off bis expedition to the
Dumatian or other Adriatic coast, then is war put
of Unauthorized ruInOr says that the French ships
released from Gacta are to cruise in the Adriatlc.
1t is not unlikely that Napoleon may have
given up Francis on condition that Victor
should give up Garibaldi. If war does break
out between Austria and Italy Napoleon will
not interfere. long the war Is confined
to those two parties. But the chance is that after
very bret confinement Of that sort this war VIII
beget larger one France, like oil other European
Tor hon
ever Italy il in sore need Of the military aid Of
France it is like TO have it. For One last three or
four DAYS the prospect of war seems less near than
il did ten DAYS ago. Ten days hence it may close
immediately up to the public mind again. ROuland,
the Minister Of Instruction, at the annual dlstribu-
ton OF prizes last Sunday, To the most deserving
pupils OF the Philotechnque aud Polytechnique Asso-
catOnS 1.-TWO admirable institutions for the gratui-
tOus education in high sort OF adult Parslan me-
chanics and others, which mus. be further spoken
of one of these days in this correspondence), added
10 his appropriate discourse to the pupils political
paragraph to the public. The purpose OF this para
graph is to persuade the public that Government
viii strive TO preserve peace among the nations, aud
peditates no encr0achment on the rights OF the
Church. IL has small feet 10 quiet the anxiety or
damp the partisan zeal of the UlramOntane party,
which were never more excited than now. Francis
H. is really the standard-bearcr of this political
church militant. The members are wOiully worked
up by NapOleOn's desertiOn Of him.
The Senate will meet next Tuesday TO deliber-
ateC) on the measure Of Constitutional reform
recommended in the Imperial decree of Nov. "a.
The object of the SoRatus cOnsHitum therein pro-
posed, is, you will recollect to grant official publc
Is to full reports Of the doings Of the Senate and
legislative body. After the special session Of tie
senate both il and the Legislature (sO-called) are
conyoLed for the 4th Of February TOR their yearly
session. To the Empcrors inaugural speech on that
occasion and 10 the responsive address OF the legs
latiye body aud the debates upon 1t, we are looking
with great interest. Many hope, some 20 SO .@r "a
to confidently expect to bud IN them the beginnings
of u parliamentary constitutional regime. 1t has
long been rumored and rs getting TO be confidently
expected that Napoleon will invite the Assembly, at
least give it the opportunity to share with him the
responsibility of his treatment OF the Roman and
Syrian questions.
Qui riroa renG. Let US charge the theme, Here
il slw!ys tIe i-:..!"i Gre Of the weather which is
not q commonplace, for the weather has been highly
uncommon for year past. Ii has, ms much Us any
top-lotiest Great European Power, TO do with poll
ties and finance, let alone smaller grave matters.
Western Europe's short crops and American full
crops and the ilow of European gold TO the loosely
United States, all came Of last years weather.
Late foundations of Spanish rivers largely runOus
TO property; rains and deep mud rctarding bcsieg-
ing works against Gafta; terrible inundatiOns and
cold drowning and fleeing hundreds of poor HOl-
audcrs, washed out of house and home oil these are
weather dOings. Here in France. too. we have
had inuudations OF II somewhat serious sort In the
up-ryer part of Paris, what used to be Bercy, the
Seine ran along the streets, where boats took the
office Of carriages That was ten days ago Since
then the river has sunk than ten feet. II had
not been high since l-O2. " Est ellie h6sreuse, La
Seine ~ exclaimed Diane de Poitiers who was late
riser, when some one told that beautiful improper
female that the river did leave its bed once in ten
years.
Weather, regarded from a French point of
view" would be fruitful theme for good study Of
Paris manners and customs. For they do these
weather things so differently Il do not say better
patriotism forbid y in France. Amer the snow and
rain, we have had cold Of latc unusual in Intensity
although, | think, Ia degrees above zero, Fab
renheit marks the lowest temperature. 1t has been
more unusual by continuance. ii has brought out
into the streets quite crop Of timd beggars bursting
the strict police ordinance against mendicity. Ii
has sOltched the hearts Of policemen, who, under
pretense of mulng themselves against its severity
pull down their caps and pull up their coat collars
over their eyes If it is filling the magazines of the
Mont de Pete with poor household stuff Just when
ii is not needed at home, II is sending good men
and women Ia comfort the destitute. How warm
and active in this bcnumbing cold is Paris charity
you may partly learn from Jules Lecomte's book,
- La Charlie Paris "-in this frivolous heartless
Paris there is deal of it, practical and unoscnta-
tious. Very delicate ow-necked, lace-wcarng, high
fashionable ladies' who pass their evenings in gilded
saloons, and in boxes of the dress circle, are busy
of morning climbing dirty stairs TO bare garnet |
rooms, or going down to the pits of poverty Those
good Christians, of the Jewish persuasion, the |
Rothschilds and the Pereires give handsomely of |
their substance TO the less fortunate in |
these hard times But 1 was speaking of |
the police. Suppose you are in the non-French |