New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-24

pOlDImeDt, or your correspondent SEND the due
| rnittance, or the restaurant waiter bring within
the usual half-hour the ordered soup he will come,
| seEd bring with his camols," or be ia directly
eritheted as camel. The coming OF the canels is
assimilated TO the coming of the good time or the
thiry-frst of April, or Christmas IN the abstract
| or the fulGIment vi any other proverblal limbo
| date.
To this now popular French tune Of - The Cam
els are Coming" might be set the departure OF Bar
bier lie Tinnn and the French fleet from before
| Gaeta, and The departure of the King follow
ing thereafter as an encore, and the movement of
the Ausrians from Venetia, 10 say nothing Of the
departure of the French from Syria. II the words
went with the music, OF II these parties would Ia
the places in question with their absence, and
really go Mt al, the Rogues March might be filter
air to their movement. AS for the French IN SYRIA,
however, if we are 10 believe but half OF what
French correspondents write from there, humanity
would to require that despite foreign policy,
they should proloug their ssay. The Marontes a~e
| Undoubtedly very poor, and the D8mascene Greeks
and Syrian Catholics, for the most part not eX-
enpaiy good Christians but that is 10 reason for
their being oppressed and slaughteredby bad Muasul
mans, as there is sore chance they would be, so
soon as these could give vent TO the accommodating
wrath which the armed GiaOurs have intensified by
temporary suppression.
The last ruIuor about the Gaeta business is that
Napoleon has proposed 10 Victor Emanuel and
Francis I'm annistice that shall last till the Goth
Of this month If the proposition be accepted,
then he vii Immediately withdraw oil but vessel
OF Eis fleets and if after negotiations Francis does
Lot choose TO go aboard this remaining vessel, then
on the 2Gth inst. he will Withdraw that. What
truthful basis there may be for this rumor, | know
as little as the rest of the newspaper and oral Cos
sips Mo circulate il, and discuss it as Of the
most important, if true pieces Of news of the day.
Hardly any one retains any hope that Austria
VIII consent 10 70 much as negotiate tor tbe sale OF
Verrtia. Nnpoleon's seemingly yocillating aud
engmatical late policy in Italian affairs leads many
to guess at the explanation OF his returning with
ncw hoye Of fulment TO bis old fayorite scheme of
an Italian Confederation: Francis TO be restored
with Constitution; the Pope to hold what he has
inVOsssssOn, and 10 be nominal Suzcrain Of his lost
provinces; the Duke Of Tuscany to be restored;
Victor Emanuel TO hold the kingdom of all Northern
Italy, which is TO be rounded ont by the accession
Of Nenetn. A very pretty scheme on newspaper
ard even on diplomatic note paper, and enough
talked of in these last few days by the pensye 10
gain night of record nom your Paris reporter The
only Obstacles TO lis practical execution are, in the
main, tho passion, pride, policy prejudice, and
principles OF Pope Plus, Francis Joseph, Victor
Emanuel, Joserh Garibaldi, Count CayOur, Joseph
MazziEl, and their respective folOwers--to which
may be ADDED as details, human nature generally,
and the drift Of cOtemToray history.
So for os my limited means of learning what the
state ofpublic opinion really is permit me to judge
/ shoud ray that IL ic..'cncy since New Years
Day inCiiH6S toward the probability OF war in the
Spring. A month ago it was evidently inclining in
the other direction, which was in turn vibration
iron lie contrary tendency Of mems minds two
months ago. OF the EmPeror's reply on New
Years Day to Lord GOwlry's complimentary ad-
drtss, they say: II be really has confidence in peace
Why did he not give some more definite reason for it
than the ." ircusly understanding" of n set of
powers, who are not agreed upon anything
Wien particulars are mentioned generals are ex-
certcd. But this indefinite little speech served as
text. among numbcrlcss other commentaries, 10
revived discourse about European Congress, as |
nentiOn.d IN my last. how, few days after its
delivery, the Constitutional came out in brief
article the fourth and last of It's chief editor the
kustIo-VeGetian branch Ofthe European question.
The three preceding articles were, on the whole
decidedly antAustrlan and amblguOusly pro-lallan.
They created as is the usual silly case with the
ouiduuhc portion of the Pensye public and the un-
con,cicntiUus guild Of foreign correspondents, Of
which TN an unworthy member, mHch more at.
tnticn than they ntriusIcally mcrited, because Of
their appearance in She degraded columns st the So
called srEl-cfiicial PRINT The last of them closed
with solemn indication of Grandguillot the writer,
Il al in the next he should CRAFTY the anxious pub
lie with Lis solution. The fourth article was delayed
Ike the camels. AT last, on Saturday morning, il
was youchsatcd TO us briefly. The sum VI its lame
and mrot,ut solution is mixture OF which these
mo the muddy elements: Napoleon made the
peace of Villafranca because Austria was too
strong tOI him 10 carry on the war, because En-
rope was rising 10 join her on one side, and which
- was verse, revolution was rising to JON him Oh
the ether; because France was impericctly pre-
pared for lorg war, and because he decided That
It's prolongation would result, through revolution
ary iusurrection in the downfall OF the House of
{" Inpsbuig and consequent upsetting OF the famous
balance Of power in Europe Consequential am
preserving cOnscicntousy all the force and csarness
Of the semi-oiIicial's argumen), Napoleon now de-
sres as he always to do eyery thing for Austria and
everything for Italy To get this done, Austria must
rart with Venetia, but she cannot BE- expected to
sell ycnctia; Italy must have Venetia but she must
not do ANYTHING 10 obtain it. Nobody must do any
thing, for anything in the present coDlunc;src OF
affairs would be terribly injurious 20 everybody
Still something must be done--hor, We, GTandguil-
lot, do not presume TO guess, therefore, there ought
to be Congress to do The impossible.
This is the third time within fourteen months that
the Constitutional has come out strong for Con-
gees But Congresses do not make solutions; they
only TX up aud label them when made say all
historical readers ard thoughtful men. Aud how,
Sin tie name of heaven and the other place, are
YOU TO compose your Congress Is Victor Emanuel
10 sit in il BY TIE side of i. Joseph Il unsettled
Francis Of Gaeta 10 have whole chair for his rep
reseniatye between them! Will there be room
about the green table when the destinies of States
are TO be played for for the diplomatic protector of
the scarlet improper female of Babylon, seated on
her seven hills Gas though ane weren't enow for
her auld hurdles as the schismatic scotchman eX-
claims, with economical sneer). No; lsansgulllot's
impossible pretended solution is mere muddy
sinking up OF the confused elements.
Tie gloomy appreciation OF the actual political