New-York daily tribune., 1861-05-12
FRANCE.
rnm Our Own Correspondents.

very date hXed by the Cph'eh"Vp vi w :,
Sueh, at least, we are now told ID 10 Oo '"o
yu,pose of the French Government very 10"
nsople think. beloved fortnight ago that the
,tnnlations of the solemn convention were 10 De
no strictly observed. But it is not only the rarity
of such oblergance that eXcites attention IN tue
present case. No act of NapOleOn's foreign pol
icy was ever so generally popular as this occuPa-
zion Of Syria; it was in accordance with the old
traditions of French Oriental policy, with reig-
;ous sentiments of the Catholic party, with the far
human sympathes of all Frenchmen. Within the
tTrsent month q petition 10 the Senate has Oeeh
numerously signed, the object OF which is 10 OBTAIN
ns advocacy OF prOOngatlOn OF tnls occupation
until the safety Of the Syrian Christians ne pef!na-
nently assured-that is, an indefinite pfOiohBauoi,
The committee OF the authors ana pIOmo~is oI
This petition counts among It's members Roman
and Protestant cleIgymen, Jews, NOltaIreans, VI
leaniets, legtnists republicans, NapOleVnlsts, ana
has the Cardinal Archbishop of Pans Tor honorary
president Whether it be or be not true
chat simple humanity no longer demands the pres
ence OF the French troops Ill Syna; that the aVoilte
Government of Lord PalmerstOn and Banker Mnes
has given proofs 20 the diplomats that still oc-
cult to the vulgar of it's will and ability henceiorth
TO protect its Christian subjects; that Napoleon
withdraws his military protection only ON condition
that England guarantee that Will aud aolllty-tms
Is certain, that the clerical party and ts plebaid
auxilaries in France will make out OF tins with
drawal political capital for the carrying on OF Their
Opposition concern. Here, they Will say, is Tor,
sakng of our traditional prOt6g6s-tradiuon handed
down from the old Cusaders-Oio our cO-rehgomsts,
of our high French chyalric speciality OF protecting
the feeble against the strong "for the sake oi al
idea;" and all this at the demand OF our heredlary
Protestant, nOn-chiyalric enemies, the Enghsh
But if such are among the certain consequences
of this withdrawal they certainly none the less
clear to NapOleOns tOrecastIng eye than 70 the VS.
ION Of the vulgar speculatOr on French poLucs'
Aud yet be means to keep hls word, ana ~lthdraW
has troops without special protests All, II he only
means now to find not 10 say make, in the very
force of this protest his justification for adlourmng
the withdrawal, after all Possible. Or H. rather,
he accepts the little disadvantage OF adding TO the
small capital of the opposition concern OF Cierc0s,
Legimists DOctrnaires, Il Cis., for the sake oil his
English cOpaTtnership! For notice that III the
heartiness the entente cOrdtate of this Eng
hsh alliance there Is an intermittent diasioio
and systOle irregular as 10 periods, bnt ac-
cOrdant with a general law Of the great Euro
pean body polite of which France assumes, not
altogether without reason, TO be the heart ana
head Russia has been always in favor of Occupa-
fion, England always opposed to it. The rumors OF
the last six months rumOring FrancO-Russan AM
ance had some foundation of likelihood, In the EVIL
dent courtesy Tegning between the two Govern
mcnts, in the exchange of Imperial autographs and
the sending of " four horses of the Orion breed
from the stables of the Gar TO the stables IN the
Rue de MOntagne-and some deeper foundation ia
The nature Of European political things.
Let me here parenthetcaly step out OF my re-
perters Office to restate my unvarymg opinion, as an
observer for the last ten years, that the Anglo
French alliance rests on much sOllder fOundauOhs
than mere diplomatic arrangement-on the essen
ta material and political interests OF It's two part
ners the semi-annua variation from cold to cordial
m uhoa T.ao do uof n threaten
luton, to which Louis Napoleon ID as much opposed
rs MIR. Golden.
But (please excuse and note the italics) the
French national sympathy with Russia winch was
only interrupted not turued to hate by the Crmean
- war aud warmed almost to enthusiasm py the
D present Cars seeming hberalty in promoting the
emancipation of the serfs, has given way under the
impression of the barbarisn of his agents IN Poand
II not 10 an antipathy to sentiment OF indignation
90 deep and general as TO deserve the name OF ma
tOnal IN the trueSt and to the bOuor OF the French
people be it said, best sense of the word
e ''The Englishman loves liberty for HIMSELF the
Frenehmen love Liberty for herself" Ny friend
POupard whose house was torn down last year by
the law of appropriation for destroying and embel-
FISHING Paris without regard to expense, whose
daughters broheT-in-law was utterly ruined mate
rally and If il had not been for an iron cOnstitu-
tion would have died in Algeria in the first year Of
his exile there after the coup d etat-Poupard, his
daughters husband, brother and all, are more
moved in favor Of the Polish men and women who
forbidden by the paternal Car to wear the signs
of mourning for their fathers, brothers, husbands,
children-shOt down defenseess in the streets OF
Warsaw-than any next three liberal English voters
you will find in Manchester Ii is no time now TO
propagate the approval Ofa Franco-RUssian alliance
To any thinking man over thirty years old who
has read, don't say works of general history, but
the newspapers of the past twelve years. it ought to
be evident by this time that lS4S was not a total
failure" and that 1S60-6l is but its assumptions
doing promising business now under the sign OF
NATIONALITY.
Under this sign Poland resumes business in the
same line as Italy. In hoe SigRO riRces cries al
liberal France, and nearly all Catholic France now.
There must be no alliance Of France with the brutal
executioner with the than brutal, the moral
forturer of the Polish men and women demanding
their nationality. And here respectable conserva-
tives are begged to grant moments attention to
the fact that 1t is Russia the regular conservative
government who 10 10 this case the revolutionary
agent The unarmed people Of Warsaw have been
shot down for asking for the fulflment-nay, for
praying for those who lost their lives because they
asked for the falflment--of promise soemny as
sured 10 them in the toO-celebrated Congress Of
Vienna of 1916: "The Poles, subjects of Russia,
Austra and Prussia respectively shall obtain insti
"tEi0Hs saoh as seM assure the preservation Of their
nationality" To respectfully petition the Liberal
Gar Alexander forty.fve years after date for the
partial fuflllment Of this bond TO pray for those
who were killed for 50 petitoning, TO wear mourn
ing for those who killed for praying for the ne
pose of the souls Of those who were 20 killed
this is revolution; 10 kl them, to send the mourn
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