Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-01-10
OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENCE.

The full text OF the Presidential Message has APP
peared in The Moniteur and other papers, and the press
and the public occupied in discussing aud approaching
its contents 1t must always be borne in mind however
that American affairs and American sentiments very
little understood ia this country and that whatever ia said
written about them by French people is always Of
very haay description Their knowledge, such s and
indeed their attention Also is almost exclusively confined
to the two questions of cotton and slavery very import
ant no doubt but far from embracing all the vast and
varied interest all Ina workings of and effect
which now ViSrae with such intensity the immense
breadth of the New World Continent French writer's in
general founder through the of Amerc
in hopeless bewderment and rarely cay any thing
such subject worth mentioning The Monitrur, of
pursues discreet etcia silence The Constitu
onne sprear to be chiefly astonshed and scandal zed be-
cause direct notice taken of the proposed scheme OF
French Intervention in American Attire. But, as the
Debats justly observes nasmuch France self allowed
The said scheme to drop and become dead letter.
but Judclous the part Of President Lincoln to do
the The last mentioned ouroal expresses itself
THIS morning IN high terms of cOmmendetion the
of calmness and dignity which prevails throughout every
part oil the document and especially in that portion of it
which relates to foreign policy Ths sentim mt of ami
mostly rancor" the Debats adds is allowed to appear
with respect to the attitude the European Powers have
assumed in return fer the constant neutrality always OBJ
served by American in European affairs The radically
depicted with great force by the Presidents language
and the almost physical impossiby of separation
conaiders to be victoriously established"
The only news from Greece ia the confirmed intelligence
of the cesdon of the Ionan Islands by England. The
country persists ia the choice Of Prince Alfred aud King
Ferdinand OF Portugal as predicted refuses the prof
fered Grown.
Gen. de Lorencez bas returned to Paris from Mexico
and had an audience with the Emperor The ocisl d-s
patches that the troops cent out Mexico arrived
good health after favorable voyage The temperature
cd In la0 aftl fnrIt hao
voys twelve days to perform the distance from Vera Cruz
to Orzaba General operations therefore, had not yet
commenced but brilliant cavalry action had taken place
between troop Of one hundred French chasseurs and
hundred Mexican Red Lancers 10 which the latter are
represented of course rs being defeated.
TIE intended visit Of the Emperor to Baron Rothschd
to which alluded ia my last, off Tuesday with
great eca but under somewhat different circumstances
from what fret intended Only the Emperor went to
the Barons where select party consisting OF Prince Met
ternich AID Prince de la Moskowa Lord Cowl.y M
Fould and Counts Walewsk aud Persany we. 70 invited
to meet and sheet with him His Majesty left the
Tueries at nine O'clock dressed in velvet shooting Jacket
breaches aud gotars for Ferreres the magnificent country
seat OF Baron Roihschd about hour by railway from
Paris six carriages and fours with magnificent
horses were waiting to convey the party to the chateau
in the entrance hall of which the Baroness Rohschd and
her daughters with the representatives of the house
residing at Frankfort Lprdou and ST. Petersbursh re
ceived and welcomed his Majesty The imperial standard
foated from OF the square towers Of the mansion and
superb velvet carpet. glittering with imperial bees
covered the steps OF the noble persye by which the EN-
peror asceBded rcm the courtyard Fereres perhaps
the most prncey property in France belonging to private
individual aDd s estimated to be worth nearly twenty
eight millions Of francs The Baron Roths child has been
accommodating land in thst part Of the country for rey
forty years The dom sin is divided into the Great Park
and the Little Park, ia lhs latter Of which stands the
chateau furnished the most costly style and filed with
chefs doup,e of art Of incacuabe value The Emperor
visited the entire house. descehdng into the spac
XII chens after which he surveyed the beautiful pleasure
grounds and planted cedar tree with his own hand in
commemoration of his visit The company sat down TO
dejeuner in the grand ball OF the chateau where table
laid with the richest plate and set Of Sevres porce.
lsin plated by Boucher of priceless value. After break
fast the gentleman proceeded TO shoot in the Great Park
where thirty rty of the Barons reaners dressed as
fresters waiting 10 beat the woods and raise the
game. The latter only too plentiful and the Empe.
ror, who followed by eight guns placed at his disposal
did great execution, bringing down double shots in rapid
succession ard rsrate style More than twelve hundred
head Of game slaughtered and the sport was only
broken OF by the fast falling hight Of winters day
collation., with music, huntsmau's chorus writ
ten for the occasion by Rossn closed the festivities a er
which his Msrsty retned thanks to his host and hostess
for their splendid hospitality and returned to The railway
station escorted by The keepers of the Barons woods
bearing torches and by vast assembage from the ada
cent village 10 the evening bis Majesty way fa,gued
with his days sport appeared at the Opera Comque in
company with the Empress.