New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-29
tive specimens Of the logic and rhetoYo-et alone tho
geOgraphy and history-Qf La Pa,rik They Eorth

sole surviving French newspaper adyoc ate of tho C. g.
A. indications Of the hopeless depths "a which
that and its late high placed numerous French
party have sunk. don't yield to the temptation Of
quoting the tbreadbare Latin proverb; 1t Is too late
The madness OF enemies seems TO be inflicted on
them after their ruin by the will Of the gods
L. Union, rather dronng but respectable organ Of
poical branch of what is loosely called the Clerical
party without going into the bedlamitic rawlings ef La
Pa,re did try to make its little cerico-conservstive
party pile of political capital out OF the late terrible
Washington tragedy. Its editors set forth ugubrousy
a variation of their own on bungling Commissioner
Ma,ons thesis of necessary result" This murder OF
President Lincoln was natural result Of the excessive
shirt Of democracy and ndividualism running riot in
State without King andwithout lsay Me controlling
Church.
But whatever be the foes of few partisaDs Of the
late c. s. A-and they now few and growing bean
tfnlly less to the public eye at east-or the short
comings Of the Catholic preates Of France its people
have heartily responded to u.s. and it's Governments
officially to ours, with q spontaneous sympathetic
warmth and courteous respect with generous funess
whose should be pitifuy stnted BY narrow
criticism.
The Empress Regent last Sunday received Minister
and Mrs. Bgelow, and, while expressing to them her
feelings respecting our great national calamity, In
formed them that she had written personally to Mrs.
Lincoln. The public announcement Of this, that the
Empress Regent Of France, herself more than once
close menaced with widowhood by political sssassins.
joins with the widow Queen Of England in kind wo-
manly sympathy for her who suffers more pognantly
even than all do in this bereavement has met and
largely satisfied the general humane feeling Of French
men. This utterance from woman's heart to
a womans heart is representative Of our con-
dolence people with you as people.
on this great human calamity. III touches TIC
heart Of Nations. and appeals 10 The domestic ssnm1a Of
mankind" as Disrae said the other night in British
Parliament-the one fttest finest largest word that
has been spoken the great text Of Lincons mar.
tyrdom.
/ come still again to the Catholic demonstration to
remind your readers that the Catholic clergy whether
wrong or right in their silence. do not by represent
the Catholic aymen of France in their sentiments
toward US and our cause Meetings have been held
here within the past three weeks and organization
is now effected and is work in aid Of South
ern blacks new-made frecmen when will We let them be
fIeemen D by the war. Active in these preliminary
meetings were, along with 'Od Friend" our con-
slant, firm, wise, best friend, Edouard Labculsye.
Catholic Montaemlert and Cochin and Protestant
Ed Prepeus6 o. various political and church
in and broad love for humanity.
1t but night add here that the first mover in Paris
for some material assistance be to suffering
freedmen, Mr. Blancourt citizen Of Hayti, long
resident Paris Who if he had taken trip to Charles
before Sumter" would by virtue of his quarter
share OF African blood (of which he boasts have been
1erohartabc ohatte in that civilized city. Seeing his
qualifications lnguist and writer-f that sort Of
qualification ever in demand in those parts-Mon-
seur Blancourt would have sold at very handsome
fguro
Last Sunday the American chapel in the Rue de Berri
was lung with black and resient minister Sutherland
pronounced eloquent biographco euogistic patri-
oc the teesramatic texts of Lincelns sssas
snaiion. can't say briefly better OF it than to state
that il was more Than hour long, and that listener
found it too long.
To-day there ihas been gathering Of Americans
transient and resident in Paris the o. s. Legation.
to present al address drawn up by committee of nine
OF out representative folks" here, TO Minister.
which Mr. Iigciow is TO Forward to the folks home.
Its expression o: emotion provoked in al true american
hearts by the Washington tragedy has met the sp-
prevail OF nearly all of the few Americans in Psris as
tler signatures show The meeting to-day at Mr..
Bigelow's rooms. like the gathered there week
ago to-day interesting enough to us for the opportunity
seube cur feelings TO unison with those Of the millions
Ia the mother counry-and to a few inspired OF US
indulge the national passion of making suggestions
and Offering resolutions and amendments-does not
presen ANYTHING OF interest enough to your thousands
If reader, TO bear transportation on this sheet
| took nv second run this morning through the
umcrous rooms and the spacious garden at the faias
de rIndustrie with the works OF painters scuiptors
and all sorts of designing geniuses now on exhibition
the SAILOR of leo Ny first and constant grateiui ana
impressive emotion is that critical report OF 1t does not
belong to your Paris Correspondents functions. =
Folks fond of statistics may be gratfed TO know that
there ii3 square feet of wall covered with ARAB
pictures ON wood and canvas, mostly, as Didsbury
.eys Of various sizes; that third OF them bad
third pleasing" third good. third lacking BREADTH
third defective in drawing third not perfect In col
oring; that good many Of them marked by the
usual characteristics Of their artist; that good many
Of them show progress; that for good many Of them
We would advise the artist TO take advice that in
respect OF quite number of them we venture 70 say;
that In the landscapes the conventional trees but
no, by Apollo in France at least, this conventional
about conventional trees is played out Why
cant rid ourselves of It'll Look only at Corot's
poems Of nature canvas and then at DAubigny and
Rousseau and Bin, and the lesser faithful worshpers
and reproducers OF Nature with her various types Of
oaks and willows and eln and all the fauna OF France
ind infinite truthful variety OF sky aud light and shade
Who is ready TO explain why the French. In art
should be much truly realistic than the positive
English ] make no comparison with the incompatible
artists of onr famed land and haste TO catalogue tho
few work. OF American artists exposed In the Salon
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