The New York herald., 1866-04-28

pler ana WAREHOUSE 6Cuemo. InoU eCOnOmy
is great deal like that of the corner loafer
who refuses to buy decent clothing in order
that he may spend all his money for gin and
tobacco.
The Great Game OF European Recon-
observation-disclosures versus War.
Count Bosmark last summer spent q number
of days with the Emperor Napoleon at Biarritz.
The ruler of France and the first man in the
kingdom of Prussia did not meet to exchange
the common-places of elegant civility or to dis
cuss the trivialities of polite life. They dis
cussed the map Of Europe. They went over it
thoroughly and settled and determined upon
definite plan for the Encouragement Of every
continental frontier. That conference was the
real starting point Of the grand game that Bis
mark is now playing in Germany. Every
point of the game was either suggested to the
audacious Minister by the deepest strategist in
diplomacy that Europe has seen for centuries,
or, from whatever side suggested, it was fully
examined between the two. At the same time
the Emperor Of France had some cause for un-
easiness in the situation on this side the Allan
tiCs 4IC ACUCAAAOh Woo PkOouA0tC5 UnO SACoS
insurrection that had neutralized the power Of
the United States, that had made the French
expedition to Mexico safe, existed no longer;
Lee had surrendered in April, and any steamer
might have carried the news that our armies
were being concentrated on the Rio Grande.
If his Mexican expedition had induced such
result as complication with the United States
it would have tied the Emperor's hands
at most unfortunate time-at the
very time when he wanted them free for
a larger game. Accordingly the Emperor
was exceedingly uneasy at that time in relation
to these questions of Mexico and the United
States; impatient at the slowness Of Maxi
milan; but complaisant, gracious and ever
ready to make promises at Washington If the
United States could be kept still in that way.
In the end of that same summer, in August Or
in the early days of September, the Emperor
Napoleon had personal conference with King
Victor Emanuel, near the Italian frontier; and
as the results of the conversations at Biarritz
are seen now in Prussia, SO the results of this
second conference are seen in Italy. Both ma
tions are arming, and France, looking on
quietly, waits to do what it has been said in
the Emperor's suite she would some day do
"get Belgium and the Rhine without firing
shot"
France will have the Rhine for her frontier.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of France at the expense OF
any one is the grand object and purpose of the
present Napoleon, as of the first, only the pre-
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very different from those that best pleased his
uncle. The manner of the present Emperor's
pursuit of the grand object illustrates happily
the difference between the two ways. The
first Napoleon would have depended almost
solely on war-on hard, magnificent fighting.
But Napoleon III. perceives that France can
not fight the power that would be united
against him on this issue, and he combines
diplomacy and war. He combines them
in remarkable manner. Exactly what
changes have been made in the plan
since Bismark became part Of it is not yet
known. Before that it was tolerably clear.
Mexico was the corner stone. The connection
between Mexico and the Rhine country is not
at first obvious; nevertheless the expedition to
Mexico was the very basis Of an arrangement
whose ultimate object was to give to France
the coveted country. The fighting part of the
programme was to be done in Mexico. A
splendid transatlantic empire was to have
been built up with Hapsburg on the throne
This Hapsburg is childless. This splendid EN-
| pire, with throne guaranteed by France, wat
then to be set in the balance against Belgium
and the rickety, dangerous Belgian throne
and the succession to Maximilian's empire wa
10 be given to the Belgian heir. Then upon the
| death of Leopold the consolidation of Belgium
with France would have taken place. Prussia
consent was to have been purchased by thu
Elbe duchies, Austria's by the Danubian prin
| cipalites, and the German people were TO b,
| soothed by the gift of universal suffrage, jus
as Bismark lately proposed it. The dificultie
| and want of success in Mexico have mad
material changes necessary, and these wer
arranged ut Biarritz. In its main EuropeaI
features the great diplomatic campaign goes OF
very well yet, and If the present Emperor ha
to fight at all for it he will not fight as the othe
did--onc against all Europe; but he will flgh
with three or four allies against the one refrac
tory Power that threatens to break up the plan
Just now II looks rs II this would be Austria
That Power, seeing Russia and Turkey in tn,
way-not seeing the acquisition Of the princi
| palities very clearly, holds too tenaciously I,
the Elbe duchies, and she may have to be con
vinced Of the excellence Of the plan by tn
united power Of Prussia, Italy and France.
The position of England presents a notabl
evidence of the superiority Of the present En-
perors method over the method Of the irs
Emperor. Diplomacy puts out Of the question
Power that war could never deal with. Wit
England aside the first Napoleon believed tha
he could beat combined Europe; consequent
he was always desirous to avoid collision wit
England and to cultivate her friendship. Bu