New-York tribune., 1866-12-25


MIND-THB EMPRESS BUGBSIEs CONTEMPLATED
VISIT TO THE PoPE--THB EVACUATION OF ROME
ITEMS.
from Our Special Correspondent.
PANS Dec T. 1866
"Verily, this Mexican business is mudde:' SO read
in a recent TRIBUNE editorial Yea, verify, more OF a
muddle to us here than to you there. President
Johnsons Message, which looked for with great in
torest and some anxiety does not clear the muddlea
least not the report OF hat document suocnct for speed
that has reached by cabegaph. There is fatality Of
mudde and bunge in the French management Of the bu
ness The call Of the public who can't believe that Gov
ernment is more ignorant than any else about u
grew so qucruous and loud that Monday the u0neur
broke silence to give Mexican latest up to Novem-
Der frL The reading Of which went no way at all to
toothe public impatience. Meanwhile, rumorIg, con
Ieotu1lng exaggeratsn went the part Of the public
and the semi-oical sOcaled) newspapers further un
folded with explanations that darken knowledge every
branch and detail of the subject-tho events ccung IN
Mexico The famous cipher dispatches from Washington
the views TO be expressed in Mr. JOhnsOus message &c
Weil-nfomed Paris correspondents Of foreign papers
told their readers of Minister Bgeows interview with
the Emperor at COmp6gnc and blotted their pages Wllh
apped-up leakagos of what said az that Interview
Wkick took place Mr.. Bigelow has not been TO
CompeSne this year guess ms last meetIg WIN lAg
Emperor was at ST. Cloud weeks ago. What passed
at that meeting don't happen TO knoV-gentemeu OF INC
press whether owing TO accidental oversight OF lntcn
toua neglect not having boen invited 70 It, can, how
ever confidently state that the American Minister on that
occasion took of his hat and refraned from splitting on
the Palace carpet and guilty OF other such subsey
ieneies" The intolerance toward gentlemen q INC
press has prevented your correspondent from reading at
his leisure the famous dispatches in cipher.
Public impaence being rather iuitatcd than qmeted by
the cold scraps OF retrospective news served 70 " on hoh
day by the Hoaieur the managing e9ltoT OF Aat eAoi
pzng sheet picks Wednesday Of all days 70 thOW Out 20
The whale that bad haa-dozen prophets OF ey gnaWng
81 its yearnng entrils, three Of the most bungllgy
ooopered tubs Of notes that ever bobbed on troubled sea-
flua ted
Sherdans reported disapproya Of SedgTleks reported
purpose Of taking possession OF Matamoos One reiterated
The news that trustworthy news had been received
from Mexico OF later date than November But me one
of the trio most remarked follows Orders have
been gwen in our military naval ports 70 prepare every
thing ucodfu for the bringing baek 10 ths country Vi Lo
French troops now in Mexico" side by side with TINS
appeared all the Paris journals Of the same gay the
brief elegTammatc analysis of President JohnsoDs Mes
sage Of wbje the chiefly observed passage ran thus:
"Franee hannouuced It's purpose Of deferng u Spring
the departure OF its troops from Mexico The Government
limited States has addressed to France observations
ON this point and hopes that they will be taken into con-
side1aon-hopes that France VIII so far as possible abide
BY Its actual engagements ana IN thaI way meet Ue
reasonable expectations Of America -
The FRENCH Qe chsregtenstie3uy witty folk inc
Characteristic element Of wlt to catch az resenDaAces
and the points Of contact and dependence between more
OF less remotely related things. Aud So the hTst impress
siOn which the reading of the two just quoted paragraphs
left on the minds OF all French readers vas The onca
Roaitear note is apoeeetc comment and humble re-
sponse the sub-mnstOTy passage Of the fTeslqents
Message. The malicious have exploited Oh the simple
this FIRST blush Interpretation Of such eoOcahon-ther
mischeYOus delight being enhanced by the truly hugl
ably anxious efforts that advocates, semi land essl ON
cia Of Government make 10 elaboratey demonstrate that
the unlucky noteso unucky by us GATE OF PuueauoI-
was in no way bullied out OF tins Government by he
vailed menace of ours, but IS merely The Ieannounceen
TO an impatient public Of preparations which have been
going on this past two months end have been frequently
spoken Of in the newspapers. As to the iact the semi
and less official explanations coect but the enec OF
them is rather 10 underscOro and mpcae with yet more
Tdicule the bunge Of the MOHteurs managing edoT-to
make yet more apparent this last little instance OF tAat
fatality Of mscaculatiol and naputude-of thoug1uess
hasty, momentanly mpToWsed, lmPoYldolt e4Peuieu's
of which all the various contradictory stages Of TINS nope
less Mexican impoey for the last four OF hye yeais-co1
slant IN this respect only constantly beaT the naIks
OF all NapOeOn's late misOrtunes now coming nome 10
roost this ll-ha,ched Mexican bird is OF eyiest onen
evil continually. Starting hawked-eyed, cage-ciaWea
loud.yoiced Gac chanticeer cOxcOmbed with fantastic
hOpe; returning with ambiguous flap and hutter, dar ecd-
tailed cowed pOmpess-nOt beaten merely IN fan light
with equals not disgraccd merolybut dlsgracousy
iaughabe-a ca9ard turned goosc-a moubuId goose
that never laid golden eggs only gave eacEls promises
Most lehal 10 a French Rulers prestige IS the AoP oi
funny death angels goose wing.
Gen Dix Is arrived n Europe, and Is aIeauy le SUD
ject Of biographical and speculative aTecs 70 senols
Journalists One Of these written by Clement Duyenois
u.s. like most articles Of bis writing Ike al articles Oi hs
relating any way 10 the United states OF 70 McIico
worth reading He has sudiously visited both countries
and applied superior intelligence 10 their study, eunu-
latng thought and reading With personal observation
The French Government to-day woud be in curiousy
dercBt and better position than II is had IT taken warn
ing from certain OF his articles on the Mexican question:
,
were printed Not partisan Of throughout our civil
war but all the stronger advOcateof ogr cause because
ne was and s like all the strongest Of our friends here
the constant advocate Of the general, common hlna
liberal cause free from pifu pejudces OF clique and
marty he is for these and other able 10 Wte
with a certain authority the following paragIah az the
close Of his article on Gen. Dix Charged with the
representaiOn Paris Of the great republic during long
md difcnt perOd called 10 prosecute very delicate
negotiations with France Mr. BigelOw has known how "a
fulfill bis duty toward this country and the pIncples il
represents in tie world without forgetting that whatever
No Of
France herself the French people preserved deep attach
meut 10 the country Of Washington and Ilncon auo
Grant This II is that has enabled him to conduct "h
equal moderation and tact the negotiations whose Ies
is the evacuation Of Mexico. and which have perlaPs
spared the two countries the possibility OF teIble
war =,
war and instead Of parotcolly hating "the English
or The French" for what their msTuers have done OF
tried DO hold IN mind the people Of any foreign conn
tryl The ones who would DO The slain victims and the tax
paying victims Of the wSrbeaT nohoshy to usare ouI
human natural friends aud alos.
There has been at times in the late post years lurking
dread Of war with Americas but should say that any
tuay expressed Xctos n that regard the utcTanoe
Of interested speculaos in the funds rather than OF
1hOugbtful men.
Meantime there is prevalent feeling Of uneasc not
Sized 20 the Place dc Ia B0rse Beside unsettled MeX-
ganizaion OF TIC auyi over ell these, te silence and
seeming ndccision, hcstancy iresouto shiseckng Of
Government The GOgGmncat that has sedulonfly pre-
vented be subjects from undertaking their own aaifs,
nov punished whereby 10 hath snned by the querulou,
domaud u these impatient subjects 70 tell item how II ID
managing ald purpOsng 20 manage thcir affairs.
They have bccu treated 20 half dozen more plans oi
HNN NH f'fulf ENH