New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-10-29
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rather useless 10 be sure like most cheap tningf roi
example, what immense issues Of papersympathy seme
us used 20 Law out for the Poles let alone sbnehs
shen Koscinsko fell. wonder II they are 70 % ,ssy
redeemed BY this superintendent new currently "P'"'
In the midst of all the painful news OF tho Empress
Charlote's insanity her husbands Resident MINISTER "
Paris sends 10 the papers here telegram nom DIS
dated MsIico Septepber "a, the which declares tbas
the mnisy is defnitiyely constituted that an exeeens
P; reign. among all eissssI with our allies
Om allies is long for Marshal Bazaine All Glass;
10 short for many Me1icans as inhabt me Small Pa
of Mexican territory still held BY French troops
OF those unbiased citizens who lie in walt on inc Iosu
from Vera Cruz to Mexico for transient delegates lon
the European Powers their way TO Maxs court @
something numerous TO Judge from the iact tnas
Max sends down Vera Cruz 400 armed troops TO escort
Napoeons last special messenger Gen. Casteneau 70 s
capital In view Of snch facts the effort Of tho faithful
parisans of Max and of parties interested in the Mexican
1oans TO blind the public to their fatal meaning deceses
one Everybody, and no one more thoroughly tnah
Napoleon is fully awakened from that dream Of Franco
Latin Mexican Empire wofuly conscious that what was
mistaken in the roseate cloud visions OF 1851 as the tn
umphal entrance door.
reality the little end Of the horn How to get the French
troops through with flying eoos is one OF the several
problems anxious efforts at whose solution have Teen this
Summer so tnfayorable to His Majestys health
That other problem, how TO increase the war power on
France 10 balance that of New Prussia and yet noe
augment the weight OF money taxes or Of other burdens
the Of the nation Is another and constant suees
of xous study with ruler and people. Nothing properly
official and dehntye has yet appeared nothing propab
has yet been defntvely decided on in the ONO al mlDd
in the way of solution The military power must be sng-
mented; that is constant general disarmament per.
mansnt European peace Aslree rsSs1 etc., al sas' sss
since SadOwa All schemes that have yet been set forth,
whether of Imperial suggestion only authorized py nge-
nous individual pubcists come moro or lees roundabout
to much the same result-eutting on one end OF ths
blanket il TO the other end; the blanket s
mains about the old regulation length and sti "biakes
of the dark"
There is indeed small, very small school Of mere
ranpoe deas,s whose organ is La L6erte newspaper,
and whose chief organsts for pubic performance, arc
Emil de Grardn and his very able ASSISTANTS Eciseo,
Clement Duvcrnos These pretend that there exsts
perfect and practically tested solution Of the problem
The United States have furnished t-raising readily an
army more than four times larger than that OF France
from less population proporoned fully 10 the great oe-
casonal need and dsmissng 1t when the need ana oeea
sion were past readily and easily than they raised
it, This solution is generally regarded by Fronchmen as
absurd "idea" and impractical TO the last degree And
under the actual regime OF any preceding regime Or soy
regime that might follow in OF the untImeiy demse
of the chief Of the present one II is undoubtedly nn'
practicable impossible.
Indeed outside of very small school Of thinkers. mod
instances selected from the domgs and beings OF ner
countries GRE cuously improved by French Conserta-
tves One Of their journal mounpecs has attery been
crusading up and down column against the alarming
rhetorical Of the Belgian presauotng, az base
OF It's argumentahye operations various violent passages
fom different Belgian journals where partisan zeal asss
decent discretion. In like manner, and by like "Cen-
sentative writer's, the onslaught Of John Bright en- gre
parts of the English Constitution, the dsgaeeiu Vtape
alive eoquence in which American editors and stamp
orators, from the President mp 20 largely deal as
/ held up and unctu0nsy improved as most Alarming
and warning examples. That an intelligent freletmas
should be profoundly ignorant rot merely OF the ega
written but OF the customary national, Constitution Of
foreign people as intelligent American there are no
other or Engishman is OF the written aud unvfen Cox
stition of France is too unhappiy easy Of eompebsn.
siOn. But that these Conservative sangwEsnesfs eapt
see plain fact before their is queerly lnelaEe0.
aughaby curious Arguing from such facts ar have sss
been Indicated against tho freedom OF the press u Leves
occurs 10 them consider that Belgium, and England,
aud the United States bear this freedom Of the pyess
that the faults which 20 with the license of freedom are
harmless and, as il were selfaDsorbed under reg'f"t
liberty OF print and speech.
In its kind there is nothing conceivable so ssd az The
actual condition OF French journalism IL II only auee'e
few hundred less clever newspaper writers, IL
would be OF too slight interest 10 justify paragraph lt
represents symptomatzes, OF indicates OF synDoI.es
more directly grayoy, distinctly and completely than toe
condition Of any other profession or estate the iases
least the critical" situation OF Napoleonlc France. TX
a weekly Gown reporter ever could eaten week sDso
lutey empty of current news items, he might MI ms
allotted column and half with not uninterestiDg-sp
cramped and imPerfect-study Of the actual state -
| French journalism.
There are published in Paris "a daily political newsps
pers without counting the Official Morning AoH and
its seemingly insignificant seven by nine one sous dw
OF brother lie MoEfeWr da Sor with an encouraged
circulation OF more than 80 00O and English Galgnan
On the literary side they are, TO say the least OF IT, quite
up to the standard of the best metropolitan newspaper
the editorial way Of the finest natural parts and
highest culture men Of sincere convictions and sound
Judgment and ge purpose And yet setting aside
their literary quality and setting aside their oeeasepst
value shown in articles semi-aDstract from the directly
urgent questions Of the day, the IA daily political journals
OF Paris contribute next to nothing TO the morning road
er stock Of knowledge Of act-l mean, don't eumuise
his stock what OF the IA gives in that way mainly
what all tue rest repeatand outside OF the SAFE ana
necessary in specially interesting COM
morpace reflection don't dare furnish him with food for
thinking over his second breakfast The ability with
which editor of one Of these compressed journals viii
write article seeming TO nothing that Is not pemis
sbe and yet saying great deal that 70 readers Practeed
in reading between the lines, conveys alusvey most
of what he would like TO ssy, is truly wonderful and as
work Of psa-art admirable In fact the best OF What 10
best in tae leaders Of Paris political daies, pre-
serted in this disguised way Fourteen years OF wears
painful reading OF Paris political daes-under the Law OF
the Press Of is52-w trust justify me TO your readera
honest and competent witness TO the general truth %
is degraded to dead pful restricted, sham false, nni-
fomy duness by virtue Of the Napoleonic Law on the
Press. The working of this law on the non-pohncai
journals pcorce theme OF paragraph OF two
| IN q future letter
! NEST break OF short simply assuring the anxious
readers Of THE TRIBUNE on, for wonder. really geod
authority that the Emperor isat least Two days $50
was-as well could be expected Not so wen as that be
feels safe 70 without Neatons consulting presence
Nspoeons oh yscal meladies, which are somewhat CON-
plicated have been helped by his absence from ST.
Nothing of his chronic diseases is radically cured. The
deeper fear Of those nearest His Majesty, who
watch intollgeny, is that the tendency OF bis yes
physical maades points fearfuy toward "a DYING top;
that the ban will yield before these attacks the body.