New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-12-22
From Our Special Correspondent
PARIS; Nov %, 1866

LYTTON.
From Our Special Correspondent
PARIS; Nov. %. 1896
The Monitear, Journal Ofcie de PEmPire Fra"ed's'
is not what you can entcrprisug newspaper 1esieT
day it published in the way Of latest news from Mexico
that Marshal Ba1ano had left the City Of Mexico tho "a
Of October and reached Pueba the 4h the object OF his
journey being the state Of things with his own oyoS
and to calm the fears which the efforts OF the d'sl0e"s
were seeking 10 spread through that distinct and that
Gen. Casteneau had reached Vem Cruz uo i' 'iu '''
for Mexico the 18Th Of October.
The European public French included had Yesterday
already been in possession for ,onr days OF eAca '
ND 10 the I'D OCtober-the that MaKlmfAah au le
Tponisned the heavy crown andythe light treasury oil
that Empire whose movable frontiers laltnn! IC'V"
in advance and retreat the protecting Shallow o t b
French flag" Seeing that this news came Dy way % uo
" en,erprsngr New-lork press, there was d Suspicion
that il might be LITTLE Oyer-cooTed, niue ahe1u Ia
chronology, and tho public was niue curious 70 Amy"
whether conclusion PT'0ri OF IecoIS P'S
r,ori Nobody questions tho soundncss OF ING IL
ference; most people accept the esSeniSl uIth ~
the record. The queer feature Is tnaI UO,einnene
which shoud he and X confidently supposed 10 be pety
well informed of the facts in tho case both from us mex
lean and Washington correspondence received since Non
M last uters no Official printed word 10 satisfy TINS Gu
Tv n acts in the ease as certain other Government
we know of was used to act few years ago IN respect
In news of battles losretaning, restricting ouclaI TO-
ports and denying the truth MI ater hau IeaoHeu H0
/ whole world through unofficial chennos -.
Ridiculous as ii Is TO officially publish, as latest Mexican
rcws such fagmentary notes OF ancient history as MI
column i'm Yesterdays Moaevr, the repugnance OF inc
Imperial odor-in-chiei and OF the ducordant AlnserW
assistant editor Of that sheet 70 promptly put 70 Prt ne
proo come thick as late post with post OF the primary
folly in design of the continuous costly biunueng IN
prosecution and of theuttey hopeless condamnablc issue
of the Mexican Expedition Is natural II NOT IeasohaDe
Started on the base hypothesis that the United Siees
were fated 10 disunon, and on the olner
erroneous hypothesis, that the base Mexican IN.
trguants said sOoth, when they deceived the willing
Emperor into the belief that the mass Of the Mexican Peo-
ple wero Lan-raced and would receive his intervening
army Of few thousand strong with open ana sustaining
u and "A cd
rizcd for each succeeding year. by the talking minister BE-
lore the CORPS Legslaf with arguments and promises IN
contradiction with those OF the preceding, ana GONNA
diccd by those Of the following year Represented MS
torcalv as often week for the last isur years IN
the columns of the official MoaeRr as series OF con-
a suDerdation of dednitve successes phensmenal
family OF stiborn hesstO Groat Expectations accom-
panied by IFS Imperial authors celebrated attempt 10 en-
gape England and Russia unite with France IN an IN
eryention in domestic quarrel for the patent END OF
breaking us in two and so playing one fragment against
tho other to the proftsf bis New Colony Empire IN Mex
co-aud By his other two less celebrated but equally con
med attempts To arrive at the same endby his constant
giving Of immoral aid and comfort throughout our four
wears of struggle TO the c. = A. strugglcs Tins Mexican
expedition started such conditions pursued on such
conditions and arrived now fatally TO sueh ISSUE ruIuous
in oil its parts and purposes comes home 70 roos more
heavily weighted with misfortune md dropping more drt
on its Imperial hatches prestige than any other one OF All
bis lately arrived mlshaps Napoleons mistakes and ai-
ures in the Italian D1nish Polish Pusslan questions,
he more or less shares the disgrace OF with the freneh
nation section, segment, or party more or ns pro-
pounced sentiment OF the nation went with HIM ana, IN
his retreat sympathZd with him III all these oIhe qhe
uops No general national sentiment no interest beyond
purely and narrowly defined individual one, approved,
supported went with his st-.c.y personally devised
Mexican raid against the traditional friendly relations mat
! had always existed between Us and Franco.
This Drestgeof the Emperor, the political importance
(which 70 his dynestc success Is diAcuit ior mort
Americans to conceive RIGHTLY has been most gNVeN
diminished since six months Surely II would Dc gross
exagseaon 70 say to-day that he regns and rules less By
virtue of his approved capacity Tor Tegnng ana Tuhhgi
bV o
ecs the quite exceptional national passion OF the TeVo-
dictionary French for routine Were II my business 10
prophecy rather than report your reporter would nave
small difficulty in setting forth signs AID wonders patent
| here which 60 TO Snow that Napoleon III Is
h throne is to say the host Of IT, not more truly based
than was that of Louis Philippe on tho "a OF Noycmbcr
! 1917, at which date all respectable iohs TIE WGii
through insisted that he was the succeash heeIed
French ruler How thoughtful independent kahtPoies
preyised another ISSUE and how nearly they We night
and the reputable respectable DR.. Growers were wrong
old newspaper files and history teach tell, record
The theory of me French Government to-day is simple
The Emperor alone is responsible. 10 make this singu-
larry beated principle possible IN practice IS past the
power OF the Emperor and recognized by everybody a. at
best OnS partially practicable. His Majesty Is geitlng
now ell the disadvantages that flow from the necessarily
mpsrfect practice Of such thing Let alone those OF tho
Mexican the responsibilities of the Prussian and Roman
\ questions weighing rather heavily on him,
The Prussan question is merely lake for The larger
and extremely complicated question: which the Imperial
army reorganization Commission have been hard at work
there for weeks find economical formidable practical
Going the Boulevard QcS ltlleus yesterday
evening metMr X coming down TIE same Heis newn-
paper man. chief editor OF one Of the most enHnent Of tho
best half dozen out Of tho twenty daily political journals
published in the city. " Give me, oh give me- new
auoth l. "Count on and DO OF ths' said he that
scheme Of the reorganization OF the military strength Of
France set forth in La Prose- Of yesterday IS The very one
that TO DO presented in the shape Of bill 70 the Corps
Legsatik Half an hour later met Mr. l., equally IN
position 20 be wenformcd" who assured me that tho
Presse scheme eminenty not the one likely to be ap-
proved by the Commission With prooundest respect for
both those gentlemen and dsrespect 70 the Imperial
Contradiction whose sessions hero and at Cougegne
/ THE TEIBUsEs own reporter is seduously e1cuded-l
venture to say without slightest fear Of contradiction
from future facts that both NY weHlnOrmed ntormGns
are wrong as TO special details and right 20 the general
conclusion; which is, in general, this: Military France
will be organized that It's ruling chief can at short
notice. bring into the field million more or less OF armed
need not add that cut the blanket at winch end they
WILL and ombloider the seams with never 20 pretty de-
vices, the war blanket Will be considerably more
costly than the old ore; ana wiz o' cannot prevent the
possibly interrupted but inevitably sure fatal unihcaOn
mot "ramifcaton" IL you please, ., amusing typc-set-
] teri, of.the GeTmanic nation
For tho moment this military and the Roman question
press hardest the Emperor for Immediate solution;
awaiting real solution for seeming acceptable hquida-
ton OF the the Roman business n the most pressing
should say that its immediate future conduct is already
assured OF the three chieest representative parties IN
the business, Napoleon, Victor Emmanuel ana rus thls
thing be noted-their specially individual interests.
/ well understood, arc one. And 30 IL comes 10
the mind Of the spectator that 1t must present
/ itself 10 the minds OF tho three sOyercigus
that iyinely Napoleon deprecates eshcome imitation
of the quarrel already existing since 1888 between him
and the Church party in Franco Victor Emanuel depecates
exaggeraton Of quarrel already existing between bin ard
his accidental Sslow italian Sovereign, Pope King Plus
TX additionally does the Theoretical poSsanHI
policy which hitherto has served well enough practically:
whence it comes 10 the indifferent Thoughtful spectator,
that the diverse views aud purposes OF the three soyergDs
unite in one provisional general end II IL the interest
and policy Of the King Of Italy ofthe Emperor of France
and of the sovereign prestking Of Rome that for tho
present there shall be revolutionary violence in tho
/ last-named city. And in that respect, Mazzni,
Ricsso, Napoleon, Plus, Emanuel and Garibaldi
are ell as one, ultra-montagnard reds of the
excessive Ultramoniane party here, have done and