New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-04-19
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
PARIS


THE LUXEMBOURG observation-disclosures AGAiN-TIm RUS
SIAN TREAN-vICToR HUG0s DRAMAs-THE TAILoRs
STRlKE-ITBMS
Prom Our Special Correspondent
PARIS, April 5, 1867.
Writing you a week ago, remarked that a hitch
had come in the Luxemburg coil. A flood of twilight
has since been thrown the subject, which makes
the present hitch plainly visible, if possible.
Whether the train of negotiations will be resumed
what end they will arrive at and what accurately has
been their course-on these points we are as much
in the dark as ever. la this darkness grow again
gloomy anxeties and the old dread of coming
The French people, kept like children in the dark
about their own affairs afraid like children in
the dark-scared not by what they see, but by the
conceived imagined possible, by the dangerous
thing unknown that may be shaded IN this darkness.
What makes the situation so much worse is sus-
peiOn-grown almost to the quality of a conviction
out of the events and incidents Of the recent past
that Napoleon and Rouher hardly see their
way more clearly than the rest Of us.
l met yesterday with passage in MOtleys
History cf the United Netherlands, in that chapter
where he IS treating of negotiations between the
btates aud France, cur0usy aprOpOs of the actual
.vnaiton that You must lot me quote it here. Sub
sltute us Tor NetheTland Statesmen" and change
the lenses. and the story is told of Ia. "What Law
upon the surface the Netheriand Statesmen saw and
ponaered well What lurked beneath they sur,nsed
WIN plummet and fathOm lne ever in hand TO sound
te way with perfect accuracy where the Quicksands
are ever shifting and tho depth shalOWness OF the
course perpetually varying. 1t not edsg 10 dis-
tOtd me intentions OF a GOVERNMENT WHICH DID NOT
ANOW IFS OWN INTENTION, and whose Changing
policy was controlled by 80 many hidden currentsr
f0u Will have read before this reaches YOU Bis
mack answer in the Berlin Parliament to Tanning
Sehs Interpolation Oh this Luxembourg business
LOU would hardly think IL satisfactory TO France II *
nut put Government organs" here insist that IL is:
R1y, that ~ Is complimentary. How have the mighty
auep within year or two lOu can measure the
septh OF the tall by imagining for moment what
noula have been. Ia official journals, ton years ago,
- zone - CONNIE. sry 90 any si,on speech
Il TINS OF Bismarcks. He partially apologies for
france to his Germans. and then turning az il were
70 her, ~ an almost cOndescending way, patronz-
"gly pats her on the back.
itrqeA t9lks feel the humiliation; thog suffer a.
patnots IN tho cumuiating huuiiatOns Of the FIN
PeI9r Nothing great or small has gone well with
w naeSty OF late. That star of his in which he is
Sslu t9-and numerous public certainly did-have so
Stsst helping faith. looks now not fixed but rather
STAR some go 50 faras 10 imagine that some OF
e nsms OF his III luck, like this not 10 say failure
~, ,he Luxembourg business, have been pur-
hey brought on; that by calculated working
tough these humiliatlOns on national pride and pa
s,oue vanity, he aims 20 overcome the popular
eihlon 70 his army organization plan on the carry
A yut OF Which his mind and heart are set Another
~ kndred inference from the humiiating situation
nv winch he and the nation are, ia that he will
Co. lfy to escape from il by war. War
viii .pud Oifer temporary relief to his difficulties
from s internal sltuat transp6sing his uneasy seat
"tue' " The two horns Of the d9Westic dilemma,