New-York tribune., 1867-04-26


havO not another mistake to makeD-wich uie
triumphant boast " Not single mistake mas Doch
maAie - who remembers the annually 1ifuhy e&,
pressed belief IN and boasts OF Mexican successes anu
their semi-annual classification by facts. III IS
slight qualification to French vanity to Dc tOld
by NJ. MOnstier respecting this very great 9nariei
with Prussia over LuXembnrg that 1T was not France
that began tt" that little Holland boy began IT,
Sir. u you please Sir" The paragraph reads aihosC
as If apOlOgotically addressed to Master bismarck
But what is humiliating to the becoming pfiue
OF thinking FTenchmen is that M. M0ustieT speaihg
for bis and then master of Foreign Affairs, ~ scnt 10
sOleInny not explain the condition and, by lnphea-
tOn to tell their representatives not TO ASK ioI
PLANTATION of them to leave the entire cohuuVg vi VI
them, whether il lead TO peaceful soiuuoh
more or less honorable, or to disastrous
war, TO Government, IN whose manhaslnS
skill late events have destroyed Their cohhdehCe
Frenchmen are beginning TO feel heatnini shame INT
at being obliged To go for the earliest il' LiISsI III
formation about their own situation W IiIe
Of Paris correspondents of foreign newspapers dIu
10 the savings and dOngs OF Engish an" ueI'Iah
Parliamcnts reported in those newspapers. l%nteI- %
pellatiOns that had been proposed Dy mehpeisoi to
majority were withdrawn by their authors, anu III
RELATIONS that were proposed by members OF the mi
nOTty were rejected 10y the Bureau of the corps Legs
latif, after NJ MOnstiers little communication, Dou
says Government, talk about the subJect now - lo
chosen representatveS of Prussia do ~ those OF FIJI
gland or Belgium wond do IN similar case. lest you
embaTrass our negotiations; and when negotiations
come Ia a had end Government Will be ready again
TO say don't indulge IN sterile TecrImlnatl0ns. iU
IL hopeful SIGN that the French are growing rcstlye
brought on they will go 1t blind and tho patriotism,
of national vanity-wbat we may ca1l peopiapn.,oi .
patriotism suppress the true patfousin ot tuo
national greatness, which ~ surest developed ny ho
eTty , .. .
of this LuXemburg occasion The prevalent answer
here IL more and affirmative. 1t seems to re
solve itself into tins other question. Nili russia
withdraw her garrison lately strengthened, from
LuXcmburgf For If Bismarck dare not rlsk ms pop
nlarity OF defy King Williams commands, and with
draw Napoleon dare not risk his by leaving t theIe
key-holdeTs to a door that opens into France. The
middle term of withdrawing but razlng the toruca-
siOns would in the present state at least OF public
feeling here be considered an only less hulnlllatioh
to France AZ fOT treaties oi 1889 and the oher ele
ments of international law y iOf which John Brlgbt
so well SAID there IS very little 80 tar rs he knew
and that little mostly very bad bearing IN
the matter they bear against Prussia, which
on the other hand has the golden nne-tenths
ruling of possession in its favor. This fact
of possession cOmphCates, OF, rather, as DidsDuTy
says smplihes the question. For, says be- NJ ~ evi
dent that so long there ~ question of war Win
France, Prussia will not rellnqulsh strong place
that would he peculiarly useful TO II IN tue war; but
so long as negotiations last there Is question OF war
ETgO yOur correspondent SAID to DldSbury what Nd
Olson Cato did to Plato Thou Teasoncst well"
But war IS an immortal probability among nortals: :
aud war between France and Germany q cons tant
contingency and Prussas armed possession OF Lux
cmbmg is a constant humiliating threat 10 france
let alone that II is dangerous darkenlng To the
eyer DINNER growing prestige OF inc Emperor ol MS
France. menace to his dynasty.
You viii see by your French and other European
files that there IL great manufacture OF needle guns
that the troops are being rapidly furnished with
them and exercised IN their use; that Marshal Mel
has SAID ts said to have saidl that France can at
brefest notice put 100000 skilled troops on the iron
tier and in short delay send 200 900 more after them:
that the camp at ChalOns is to be opened this year
earlier than usual that officers learned IN strategy,
engineering and other specialties of the military art,
have been sent Rhineward. etc, etc; III respect Of
all which more less authentic stories 1t IS well
enough 10 remark that most of this activity OF mill
tary preparation, 10 which the occasional anxiety
about was attracts special attention, is not
of itself exceptional. Ever since Sadowa'
France has been very busy with mill
tary works as other Euro9eon governments
have been. Meantime tho occasion Of the present
menace OF war is effectively used by Government to
press It's Army Reorganization BILL which on this ac
count win pass the Corps Legisaif with fewer mod
ihcatiOns than IT'S authors feared few weeks ago.