New-York tribune., 1867-05-30
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
PARIS.

PARIS.
TnE LONDON CONFERENCE-PUBIIC FEELING IN
FRANCE-THE STAR OF THE EMPIRE BEGINS 70
SETTLE EXHIBITION.
RTon Our Special Correspondent
PARIS May II, 1867.
Aweek ago to-day the Minister Of Foreign Affairs
announced the Corps Legslatif the result of the
London Conference The announcement, and the
brief expanatOry-almOst apologetic-speech that
accompanied it, were listened to in silence. Not one
note of applause from Left Right, or Center greeted
the good tidings. Some Government members have
since decorated this cOldness with the attributes of
calmness and dignity; others subty pretend that
they suppressed their glad emotions lest Minister
Goz and other Prussians in the galleries should in
terpret their manifestation proof that the French
were glad to be relieved from the oppressive fear of
war You will take these ingenious explanations for
what they are worth-whieh 1 should say, was very
little. They do not pass current here, except as curl
Gus tokens. The reception of the same announce
Snent and speech by the public. though not SILENT
is hardly more complimentary to Government
The change from imminence of war, with
its anxieties of all kinds to certainty of n
prolonged truce to hope of disarmament
and long peace is accepted with grateful sense of
relief But the circumstances under which 1t has been
brought about not of sort TO excite much graft
t9de TO- OF respect ior or 70 g. al t gry E
peroT, brought France 10 the very beetlng Drink of
war; foreign Governments have brought II on. lie
devices the country has only been got out out OF It
by plan originating with Austria, accepted with
urgency by England, and with approval by Russia
Napoleons chief merit in the being that he fol
lowed. This is not kind of merit TO raise his
snSeq 1G ng yS9 OF 5e d p
more irraed than any others at the paclhc solution
of the Luxembourg question; .
They would have preferred war with all its chances,
and some of them will tell you, what doubt tlat
that the Empcrors preference was as theirs Dnt tat
an inspection of the military material OF the Empire
forbade indulgence of that preference Here as wel
as anywhere is place for story, that, incredible as
it is, has nowadays quite EXTENSIVE undergoing
circulation" "On looking INTO the condltlon OF
things for going to war, Napoleon found such
shameful deficiency of supplies IN all kinds as excited
his suspicious and further stigatiOn showed that
Marshal Random late Minister of War, and Marshal
Forey had sold themselves to Bismarck. AS open
scandal would only have made bad worse, Marshal
Forey was ordered to have the apopecc attack that
served as open preteXt for removing him from conf
Inand of the Camp of ChalOns and from that OF
the Eastern MliitaIy RlstIc, =; vncennss
where he still sits ~ MOnstrOus as this story is
know OF its being reheaTsed to four listeners by one
of the Cent Gardes, who stoutly affirmed its truth
and evidently believed 1t himself, excepting the de,
tail about Random. He sure that the Marshal
had been found out and dsgraced, but was not GER
tain as TO the imprisonment. Incredible and mon
Ttrous the tale is natural birth begotten by excited
imagination OF the ignorance in the dark IN which
Government keeps the people. We had enough OF
the kind during our war, when the wisdom OF wash
sngton at times thought it best to keep its little light
its sort. but Ike the fanciful chimeras of
old fable is composed Of real elements The stock OF
military provisions e most kinds was very heavily
drawn on BY that chitfest of all NapoleOns bungles,
the Mexican expedition. To meet the constant drafts
and yet keep the arseAals full, it would have been
Annual budgets from 1852 onward. Bnt this would
have been to reveal, whatGovernment was most de-
MeeaS eS9s 1S b@Sness and e make what Dds5ary
STYLES the flash-nt nthe-panlaInism of the Emperors
trans Atlantic schemes nlOle unpopular than ever.
If ever statesman punished whereby he sinned,
Napoleon in his Mexican bunGle is the man. When
his Star Of EmPre tS16 its way TeStwara ~ began
garrison ON French soil, with the horses they rode
there in French stalls, with tie military supplies
they consumed in French magazines, with the money
fhey cost in the French TreaSury the countenance
of His Majesty when observing Trnsrhenan events
embnTR % territory this Spring VITA longing eyes.
might well have worn to Herr Bisnarcks view
more imposing aspect.
Now: alarIRs of being past for the season, we
=. are TO have Summer all made up of festivities.
The Kings and princely sort that wde to threaten
lDur frontiers stay at home to defeId their
worlds .w0ndeS on the Champs do Mars under inn
perial guidance, aud to be .gaped at ly the other
tRhe King and Queen OF Belgium, tie Prince Of
Wales and whole Able-fuu of other royalty high
guests sat at dinner 81 the Tusres IL; two days ago
that your reporter was present; gentlemen of the
prese are not in intimate favor at that house But
here the bin of fare could doubtless beprocuredor
snvented know how many Of youn republican
readers would relish it Will they take, instead
this yholesomer bit ef anecdOte about the
short body with very ionI. name. the youthful
brother or son Of the half rulei Of Japan The little
Tyeeonet wa: at some grand soree three nights ago.
where very lordly higb-gOing parties were met 70
homer and gape at him when, IN the midst Of the
honor and gaping his short Higfhness got tired and
SLEEPY IN the most subject manner, and like an uD-
commonly sensible Tycoonkin as ie IT, Just put Oft
home and 10 bed at 10 o'clock. Hare, too come TO
think of it, is something about the Prince Of Wales.
am sure that II s true, whether Mk, Church likes
or not Nobiesse ebli0e and SO consulting tho pro-
p,leties the Prince went TO the,Exhbtisn and there
he expressed liking for Mr. Churchs Niagara and
desired to bug tand being told that It was sold.
he reiterated his desire 10 buy.
Our picture show by the way. at the Exhibition
- more credtabie than might have been iEipaed
Being most OF lt ga the same with the Engsh
contributions IL does not suffer as it wOuM 40 by
JAxtaposition with the French Beside that on the
scs,re Of color at least we are generally superior
ourse Ives very incompletey represented here boif
in resp ect of number aud quality. The walls cf fbe
French rooms are hung with very numerous salec-
fion from among the best French productions OF the
shst twelve years. BY studying them and the public
galleries ana other collections not difficult of access
80 stIaDgerS aud the stock Of the numerous pctutc