New-York tribune., 1867-07-29

" Mo- stopped when i could ana must, else we had
had general European war" 10 begins to seem to
sorre Of us as though the Emperor were losing his
clear sight of facts wero growing too bllndly conn.
dent in his old age, and ever weaker ana weaker Oh
lie pubiIhed his letter of the 10Th of January of
his own accord. His declared purpose was to give
more working time to the corps Legsdati 4 py Win
The legislative body has never spent an ldleT ses
sion than the present. That letter proposed a new
anly organization law; and promised reforms III
b on the press is barely better than the old organic
law against the press of January 1872 the new hlll
the right OF meeting ~ pare dS pIeI that
rigbt. the army organization bill, considerably
changed from his Majestys original and tavorlte
scheme is to be subjected TO further revision No
ono of these three bills Will b5 80 much brought
into discussion at this session. ,
I'm foreiCn affairs there is like uncertainty for the
,nLIic What the foreign policy is the pensive pub
ic can only infer from what has been of late years
And of late wears it seems, TO everybody but my Ma
nolconic cOnpatTOt ProfessOrSar to have been mere
Xyait and Wagge-an lmpOnCy OF busy trying TO In
teTiere with the wrong folks the wrong time (e g.,
America POand), of attentive neutrality tanother
name for helplessness and ndecsion-e. e., New
Gerrnany) and needless hurting into scrapes that
neighbOrs had TO help one outof e. g. LuNem6urgl'
This seeming indeCisiOn OF he Ruler, ana the real
uneasy inceTttude of the rued Is gettng TO be
very striking phenomenon. spoke niue ago OF "a
few of the confused crOss-curCBt notions. There is
no broad steady current beiid IN anything Mhat
comes nearest to il is telngthat things cannot per
V X,
five persons you meet, four will tell you, IL you
broach the subject, that tbercwill be war alter
the Exposition" or that therCmnst De an 1Voullou
i'm liberal sense that thisconfusion VIII change
Ia the early stages of revolutionary fermentation.
"Thcre has never been wtl a free people govern
ment strong enough to reHess Freedom i9r no! long
timeat home without givingt glory abroad ms Is
an old and trihngly Niesianl upperlsn Ol our
Emperor 1t is true he said last tuesday week 10 te
! lauTeates of the Worlds Far that a man Musl 10
blind 10 evidence not 10 see lberty IN france, SEN
timcnt which the Sultan WlO was present, ana some
Americans, doubtless, agrocwith IL is the Iact' an
| the same that growing and rather alarming
portion of his Heges, who are most clear-sighted
as to the liberties vslblE elioyeu IN 9!tt ooul's'
! do not see it" here in His ,ialcsty hght'
To return for moment % llloisS speech Oh i me
| Mexican Expedition The moral he drew from the
doeful story of its potica, financial ana personal
disasters was that with "a constitutional government
and responsible ministers TRY could never had nap
| ucned :. a moral that Faye-thOugh treating the
woeful tale from somewhat different w-polnted
with pungcnt sharpness at tie powers that DE; Inc
fact is that both these speakers, ana minister holui
himself pcTiOlCC, IN reply, ud discuss NnaJ SNtiS
body by last years plebscte Is very pOsitNeiy i9I-
| hidden To discuss. a fundamental pIlnCiWG OF lo
Constitution. And, as IL was despite sgh9orlastor
| President Schnciders admoitions and dehortatlohs
in the Corps Leglsatli, sO-desplte lle ustlhCt1et
letter of the statutein the Tess and elsewhere TINS
question of Imperial and mlster3l reSponsloilIy u
| very much and earnestly discussed, SIDEWAYS Anu
il almost looks to of us hat WhctheI u Dc oICi
blv stopped OF enthusiastically tolerated, II VIII
| bring about, either by evolution OF revolution,
ministerial responsibility; It least is notable sign
that il is coming about IN the oider OF u'oioer VI
! things - t,,,,, i,
France ana need of it, present thomse ives more
strikingly for my having spdt lew days last Weei
outside OF its frontiers, IN country whose cohlascu
liberty was quite visible, blind as am 10 WIia.
tho Fmperor decorated with hat IN France last
! Tuesday week They certainly take some Liberties
| the other side of the Eastern ironiicr win ms
Majesty that his lieges are not licensed 10 ENJOY
! Tbus [ saw in KidddeTGdGisch Othe Berlin FhHchl
rough print representing n grand BANQUET az th'
TucTics. There were rOIa guests, OzalS ana hlIEa
all we'll on with their soup, when rises al the luI
warrant end of the table q shadOwy crowned form N
the Likeness of poor Max ami Napoleon ana EuReht'
have dropped their spoons, and started back ia slaty
| adjustment and the legend was, The Banqu'
! Feast Another paper quoting from contemporary
| that Lopez was the murderer of MaNimilian' Iol
! lows with the comment, since Wheh II ~ l'i . H.
LOpcsW The number of foreign Journals, esp. oihlI
| from Germany IN which MaNs death was treated OF
that has been stopped AT the French poat-oihet uI
week and last ls legion ihll noot.,C ,o .,,,n, ~ ~
thetic euloGes Of poor Max, good iouhd abI,' Z"
Juurez and treating, according TO hs r,'lj' I5,a
not Lopez, they were admitted a' h"Ie' l"''l' ""u
| safe organs 0t European public opinion.
! Lopez has been formally degraded from ms ram
! as Oihccr Of the Legion of Honor ENtu thr i''t4
act Of toy justice reminds people thM ~ n'M and q
Oncer in 1885, FOR an active member Of the faction
| which France supported and her ministers laudcd
Exaggerated stories are ailoat OF sort oi mora
completely Of Marshal BUainc's Mexican wife n
| the death Of Max. The Marshals share in the busl
ness is quite enough for one family regulation.
After all it is said that tho Emperor of Austria will
vet make his now deferred VISIT tO Iurs before III,
Exhibition closes. and even strongly umorcG that
| Napoleon viii first make him call ~ Vienna. Po-
| lltcal reasons must overcome personal feelings lOu
| will note in your French and German papers abund
ant indications that the personal 1teaC between Ma
pOlc0n and King William Is not held 10 be- politically
cordial Such feeling Of security a- X. VS. visit
helped to inspire. OF the IuXcmhurg Conference TEN
| porarily gave the hopeful has mainly died away
What Lord Stanley has since said In Parliament "a
explain his in the Conference Is rather alarm
! ing como 30 thnl, il over. Although everybody
! knew that the situation had got 10 be a
/ rather alaTmingly strained one. his declaTa-
| ton that such and such concessions made at
the last minute alone prevented mn otherwise incy-
! liable war IS IN itself most alarming The war then
was much more imminent than we supposed. Then
il was much nearer prepared for than we supposed.
After all the LuXcmburg question only an occl-
sional question branch of the unsettled question
how loud and long and strong shall We let New Ger
many in this irritating way. And the
war preparations are always going on. We have
already 10000 ChasscpOt guns, and pushing fast
may be the fabrication Of more. Actual war and
done with It after Exposition will hardly bemOre
expensive md not nearly so irritating 30 as this
fu amcd peace, this passive cXpcctaut war with its
endless uncertainty.
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