New-York tribune., 1867-02-15
be, Just as wen known in the remotest diggings Of


Colorado as in your Paris correspondents room;
The letter of the 18th is manifesto an exceptlonal
declaration to the French and generm European
world of the imminent fulflment OF grave, long,
medtated and Imperial purposes. Its author could
but foresee that it would excite the great attention
that it has excited, and the great expectatlons. 81
II he only meant to make slight concessions 10
Liberty merely grant new formulas 10 olu restrlc-
t6ns slight apparent reefs to very real oppresslons
why not have kept their snSsc e
the next months opening OF the sessions ot the
Legisatif and the Senate
1t is not like Napoeon-who whatever we think OF
him, is not to be set down ol-to wantonly
provoke this great cry for the fun OF seeing 1t
end in a quarrel about goats wool.
The letter of the 10th is word of promlse-la-
mentally vague it must be confessed and closing
with a hopeless word-but that crowning OF the
edifce0 the writer himself could hardly have meant
seriously it is like the yours always at the 1oOt or
onr lesser private epistes not to be taken excepting
figurative sense pied de la lere His Majesty has
doubtless read and proted by the reading Oh tne @ 8d
tide was coming in, till even his cOnrtlers ADVISED
that he should concede somewhat more to the ad-
Onr Severe cold snap broke last Tuesday night,
10 the great content of the suffering poor and the
equal discontinue of weather-vain prophets, who
had got up q edition of signs of cold winter,
and of the skating club, who had just time to get
through with the night fete on their pond IN the
Bois de Boulogne before the thaw came on The fete
was postponed from its appointed Monday mght
TO Tuesday, the S2d, at suggestion equIyya
lent to command, from high quarters, in order
10 escape the ASSOCIATION or such gmety WIN
the fnerea remembrances of the Dist, the execution
day of Louis XVI, similar reason, pressed, IL is
said with anxious urgency by the Empress led 10
the publication of the Imperial manlteSt0 on Snny
nation" perhaps of the publication OF the appended
soothngly explanatory of the decree making part OF
that manifesto, in the next following issue Oh the
MOniteW. - . o,, -
The f6te given by the Paris Skating Climb was q
pretty affair with abundance Of cOlOred lights and
ladies, and electric lights, and emotions, and some
sIyot; btf ParlganS themselves
don't get chance oftener than III two or three
years to practice and then for not more than lew
days Their skating IKE Their morse Sb f snd and
social distinctions" a rather laughabe and unsuc-
cessfu dilletant, pnchbeck imitation of foreign man
ners Excepting here and there IaTo hS tbS
skater who has cut the most Incompatible lgTes on
Paris ice of late years, was an American artist H.
Marshall The Duke de MOTny frOZe to hun IN the
cold snap Of 1864, and made him honorary member OF
the Skating Club. The Empress one day asked the
honor of being pushed about on her sledge by MN,
but had her Spanish nerves alarmngly excted
under tho bold, dashng celeIity of MarShalls
impulsion. The other day the Emperor
had fall on the ice Ills Imperial legs
slipped up even as those of the humbest of mortas
and he fell ker-whack striking on hlS-head ana
other parts like any prostrate democrat. bnt
and this has serious political lmportance-he
picked himself mp lif one may so express oneseuJ
and went skating with no apparent harm done
whereby tho spectator on land concludes that ms
Majesty is temporarily well recovered oil ms last Au-
first installment of Mexican troops has actually
come home A decree dated January 10 strips Mar
shall Bazane of the extraordinary delegated powers
with which he clothed as COMMUNICATING
of the Mexican Expedition There ~ also good
ground for believing that the report of the sure con
yaesence of Princess Charlotte IL true although IL Is
confirmed by the Memorial DiptOmdhque. proyin-
cial yacht club has sent an honorary medai 10 MI
Bennett representing their respect for the Duhders,
sailors and captain of the Henrietta.
From much notable matter in the Minister OF the
Interiors report the French census OF 1863, the
following items are especially worth extracting
Leaving out the annexed Districts of Savoy ana
Nice the increase of French population in five years
il $50 0S} In 1861 il 81 l6i: 1t has rlsen 10
3s0G7ON The augmentation - trifle less than ~
per cent Considering the epidemic malades ana bad
harvests of the period, the Minister thinks tins per
centage cause of cOngTatulation. lie fOTgets 10 state
that other nations whose population augmented at
greater rate were exposed IN the same period To Ike
epidemics and bad harvest He does not forget how
ever compare this increase, such az II 49, with the
yet smaller ratio of augmentation that ruled for
more than one of the flve-ycar periods under LOUIS
Philippos reign. Among the chicfcst causes OF tins
slow growth of population IN nation whose relative
nowth in material prosperity has been nearly Orqute
equal 10 that of any of its European ncighbors Min
ister Iayaette makes little or no account OF these
thrcc-thc three 10 which any ObSeryant foreigner
would give the first efficient rank national french
characteristic Of economical. calculating tOreslght
don't marry till yOu support family, don't have
n family larger than you can support lhe TACT that
10000 men-the selected vigorous best OF French
youth between the Of II and 2SaTe IN the army
and cannot marry. The fact Of great unproducllNe
army Of priests with the fact of the illegal unproduc
tive relations between the sexes, admitted by con-
vcntion overlooked 10y the law and permitted, nay
encouraged by the military and clerical facts Just
mentioned.
The tendency of country populations TO cities
and the consequent disptOportionate growth Oi the
latter, appear by this report To be- as pronounced IN
France As in the United States.