New-York tribune., 1867-08-02

TIoNs BETWEEN FRANCE AND PRUSSIA
prr,.,owsKfs TRAL-ADMIRAL FARRAGV'
LITERARY .,NTELLIGENcE.
From Our Special Correspondent -" p,o,s ,,,. 90.
After the debates las week on foreign affairs
ON Mexico and Luxemburg-..n which Minister
Rouher was so hardly pressed in positions be was
driven TO so very different from those which events
had driven him FROM his resignation was generally
admitted as probability, and by many looked TO
speedy certainty. The Emperors letter of the 18th
Las changed all that. 1t is letter next in import
ance to the famous autograph of the 18th Janu-
ury. Observe It's date. lt was written after Ills
Majesty had read the proofs OF Olhyiers speech de-
yered Friday afternoon. Emile Olivier is chief OF
q very small Earty THAT MAINTAINS the compatibility
of Imperialism and political liberty Ihe drltt OF
his argument was TO show that MuiSterS-l o., Min
lister ROuher-stOod between the Imperial liberal
promises of last January and their execution
to make Ministers responsible and, III the case;
have them resign. Some surprise was expressed
next day that ROuher, so ready master of fence,
let pass in silence TINS attack which was none the
less rigorous for its moderation of tone lie already
had IN his pocket the Imperial letter. which not only
entirely covers the Minister'S person, but frankly eX
poses the writer as the object OF OllyleTs attack
With the letter went grand cross OF the Legion OF
Honor i'm diamonds worth G00O0 francs, the third
only OF that costly kind of toy that has been gwen
to any subject by Napoleon III. lnS closes all pres
ent pioSpect of change of Ministry and the com
mon inference is Of a change III the dllatory, point
me-, -,oint ramsbaclle policy otGovernment allude
especiai!v 10 the home pohGy, the carrying aiohg
lobe can't say out) OF the January promises
Being fun assumption on the Mli,
ters part of that sole responsibility with which
nc endowed himself in the COnsI.' .'ulon Yl MS VMn
making IL would seem that 1t shoulu :Ht an emu 10
the discussion. with which many sensible mG.' nave
much occupied themselves Of late to the dlvlsoi
OF responsibility among Emperor, Ministers, and Leg
isatye Body Happily, it docs not. That discussion
Qt an essential feature OF the Constitution III Den
ance OF the Senatus COnsutuln OF last year, Wmch
strictly forbds such intellectual anusements, does
go ON, picking food to justify It's existence from
iacsits very self being one OF the most nourshlng
morses. This very letter is another. Nothing can
be literally palmer than the declaration Of the Con-
sttution tha the Emperor alone is responsible; ana
Yet this week he must reatrm It ia am exceptionally
striking manner IN order 10 save his MINISTER, WLo'
by the force of things Was getting TO DC most untyh
foitably responsible. And 40 one can pretend that
it, &c some future election, a majority sbh De sent
to the Legislative which vote all the supplies
and can reject all bills, who should DO
opposed to minister, they could practically lSlee
him TO resign unless his master preferred uNehhg
iu his conpany TO foreign parts. 1t does not neoes
sarily follow because kOuher is Tor the present re-
tanned that he ean count on M pndee a obJ nncr
announcement TO fidelity III hls successor Tor nus
master TO have sacrificed hlln Immediately at.r ne
wretched failure of the Mexican business, which he
snstsined so boldly through all its numerous contra
dictory phases, and had just 80 cleveTy vailed the
chief contractor in its final disgracetul hquldatlon
Nor does it by any means follow that should Napo-
leon at last make up his mind after Exposition"
to fulfill his January promises against the wishes or
his legislative majority that the shltty Minister
would not be arlently eloquent for such measures.
That such measures at home, or as deriyativs war
measures" liberty glory "-are contemplated by
Government for its next years policy, is n pretty
prevalent persuasion; and as Rouher passes for
man of peace the inference with some is that are
to have peace aud liberty. But Rouher's quality in
this respect is itself mainly inferred from the pacific
declarations in his speeches on the LuXembuTg aud
other branches of the German question. Now, the
Imperial letter has just warned us that NJ. Rouhers
speeches are only the speeches of an advocate de-
Tending for the occasion the cause that is put into
his hands; he is not personally nor roficialy-beyond
the momentresponsible for his uttered sentiments.
He will be warlike so soon as his brief tells
him TO be- Meanwhile what were war pre-
parations few months ago, and what,
between the opening and closing of the Luxemburg
affair, cost 15S00O0O0 of francs steadily going
for full-armed peace. 1t is certain that French
arsenas, ships, and troops will be in much better
condition for fight than they in that period of
attentive neutrality last year. when, as he has
since confessed, Minister Rouher was filled with
alarming anxiety. "Angoisses' is the word DO used
TO define his moral situation after Sadowa In ana
out of the political press there are IN
dications that the visits of King William ana sne
Car are regarded only personally friendly visits
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