New-York tribune., 1868-04-04
;ATURDAY, APRIL 4, Is6s-TRIPLE sHEET

author of this bill has not objected to be referred
back for little aheioration of its excessive penal
enactments this Meetings BILL which in its last
stages of debate while the pamphlet was going
through the prsfA has been voted by the Legisla-
tive.
Many still imagine that the repressed Ms which
was 10 have been printed in the Imperial pamphlet
is only temporarily withheld from publication Qa
rirrd rdTd.
Apart from the mild rufing that the truncated
pamphlet has given us, the week has been quiet.
Prince NapOleons German incognitO journey, every
step of which is reported in the morning and even
ing journals, seems to have taken decidedly unde-
cided, non-ofical turn The little Prince heir more
less apparentcf Napoleon ILL.,, achieved his twelfth
birthday last Monday; whereupon there was due
paradinR and review of troops IN the Place du
CarTousel in the daytime; customary expenditure
of illuminatory gas by Imperial theator directors
the evening. The day is not noted by the general
micartme, and feast day for the washerwomen OF
Paris and its vicinity, and went off as quietly as the
President Jolnson's impeachment gets advantage
of the lul in European politics. and rather grows IN
the attention OF French Observers And so that otf-
cal, who has hitherto been for us q rather deeply
disguised lin liquor and Oherwisel blessing, Is likely
TO do for our republic in his lifetime something
similar service ~ that done by Lincoln in his sacr-
cial death For this removal of the Chief Of State
from his place, by merely legal FORMS without yis
be shaking inuch less by revolutionary overturning
Of the Government without even two per cent de-
rangement of the public funds, is tesifyng to the
strength Of popular government by the irreiraglble
proof of fact
II your correspondent had the i'll luck TO be an Eu
ropean dynastic Chief of State. he would look much
more complacently on some of the preceding clrcum
stances of President J0ns0ns public career than Its
menaced squelching in this soft impeachment. 1t
would help some if yOu were intending, in the fool
Ish old way 10 exalt him, after condemnation. by
hanging But simply to take him mp for examine
tion like entomologists, and then let him dropl 1t
is that indignty pot calmly on Chief OF State by
pass0nless people, that proyokes comparisons, aud
hurts.
Tho Council Of State, to whom has been referred
our Finance Minister Magnes report, the case of the
Mexican bondholders does not incline to grant them
as much indulgence as the Minister recommended
IL is saiC that there itre something like SOOOO OF
them to-day in France, who. on the strength OF
RouheTs staggering assertions In the Corps Legs
latif few years ago, and the French Governments
moral confirmation of their truth, subscribed 10 the
loan at the rate of $40 francs the obligation If the
view taken of their by the Council Of State is
held to by Government their bonds will be worth
something less than 40 What makes this paTticu-
larly shabby on the part of the French Government
is that large part of the money raised by its ear
nest "bulling' that loan went straight into It's
Treasury part payment of expenses of the MeXl-
can expedition charged 10 the account Of the Max
Mexican Government
We are menaced with more Max Mexican partisan
historical books one by. the Able j. Passama
Domenech that il is likely TO be interesting. He did
really know and had exceptional means Of knowing
something of Max, aud more of Mexico; he is withal
a quick observer and clever writer. Then there IL
Dr. BaScL, whose Memoirs are to give extracts from
his master Maxmilian's journal written during his
captivity at Queretaro. Then book by q German
officer attendant on Max, which is very severe on
Marshal Bazane.