New-York tribune., 1868-08-27
NEW-YoRK. TnURsDAY, AUGUST q, Is6s.

tho yOung folks al a Sunday school plc-nlc III Noui
set them into a laugh, and If they knew that
melon in France corresponds in humane metaphor,
70 cahbage-head in America, they might iangh inc
louder IL needs q suspicious french adlnihlstIa-
tive agent TO discover anything more 10 1t, and
very exceptionally, nasty Imaginative. police agent
TO invent any unClean idea IN connection Win tbls
drollery. That the administration Of LOUIS Napo-
Icons Government has sunk so dlrtlly low, we nave
the testimony of its official H0HiteU, which informs
the world that the sale of the Eclipse ON the street
mas been prohibited on account OF TINS obscene
printp Suppose now Mr. Gill, an honorable artist,
should prosecute the BoHiteT for defamauoni He IS
not donkey, and will not prosecute. But make
another superstition: The PRINT is obscene since tue
Oinclal MOier declares lt, ant since, less than
month ago. Minister ROuher asserted with what
scTupulous care its columns were supervised ana
edtedf Take either suppositlon, dear American re-
publican admrer of the powers that be here and Their
mode Of exercise but mark the material fact that tins
"obscene print" is to-day exposed in all sh0p-wln-
dows to public gaze Only it can't be sold IN the open
street booths.
Record Of similar instances of administering in
consistency cOnld be extended indefinitely i VIII
merely note IN passing that tue IRfenbie has not
been interteTed with directly by the administration,
aud that the consequent iInputatlon OF ITS beng
provocative agent encouraged 10y the Administration
- snatuay popular and. IN sort, probable, however
dsgraceful 10 the powers that be- and cut short the
Scandalous chronicle by an apt and "hlllng" quota
tion from eOtempOraTy publicist: What chaTac-
terses the arbitrary personal discretionary govern
ment by irresponsible agents is that under its reign
no one knows nor can know what IL permitted and
what Is prohibited for what tolerated yesterday
VIII be forbidden tomorrow, and what Is prohibited
TO this one Is not to the other"
Can any one of a historical turn of mind believe
that Government fallen into such qnagmire and
tangled mbrOgliO of confused, not mingled OctrOycd
liberty and assumed irresponsible personal power,
can stop where II Is or safely advance or safely go
back LAbime is the French translation OF (Chas.
Dickens.sl English No Ihoroughlare.
Last Monday was grand academical fete-day for
the high schools Of Paris and Versailles. There was
the usual annual assemblages of pupils at the Sor-
bonnie and giving out of prizes for scholarship in
ura md ppTe DTpgIdpQCe
ter of Instruction. II thought pretty piece of
tory imperialism that the Prince Imperial innocent
boy, should subpresde, done up IN best
velvet jacket and trousers and give
from his little subimperial hands the prizes 70
the laureats, most of whom were older than himself.
Among the laureats was young Cayalgnac, son OF the
deceased General When his name was called by the
Minister, and loudly appauded by the young audi
ence, he declined TO come forward. lie remembered
or as some say, his mother present reminded him,
that he cOnld take with but an Ill grace honors from
the hands of boy whose father had torn his honest
father from bed and sent TO midnight. prison
for 10 higher ofiense than not violating
the law and constitution of the land.
This refusal of his to be crowned by the hands OF
the child Of the man who stole a crown by killing
the Republic in It's sleep, had for consequence yarI-
ots manifestations within and without the Sorbonne
hall that day One Of these was youthully warm
applause from a boy friend Of young Cavaignac's. A
crime pardonable TO bOyish friendship, yOu would
thinkf Not at all. The mother of tins naughty boy
has been informed officially lnothing disagreeabe
happens that II is not ocia) that her boys name Is
erased from the list of his school
Adah Isaacs MeDken died here four DAYS ago. A
cotempOTary ObituaIian says; =" She took part IN
the American war She is much esteemed beyond
the channel and the Atlantic. Her theological works
are in high Iepute with the pastors. Her science
and cudtiOn marked her out for nobler exercises
than the equestrian ones IN which sho moved rs TO
admiration I'm substitution OF tins bosh, II can De
truly said that her poems OF which John Gambler
HOtiou has an elegant little volume in proof sheets.
are not 50 bd the ordinary run OF unsaleable vol
umes Of occasional poetry, better than many or the
salcabe Onos aud that with all her many faults, she
had the great virtue OF practical generous charity
The Minister Of Public Instruction sends VI. HIP
peau 90 study and report upon the primary and hgh
schOols OF the United states.
mentioned in my last the first OF series OF artl-
cles in the Correspondent by M. Chss, dHeTicagt
on the last months OF the Mexican Empire. The
second article j. now published. II is more curious
and Interesting than the first. can only make room
for the following sample extract OF an eNtrnct Of
letter written 50 late month before hs execution
by the man whom Napoleon thought ht 90 set up AZ
catspaw TegeneIAtOr and Emperor of Mexico IL rs
addpssed 10 q German scientific man: : W hat beau
can roads. Torinstance IN this curousY interesting
forest OF Capulalpam. have seen while the musket
balls were whistliug about me. magnificent butter
iies dying hither and thither. Here at QueTataro
We have discovered "a new variety OF bed bug lCincr
d0R9fcO Qudtiqrl that seem 20 have double man
dlbles aud that astOnish all OF IL j could have
brought bottles with me- might despite the preOc-
Cupai IONS OF tie war have preserved some of them
to show yOu.p Mind, IN this connection, that Mr.
ChAs d'IleIicault is not an enemy OfpOOr dead Max
On the contrary, his purpose s, next TO preserving
his sCfTcspcCt by strict sincerity aud honesty of mar
ration 10 present Max. IN the most favorable light.