New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-28

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enough. taken with all the other little Sights
and ndignities, to count for "A first-cass snub,
and is no small item in the great list OF
his Affections; the almost universal enmity, not
unmixed with contempt, of the American people,
following the exposure of his plots TO destroy
their Government; the Mexican disaster, with
the disgraceful defeat of the French troops.
the great debt heaped up by that war, the
death of Max, the madness of Carlotta, the
proved inability of the French nation to pro-
feet the rights of its own citizens; the rlse OF
Bismarck, and his uninterrupted success IN
carrying out his own plans and defeating those
of his cunning and INSCRIPTIONS adversary !;
the growth of Russia, and the certainty that
she will soon strike fatal blow ut French
supremacy; the reproach of Italy, the falr
woman among nations who lies MANNED and
HELPLESS. beaten down by his coward fist, her
dead children gathered about her by her dying
hands-her children, her best loved, the pride of
her Young and noble life, slain by the Empcror's
newest toy. the Chassepot rifle, which, his
brutal general wrote him, has done wonders;'
the widespread discomfort at home, with NUT
terings from all classes that make up the lie
and strength of the nation, and applause only
from those who live by the follies and vices
that his low example fosters and his patronage
sustains-was there ever a picture so awful, so
ptiable as this; was there ever man seated
upon throne over whose head so black a
night mpendcd-a night without a starr
And yet, as if the Fates had not made him
miserable and ludicrous enough, they add, if
tins absurd story of the cap and sword is to be
believed, what may be called an insult, to their
unprecedented injuries This, them is the re-
ward of all his perlidles, of all his crimes a
hat and a sword, out of the medieval rubbishy
clothes-bags of the old Pope This is all the
makew eight he receives for the universal
hatred and dersion of which every day makes
him painfully conscious. A hat and sword
A hat probably of priestly cut, and make
believe sword in whatever make-belieye scab-
bard, tinscl- gilt and gaudcd with frippcry. Plus
IN. has, if report does not Halter HIM, a quick
Italian wit; and, if report does not belle Inn,
a power for bitter sarcasm. What keen ironlc
jecr what goading jibc lullls i'll this gift OF
which we see only its ridiculous sdcf Does
he mean 10 say, Dear eldest Son of the
Church, take this cap, which indicates your
"proper vocation leave affairs of state for
(which You show no aptitude; leave botch-
"ing Kingdoms and marring sister nations,
leave playing this poor farce of Imperial
Z" ism which your poor acting only makes
"more silly -come down from your throne,
"and narrow your ambition to some small
parish in this Italy of mine, which you, hence
" forth, may give your little help to me to blast
and ruin. You can do no harm by yourself,
f" but you will make useful tool for me and my
Il" dear Antonelli. And take this sword-nay,
d" do not shrink It's not a real one; stoop humbly
and let me fasten it to your side, where its gilt
A" tcring tinse may say forever, Let no man fear
me or my wcarcr, for we both are make-be-
lieve !" Was this the meaning of this funny
gift from the dying prince of Italy to the dy-
ing power of Fance7 Were these the aricu-
late words that this malaria sighed across the
Alps! But, oh, for Dclaroche to paint this
new Napoleon, sitting defeated in this Tuilcres-
Fontainebleau of hs-stained with mud, and
wet with sweat, not from one Waterloo alone.
bat from Il dozen not quiet and grand III his
despair, but sullcn and black. contemplating
his thirty pieces of silver for the betrayal of
Liberty, transformed into this miserable hat
and sword. That would be n picture. but
where is the Frenclman that dare paint il