New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-09
FRANCE.
NEWSPAPER GOSSIP OF THE LMrEIoE-THE
PRESS UNMuZZLED- ROCHEfORT AND HIS
LANTERNE"-PAEISIAS JOUENALlsM-TlIE
LIVE TOPICS OF THE DAY-PICTORIAL CARR

NEWSPAPER GOSSIP OF THE EMrEEOR-THE
PRESS UNMUZZLED-R OCHEFORT AND HIS
"LANTERNE"-PAEISIAS JOURNALlNM-TIIE
LIVE TOPICS or THE DAY-PICToRIAL Carl
CATURES AND SUPPRESSED JOURNALS.
IRON OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE
PARIS Sept 81 lSGq-In spite of the absolute stag
nation which exists, just in the world OF polI-
ties the newspapers full of interesting political
reading and cannot but think that Louis Napole-
on who is by no means an unntelhgent person, or
one uninterosted in intellectual matters, must take
some pleasure in the change that by his consent at
least if without the support OF any direct law per-
hitting it, has, since the 18th Of August come over
the newspaper press Among the numerous items OF
tttle.tatte and gossip that crowded the columns of
all the journals, official and unofficial during his
tedious illness gossip Of what he ate and drank, and
when and where, and how he ate and drank II,
gossip of how he makes his morning tea over asprit-
lamp with his own hands. and how his luncheon was
brought TO him on little round table by two lack
eys and how his luncheon game and fruit, or
chops and fruit and how he always in bed, eat
ing in bed presiding at the council in bed, receiving
his few visitors in bed: amid all this gossip there
was one item that interested me- viz. that he read,
every day. all the newspapers, excepting one or two
We were quito at liberty TO guess which were the
excepted ones; were free to hope that they were
not the sTrightly Rdppcl, the sensible and manly
peashootirg Rerel bitterer and more malicious than
the Rappe but not so earnest, and that the august
inyalid's time was not wasted and his eye
sight strained by reading the wrctched print
of the little journal 0Gcicl, and that he
! slept well enough, by the aid of morphine with
ont resorting to that tremendous seepng-potion the
| Constitutional. Louis Napoleon is said to have q
| great acknowledgement ways he takes OF showing
| it!-of English institutions; and, among thcm the
| freedom of the Press is which he not only adj
| mres but envles. Long ago he would nave gwen
freedom TO French journalists, his admirers say If he
could only have been that hey would use 1t IN
! the splendid way thersEnglish brethren do; but,
alas he was afraid that freedom the Press was new
wine that would not suit well the old bottle of des
potism and therefore he contented himself with adj
mirine that particular English institution in his
closet and made no attempt to establish it In France.
| Now however, that the Government is to be trans
formed, and new system tried the Press has been
| unmuzzed, and we are enjoying pleasure that We
have long been strangers to- Yes, for the time inc
press is actually Free and the largest liberty is al
lowed TO Tray, Blanche, and Sweetheart to bark at
| will against tho Government and everybody con-
nccted with it. You may fancy that the newspapers
are lively readng Rochefort's Ldntrm is still pub
lsbed in Brussels, and is Struggled into France. Ills
|
my papers Of but it contains nothing worse thah nc
puts into the Rdppel and nothing worse than othei
people put into the Rdppei into the Rerat ana even
into Figaro The consequence Is that there Is tti'
interest taken in liz LaH9Re, although something o.
this must be sscrbed to the false position IN whcl
Rochefort has placed himself by refusing to accep
the amnesty He puts it bitterly enough, saying ina
he does not choose to accept fayors at the hands
low people whom he does not wish
know, and who have never been introduced u
him. but the unfortunate fact is, that. as yo'
know, he is liable to arrest on entering France
OH civil charge Of having assaulted printer 10
which he has been tried and condemned " three
months Imprisonment. His attempt to ignore I'M
circumstance and TO give political reason Tor III
refusal to come back is not creditable to him, ah'
the French people, who are very quick at drawni
conclusions, have not concealed their dissatisfaction
with Rochefort's reasons. His photograph has dis
apDeared from the shop windows, the Lantern
hardly pays for the expense OF smuggling 1t mt
Paris. and donbt, if there were an election to
morrow whether Rochefort would DO put up us