New-York tribune., 1870-02-03

Government
much talked of prefectoral changes ou, 81 ii
removals and appointments have peeh Vi i'''''
pOrtance. s.,o,oo Of
License has been given for the peIloii"""''
Victor Hugo's dramas in this city .....
nublic meeting was dissolved by the authorizes
loo, ricbt becouse one of the speakers c0mpafeu NJ
Olivier to Judas 1scarot
The Fofrie to-day alludes to the rumors ABOUT al
expected reduction in the army ana navy anu 40
serts that it has reason believe that they are WIN
ont foundation Ii expresses the OPINION tna' 'ne
nresent military and naval forces OF the country e
not too large,
Files Of American journals due here over week
AGO were distributed 10 their subscribers TINS AFTER
noon.
A THREATENING PROPOSITION DEFEATED
I'm the Corps Legislatif to-day, the proposition OF
NJ Grevy that the Presidents OF the Chambers nave
the night to demand an armed force, when necessary
70 insure the freedom of their deliberations was
debated.
NJ. NJ. Jules Favre and Emanuel Arago maze
speeches in which they recalled the TACT that
similar demand was made in the Chambers ten days
hcforo the corp Faf of $751; but was then rejected
After an exciting debate, the proposal of NJ Grevy
was defeated by a vote of 2l7 against 49,
THE AMERICAN MAILS.
The American newspapers have been received here
of later date than the lth of January though let
ters are at hand 10 the 10th. There is considerable
dissatisfaction at this state of things, and people
are anxious 10 know if it arises from the recent
change made in the system of carrying the American
tTansoceanic mails.
NJ. oLLIvIER'S FAILCRE-BLUNDERS OF THE NEW
ADMINIsTRATION-AN ILLIBERAL CABINET
NJ. GAMBETTA TO NJ OLIVIER.
IRON OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
D.,,s l., NJ E,oi1a 01liviar's efforts to make
oil and water mix are having the success that usu-
ally attend such efforts At present he takes comfort
IN the belief that the end he is after can be attained
by vigorously shaking the bottle. But he finds no
one ready 10 applaud this device but the majority of
the Chamber and such journals represent that
body. Ii must appear before long, should think,
that the majority of the Nation which is quite diff
fereu thing is every day feeling less and less conf
dence in the new Minister and in his colleagues.
The Imperiasts saying, and very justly, If you
annOuure both by your words and your acts an in
tentiont TO be more repressIve than we were, when
we were in power why did you maneuver to GUST us
from our place ~ And the moderate Liberals rub
their eyes and say You call this Liberal Ministry,
which has hardly been fortnight in power before
II begins TO threaten what it will do If things don't
80 to suit it, and which shows itself more iberal in
its conduct toward the press than the Imperalist
Extreme Left, there is no need of recOunting what
they say. They have however this advantage over
the rest NJ Olivier has not disappointed them!
Nowhere in the world, at present, are such inter
esting events transpring as to-day in France, but
nothing less than daily chronicle would suffice to
keep your readers abreast withlthe course of their
history. And most likely it is being on the spot and
watching the wave as it moves that most makes the
interest TroppmanD, whose name the telegraph in
sists misspelling though that is not matter OF
much Importance compared with its other blunders,
of which making Charles Hugo prosecute the Zap
pei and Pietri resign, two good recent specimens
-Troppmann was gullotined this morning, and one
ugly subject of conversation and writing is removed
at last but the crime of the other Troppmann, him
of Aueui has taken the place occupied by the crime
of Pantin, and even more profoundly than that dis
turbs the public mind 1t would, of course, be unjust
to make the Emperor in any way liable
for the brutal act of his cousin, but, IN one
sense, he cannot escape the consequences.
1t often happens that a crime of unusual
magnitude committed by some member of family.
none of whose members had anything to do with the
crime directly, gives occasion the trial for rakng
mp great deal of that familys private and scandu-
lous history. And it is in this way that Napoleon
III. has suffered by his scape-gTace cousins crime
Not day passes that the crimes of his own life are
not thrown at him, and often by men whose literary
skill is very great AS The London Times recently
said the difficulty that the wit of these writers is
irresistible and that their facts are not TO be dis
puted words TO that effect, which is a difficulty
for the Emperor and his party should think. l do
not need TO say that the I'd Of December and its mas
sacres is recOunted and over again, until some
times fear that il may become tedious, which would
he pity, but two events in Napoleon's life have
oh of lat eff
when applied as illustrations of recent events
When Felix Pyat and Charles Hugo were condemned
recently to fine and Imprisonment for attempts to
excite disaAection in the soldiery we were told
over again with the dramatic effect that
belongs'ofen to simple truth the story of the Empe
ror's own attempt-when he was simply Prince L6uis
Napoleon-to corrupt the fidelity of Leut.-Gen. Vol
Iol at the time he medtating the ridiculous at
tempt at StrasbOurg. Failing to corrupt VOirol, he
tired Col Naudrey, and, as is known, succeeded not
only with him but with others. What right, then.
shouts the whole body of IrrecOncilables, has the
Emperor TO punish crime which he himself has
committed In furnishing it, he condemns himself
And beside his crime tras "A crime. 1t was part of
secret conspiracy and the attempt at corruption
made IN secret But our crime is crime, for il is
simply appeal which every has right to
make to his fellows. and it is done as publicly as the
columns Of a newspaper can make it, We have done
nothing that We are ashamed to have all the world
know Of
Ihen again. when Pierre Bonaparte was sent TO
PRISON ioF Killing NJ Victor Nor, people said Why, lie
has merely followed the traditions of his family.
As Mr.. Smalley wrote from London 10 the Rappd. he
showed the taste for killing which is peculiar to the
Bonapartes And, then after reciting hundred or
infamous acts Of cruelty and treacbery committed
hp hat MI az Of 10