New-York tribune., 1870-09-13

PalikaO gives strong strange, but hcownVo W
sontation OF the Partisan feeling. 1he Pro'in'.' w
especially those when are invaded have not CONN
TO this state of mind. They have two hialo'
dictiops In tbcr mouths-one directed against inc
Prussans and the other against the authors OF tho wa"
In making myself the echo OF discomfort, which po'l
cal and philosophical Paris has Thought III 10 PoS'P
have acted as "a true provincial. There are haheS "'
Paris no more mentions than II they dated from inc
twelfth century. Let attend TO the PFussiahs hiS
When the invasion has been repeled u VIII coSui" "
VIII make up its accounts, and wiz dispose OF ltse'
Novel and admirable wisdom among u.s. Hitc0ud ohV
continue it would simplify affairs, and would greatly
abrdge the great crisis Pleasures which formerly con
sued the great business OF life In Paris are NJ ho
longer Drilling working meditatng, there ID no longer
time or inclination for amusement Inc o"pi'"i u.
European goOdying, whittier NJ. Haussmahn attracted
all the eaters, the drinkers. the uterers OF tho world
has within few days assumed a spartan aspect
The theaters are closed except four ye which play
to empty benches. Dress has become palmer ana more
subduod gay toilet would be discorant as Iaise
note. An entire population which hitherto hau 'no
foolish habit of living upon its capital disconnhs the
future and making extrayagant abuse OF cred!'' mas
returned TO habits foresight of saving and OF that
worldly simplicity which constituted the strength ot our
forefathers, aud which unhappily now constitutes that
Of our enemies For twenty years We have been OF we
fancicd we wore too rich luXuries had been tOrceu
upon the most modest tastes and fortunes; pdrreh"S
being permitted TO set the fashion, il was almost disced-
ltablo not t. spend 100000 francs year. War mas
restored the credit of poverty We may now
venture to walk, and we no longer fear
to nsk four friends TO dine of beef and potatoes.
when think that only last winter scarcely six months
ago, the humbest bourgeois of Paris would nave los'
caste had he failed offer his guests sham Chambertin
and dis syuiSod Chateau Iquem with pheasant stuheu
with wooy balls. Tiue Ia miSere if 1t makes us more
wise at the same time that it makes us more manly
rar ris il hsfsu no tD
cieuy well without truies and that woman may look
pretty a 5Jf dress as in gauzy wane, which cost
80 louis We shall emerge from this crisis better than we
began IT, and France will gain in elevation without any
diminution of her surface"
RESULTS FRENCH DEFEATS.
Thus much for the material condition OF France. Now
LET Ms see how far the defeats yet suffered by the
French had been really fatal in military and political
respects should he inclined TO say they were not all
fatal of course, if do not take into consideration the
lives lost OF which the Prussans have lost just as many
il not more. they not fatal because II the
French army had commenced by success kttle more
serious than that Iudcrous during which the poor
child called the Prince Imperial received his baptism
of fire." the impetuous spirit OF the nation would have
pushed the army forward, and in the state in which this
army month ago. it could not have advanced De-
youd 50 miles without being utterly defeated starved and
dsorgauzed had then neither provision nor ammu-
milton ready Had they been intoxicated with success
the soldiers would have rushed to fight still less reasona-
bly, than they do and the Prussans would have mad
ample facility for not leaving single soldier alive to
return from the Palatinate the Rhensh Provinces
That purely military aspect Now there is political
one. You know the old and now quite inexplicabe
jealousy that exists among aserain section OF English
society with regard to the French nation. You know
also that the French Government had given reason to
suppose that had VOracOus tendency with regard
to Belgium, and you know the excitement which has
taken place in England with reference to the draft
OF the Secret Treaty. II France had been
victorious the excitement would be much greater.
England would certainly have done something to
prevent the further success Of the French arms.
Perhaps an alliance with Russia would have been brought
about. should even venture to say Engishmen would
not mind giving to Russia many things in the Orient
with the single view Of preserving Belgium In Its present
state At all events they would have done everything
to beat France VINO would thus have three enemies TO
fight against instead of Now that France has been
defeated that a treaty for guaranteeing the neu
trality Of Belgium has been signed, and that England
has suppose, received ample proofs that although the
| French Emperor may have speculated upon Belgium,
the French people had any Kind Of similar nen-
tons do not any reason for England having any
feeling Of anmosy toward its neigbOr other than that
old fashioned and half hidden jealousy which
still exists in few antique minds At least
regards the people at large In England,
know that their sympahes are with France, for the
popular instinct which is often very good index in po
ca affairs tells them that France is rival of En-
gland on any field whatever and that Germany Is rival
all fields that Germans already:taking the bread
out Of the mouths Of the English workmen that in the
bankers Office as well In the workshop almost every
thing is German Jewish, and that this Germanzaton
OF Judaization Of England is increasing every day and
every hour is going in the British Isles well as
in the colonies Nay even the American cousins COM
plain OF the invasion Of the Germans.
Besides this purely practical consideration, there s
of purely moral character. The English naton as
a whole, showed itself always Of the most gener-
ous-I don't speak Of its leaders but OF the peopleand
generous nation is always likely to be the side Of
those who have suffered and who have been defeated,
but who have fought with than heroism and in the
proportion OF against three, sometimes against five.
These circumstances alone place France in much more
advantageous position than IL would have been had she
had In the beginning Of the campaign.
But she has gained in other respects well She will
utterly transform herself that she has seen her
weak points She has changed all the bad generals for
good Ones and will be able 10 show TO her sovereign
well as to the whole world, that 1t is the people who
saved France from the position created to her by the
| Imperial Government. II may be said, all this
| has been too dearly purchased. True, but
mistakes must be always paid for, and IT is
| better to pay them even extravagantly than not
to notice them. Nations well as individuals
bear death as weas all sorts Of suerngs quietly when
they cannot be otherwise; what they cannot stand
Is suffer and die when they have the moral persuasion
that 1t could have been otherwise and that not they
who guilty Of the misery. To many salutary con-
clusion French nation arrived during the
weeks. call it gain for 1t arrived at them
at comparatively early period of the campaign, while
at the beginning might have blinded the nation
and led TO much greater disasters than those have
seen yet
DIFFICULTIES oP CORRESPONDENTS.
You might expect fromme pictures of actual fighting
but do not intend to give any such, for OF the
English correspondents have been allowed TO much Of
the battles, all the efforts made TO them met
with the polite REFUSAL the tenor Of which that when
the French military authorities victory