New-York tribune., 1872-05-25

| cartainIv an honorable and useful sample OF
j the class. His return to his own realm hoih
an extended tour in Europe, accOrdihs "
| TRIBUNE correspondence, was haiied ny HIS
| subjects with genuine enthusiasm ror
Bourbon, he was clear in his Judgment Ina'
| "there are only two countries IN Europe
! England and Germany; the rest Is ruOpisn'
last Summers heated controversies as TO
the right of professions in the pubic streets
| brought forth some wholesome legislation
| The law relating to street parades ought to
meet with general approval; it bears equally
ON all: and properly enforced, it will put an
end to collisions heretofore always imminent.
The necessary orders have been issued to the
police, and all good citizens will cheerfully
obey them.
Naturally enough, the success of the carpen-
ters, masons, and other mechanics who
"struck" for eight hours of labor, has inspired
desire to follow their example Other
branches of mechanical industry are agitated
with schemes for reduction of the hours of
labor, and it is estimated that over 10000 pen
in this city are now organized for this pur-
pose These workmen appear to have popular
opinion and sympathy on their side, and are
| likely peaceably to secure their object.
| Another of the agreeable series of letters
from Southern California will be found on the
third page of THE TRIBUNE to-day. The
writer discourses of "the finest climate IN the
world, Sir" as the genuine Californian
| always describes the unvarying zone In when
| he lives. Accounts agree that neither Nice,
Mentone, nor Florida can compare with the
Happy Valley of San BernardinO for salubrty
and life-sustaining qualities. The region is re-
| puted to support a population which is nearly
| eternal in its endurance.
The pledge of Judge Stanley Matthews
made before the meeting of the Cincinnati
Convention, to waive all demands for the ex-
preston of his views on the Tariff and unite
on Horace Greeley or any other candidate
whom the Convention might consider
the strongest man for the Presl-
Dental race, is published elsewhere this morn
ing. 1t is precisely similar to pledges gwen
| by several other men who, like Judge
| Matthews, have since been the loudest IN COM
planning of the very thing they said before
they would heartily support.
| Mr.. LOuis Bonaparte, some time Emperor of
the French, knowing that the frequent courts
martial now prevalent in France may result III
damaging disclosures about him. goes to meet
| all possible dangers, by throwing himself on
the mercy of the county and declaring that
be surrendered Sedan. This dispOses of all
the imperialist fictiOns in another sense. The
| ex-Emperor of course did this with the nOblest
motives. He said that the honor of the army
was saved, having made an accurate count of
the slain, which amounted, he said, to 14,O00.
He hosted the white flag, and the shells
ceased to drop in his neighbOrhOod; and then,
says this excellent exile, "ThOugh my heart
"was broken, my conscience was tranquil"
Street Contractor Browns laborers paraded,
yesterday, demanding from the Controller the
pay which they have failed to receive from
their employer. That they have not yet been
paid is shown to be due to the utter confusion
| into which the late revolution threw the City
| Government, rather than to the remissness Of
| the Controller or the unthriftiness of Mr.. Con-
| tractor Brown. The latter makes another plea
for a suspension of public opinion concerning
his work. But nothing that he can say can
make the streets clean; they are very dirty;
perhaps the public sense of cleanliness Is over
delicate; but the streets are, nevertheless,
Extensively unclean. Mr.. Brown says that he
has done his best Very well let him be paid
and discharged from his contract.
Probably the most baleful influence that has
been felt in Austria for many years will be
Withdrawn with the life, now rapidly ap-
| preaching a close, of the Archduchess Sophia,
mother of the present Emperor Francis Joseph.
Educated under reactiOnary influences in Bs-
| varia, during the whole period of her residence
| at Vienna she was not merely allied
with the Ultramontane opponents of progress,
| but became their chief. Whatever spasmOdic
inclinadons the Emperor has exhibited TO adopt
a liberal policy have been so controlled by the
Archduchess that the most sanguine friends of
progress in the Empire have been constantly
on the alert against betrayal of their prin-
ciples. In the event of her death 1T is not
improbable that the Emperor will consist
Papal Infalhbility.
That all the frauds in the French War De-
nartment were not confined to the time of the
Empire is evident enough when we recollect
that "empires fall, ministers pass away, but
bureaus remain always, and with them in
" tolerable abuses This phrase prefaced the
speech in which the Duke d'Audiffret- Pasquier
lately 80 terribly exposed the maladministra-
ton of the Ministry of War. In this speech,
a resume of which is furnished by regu-
lar correspondent of THE TRIBUNE at Paris,
the Empire received heavy blow, it is true,
but the management of the Republican bureau
does not seem TO have Jared much better