New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-01

oyp craze for the glory of arms. lie inoulneu
his inability to go to the Crirea, ana ne Ne
lieved firmly that he had a genius Tor wa'"he
achievement Il am conscious of possessing all
the great military qualities" he once Sa'd u
Nine. Cornu II also knew That nothing pleas u
the French more than successful cahpd's"''
that ia gloire" did great deal to dlstrac, d'
tention from inconvenent subjects ana tha' ~
conounr Austria an old enemy, and TO regain
the " ,nch frontier on the southeaS' "V"''
streUrtlen prodigiorsly the dynasty just rem
forced by the chubby baby IN Eugen'es khee'
Many people give the Emperor little credt TOT
unseldsS motives but Saint-Amand holds that
he vas not without thens-that he felt mat ne
had ,.ut. toward Italy. lis sec nd fatherand
ard IA land If lis ancestors. "A war IN
tended To drive the Austrians out OF ltaiy' III
which he should have command" Nine Corhu
has written. has been his dream from chi'u'
hood"
One OF the first steps in his plans for Itaiy
was his establishment Of a substantial ir'eh"
shin with the new car. Alexander II. the I'm
neror sent as his repI, entatVe ID the h"9'''''
coronation his brilliant. astute ana pron Sa'
hore hrofhcr the Count lie M1rny. and during
the festivities France SUP tssed every '''''
country in splcndor. 1t was De NORM c'"-
cl,siDn THAI the best Of all allies ior ''dhoe
was Russia. ard he used al his tact 70 Drihs
them into relations that would oblitera'e the
memory of the Crimcd OF that useiui iua'i'S
Of tact De Morny had 30 small amount anu Nv
Joined with il uncommon clear-Sishtedhess' NJ
dc Saiut-Amand who has been IN the ffc"c"
Ministry of Foreign Affairs for fjrty-t"o yei'''
and through whose hands innumeraoe us
matches have passed, declares That he mas tci'
none better than those Of NJ. De Morhy' '"h' "o
trained dpomatst has surpassed TINS i'Np'o-
vised one He believed that if De Mornys cou"-
sells had been followed the woes WHO" di'e,
ward bofell France would have been aVerteu
The results of his clever course ~ the -''i VI
were confirmed by NapoleohS suDSeducnt III
teryiew at Stuttgart with the CZar. "a" wv
royalties there assembled were fascina'eu ny Tue
Frenchman. and as for Prince Gortchakoff ne
was unable to praise enough what ne ca"e'
chat elevation of character. that great politca!
sense. those views at once wide ana prdc''cd''
that perfect candor and clearness" Napoleon
obtained a more than tacit concurrence III Hi'
mans regarding Italy and Austria; ana our au-
thor. who is much given to IFS, intlma'eS '"a'
"if, the Emperor had remained faithful to the
pact Of Stuttgart all would have been wen VII"
him thereafter. with the support Of the Cani-
u.
with him; without it, the earth failed under MS
feet What would it have cost him to avert al
his misfortunes? Simply non-ntervention III
tho affairs of Poland and readiness TO main
tain AGAINST all assaults the true alliance, the
only one which could have secured glory ana
earetv TO imperial France" Another result Oh
the STUTTGART meeting which especially pleased
the En,neror was his social acceptance among
,ho sovereigns The parvenu element was ap-
narentlv forgotten. He was in the period de-
scribcd bv Saint-Amand i most agreeable ana
natfering visitor and correspondent OF crowned
heads Whatever French dpomatists might
feel about England, the Emperor did his best 70
charm the Queen and the Prince Consort lie
appealed to a woman's deepest sensibillties ana
feminine pride when he wrote to Victoria: i
think that when one has spent some days with
you in the intimacy Of private life he goes away
a better man; so. too. when one has learned 10
appreciate the varied knowledge and the lofty
Judgment of the Prince. one comes away wiser
and more capable Of doing good. AS 20
Your Majestys children, they are all gifted win
such good and charming qualities that one loves
them at sight" But amable as the Queen con-
sidered him, she was too far-sighted not 70
fear the effect on France Of the projects which
at the beginning Of 1859 brought the Italian
war.
As FOR the Empress Eugene in this period. her
happness was at It's height. The birth OF the
Prince Imperial had strengthened her position
her husband was unfailingly kind and adhirins-
"You and the little one are everything to me.
he wrote 10 her In 1856 ct makes me happy to
see the moment drawing near when 1 shall see
YOU and our child again. and am so contented
about it that torment myself with thinking
that it is really too good to be true. and that
between now and then one or other OF you VIII
certainly fall i'll, or that they VIII not be care
f,I orcuoh when he goes near the pond.