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2 METTERNICH ON EUROPE. iMTtmttoiH with Prince Aetternlcb?Hi* flew ol' (he French Character?Contempt for the Balance of Power?The Polish Revolution?He Hates Isms?Condemns Jo* sophism?Austria can Absorb no Sore?Observations on Blontesquleu, Sue, Balzac, SUvIo Peillco, Kossuth, ilulzot?The Inde* poodence of the Pope and lapoleon's Scheme- The Kingdom of Upper Italy and fenlce?Future of Germany and FranceRevolutionary Jews?The Sick flan of Enrope?Thorns In the Russian Crown?Set* ternlch and His System, Ac>i Ac., kc? Nearly ten years ago, far my o*a gratllcation alone, I Committed Uio fuLr ving rolatlon td writing. I no# pub' ltah it without alteration, for It seems to mo that correc (ions would only dimmish its intrinsic interest. The reader is requested to go back to the end of the year 1849, and to remember that I merely relate what I heard, mitiiout enwririj Into a y discussion about it. I must premise, bus over?re'ying on my memory, which is vary re tertivo?that Prince Metleroioh has said all that I have related, am. for the moat part I use his owu expressions:? January, 1850. n) t'&uvucub :nouu, in. iuouuvtv uo uuboipio, log to pay his respects to l'rioce Metteroich, an old friend Of his family during his exila in Bruseols, I roaolved to ac company bun, knowing (bat I could never tuvo to favorable an opportunity of seeing that illustrious man. You think, said M. dc Bussiere, that ho knows you are tho author of nil those artie'es which have appeared m the Univer* against him He must have seen many othen. I re. lied : I would have no curiosity to see him If I thought he was a man to remember suoh thingl; be Bidot, I wish to excuse myseif from an> thing exaggerated Or erroneous 1 may have said, These aro mistakes which a statesman would know how to pardon oven to an enemy, ttnd we are not enemies, only opponents. VISIT TO MKTTEKNKH Wc set out on the 13:h or 14th of December, and on the evening of our arrival M. da Bussiere waited ou the Trlnce, and brought me tho assurance that I would be well received On tue morrow, then, we presented our" solve* at tbo door of the elegant mansion in the suburbs in which he dwelt during his exile; he who tor nearly forty years was the First Minister in Austria. This house had al ready acrjuiied celeorlty, Laving been built by the violinist Benot, the husband of Malibran. It was an agreeable and commodious dwelling, and contained a small theatre, Which then served for a t-UU a minger. We wore received by tho Princess, the .hird wife of M. de Metlerntch, Whom he bad married in 1830. She belonged to the great Bohemian family of Zethy; she w\s very beautiful, but proud and haughty. Hir pride, I was told, was very displeasing to the Viennese, but I found ber very kind and friendly. .She epoke Freuch.with ease and fluency without an aooent, but with that peculiar intonation which Germans never lose. It was not without regret that we saw aomo visiters entor, although they were famous people In Brabant. What a contretemps, said M de Bussiere to me; we will not be alone, and this lord and lady will cease talking of the rain only to begin again about the flue weather. PERSON'AL AJVKAIIA.VCK OF MOTTBR.VJCH. T..c Prince came from his study and saluted these im potant personages. I confess I experienced some emotion in soeing before me a man I had so often heard exec vied; whom I had for a long t'me regarded as the pillar of dospotism; oue of the executioners of Poland and Daly, jailor of Speilberg, the seaport of Josephism, &c.,&c. He was an old man of seventy-five, above the middle height, very e-'eC, and a mild and noble prcseaoe His abundant white hair contributed to render him still more venerable looking. Ho talked for seme time to the B'abancras; then re en taring his study, he made a sign to M. de Bussiere and I tc follow him. 1113 BITOT. I observed with a corner of my eye the furniture of this Apartment, ami what seemed to me the most curious object in it was a cage in which a canary was singing. I ?ras surprised lha' Hettornlch would allow himself such a Compairon. fie made us be seated, und then commenced speaking m a clear voice, and excellent atyle, relieved by a e-.gntiy foreign aocent. He Is as calm In conversation as in marine] in tact, hta prominent characteristic is sere i y, mioglod, however, with kindly eat re. ' your name ia known to me," said he. anl you aro cot ignorant of mine. I have been for a long time on the stage of the world; I have preceded the Revolution; X am what is called an old fogy; my species Is almost extinct. Revolutions have done more for me than I hove for tbem, and that without putting me under any obligations to tbem. They have raised me to positions to whi:h I would never have aspired, and placed them be'ore me when I sought them not. I bare not wisheu to be what I hare been; I have let thuigs take their cojrse. Cast upon the ocean of events, I lb jght only of directing the helm or vcy own conscience." MKITKr-NlCn OS ra? FRSNCH C3ARACT8R. tVlthoui waiting for any reply or any compliments, he entered imtuediateiy on the ailiirs of Europe, and especially of France, which I saw he knew imlmatc-ly. " Too French character," said he, " If singular and puzzling. Gonor&lly speaking, there Is in the world two kinds of in"n, those of the paat and those of the future?in other words, tte men of yeeterday and the men of to-morrow. Tae latter only, among whom 1 class myself, are of any account; for yesterday is past, and men ought to give their attention to the morrow, which is springing iutoexuloace Hut grem hmnn ?r,> thn n, -.f /. A... .2-. 1 the pi-sing moment. We step from tbo past to the Inure, from yesterday to to morrow; and the present day, the proceet moment, !e only a bridge connecting these two shores. Well, Prenchnun gxre up the patt. they forget it, t hey dexpii-- it, and without. thinking of or prodding for (fie future, Uuy otMinalety pmrritt in remaining on the bridge. France has before her at this moment j net two years and a half, and she Is seriously thinking of constituting herself into a republican {'residency, which means putting herself in a Btate of revolution every three or four years. This U> what she builds on. A future of three or even two years appears in her eyes long enough to do everything In." "We have," said I, smiling, "views which are something vaster. We have tnen among us, and behind them a great macs of people, who hope for a Presidency of ten years, and evon some who dream of the stability of a new empiro." "Ah, ah! Napoleon does not wish to moyo at the en J of bis term." "We third; so, and we think that he is right." "1( hj withdraw at the expiration of the tirfe for which he was c'.ectei,- Europe, and probably France, also, wotid be very much But how to remain, there Is the difficulty. la condition are jou bow? Yon do not know. All false ; everything depends on chance; every basis on which ta pround a reasonable conclusion fails us. ,*h! we have not yet got cut of the marsh. Wh?0 She intermediate power is suppressed, acd tho supremo power rests directly upon what is called the people, this lnaKcs at unpleasant juxtaposition, from which no good results. For tms reason do" man cac aay what will happen, or whore Europe is drifting. It annoys me to be \ asked my opinion of the future, for it sppt.rs to rao but , a cauidroi? where a'l the elements ol destruction are Beeihlng confusedly together. I know very wen what will redl1'1 from i'i but I am entirely gnorant of wr>. t , 0k *osn?irnn? and t:is balajtck of towsr. 1.1 i.'l?.n?? mal?10 France wbohas none such incalculable mischief, porhspi, without intending it, as Uonto-s?nHBU'.hn i. . chia,era ot an English constitution " and the balance of power. 1 say chlmer\ t because wh??. he believed he saw in I t Uns."j.j whst he holds up for our admurw*' * . I c Mttkm, doofc cot in realily exist there. ' 'on ???.I 1 tpeechtoeay thsu, there is a V.iut - it is a igure o. i . to<%- -*/ nive had, and ,v .uid commons in Eng 1 that ^a'JUTe -?y have now. only an aris 1 jJ.7 wr which " .. they hwe Lid, and still bsve, < T, rfe Cod no equivalent In Fiance, and ' r wean counterbalance the action ol a represocta- 1 5r government?1 allude to that admirable political saga- 1 j, that admirable love of tradition, that reellDg ol dura ] ,:uo, which has resisted up to the present time the changes of a representative government. But they are cneroacbing on tradition, and God knows how England will como out of It. The balance of power it a philoso t-hical Utopia?all power it in ill nature tnor etching anil int lerani qj a rival. We may have in one country raaay ordem, whose strength Is counterbalanced by a hierarchy carefully maintained, but we can have only one power. 31 we have two or more, it is not the balance, but the trtfo of power we must look out for. The conflict is fatally prolonged until one of theeo authorities is subdued, jnd. it frequently happens that both are destroyed. Woe ftotbeceuntry which wtnesses these terrible struggles, jou know something of UV" "Yes," I replied, "and the opposition to It is organized jtmorg us." vr * _ ' 00 10 l)e released from it," pursued the Prince; it win not be easily done. jt j^g succeeded in rooting ft wo formidable principles in your prejudices, at least. If government and the jubdi^onof property. Legislation has levelled exclu?lve right m the dust, aod reprcaeutative govornmoot is Constantly exciting troubles, which scatter this dust around. It is the ruin of the social state TW under Stacl these things better in England. There tho zovero jnent is stable, because the family remains, and the fa jnily remains because the properly >* subdivided I Ibo father of Sir Rooert i'eel h?d a considerahla ' fortune. He bequeathe! to his eldest m i ! thousand pounds a year, to the mud lbirl_ ' forty thousand franca a year, and o nig daueht^r* Sve hundred thousand francs each, it is this mat fair Hies are foondei and the void r 1' time lnf.i'libiv jmakos in the governing claaeos provided against I doubt whether you will revert to th.rc wise laws 1 rati er fear tor you and for the world, th > the revolution according to lis custom, will trinsform into laws these communistic doctrines as it has (Joue with many revolu Lion fry principles, for some time back order has buen re w tabllsbed by means and with a concurrence that rtn. riem It almost more dangerous than disorder Itself. F.torutiorTS orncot destroy the h'irr.tn spooies, an l bl?>i bow "vPr and corneals the scaffold. Laws exist destroy. ....a (ft] . - . Mi KHUlMi'l <*1., | Mil I BHYiHl 11?T> MOWTiLlMUlRT. The subject of conversation changed, and the Prince l>oko tc me of our Catholic affairs. He Btoppsd when tf de Mnutslembert's ntine was montlono ) and observed that he ba I always admir'U bis talent and sincerity. tVueu be made his dial appearaaie la public life 1 saw at once that he would push his opinions to extremes, and I ?*"d my eyes on him. The hasis of his ideas pleased mo. Amidst the errors mingled with them, hiiJ the impetuosity wtU wluih be made ibem kaowj, his ideas were mine. In 1811 he took a lancy to visit Uallicia, and applied to mo for pjr raisslou to travel there. He was too young, and his I'ihsU sympathies were top strong I.or me to permit hi a to travel tbiough that oountry, and probably compromise himself. lie was much auuoyed by my refusal, and Inst no ' opportunity of showing it. I did not feel the slightest ill ! will towards him, and I waited with patience the inevitable moment of reconciliation. I felt it had come, recently j when 1 road bli admirable discourse on the affairs of Home. I wished to make tho Qrst advances to II. do Mentalembert, and the person to whom 1 applied was naturally U de Saints An I alee, the Ambassador through whom I had refused him permission to travel in Galllola. I wrote to bim that his discourse was, in my opinion, as wise and true as It WU bold and eloquent; that It expressed all my thoughts; that I was ready to subsoribe to every word of It; and that, desiring to say so to the author, I begged Saints Aulaise to express this In my name. II. de Montalemnerl accepted my overtures In the spirit In whioh they were offered, and I was delighted with it. nis polish Rivourrioxiaw. "Yon, also,'' said tho t'riaoe, "nal a gooddoalof Polonism in the Univert, which has often led you astray. I am oue of the oldest readers of your journal; I have followed US LUliiBO WIU1 U1B luisruill 1 BMWays MUfcO UI HflvllU lUS'AS, sul your anti-Austrian polemic* mule me desire more | than ouce for an opportunity to enlighten you; but the opportunity never presented itself. However, for some time back, It seems to me that you have been better in farmed." " Tbere is nothing like a revolution, Prince, for opeuing ouo's eyes to the character of revolutionists. The I'oish revolutionist* have made us reflect, as well as others. Nevertheless, we love Poland still, and your llighoess will permit me to add that we cannot stifle our resentment against Russia and Prussia, and even Austria, for her conduct to tb?! unhappy oountry." " Even among honorable men," replied the Prince, "truth has one great enemy, and that Is ignorsuce. This has always led me to try and dispel Ignorance in upright minds whenever I met them. In this particular, therefore, I ail at your disposal. I look upon It as a duty, and certainly it is a pieosure to me, to answer any grave or well cuusiJered question. Therefore, if now or hereafter you are puzzled shout any point of contemporary history, and that you think there is anything la it that you do not know aad cat not thoroughly understand, question me." " I will prodt st oqco by your Highness' kindness, and r quest you to put me In pusseesion of the truth ai connected with events in Gallicis. " Vou refer to the rising of the peasants in 1846. That map the work of Polomsm. It undertook to get up a rob< 11:00 among the peasants of Galllcla, who appears 1 to It too favorably disposed towards the Austrian government. But two species of conspirators were working at the samtime, for Polonism conspired also against itself, and there w,"t in its ranks many democrats and socialists of the Frvnoh type, who looked upon property holders la ttis same light that citizens Louis Blanc aud Proudbon do. In place, therefore, of taking up *arms against the Imperial authority tliey took up arms against the proprietors, a large number of whim had given the easily excited peasants too much cause of com pi tint. The result was not what the conspirators wished, though they had prepared the way for It; It was a sml len and terrible conflagration?a true jacquerie. Much mischief was done before the government, taken wholly unawares, could interposo the slightest obstacle. It was necessary to use stratagem wheu they wanted power, and consequently they paid so much a head for every gontleman brought alive into the prisons. It wss the only m< itns we bad of saving them. The incorporation of Cracow, too, has raised a great clamor. Diplomatically speaking, that was the m<?t simple and straightforward aff.ur in the world. The three Powers acted not only for tht t own Interests but for the interest of humanity. They ba 1 received from the generous sentiments of the Emperor Alexander the creation, or rather the promise of creating, the State of Cracow, which had not in itself and oou id not have, any means or existence or oontlnuancs Tt y even went so far as to spoak of making It a free j town?a free town of a city completely surrounded by i po.vcnui siatesi jam ine cnimera or a commercial existence waa cot more extravagant than that of a political cx '-tence. In abort, they have only made a aort of holy ' city for Polonlam, useful in keeping up In the bosom of the three rowers the cancer of conspiracy. The Austrian government put an end to tnis horrible state of things. There was no treaty to prevent It. for there was no treaty, no ratiQcatloq, but simply a promise, which oould bo and which ought to be disregarded?lor to hoop it was dangerous. and to realize it impossible. Poland is an unlortunate nation. I pity her. She has - socio a lo'.iraale qualities that 1 resogmi i and honor. She asp.res to political existence again. I can well under stuul it. I have often regretted, and so has the Emperor Francis, the division of Poland. It would be well for Austria if she had no part in it: but she has not the power to dispose of it; the thing is done. But with Poland?which 1 again repeat is a generous nation, and worthy of compassion?we must not confound Polonlsm, which is a deteslible spirit?a spirit of disorder, of impiety, ol iniquity, and I have no hesitation in saying, an anti-Polish spirit; for it has damaged the causa aad even the name of Poland throughout the entire world. Yoa ask what is Polonism? It ta the madness of pretended patriot!, Who regard n?ih.og but the gratitication of their own pride, aud who would make heroes of themselves at the expense of their country. I hope Polonism is dead, killed by its own hand. It has received In Sicily, from Mierolawskl, and in Turkey, sickening.' " I give Prince Mutter ich's replies to qSMIohs wnich ha allowed me toask,aad not myown opinions. 1 was there to question, and cot to discuss. The Prince's explanations on the affairs of Poland are the explanations of Austria; they do not justify the other Powers nor Austria herself. Austria has not done what she ought to have done, as a Catholic nation, to guard against and to extinguish the antagonism between peasants and proprietors, or to make her Polish subjects forget as much as possible too nationality thoy i:..1 hat it Is truo, ol the other si te, that the revolutionary spirit renders reparation, and, consequently, reconciliation, very difficult. On both sides faults against I God have given rise to faults against men, which punish men and avenge God. For many years Europe has been j ecumglod In the complicated machinery of injustice from wh cb she cannot extricate herself either by diplomacy or i by arm 3, mi in wntcn mil nous or victims win bo mangled 1 until the true rights or man are secured by the recjgni- | tion of ate authority ?t ^?^MKTTKRMCH'8 wSUKE,T0 IJMi " Apropos of I'olonism," said the ?'lniei "bavc you over , reflected on tbo signification of thS WC.'d Ism? Too study of a language is the beat course of logic. The mind I seeks long and anxiously for definitions and deanuslrations, when the word explains itself at once. When tho French language added Ism to a substantive, it added to it an idea of contempt and degradation. Tnere arc, to be sure, exceptions, but let us see if the rulo will not hold good. Beginning with the most elevated subject: Theos, (rod; then think what The ism means. Royalty It do- | grades into rovalism, and liberty into liberalism. And j Foionism and ItaManittn, and nationalism, and popularism, Sc., Ac?all these isms are detestable.'' Prince Meiternicb carried his dislike to Isms so far that he objected to religion being called Catholicism, and ho criticised the use of this word in a public letter of Donoso Cortes. The reader will be pleased to have an opportune cf reading his objection audl)ono30 Cortes' reply:? I have such an antipathy to isms, and such a dread of the latitude It gives to any word to which it Is afllxed, that I cannot tolerate It even in words that seem little likely to submit to any great alteration?such as kings, monarchy, country. In the course of my long life I Davo looked with suspicion upsn partisans of royaiism and patriotism. I object even to Cathohcism. The Catholic ' church is a power that can bo strictly defined, and therefore fully comprehended, whilst Catholicism comprises pet eons and things more or less Cathelic than the church and its visible head. So with royaiism; seme who profess It are more or less royalists than kings or monarchies. J Ism suits Protestantism exactly, but not the Catholic ' " Lhurch. There Is no equality la their respective bases. I rn> > foundation of tne church is tha principle of I ' aethi, rity resting upon faith; tnat of Protestantism la sim- I P'y prn"*to J"dffm0nt: It haB neither more nor less weight ' than an* other question submitted to Ireo examination. And toll me iow nr)l Gallicanlsm lead to acnlam!' You I may m&kc wl n ,^8e you P 3a8C of niy observations. If ! t seem to yon ,1 e*af!?nratc the dangers likely to ' result from the un of lil'B ,w,ora',,e'' 1110 80i I may j 'xamine your reawn, 1 Wl'" fran.,c 'm?artiaiity, aided by J ny repugnance for orti*. wn' pewmum and nihilism. * MEITERN'ICH. I Don."*0 Cortes replied:? Whf a it la necessary as It?. n_ow-10 for 07ery ae, we mm.' u?o language that ert "y ?aa uua?rst*nd. it-try one understands by Catholicism.' 1 understand? hat is to say, the doctrines taught bo ,? 0'*urch; by *> ialism socia science as taught by aodlu i?8, and by phiosophism philosophy as taught by the a1. oeal0S of 're# I line lsBion. By tho help of th<#e words, wnloh have ; t meaning fixed and universally undersh. >0d< f c*o sxprcas ideas brioCy which other wis J w'ould r?yMrc tedious and labored explanations. Fo> exam, i pie, if In discussion I use philosophy In Place of philosophism, I must specify what system of philosophy I am contending against, for the Catholic church has her philosophy, which I never attack. Bat when I say philosophism, do explanations arc necessary to show that andcr this same I am contending against the philosophy of the partisans of private judgment. In the same way, when I speak of social science, as the Catholic church has a social science peculiar to herself, It Is evident that in using the word socialism, I speak only of that false social science taught by socialists. Isin is undoubtedly a sort of euphemism?a delicate way of expressing folly or degradation?and that It has been ap; Med to the best and noblest things proves the imperfection of human understandings. Thus deism and philosophism are always anl radically I bad, although philosophy l3 a good thing, and God is perfect. Lutburanism, Arlanism, Kantism, and all the Isms whose radical is a proper name are generally detectable, prim.lively and naturally. There is an unworthy royalism and an unworthy patriotism, and humanitarianism is as barbarous In sound as It is In meaning. This is undeniable, but it is not less so, that the force of truth has preserved Catholicism from any doubtful or contumelious Interpretation. In this cate Ism is only a convenient resource of language, which we eae certainly do without, but which In any case cannot, lo my opinion, bo productive of injury. There cannot bo a false Catholicism; In the bosom of this i'ght every error, and every tendency to error, Immediately receive# the mm which at once give# the itgnal for rea?in anl faith to be on their guard, as has happened on the first appearance of cartesian Ism, janaenism, galllconism, Josephism, r'gorlBm, mohlnism, lamennalslanism, globertism, k: , kc. Catholicism alone has continued to be always Cathode dos030 cor re j. 'Your Highness reminds me or Josephism ?that is one Of our grteviucea." " Josephism," he replied, "Is the plague of Austria, and all my lffe 1 have been fighting against It. Bat although Prime Rinlcver, 1 was esp'.-clally Minister for Foreign Affairs, and my loH^nc# was not paramount outside of my own department. Therefore the public hold me responsi ble for many things with which I bad Ilttlo or nothing to do. Hut this Is an arooyanco to which all public men are xpofc d My Oppn.ll. Ou to J H!.-pl)i*lB brought D13 into rood ct with tb? must troublesome and obB'.inr.o antagoorg at leant ojuui U) jours for obetlaacj and prlij U ' NEW YORK HERALD, 1 endeavoring to supplant UM divine Uw by Um human lav. Nevertheless they looe ground, for the nattimal sentiment of Austria and the Austrian dynasty roasts powerfully against this great error aC the Emperor Joseph II. Josepblsa la 10 its decline, or rather at its last gmp. You must out imagine, however, that Joeephlam tiaa ever prevented Austria from being Catholic?thoroughly and exclusively Caiiiolic io its policy with regard to the Holy See. Austria has no territorial ambition, and in Italy least of alt 1 will be permitted to say In opposition to these jwlilicul journals that talk of 'ambitious Austria,' toot A%>trtn it saturated?she com absorb no more. She ta great euough and rich enough; sho has enough to do to preserve what she possesses. The Emperor Francis often laid, He who proposes to add to the Austrian possesions?even a village?I would distrust, for he muxt be either a fool or on enemy. In France you ail talk of maintaining, strengthening and increasing your influence. You must augment French ailut-uce la Italy, in the East, in Switzerland, ever/ where. It is your constant unanimous Idea; and If your go van menlshad it not you would Impose It ou them Nor, there is nothing of that kind In Austria; ws have no su h ideas. We protect and govern what we possess And the Influence we desire to ex irctse In particular over the Holy Father is to place him ia a position to preserve his dominions and bis irecdiim. YKl lLUM'e IMI'KOSrlO.Nil OK KkTrKKXICH. I have related all that l'r.nco Hetternich sold to ms In our first intoiview. I confess that he fascinated me, and that all my preconceived ideas of the man gave way at once. I saw a man pre occupied with theselence of government, acting according to numamty and justice, studying ami endeavoring to correct and transform, without deeu-oying, relying on time and reason tor lucaess ratner than on force? s man who, during forty years of power, had boon guided Oy his conscience, and who could yield up the power be bad so long exercised, and past from the court into exile without permitting IhlB strange turn of fortuno to disturb his mmd or trouble his heart. When I took my leave he said to me again that he hoped he had always been guided by a love of truth and by his coa science "Thanks bo to God," added he, "I never bad to wan inug w Kuyw ?i?i i auuuiu uu. i uavv riaua wua out design or exertion ou my part, and without forgetting for ,i moment tUU it was essential to know how to do icLd When Ifcu moment arrived my reflection* have not taken five minutes. I have sold to those interested m the event?'This is what I think; this I can do?tnis my cooscieuce forbids. Deliberate, and if ysu do not con eider me usoful, do not encumber yourself with me.' " METTKKNKH'M Ol'lXlON OK REVOLUTIONISTS. The nest day I dined with the Prince, and the conversation turned on different persons and things by turns. Several trench names were mentioned, particularly those that were celebrated in literature?such as Sue, Balzac, and others, whom he appeared to bold in t' igbt estimation. 1 do nut remember m what connection the political advo cate was mentioned. " I have seen him," said U. do Metteruich, "he seems a heap of dirt ; one might say that be was born o( dirt, as Vruus was of tbe loam of tun ??a." That led us to speak of the Jews, who have played no inaighllicant part in the actual revolutions of Germany, and who prepared the way fur them by the writings uf their formidable and insolent pamphleteers. _ I saw that the Prin:e knew ati these Jewish writers' (piumeu itSam.irie) perfectly, even the most insiguifl.um of them, wh.trier in France or elsewhere. Thus be knew that W wrote for the good cause ; but ho sail that the Jews who take ofllce are as faithful us the Jews who turn Protestants. PRISONS AND PRISON DISCIl'UNS. Alter dinner, the Couniess Ztchy, mother in law of M do Uotternich, a very pious hwy, Pegged mo to repeat to the Prince the dcta'ls of what 1 bad been telling her of the eJilas of the Jesuit mission among the galley slaves at Toulon. Tbe recital into res toil bim, and he took occasion to tcil me that, having stayed some time in that city, he hac studied carefully the discipline of the bajne with the as8stance of an intelligent physiitan. "Among other observations of this physician," said he, "1 remember ibis one?that suicides rarely occur.u) bagnu, or priaona, and the reason he gave was, that thftcoudemnol are sup ported by hope. Those who are seflienced tor a specified time do not commit auiclae, because they expect to re cover their liberty, and those wne are aeatenoed for life do not, because they hope to be pardoned or to make their escape." "From whence it follows," said I, "that liberty la the boon that men desire most ardently, and that the hope of il a one renders the greatest evils endurable.'' " Yes," replied the Prince; " but when free they commit suicide. Religion alone cau teach them to endure liberty and life. "In Austria," he continued, after a short pause, " there are no bagna, there are only prisons whose government has been rr tigated perhaps more than it should bare lieen." " Yet, Prince?thecarcrredun." "The car cere dure la tbe strictest government, but even this has been mitigated. Those who have been punished in libera! countries with solitary confinement find the carcere duro bearable You recollect, I am sure, tho accounts given by the political prisoners?" "Yes, Prince." He raised bis hand, with the forefinger extended, shook bis head, GDd replied, "Not one word of troth in all that." I locked at hlci with astonishment and incredulity. He repeated the same gesture of denial, and repeated "Not one word of truth." "I certainly think," said I, "that tbere Is much exaggeration in Andryane's account. 1 feel it. But Peilico?" "Oh!" said the Prince with a grave smite, "ho has indeed abused the Intellectual superiority with which God endowed him, as he did the pardon which the Emperor panted him, and he alone has been able to make from a book of calumny a book of prayer." WlUX MKVTaRNTCU THOCOBT OF SILVIO rELtIOIO. "Prince," said I, "you astound me. Your Highness must permit me to say that I cannot accuse Silvio Peilico of having lied." "That he wished to lie," observed therrince, "God knows bci'er than I do, perhaps hotter than Peilico himself. But thu"e are 1|M and treason In that beautiTul book. Lies beca'jv^ 1110 facU are either invented or will^u, because he had promised, whuri he received pardon, to tu,s 8?vy the Emperor, and to do nothing v." prejudice. SI'viO and his accomplices had been coultmi^U1 fof conspiracy, en Italian conapiracy; you know now what >'u" manna. Ttcy intended to poniard the chief o Ulcers of ihc'??7?r(n" mcLt, beginning with the archduke. They confesseu botb the conspiracy and the projoct or assassination. TuT.7 were condemned to death, as they would bare been by ary tribunal in the world. Under my long ministry many hare been sentenced to death for conspiracies of this kind, but not one has been executed. The sentence of those gentlemen was commuted, according to custom, to imprisonment for life (careers duro perj>*wl). But this terrible careers duro was far from being aggravated in their case. There is a uniform t** a", t'ne p|.j. oners, but they were exemp* from wearing it; there is a Cham, but tbis chain, Which reaches from the waist to tho anc e, is a toy that would not fatigue n child. The diet is uat to palatable as the ordinary prism diet, nevertheless it. cau iie eaten; but to bring down to tho food of vulgar eHri,.'1*18 patriots so pure and stomachs ao delicato could not be U.*1u8ht of- A restaurant was therefore established at SpielW*? aud lte prisoners were permitted to order what they plesseJ for dinner?a permission which they generally availed tha^^TSS of. The dungeon was a light, airy room, und the "olltude or the dungeon was enlivened by a companion?not ni?P"sed, but chosen. The prison rules did not permit prison-?* to have books or writing materials, but to poets and thinkers could we refuse such a solace? They always bad bSoils, pens, ink and paper. "'How! you have read??'' "Iwasmysel.' astonished at it," said he. "I had already met with many similar examples of impudence and ingratitude, und 1 might have expected something. But iu o Buipuacu bii i naa Known or couia expcct." I repeat that I merely report the words of M. de Metternich, without thinking it necessary to comment on them 1 do not discuss. I lay before the reader testimony the character and Importance of which he can appreciate. "I believed formerly," said I, "that having spared the Uvea of the prisoners of Spielberg, the Austrian government bad formed the design of biuiifyiug them." ncrrERyicH a>d oocht co.NFtLo.viBRi. "You must at least accord to it the merit of not knowing how to acoomplAh it, for many of those prisoners tiavc written, some with talent, and all have given proeft of a lively imagination. The truth is, only one of them testified gratitude or behaved like a man of honor, and be WIS the cnicf of tbe conspiracy, Count Confaionieri. 3ofore be was mixed up with these adairs 1 bad known him well When be was tracalerred from Milan to Spielberg w passed through Vienna. I went to the Emperor and laid to him?'Oonialoniori is here ; will your majesty jernut me to converse with him? I would endeavor to iraw from him some information, which will, perhaps, lerve in future to prevent the recurrence of theee mal iom-piracies, and to preserve, at one and the same time, ho public peace and tbe lives of many unfortunate men. be leve th.it too sentlmonta of Confaionieri are so noble hut I would not apply to him In vain." " Yos, certainly," Aid the Emperor; "go nnd see him; I permit you; and na; you obtain what you desire." I went to tho police jea. << -tera, and there 1 found Confaionieri, seated on a ir' t an apartment Itke tb's in which we now are. He rot |c?t .Iter aupuer. "Count, ' said I to him; "I coma o a* ireta myself to your reason and your heart. You laru formed an enterprise which c&nuot succeed; those ?ho a'tempt it after you will fail as you have done, and nust submit to the severe Tate which is before yon. 1 one now to ask you If you think it rigat that ll.ers tbouid fall where yon have faileu, cr if re ought Dot to seek, rather, you as >n talian, and I as Minister of tho empire, some moan: (for loubileas there are some) of avoiding tho like follies and he like catastropho*. Yonr 'Me is tiled. I do net come o annihilate hope, neither do I cone to promise % pardon, rhict le any case would be very alight and 7ery distant. Tou hare nothing to hope, and nothing te '.ear. Unreinersation will be like that of the living with the dead, for on are dead. You can do nothing for yourself, but you nay warn others that they may not die like 7011. In the Bterost of humanity, then, tell me, do you know what be Emperor should do to destioy the plague of conspiray ' iic-ioro all things," and Uonftlonierl, " I wish to ay to you that I aocepi my fate, and that 1 have deserved iad the r.ghlto be more severe. I Lb ink bim for hiving >eoo merciful." After these preliminaries. we talked to jethar quietly, and [ will B17 nobly, and like Christians, mttl one o'clock in the morning, tie spoke to 'no in ail liicertty, and gave me soon ad vi ae which did infl iltely more credit to bis patriotism and bis reason ha 0 the rash Intrigues into wnich he regreted that be had been drawn When I left him he retewed the testimony of bis resignation and grateful reipect lor the Emperor I told mm that 1 was happy to tnow the condition of his mind and sou'.: that I saw in it it once a strength to support '.ho rigors of a pr.soc , .11 * ladder by which he might leave it. He noyer c> -.god; he was worthy of pardon before and after rev... eg it, and he alone. But the others, before publishing, left in my hands evidence against what they have sr.;t .1 I neglected to publish It. for Austria does not like to defend herself in this way. However, I bsvo this evidence, and it will one day sec the light " It" I*rince, it '* too late already. The prisoners' writings have been read by every one, and the result has been more disastrous tor -Austria tba 1 the loss of a battle." 111 do not pretend to think otherwise. But oven If the imperial government had coaneuted to wage a papor war against adversaries it bid pardoned, it would havs been s useless humiliation, for the battle would have been lost just the same I believe thai .or some time to come governments will lose every bsttlo in which tosy engage age. r.' revolutions, and that even victories will bonib<H t? t'.an defeats. Against rerolntio-s ore-j governm int fif bis in an'ii my ? country. Tt.e decreet of Juries hate r,; t t'-e rati '.I >n of public rpinljn, atd H the Hecii*n,;o is n Vrv'/t.L . _ .ncd'..-.t-';, ". ir tcrcr or v? rj. 2 4a coucUiUcKi Yj iayw hceojust, and although it may fONDAY, JPLY 18, 1859. appear for (he time to have been a toeing game, pet in after life, at my age, or in any poeittoo, a man anil approt j of it, aud say If it was to be done over again bo would ?c In toe tame manner." untlrmk-u'e opinions or thi hcnuam** rhvoldtion? ill* WTIMATB or UOBHUTII, KTU. We spoke afterward* of the Hungarians "Da you know," said the l'rinoe, "what haa bappoued to Zeoheuyi? Be ha* loal hi* *euae*. He wai a liberal man?oaturady well disputed?a aorl or Lafayette, and an eoouomist. I had a long conversation with him one day. 'My dear Count,' eald 1 to him, 'you with to benefit your couutry, but you are doing It a great deal of harm The matori *1 ud vantage* thai you would proeuru for It iajurei It morally,and the moral evil will remain, while the material advantages will be lost in the terrible oonvulaiona of oivil war. Hungary i* not ripe, aud no country aver will be ripe tor the ideae you propagate. You will be outstripped, B?nt adrift, deeerted. The popularity you have obtained by tlaiiering their paoaloos you will loae in the Oral attempt to restrain thorn' llo did not listen to me. and the miachief I bad foreseen happeued in spile of all the obstacles I bad thrown in its way. About that time ZechOnyi booame Insane, aud it was necuisary to confine him. He has some lucid intervals, in whiuh be speak* of hut couutry and what has been cone there, at lirst in a melancholy strain, with a feeling of gentle sadoesa, then he becomes excited, says be was warned, that l'rinue Metiernich told him bow it would be, that it was his conscience that apoke?that he knew it well, and that he was lost bo cause be did uot listen to it. He trembled, he shrieked, he foamed at the mouth, he endeavored to indict bodily injury on himself and others, and at last it was fuuud l ecrsstry to put on a strait waistcoat. It was a mournful triumph for me, added M. d? Metleraioh, to be always Justified by the very men woo opposed mo. I had a similar conversation with IHtihimy. He was not worthy of pity. He has done, and he wished to di, mdcifeiy more harm than Zechenyl. 1 sent him word to come to my residooce near Vienna, where I spoke to him cordially and seriously, but I saw that I made no lmpres siou on him. ' Count Uattbiany,' amid I, when he was taking leave, ' you will porsevere in your present evil course, sod Ipredijt ' 'What!" 'That you will be hanged.' " I aaaed the Prince what he thought of Koeeuth, aud he nniaitfA/l in Ann word. whic.h did nnt iniii.'filrt m vhpo hiirh opinion of this demagogue, or rather which planed him on level wttb Ballhlany. I continued tne conversation: " It teemi to me," laid I, " that he possesses enth unarm." " He ia rot even an enthusiast," replied the Prince. ' and among tbe military leaders7" " Toete is none of any account. Thore are some soldier*, but no men." UIS KXPLANATION OF THE WOUDA "I'RI.NC'IPLK" ANS "DOOTrtlNK " These were the most important topics touched upon during this conversation, wh.ch interested me quite as much oa tbe first. Prince Hettornicb does not declaim, he C4ii,verst-s, and converses to perfection, wandering at will from anecdote to anecdote, aud making irtle Jigresil.ws in the spirit of that upon isms. His momolrs would be delightful to read If they preserved this piquant simplicity. 1 must note here the distinction he drew bo twenu principle and doctrine?two things of which peoplo Speak a great deal, which they refer to frequently; which they often confound, and which it is necessary to d'stiDjniiih between carefully, because, in fact, they are Oft''!) very much alike "Principle and doctrine," a&ld he, "are two pieces of ordnance of equal calibre and charged with the s.nne kind of ball. But principle is a cannon turning on a pivot, it can fire in every direction and strike everything that opposes it. Doctrine, ta a cannon placed in an embrasure, it can only fire in one direction, and that straightforward. When 1 was in London, I conversed a good deal with si. Guizot, who was always a little of a docuinaire. On many subjects we thought alike, but on otaera we could not agree. How do you thtnx I parried bis argument*? I simply placed myself beside the embrasure and raid, 'Fire sway my friend, I am under shelter.' And nt reality I was under shelter, and although he knew well bow to make the meat of feeble arguments, his strongest ones could not reach mo. 'Does this distinction satisfy you?" "Perfectly, Prince." "Wcli, I give it to you." TUS INDSlH-tDKMIB OK TDK I'Ol'S. .At lie commencement of my third visit, the conversation returned to the all'alrs of Italy aud ol the Church. The Prince again bore witness to tbe Catholic feeling of Austria. " Like all the nations of the world," he said, "Austria Is interested in tbe indepecdeace of the sovereign Pontiff, and she will commit a great fault not to respect it. A superior degree of understanding is not necessary to comprehend that that independence which Intern is us so strongly does not interest other peoplo less. This is what 1 have always endeavored to bring to me comprehension ol' those persons with whom I have had occasion ol .resting that subject of first importance to Europe 1 have not founded the necessity of tbe iiborty of the rontiff uhd of the maintenance of the Pontifical State on spiritual reaaons, which those feeble politicians would not admit, or which they would treat with mockiiy. I have said to them: You cannot deny facts. You cannot deny that Europe cannot exist without Christianity, and tnat consequently the chief oi the Christian religion is a very great and very powerful personage in Europe, whom no ooe has troubled impunity. That it is necessary that this gie&t and powerful personage should occupy some place, you cannot deny. It must then be eithei bis own place or that of somebody else. If b? occupies tho domatrs of somebody, ho Is in the power of somebody. Rut I, who hnvo Catholic subjects? that is to say, who dopend on the Pope?how could I, without exposing myself to very great inconveniences, tolerate that the Pope should have a master? If the Pope should be placed in a dependent posit'on, that person, Bilmflwi.e im rwicrhf hfl nn whom ho Honorsila. trrmirl ho mister in my dominions, and in many c*ses. easy to be for "seen, be would be more maater than myself." "It is not as a Catholic,'' be added; "it is as tbc Emperor of Austria that I wish 'bit tbe l'ope should live in the t'ope'R on country,and not in the dominions or another." "Acre is a point which I advise you novcr to uecicct in your polemics. You seize on the understanding or men In presenting these evidences to them." "Iideedl" I exclaimed. "Ah! yes. Indeed! When It is necessary to produce evidence, it is demonstrated in vain, inasmuch as those to whom it is offered do not wish to see; and many of those . ( wish to see It make baste loosely to forget it to com,' - o who resolutely denied it. Notwithstanding, f' will always be, consciences which will there are yet, ... ... be clear, end every clei' wvasuicnco IS gj} (liW?vs te strong." SAPOLEOX'S FOR THK POI-g. I had a conversation with *poiion one day when the l'ope was at Savonna, a prison*' of Franco. Napoleon was not wanting in a certain affection io* me, and he knew that tbe Pope honored me with some evidence. He called mo one day aud said to me?"Do me a service!. I am tired of the captivity of the l'ope. It is a situation from which nothing good can arise, and it is necessary that it should not be prolonged. I wish you to go to 3avonna. The l'ope grants you his friendship; you will speak to him on my behalf, as a common friend; and you will Induce him to accept a plan which I have arranged to settle that unfortunate affair." I observed that the authority of toe Emperor would be neoiistcry for me. "Do you refuse me that," he replied. "It Bcems to me that you will be in no way compromised In employing your efforts for the peace of the world." "It Is that," 1 continued, smiling, "I doubt if that is ready peace which your Majesty proposes to the Pope. Will you make your pian known to me?" "Here it is," said N'apolrvitt in 11 varir trarmnil mannas <?Tn tntnwa lha tJan the Chinch would not be any more at Kerne, Dut at Par la." I -cm id sot restrain a movement of surprise and a smlla of incredulity. "Yes," replied that formidable mas, "I will bring tba Pope to Paris, and I will establish the See ot tlje Church there. But I wish that the sovereign poatifTshould be independent. I will give bim a comfortable establishment near the capital. I will give bim a chateau, and In order that b? might bo In bis own bouse, X will make the territory for tome leagues arouud big palace neutral ground. Be will there have his college of cardinals, his corps diplomatique, his congregations, bis court-, and, so that he should want for nothing, 1 will guarantee bin an annual endowment of six millions. Do you think be will retuse thai? "1 am sure he would, and ail Europe would support him In bis refusal. The Pope would llnd, not without reason, that he would be as mucb a prisoner with your six millions as be is at Savonna." Napoleon declaimed very loudly?abounded In argument, and alleged a thousand stunning reasons. At last I said to bim : "Your Majesty has drawn a secret from mo. The Emperor of Austria has had the earns idea as yourself. Be sees that you do not wiBh to send back tbo Popo to Rome: he does not wish the Pope to remain in prison; and he also thinks, nut withstanding, of making provision for bim Your Majesty ksows the royal chateau of Scbconbruun. Too Ktnpo ror will give it to the Pope, with a territory of ten or ttfteen leagues, entirely neutral, and be will add an allowance of twelve million" of revenue. Tf the Pope accepts that arrangement, would you consent?" Be perfectly understood the apologue, but he wan tba stronger, and he wished to have toe opinion of Plus VJ1 on his pbui. The sovereign pontiff replied, as I had so easily foreeecn, That Savonna appeared to him as gol a prison as Paris: that he was there, moreover, in the centre of the church; tbat bis conscience was htu free territory; that six millions a year were not necessary for his wants, and th.it twenty sous a day, which be would thankfully receive In voluntary alms from Christians, were suillclent for him. tiik KisohOM or rrrsa Italy. Tho convorsal.on imruadiatuly reverted to tbo aTairs Vk 1UC rnun: :i|-wou wiiu yBIW *- lutr-uipv ut iwi.ia', unltarianism. "Or all the cbtmoroa of the t'mc," bo (laid, "perhaps that 18 tbo boost stupid. That which at the most mifebt be conceived was a kingdom of upper Italy, formed of Lombardy and Piedmont; but union is opposed to tht character or the tare peoples. At CLio bottom of all those patriotic pretences which were purposely held np, the illusion oould be clearly aeon. Political towns bate each other?commercial towns wish to destroy car.?! other. Milan wishes to absorb Turin, Gonoa wishes to devour Venice." rag Fosmo.v or rates. If Venice lcavoo the Austrian dominion, she will fall Into immediate and absolute ruin. Genoa and Ancona are not ignorant of ibat. I would like very much, on my own account, that Vcnlca should not be necessary to Austria as a military position, and that it could he abandoned, that would be a great relief to the treasury. The Imposts el Venice merely suffice to pay for cleaning the rtnrls each yoar To keep up the city, to prcscrvo the palace* from falling to ruin, and to fl'l up the lagojDR, the F-mperor bas to expend many millions every year. The breakwater which is on the poiut of being completed to prevent Use harbor from being choked with sand hag cost thl-:v millions. It is not Venleo herself thit could perform ruck gTcat works; nolthcr will It be tbi kingdom of I'pptr Italy. Tho rival cities would pin a atop to It. I Taat groat wreck cannot remain standing hot under the protection of a great empire. tits swiss soyn?.!>nrer> "Your Highness," said I to tbe Prince, "will permit mo frankly to address you all the questions which I desiro. I would like yon to tell me how it Ig that Austria has aban- { doned the Henderbundl"' Voluntarily. When I gas the people were greatly agitated In tho PrAeahnit cantons to obtain a united c?i:*tttdt in with ths s ow of cn.ehirg the Catho Hot, 1 Saul i\ nr. tbe llrst a word which In familiar to you is ( an"?I 'r. * 1'aosn w.-p in fact the uytnntomn nf nu ( yd ns'fli I b".d ba l the iimc and occafiiil to stithy. T l.i'l re eht to -h?elr to'1 fi?rern,n of Tho roc* urarv b*r t piadcnt myc, '.res. 1 s? d to the people o( I.accrue, (woo , wort besides perfectly In their " Do nut call upon t the Jesuits; do not five to the |Ks?r*1* '-hat protest of a roaring aad of obtaining aupport In w^0 fo"J' ?r opinion." Ii I aald the same Uung to the Nuooto, la Switzerland. who t approved of my view; to the I'ope, who . tpproved; to Ui-> v General of the Jesutta, who alao approv.V ,jf " U wis t not that 1 had lira leaat reeling agaioat the /tsuits. As a y Obrlallan, 1 venerate them, as a statesman, I v1Jl' ? them ; one ot the grandeat social Institution* whiea baa ever I J been realized in the world. But their niuno w v >u arm i t which I ()Dd ll prudent out to leave to the patera 08 " J vagabond* and (be prejudice* of fool*. tl l'bu government of Lucerne tonic no hoed of my ?<K'L tl *el* Instructor* were required for tbeir youth and Mwh' fi clergy, It believed that there was a necessity ' i eal&oitsh its rtgbt. It tnereforo demanded the Jesuits, and with such insistence mat ihoGouerai of IhftOompauy of Jean* th louno bunaelf obliged conscientiously to give way, what- " ever might occur, aud he foruaaw whet would be the re pi suit The Jesuits entered Into i.ncerne. 1 esborted the et canton to maintain wbat they Lad done m the perhaps ie - w opportune but togiumsie oxoiCisenf their undoubted so- bj vereigniy. sy tnwortd'noNa wru nunci At the same time 1 enceavorod to oome to an agreement w lib Frauce for the protection of the rfciniorhu.il, and '.-? 111 hold up tue head agaiuet the radicals. I 'ound the French ** J;ov*rntuent, I am bound to aay, very enlightened, very 111 oya:,vory resolute?in short, lu the best disposition poo- P1 alble. It recognized the rights of O&vholios, ll wished to fr , protect and maintain the agreement. But these pre..- " minariu* Mopped, aud when it It was necessary to act, I n was just in the middle of the affair. 01 1 said to M Guizot: "Let us proceed In common; let as ?' intimate to the radical can to us that they must lesvs the 01 Souderbuud in peace. An energetic declaration will be ^ sufficient, I hope, If they see that wo are r ' '''?pooed to ; JPJ icoede All tnc l'owors are In acoord with us except one \ only?England : we can pars by ner." u Howssof my opinion. But we soon had the certainty & that our deciarauons would not intimidate, and Unit more energetic measures wuutd be necessary. Iptoposed 8' to H. Guizot to enter Into Switzerland immediately, in b equal lorco on the stme day?60,000 men on each side. cl M. Guizot found himself before the Chambers, ho heard " -* - .W.. ? _? V.. It IUO ?: ; HfUBW OI IUO MJIJMI1HVU VUD IJiUI '/l ?UO |/l ?)oo? the tumuiti of discussion. 11a hesitated. ' Go on Hint,'' ni be Mid (u me;" 1 give you nay word of honor 1 will come ?' after, Tbe pretext of your intorvonuou m ueooeeary to I* authorize mine." J1 I eaw m my turn where that would carry us. " No;" Mid 1 to biai. " I do not doubt your word; moreover, I P do unt doubt your iblenltons; but I very strongly doubt P your coneUtuUooal possibilities. You will engage la it, 1 P am cont'aoed; but uo person, cot even yourself, could 11 tell me under what title you could enter If I took b tbu lead. Will you come to uid uie to subdue the radicals, or will you come to aid " the ranicals to cru?h the Sonderbund? I cannot face the?e v cooipucut one; I cannot capote myself m i..o name mo- b oicni to nave the radicals and France upon my band*. See c well that I bind myself to you for a plain action, common * anu decisive, beiere all tho world. Wowillentor at the 4 same u,indent, and proclaim the same viow." He did not wish to understand mo at all; aud I saw ? that we cnuld do nothing In snort, we did nothing, and '' ttat was tbe signal lor the fall of the govornineatF *j The wetliable calmstiophe had arrived; for a long tune before political science could de nothing more than * to delay me hour. On Uiat cocaslon M. Ouicot failed in resolution before public spirit in France; perbups also t 11 fore tbe atMTOin?ole policy of England, whxh d:;eirod " everything that. ban occurred. "And yet," s-id I, "wtcit " will become of Germany? what will become of Franco? ?' what wiil w.me out of all ihls?" ? TI1K KCTI'kK OF (IKltMAXY A ICO FtAJICK. . j I do not like, be smilingly replied, questions which c m- a pel mc t..o much to scow tbe bottom of my bag. I do not r see clearly into the future. The present state of all org ? disconcerts all prcTialune. What will be the result of all that? There will be nothing good. That is what I have to say. Do you pay attention to all the changed "of tho reel. Austria has not finished, neither has Gormony. There are two mobsters wbicb menace Herman/, und one. if not 1 the other, must devour It. 1 believe that we might say both of them. Tnr one is Teutoniam, tho other :s Prussian ism; the one and the other strongly imbued with Jacobinism and with Protestantism. That creates "isms'' enough tor an unfortunate country. In regard to France, It Booms that she has a groat many chances to withdraw herself; she knows, howov?r, it must A' be by revolutions. In tbeee her education lsootnplcte. She oi is within herself, like a grisetto in a student's ball; she kno v* tbe customs belter than a woman who finds herself mere tor m* nrsi time. Till: UEI1KKW RKVOLUTIONAKY KL1CMENT IN GKKMANY. BC There arc revolutionary elemonts in Germany which ? have not yet come luto serviee and which are very formidab'e. The Jewish element, for example, It 11, I l* believe, tnoficiiBivo in your country. Zt It ie unknown. The Jew*, except In certain corners of the provineer vbore they carry on commorce, have no "r particular tol* In Franco. Those who have appeared arc incidents, and are not properly facta and signs. The , Jewish venom is not felt in the unbelieving mass. In burmauv it is altogether dilleroot. The Jews occupy . almost the first role, and are revolutionista of the first .J brood. Tcey have writers, philosophers, poets, orators, ' publicists, bankers, and in the head and heart all the ' weight of their ancient ignominy. They will have a ro- ! doubtable day for Germany, followed perhaps by a droad- j fui day lor themselves. % "TUB 8JCK MAN OK KTIWrE." ? Will your Highness now permit me to draw your alton J tion to something else. You know how wo are prcoccupied with what we call the Oriental question. Wnat will be the feelings of Austria towards Russia In the fu- ^ ture events of Constantinople f Austria is engaged by motives the most pressing, the * most essential and the most desirable, to maintain the In- ,, dependence and to prolong the existence ol', the Ottoman Empire At Constantinople sue is too boru adversary , of Russia. Between Russia and her there will not bo any , agreement on that question. There is one now?it Is , recognized necessity?the settled understanuing of doing , nothing, and of adjourning every complication. Russia, , Which von believe !? ?> ??ueb pw?o<i tn take Constantinople, ts cot pi usacd at and for two reasons. the first , Is that, in general, '.jo beir at inustai has not that eager ness of laying ^an'de on hlB inheritance which is generally , seen in hci's by testament. It is not generally tne natu- (| ral and. infallible heirs who poison tneir progenitors; it Is c those who do cpt Inherit but by virtue of a gift, suBceptibio of be log altered Tho second reason for which Russia did nolo.-? Vic'the '-" asameai which , . -d#on "6 immffise VJU?- -with that advancement would cast upon her. Horatuu. ? - ?? . r Europe would be multipled in a mist Aggravated manuef, ^ and, at the same time, she would haTP thrve capitals. ^ Two are already more tnan enough. f THORN1* IN TUB CKOWN OP RUSSIA. . ( The empire at Constantinople will be the certain ruin 01 1 St. Pcto.-sburg aud of Morcow. Consequently with a groat ?, deal o! ailau* on her hands in Europe, there wiil be a great n deal of discontent also in the empire. Before removing god coming to take up a residence on the Bosphorue the ol Em;*ror would haw a great many quretions to settle at I home; many joints la regulate: of which there are none w of little importance. lie knows that perfectly; and tbero si are thorns alto, terrible thorns in his beautiful and pro- ni digiocs crown. lie waits then, with much freewill; but ui you K/enchcieu wish that ho would make haste. In ai- r< ways repeating that he wishes to go to Couctintiuople, bi tba' he is preparing to do so soon, that he has but one step ct to make, ana that he is not bold enough to make it, ai you txc to uis vanity, you raise bis pride, you eacoutago di him despite of h.mseif to attempt that wk-'cii alarms you, ni and, 01 try faith, ho must not beastontshod if that great th cntcrj r.^u which he wishes to clothe with so much rare, sii so much j.rudinco, so much heaviness, should bo gi o?e day resolved by a rash action, come what will. j< MEmtRNlCH AT HOMK. The following Saturday I dined a second time at tbe tli house of M ue Metterulcb. I was ai the a. <o of the Rr Princess, a very noblo lady, who hal not loot ail her cele- th brand beauty, Groat, proud in stature, in lang -uja. in attitude aid sentiment?jierhapE a little excess in lur L< majesty. But one is Uur.hed with the tonderneg3 which fine cxoiuiif co tier &asoari<i?a great deal older tuau she la?and ?. iih the respectful affbctlcn which eho renders in! him. Besides, sbe did not crush mo with the weight of 8b her err.wo; and 1 fait obliged to her V bo classed among th ibe sons of God, as La Bruyure says, who arc complaisant aud simple for the children of the earth 1 8poke to her ol the respect with which tho Prince In- an pired ine, atidol the recognizance which heal ays accord- it ed me, as well as of the kindness which ha always mani- on Tested towards me. " cv "He is Eogo'>u,"sha eaid tome. "I c.anrot holp," I th< continued,"txpiersing ta your JiLghnrsa b^w much I rc of gret being conderanoit to see that grand and nob.o charac- XL ter aliu/ k< d and misunderstood ne be lcos be ?n." At this ah expression tears started to her eyes. "Aggressions and th political ba-red ar nothing,-'she said, "That which <? It aard to suffer are the studied outrages of ingratitude. It no is the iDEc'.rncc of robelhous vmit's who have become w< mora wicked than they ought to be after having liv been e.oi e servile than was required of thom. in They have known the opinions of the I'rluce, clc they have a thousand times experienced his ten- wc dcrnoss of heart, they have had the moEl convincing proofs of his loyal wisdom, and at the same ttaio they wi oalumclale his understanding and his heart." coj "Madams," eaid 1, "it le necessary to follow tho example sawhich be gives you, and forgu the rebellion of those an- mi fcrtuaa'e creatures, even thru? vtry exlstcnco." sci "I cannot do so,"she replied, weeping bitterly; "that tiv Is too much cowardice and perfidy. History will not mi avenge us, and It will not know that admirable hoari coi which they have dctamed. They have dared to speak or ml patriotism and of humanity. It is tho Prince that has coi loved and served his country, and who has suffered In not mi being able to procure from tho world the good It promised ha these odious liars " mi run ikkom ck a psins kimstir orkiren. ob "At the time of tboso affairs of ibe Swiss, where all tho 1 ruth has commenced, the Prince, so ar. to bo more free, w? had retired to a little villa wnieh we had near Vienna, ha Tliera be labored day and eight, without so In much as taking air in tho garden. One. even- aui leg be raid to me?Lei us go to the coun- 1v try; my bead la on fire?I cannot bear it any thi lccgcr; It ia necessary that I must tako the air. Every plf hope or a desirable ioiiition waa then annihilated. France wi refuwd ber concurrence. M. Guizot, before acting in ala 1 unisut with the Emporor, aakel bia permission to give an bim a box on the car. We went out and walked some of time in silence. All or a sudden Clumeut, awaking from en bia ruvcry, *hld to me:?'Now I comprehend that prayer br of Abraham when be bcseeched God to take him wltb bis ba fathers into tbo bosom of eternal reet. I would wish to coi die, and not to see the evils whlct nothing can again pro- f're vent. lly r6U is finished; tho part of a'l human wlslom a I is achieved; force Is going to rolgn bore below, and the sit world Is lost, because right without strength will not be be an) thing but a laughable object.' Ho wept, without be th'nklug of biding bis tears from me. Never h id he glvoa mi way so much to bis own misfortunes. Ho did not weep ca becaure bis s-gaclty waa hum'liated, but because justice to was defeated." to It war thus that the Pr'nocps de Mettcrnlch praised her so husband, and I bavo found that that commondation was sn truly that of those who love. th After diauer the Prlnco showed us a beautiful medal, In having on the reverse two figures? I'olisy and Justice? na with that device, In which bo has desired to express his fin thoughts on tho art of governing?Kraft im Rczhl (power 11 in right;. The medal was offered to him by the Austrian to Orryw IK) Irmatirjue en the celebration of the twonty fifth d< anniversary of his administration. th As that was my last visit, he renewed tho obliging as wl uionce of thft pleasure which be had in seeing mo. He fu rec< mtnended me to perm vnrc in tbo idea of wh'nh the ah frhiwTi had undertaken the rtcfooce ' The t?uth," ha kii aid "is wltb von, and must remsin, but let It remain h< with an increasing iDoaurMum, stum guou me**, in oraor in, ? make their w * y, do not require the m4 P'1' 1 rill gire you oue of the principal preoepu ?*h'rh 1 Barred In my long career Men in r ion 11> L' '? ben roason to be subjugated and violated Tur ,T1 '* riM anil lbs moat rlghlooua with u> belree I/Mr* I' "*, hen, with the do?,r ulwtji o,ho, anil rv n.'tn i wU"S ou abali writ*, never to regret a word bl uiee mil " The couvvrsaiiuo now became general Weapoke mud orrphlsro, acJ of ih > ohatinary of Amman jansti ll? ild ine bat be bid airuggled lor twelve years to bring bask osepbisltc logtelalou to oilboloiy on one ogle prist-bat of the wvrriages of miunre Willi w the < <>n*ml o( loir parouU, anich .1 annulled, 1 believe wilhoul mm* >rm. niK mkttshkmi mew He Joked alio on the long uiaaortatioas of the joeronla oa k? llntUmieh system. "I study my r.gfct," ha sail, irt'i-D I know It well; I try to mainlain it or to mike d ara.ll, b I always having ruspeot to u?<?n, and to iba cir imstaicea and time. 1 bare a principle oarer to bnag yaair in oootact with impossibilities. That is all my stem." At the bottom it has nothing of the Metier mat stew. In concluding now, after soma daya, my reraan :mcs of the wov*a of M. do Msll-'ra.c*, 1 bad a Up snUnsaa uiaiip>^> ?a- ? ?- - triable ati inaa oau b*?but to the ml. or ! hi bo nor. a thought lor tho wit Is charmrng I have <* the oteuslon of judging hint at lb? dts'aa-w at which I am cm him. Notwithstanding, dour ooQirnaUxu each ?f ro io thrw hou?'it wtili a nuui vht oooftriM troiuiu ly.Uwve some thing* which wera aoi vary dees u? ba wily Been. M. da McUorffiob baa eortaiaty baaa aa most and clevsr minister. With hla atomy and baa ity, ho ha* cortaiuly oominitled laotia. Woo would oat ?ve dons ao In forty years of arim'alatraUoo' li aa sara to me that bis prluo.pal fault baa baaa hia wisdom, here was, despite or what ha said, a Better u A sjeuos- at Ib, to bavo do system; and of all the systems tnal >uld allure man's reason, that, psrhapa, u u>a meat JSC. It is reaeon alone which goes on trn* iroai Uta earns of principle, mailing in one day tb? day of ttoago ut an instant. It must not be stubborn, but it mum not lit pcrsuveraaonslubbornecs; It must not be no'rat, bat must not call firmness violence; It mutt aocommedaM self to the timet, to circumstauoea, to men; bat it mnst ol permit the limes, nor ciroumslances, aor mea ta rerpower truth add justice. Bui the dsp-itary of ower owes to the people truth and Justine be. r ropona ad peace, of whlob, betides, they are the oaly eertaia ascs. The constant occupation of not underlining tea oseibilltica, and the preservation, the continuance of eace, (lots not always prevent great fhsiU; It oorta'.aly revents great works, and groat actons Waal Is an nposeibiiil)? And how many acta of injuatlce have been iddon under that flame? M tho Prince de Mettnrnlcb haa been tho chief of n cbool of politics which bavo definitely. ur> ler the eonoclenl nauiu ot/uih itcoamfih, a',copied all errors. Tueg tivo connected the European world without many je.ta ven to ite ruia; thty have oot even nad tha conrapi to itcmpt to come out or tho ditcb the mournful o iueoicuc -b of which they should have foreseen. Has M do Untturuich been more culpable than tha .hers? Must ho have gone with tho t.i?> -a in vrbt. h be ved ? Hid ou did not eee what ho ought to ao, or was A ot possible to do that which ho has not done? That is the ifflcult que tion which hisloHsss will n?k. For my part, have wen li m ca:m, peaceable, merciful, honest, IduiIiioni and Christian like. All that he 'old me appeared M te to be wise and rellecting. Nothing, hest les, ol a coot ion character tiansplred. Atter the daze ing effect of re first Biirpriee nothing wss left mr but ttre lucid *nd old impression of an excellent book on morality wr.uoa y a l'rote.laut, It lacks the boat, tho sparkling views? :e I know not what?which penetrates in the dep h of lluge, which animates, which inflames, which confirms, nd which will not be forgotten, 'fhts is what I erne iouicu hue UUIOI un; lu uuariug l-uuujj uurM?, WHO in ?? ven a statesman. Vcwi from Nortbern Mexico. OUR MOKTitRKV COKKKSPOhllENUK. UONTKItKT June 10, 18M. he Vrf at of OA. Mirairum?&pxrutvm of the frrces of Zuazua and nsnajota?Rrfrteil IiittU letHeen //inajotw and Jl/argtiet, and Defeat of both Partite?Mexican OJjicert Yintirg the United States to Purchase Arms, etc. Tho news from Use seat of w?r c? ;ivi some sensation nong those who are mostly Luleregied in the uuoseas at ib or U10 other of the parties. A short i.ipi j ago we had news or a battle in which cot. iramon was defeated by Qinsjosa, whom Zuazua had int to meet some reinforcements that ware coming tram orelitt. They were not strong enough to come without sing 'table to be fallen upon by the enemy, therefore lazua sent the division or Hinajeia to strengthen thees, i thai there would be no danger by tbo way ; this dirton while oo .he road towards Morelia bad an cugage> icntwlthu.o division of Col. hiramon; tue latter wa sfeated cud ble soldier* dhpeiscd. Alter this battic the reactionists cauio with a stronger iree, commanded by Gonc-al Murqucz. Ho occupied te country between Zuazua aud Hinajosa, and contauently the' correspondence with the latter was cut off, ad now some two or three weeks havo passed without njlhlng di diiitu being known There bare, however. )ne several persons arrived at the camp of General uazua, some of whom beiODged to the division of Iltnama; they report that the division which Hlnajosa co.mlands had a battle with the reaction! its under the continue of Murquez, they say that it was a severe battle, nd that the libcru's were defeated, thoy themselves ring a part of the cisptised. Gtners came from Marquez, nd report the same battle, but s&id that the reactionists rere defeated and dispersed. Thus we have news Irom tic dispersed or both parlies, afl reporting that thoy thewelves were defeated; and in tho absence of official news, hese reports c .use much uneasiness. I suppose that Hero is no doubt but tbat a battle was fought, an J that He two parties ran away, not leaving any one to repo't liB victory, oounetjuettilj the two paxlios report them- B elves de'eowd. Notwithstanding tbat some of those dispersed wers of ho reactionary paity, yet tbey come to San I.uis I'otosi, I rhlch le occupied by the liberals. They do not fear the I iberals, becauso it is well known tli.it they wero forced I nlo tho service of the reactionists, and serving only under I bligation, tbey do not expect to bo punis'.l3j for wh it Uifc# I ould not avoid. * I 1 mrlng the timo that Hlnojosa ^ uprated froa be rest of Zuazua's forces, '.aft reactionists have drawn 1-tror to General'/,unzut and he not being: willing to risk, a luicwitucniy a STi.ta rel c,Ve<f " ion I.uis PotoHi to avu.- * can collect his orccs. There has been a ditlioulty between Zuazut ^?d Jarcia, who commands the forces from Tamaollpas. I am lot informod as to the particulars or their difficulty, but It suited In Garcla's returning with his men (800) to Tain. ioaa Nc/tV.'0* Informed concerning the difficulty, hut baring bserved k'? movements of Garcia for several months, can giro S that * thlak wili be very nearly truo hen the fa: U aro tnowc. During several months 10 services of Gars.'*'* division hare been very muoh eeded, hut ho could no' he Induced to leave Tamaulipu util the enemy had retired from 3an Luis I'otosi. He noaired with Zuazca while then was no danger of a attle, but when toe one r>y returned towards Zuazua's imp, Garcia became dissatisfied, airo when the enemy rew near, so tbat n battle was expected soon, he made n fllrulty aud lefi. He never saw r.a enemy, and perhaps sver will Tho reaotlonirts also have dilh'ouHies among liaise Ives. Zuioaga is aurpcioned of trying tor the I"'rediiicy again; Marque/ also wants it, iliramin will not ye way to any of them, and Gen. Woll is said to have xl&rcd in lavor Of Santa Anna. Scnor Galiudo and Capt. E Bourscau leave to day far e Unitod Statoi to bu? arms and ammun iion for the my of tho North Vnlaurri wishes te make it several I/U3TUU OWUiJger iliiill 11 UUW 1H Dug of the While Bark 1'hnnJi, of IVmm. tucket?Siiffrilngjs uf tier Crew. The Nantucket Inquir-tr of the 36tD lust. publiahos an lerC6tlrg account of tho loss o' thin vessel ou the desert ores of Siberia. The lmter Is from Captain Handy to e owner, Mr. E. W. Gardner, of Nantucket. CrMxei (3'Dei'a), January 18,1859. It is with sorrow that I inform you of my sad condition, d or the fats of tbo bark Phoenix. 1 was cast away on s 12th of October last, on Eibo island, having dragged Bborc In a gale of wind, the circumstanoee of which ent I shall not relate here further man to say that on e 11th I made a harbor in an easterly term, to the west the isla and came t" anchor at tho usual anchorage. tt wind si,:.ling to tho west in a heavy squall, was not le to take the anchors or slip the cables so as to clear s land; tried to ride out tbo gale, supposing tho first of ic he the hardest, os is usual, bat in this cue it proved t so. She shortly after went ashore, where she Boon int to pieces, ailowing us to save but little besides our oa. wo saved some flour and bread that came on sh?re a damaged state, live bouts ana a few small articles of ithing, fte.; the oil was either stove on tho rocks or mt adrift. I soon found that we bad got to stay In these parts all ttor. as we could not discover a suip anywhere; so w? scluncd to build a house to put what little In It wo had ved, and thon to como up tbo bay and sco If wo could ike a live of It among the Inhabitants, bo as to avoid arvy if It war a possible thing, u we had no preventa'e; but after we had got the house built and ready to >vc into, the weather camo on and held so bad that wo uld not travel In tho boats at all, for Ice soon began to ike; so wc contontod ourselves with tho inter lion of mlng on the Ice soon. But It did not get so until tho m had begun to be takou down with the scurvy, and It d got so cold that it appoarod the next thing to death Tor >n clothed as we were to attempt to go anywhere to be llgcd to camp out nights in the oper air. Bowevcr, something had to be done, as it appeared, or i should all dlo before spring, although I caiculato wo d flour enough to last us until we might bo able to go the boats and catch seals for meat to oat. If alive till ch time I concluded I would make a trial at any rate, 'olnnteered a gang and started the first chance to cross 9ice, which was on the 17th of December, for this ice, or at least for a settlement I had understood there is somewhere is this quarter. My company con ted of eleven men besides myself, boat steorers d hands. In eight days wo arrived at the mouth this rivor, where there wore a few fish house; and me flsh, but no Inhabitants. We wore thon out of ee.d, having consumed all we oou'l bring on our cits while making tho journey, and as the moat of the mpany were but just alivo, and all being more or less izcp and not able to go any farther, I was pleased to soe mman being In tbo place. He was a Tongoo, on a dog id, who had como down for fish. By bis aid I have en able to And this placo, and although alone, no olhora Ing able to come with mo, I have been abic to have tbo in brought by degrees and furnished with food and red for as well as tho place will allow, which is poorly be sure; hut ltls of that kind that I hope will allow us live until we can get on board some ship We can get me vegetables and fresh moat, but tbo allowance is iall to carry ns through tho winter. Two or throe of e men will lose their feet, 1 expect, but otherwise I am hopes all will recover the use of their frozen limbs. I raped the lightest of any, having frozen nothing hut igers. toes and ears, and these noi badly. ; Furthermore, lave been ablo to send a Tow vegetables by the Tongooe those at tho Island, and have some floor, bread and Jthee to help support us; am pleased to boar from them at they are all quite well, having dtsoovered a kind of nter green or h'rb that they have found to be a powerI rcmrdy .or re -rvy, and that the Sick men had got out well. The captain of tbo police received mo very ci.'ljr. he 1st i high.'U govcr.unort ofllrar that residoa re, and has dine, and I In.at will do. al1 he Can tor ug mi ri'garu to tho Aniortcaa government