The Express.
London, England, 1852-04-10 00:00:00

TIIE TENTH OF APRIL

(Frogs the Daily Km.)

To-day is a great anniversary:the anniversary of
the ever-memorable day of panic, the 10th of April,
1848. In the brief lapse of four years what a change
ham taken place in the fortunes of the actors, and
would-be actors, in that eventful day! Louts Na.
FOLson, who then aspired in vain to tho honour of
beink. allowed to wield a constable's baton in Lon-
don las leen installed in I'uris absolute ruler and
mole arbiter of the destinies of the French nation.
well.tes± horses of the tinig's End farm,
which so proudly drew the waggon carrying the
monster petition, have been :IToultlit to the hammer;
and their master, his bubble burst, has sunk into a
state of mind that renders any animadven'Oon on him
conduct u unnecessary as it would be unt:eling.
NOT Curvy is lust sight of altogether, in an ob-
scurity as dark as his own complexion. In worldly
fortune Curvy was in 1848 much on a par with the
now PilltSCE I'III.BIDENT ; in abilities not his in-
ferior; in general honesty of purpose far above
him : yet how different have been their fortunes!
Then are few probably of the champions of order
who talk part in the proceedings of the 10th of
A lOW who can hear it mentioned without a
lila and an effort to change the subject of
eenumalks. They arc haunted by an uneasy
sense st bolsi put forth far more valour, made •
far mire desperate effort to be courageous, than
there was any need for. The Tower was cleared
for action and its garrison placed under arms; a
carp (twin& was stationed in Westminster; the
Beak was barricaded and guarded; moveable
Wpm of "specials" kept open the ecumenic*.
dons between these posts, and inclosed the radical
place of muster on Kennington-green ; ladies were
removed to the country by their anxious husbands
and dutiful sons and parents; a beleaguered city
could not have been more silent, lugubrious, de-
czd in spirit, than London when "heavily in
same on the day" of the 10th of April. The
feeble dyspeptic looks of the petitioning invaders,
and their obvious isilation from all London sym-
pathy, reassured the citizens as soon as they
appeared.
Yet has London no reason to be ashamed of the
10th of April, 1848. If her good men and true had
apprehended a great danger where there was none,
they had not quailed before the creature of their
imagination. Believing themselves in imminent
peril, they rese like men to confront and grapple
with it. The bourgeoisie of France, armed and
regimented, had allowed a dynasty, emphatically
their own, to be subverted by a few Parisian
ivneu-
tiers. The monarchs of Germany had toppled down
like nine-pins before the wind of a professorial in-
surrection that never had a soldier at its command,
or money to pay him with. " The times were out
of joint ;" the monarchs sad pontiff of the continent
were fugitives or prostrate; the physical-force ora-
tors of England talked as loudly as their neigh-
bours; it was at least prudent to act on the assump-
tion that they might fight as boldly. And amid
this bewildering hubbub, every Londoner who had
a house, however poor, or an industrious calling,
however indifferently remunerated, mustered with
cool resolution to tight the anarchists if it should be
necesieary.
It is to the characteristic displayed on the 10th of
April, 1848, that Englishmen are mainly indebted
for jhcir liberties. Tho English citizen has no taste
for broils, and little ambition of military.glory : he
likes to mind his business and take his pleasure
quietly, and had rather not fight if fighting sae be
avoided; but if dauger comes he does not shrink'
from it--rednetantly, but doggedly, he grapples with
and esugurs it. lie is as much attached as the
heeripeese of the continent to a quiet life, but, unlike
him, he relies upon himself to keep it, instead of
trading to the defence of others. In England the
dengeroas, or mime CAMS, by a sudden outbreak in
some isolated quarter, may take the honest and in-
dustrious at unawares ; our police, except in a few
large towns, is neither numerous nor well organised;
a momentary local panic may allow outrages like the
burning of the Bull-ring at Birmingham to be
tubed; but the honest classes soon rally, add doe pee
diki is prevented from spreading.
This self-reliance is the secret spring of English
Sot. It is true what some sarcastic writers
sy aus, that in politics we seem incapable of gene-
' e that our politics relate almost exclusively
to speeded questions and personal sympathies. It he
also true that there is a good deal of gobe.inostekeris
among the oaf Mau Reforms, improve-
ments in civil and medal assttion, progrreen-sloz2
us among ; euwemenalde and an
fancies are apt to sister us times. Yet, thanks to
our self-relianee, we gegen* contrive to extricate
ourselves out of my escapee we may get into ; and,
on the while, we keep ourselves in a better condi-
tion then way ether people--except the North Ame-
risme who eso merely Baglishmen transplanted to
another hemisphere.
The ousts of the 10th of April had a strong dash
of the mock-heroic in this t and yet, inasmuch as
they brought out into a stun light Joule Bem.'s at-
tachment to law and idea, and courage to defend
them, he has no name to be eibeased of the memory
of the day. He might haw dose ail that was re-
quired our the escudos orkb a tenth part of the ef-
fort it cost hint yet, inamenne me that Meet 'hewed
what he egad and would do if Deanery, and in what
care, it may have deterred aggresion from more
useless attempts. Therefore, let the anniversary of
the 10th of April, 1848, be held is doe honour.

ADVENTURES or TUE SISTERS or MERCT'S CASU-
soz.—Os Sunday last, a boa was found by a assn seer the
river side in the Five Fields, below the aoudaer ipt build-
ing which Miss &Ron is causing to be erected by the
lawn. The boa was bemight by the men to P. C.
Umbra, sad be stated whets he had found it. The police-
man Melt Argo k, and brought it to Impeder Theme,
who mid it dame either front the &sten of Morey, or the
hemaa Whelk Chapel, at &andante ; but he thought
hem the Sim et Here', at Bided, sad two emu were SIM
them lemma-army*tire. Os their return they it-
hewed Mr. Theme that It came from Eldad, that the
Ldr
tM76177 had la,l4"aa boz sad
errman,gthe "dalCatbarineelfdump,
Sea tress their parkil table. Bbu said she hod se
doubt it was ' the fame, and she would and lowa
babar cher-woman to Beatify it, se she led the
s et it (nay Eq. Oa iheaday she
the
wean called at the shies biome sail saw the bear No
said it beitoged to the lietsey sad that lt wee shills tram
the psalm Milt whom It ohm, shed. being mod to re-
wire demelima. M add that Lody Chastise did aot
wish to bast esefklees to do with it. as the Lady lloperior
was kolas/4m. MI is Mow that oho wield amt t.
la the wombos_bowrrat, "Pious John " of
bellees~ alas e'efeek, melted at the statios-howoo7l7a=aelaalt
Ur. Theme wbalter he did out mat to no the Lady
espeeese. Kr. Thome rid they wasted to we her about
the web/my, and Om deneribbag where the bes was found,
be sheered "lama Joha " rhea said " the Lady Sups-
rise Ila Latin ierg bate most he ;I am swriftsd.
sad I hoe mute It leirapww that the Lag Itspwder will sot
preeteate, end Mem lTititelae watt eig anything at all ,
about It.' Ho ths. told Oho ispoilie Sat urn as sew
eideratires was he to sell shoat do rot ; they would sot ,
" have smithies to do with h. he them shed
Themesa tf there was sup asi la suet* shoat it, '
" beams if there was," acid he, " I &sold give areetioas
chateta latesliately dietherged !" He west eta et the ,
mai Mama weikag, "be ease Mr. lbsese, •
prvestt MI 0111imustromeolliag at all wpm Ilidureathe-
rise,' in rag* to thigh Me. Thesee the AA Ger.
thinly be dote." Mole: is still at the elrlhei booth bought
to be seat to the British Museum is a eistmed fells of
the days of ssuakery. The hoz is as ripe *lag is its
way. It la shoot • foot lest, is hatami with two Pa•
mite m ecalesiestioal paha. with beeps. mode in the
Ilan et aa isdested woes. sod iambi hinges at the top
=irgwith the hope. These awe herald at tor
eoles, also iadostsd. lad sash althea MOM Mt
eve said fa them project* upwards. There is able a
beta moss is the entre, ha,* hue glee.(What de
Oh mire originates?) Thsre bl mho la She entre et this
hit en.a Mahe IllamM is trrthr et stemerp—eleo
ihe asps et • i puebehlys that all that
gem lets it is ost "as the atom The boa is a mein
ow hob of oaken& ems the very haybdes et the left
ot the EMI. It is amid OM the thief
• pod hoety—ltty pumas le amid to bwatpuoe. into
pewits by the Imisslis&—ElpeasailA