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London, England, 1851-11-05 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3.

WERE one to form a judgment of the state of
things and series of events likely to exist and to
occur in the next few years, and to form this judgment
from the examples of the past, one should say that
these years were likely to be peaceable. Revolution, ,
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after having flamed up nto a conflagration, generally
sinks and slumbers for a long time, and such a um-
venal <snservstive timidity succeeds in the better
classes to every revolutionary catastrophe, that des-
potism seems to have secured a new and almost a per-
manent lease of lordship over humanity.
But we can no longer reason of the present from
the past. For the times we have reached are most
essentially unlike any times developed in the progress
of mankind. The marked feature of European his-
tory hitherto, has been the comparative isolation of all
countries to each, except when royal or statesmanly
caprice brought them into rivalry and collision.
Holland worked its liberation, England effected its
revolution. France, Spain, Italy, Germany, have all
set about the inevitable task of political regeneration
at different epochs, and in utter alienation from, and
oblivion of, each other.
Oa ing. however, not so much to any moral or in-
tellectual development of man's nature., as to the great
physical discoveries that have brought nations more
closely together, and almost forced them into the same
community of feelings and of ideas, no great event can
take place in soy part of Europe, without being in-
stantly known, felt, and responded too in another. Years
ago Hungary defended itself against the despotism
of Austria, and Englishmen knew nothing of the
struggle. If a Ova was slain with the sword or
with a glue of poisoned brandy, the news circulated
as a mere piece of scandal amongst courtiers. Nei-
ther the interests of policy, nor of society, of religion,
or of trade, were affected by such events. But we have
now reached an epoch when nothing can take place:
however remote, that can be unknown or indifferent
to 114.

In past times people as well as courts were divided
by international antipathies; and the fact of the
people of one country demanding, or even standing in
arms for their rights, begot little more than a them,-
trice' or visionary interest. Rut in 1852, furtunately
or unfortunately, the cause of one people is the
cause of all; and the cause of one Europcsa
king is now that of all, fur all have alike broken
with their people, and abandoned the principles and
promises of constitutional liberty. In this state of
things, it seas but too inevitable, while all the despots
have entered into a formal league of mutual sup-
port, that the people of different countries should have,
from instinct, nine than policy or organisation,
entered into a similar league--a merely tacit one cer-
tainly, not drawn up in set articles, but conceived in
brotherhood and embraced with a religious zeal,
which has already the strength of fanaticism.
Although the people of this country has no cause
of its own to make it embrace this fraternity, still it
cannot smother its sympathies ; and when such a
genius as Kos,' `ncomes amongst as, the millions of
Englishmen pour forth to meet, to welcome, and to
help him. And more than this, thousands of those
who hold aloof with the shyness and caution of the
rare, join fully in the admiration which they may
think dangerous or ungenteel to express.
And we must own that we arc not surprised to
find the reflecting politician alarmed by this great
movement of all European populations. We tire not
surprised to find a I'ALMEHNTON and a GLAD STONE
uniting to &Traylor those flagrant abuses of
tyrannic power, which in Germany and in
!tale increase the odium and the obloquy
whi.ch now falls upon monarchy itself, since
monarchy has made itself so universally sy-
nonymous with despotism. It is certainly an awful
pe actacle to see all the people of Europe, for the first
time in history, drawn up in array against all the
kings. This, and nothing else, is the state of
Europe—n state that we profoundly regret, but a
state which it is the fault of kings and governments,
and of kings and governments only, to have pro-
dwell, and w hWh consequently can never be anieinksl
by blindly and unjustly supporting the preiensions
of stupid governments to re-establish the old and
effete r'gintrx of eourtierdom, suldierdom, and police-
'loin over millions who have become alive to their suf-
ferings, to their rights, to their numbers, and their
power.
The mission of KORSI Tit to this country and to
America is to inforni the public of bosh countries,
and to preach to them, that this is the
state of Europe, to show that the victo-
rious despots have made no use of their tri-
umphs to conciliate their people, to secure them
one single tittle of their liberties, or restore them one
atom of their rights. The people, thus wronged and
oppressed, are, Kosserii declares, in all Europe
ready for rising—in Germany, in Hungary, and
in Italy. They want but a favourable opportu-
nity; the etruggle must soon re-commence. And,
when it does commence, it must burst forth
universally from the points of suffering Europe
together. When that time comes —when that state
of things arises, which it is certainly not our
purl or our policy to provoke, still England
cannot remain a total stranger to a great European
struggle. Were England to do so, its selfish indif,
ferenee would merely mark it out as a common
enemy to mankind. England will have opportunities
of throwing her weight into such a struggle, not by
drawing the swonl. but by the exertion of diplomacy,
by counsel, by arbitrage, and by an attitude, taken
in concert with other constitutional countries, for-
bidding the despotic governments of Europe to dic-
tate to other independent countries, or force into
despotism upon nations that have for ages been con-
stitutional and free.
It is of tirst-rate importance that England should
be prepared at the fitting opportunity to adopt the
noble and the liberal cause, that the English govern-
ment should be willing to take this course, and that
public opinion should be alive to support it, whatever
be the govenenent of the day, in such a course.
This has nothing to do with going to war, hut, on
the contrary, forms the requisite and indispensable
swans to be employed in order to avoid war.
For if military despotism become uncontrolled and
Ermanent master of central as well as eastern
urope, and not only of the central region of the
continent, but of those portions which adjoin the Me-
diterranean and the Baltic, and comprise the chief
emporia of our trade, then indeed we should very
probably be forced into a war for our material, as
well as for our moral interests. Political and com-
mercial freedom go together ; wo are really as much
iutemsted in the one as in the other. Ana we could
prove, that our own landed interest is as much in-
terested as our commercial and manufacturing
classes, in the emancipation of the cart of Europe
front serfdom and absolutism, and in the extension of
commercial wealth, constitutional freedom, and pops.
lar progress front the banks of the Rhine to those of
the Volga and the Vistula.

ntscovEßY or A Mt-RDEII.—A case of child mur-
der was accidently brought to light at Sheffield on Satur-
day last. A gamekeeper in the service of W. F. Dixon,
Esti., was ranging shout in the old Park wood, when his
attention was drawn to what appeared to be • bundle of
clothing, seerewel untkr the spreading branches of a large
hazel bush. Prompted by • feeling of curiosity, the man
wa+ tempted to make an examination into the contents of
the mysterious bundle, when he discovered that it cm-
tained the dead body of an infant, in an advanced stop of
decomposition. The keeper immediately pve information
to the police, by whom the body was conveyed from its
biding-place to the Sheffield workhouse. It there under-
went s more minute examination by • medical man, the
result of which cstab!ished beyond all doubt the fact, that
the death of the child had been caused by strangulation.
ISCIMSE IN TIM QUARRYING or MINEHALb.—

There arc probably few branches of iudn.try increasing in a
greater ratio than that of quarrying minerals in this coun-
try. It appears Put the profits arising from quarrits in
England in 181041,, amounted to 29,1:i01.; and in 1812-3,
as determined by the use nents under '.he Preperty and
Income-tea Acts, the profits amounted to 207,0091.. being
an increase of seven times. This is a fa- Greater increase
than that which has taken place in the same period either
in minis! property or iron works—the increase in the
former bung only four times, and in tits latter something
ander twice.—TAs Brildrr,