The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-26 00:00:00

DISTURBANCE AT THE COLCIIESTER CAMP.
Wit (Essex herald) regret to announce that a
mweswkat serious disturber es bas takes plea* amnget a
umber of soldiers of the militia and line regiments la
garrison, and width It was at oae time feared would result
la the moat dieast roes eonsequearres. It is st.ted that some
aapteassat refiectioa. wen east sue the 88th (Coassught
augers), on their March tato the camp, by Nome of the
militiamen, and which speedily raised the is munition of the
88th. I. the slung a row" took place in the street be-
tween the 88th. who ware the most part Irishman, sad the
Emea Sides, when broken heals and bloody hoses were the
result,sad el: ems of the 88th and three of the Riau were
take, into hospital. It appsan that about eaves o'clock on
Thtureclay monk% a man of the 88th wandered by mistake
tato a het et the Rides to bail his kettle, when he was
elected seas cennuses, sad the esearedes of eat were
speedily up in anas ; a Tessler weelie ensued, in the enne
of which slum were thrown,and heads mid eludows broken
Some of the man of lltn Kept sallied forth to the assist
of the 88th against the Me x Rifles, although the hest ander-
stead' eg bed previously east-d between them,se sassy of th •
Rifles bad voleatet red to the ranks of the 11th, and • fight
took pianos 4 Cl lasted some little time, notwitlnteafing the
efforts of C..eune I Ruben, the tedje•ent-geserel, and the
otters to camp I. subdue It. The deliainears were takes
into arrest, end the iajerni men net Into tomtits!. It wee
reported a nausea wee killed, but that la settee. The
11t1 Regiment and Meta Mike were afterwards ordered
to form ea square by Osumi Oseeigne, who, we sailer-
eland, entirely ousted the sea of each regimes* who had
takea part widest the 88th. Re, however, believed the ,
slimy oregia-t,d la the thoughtlesswess of a umber of ,•
loan sea of Us two reglaste, sad not with the old
soldiers, who took ate put in it. A double elude of entries
es be.. sot• d naiad the huts of the bailment regiment i
to retreat all cusessaiestion between them, and they are
ordered to rennin is tamp until further seders. The affair
has oesesioned e u.isieratne eseeteesut I. same, esd meth
Wit is the town. We ere h.ppy to state that the West
Eases and Wert Bst lk Regiments wisely took no part in
the affray. Serval of the East ti.rfolk Regiment are mid
te be is it. Sines the stouthrowieg stair between the'
regulars and militia is neap, on Thursday, we regret to
say several other skirmish,a of a injure potent have no-
inured Wenn some of the a, so at, all forth the watch-
ful see of the military auth cities to enplanes them. The
Ease: &fin and the II .h depl: were hulloed to barracks
till Bstur.lay evening, wheel they were released, sod have
sees evinced a peaceful disposition, which it is ethersely
rivet nay eratstee.

LITERATURE.

The European Revolutions of 1848. By EDWARD
tiTILLINGFLERT CATLIN, of the Inner Temple. 2

vole.—Smith and Elder.

It is difficult to conceive a nobler subject for a
competent historian than the European revolution of
1848. In whatever light we regard that great move-
ment—whether as the effort of op nationalities
for deliverance from a foreign yorZleaesda protest of
classes against class privileges, or as the troovalsive
birth-throe of a new social world blindly struggling
to develop itself out of the chaos of the old—it re-
main., and ever will remain, one of the most deeply
interesting scenes in the vast self-evolving drama of
contemporary history. It msy well be doubted, indeed,
whether the men of this generation have not been
too close spectators of this great series of events to
be competent judges of their tree meaning, of their
real causes, and of their ultimate results. We have
not yet attained the right point of perspective.
Calm and distance are wanting to enable es ade-
quately to appreciate all the bearings of phenomena
so varied and so intricate. The mite is not over
yet. 'mediates per iglus. The ashes of that wide
devastative still smoulder over the surface of Euro-
pean society. The setivity of the volcano has owed
fora meson, but who shall say that its twee ingest P
Who does not feel that the atmosphere is still heavy
with the electricity that in 1848 burst forth into that
memorable storm P The Peace that is about to be pro-
claimed will give repose. and breathing time to the
great powers ; but will it satisfy the hopes of the
nations? Will it solve a single problem, or fulfil a
single upiration of the revolatiewary Enrolls se 1848 P
The Peace of 1858 will leave the Continent in a
1/01119 position than the Peace of 1815—sunk ander
the yoke of a more degrading despotism—restless
beneath the weight of more firmly riveted chains.
What if the European Revolutions of 1848 were not
an isolated fragment of the world's history—not an
end in itself, but rather the beginning of an end
which the present generation may not live to me P
Of this view of the matter, or indeed of any
philosophical view of it at all, Mr. Cayley
is wholly guiltless. His work is not a history,
but a chronicle. His narrative is lively, bat his
theories are unsound, and his attempts at reflection
puerile. He has indeed done little more
than present the facts of a gssetts in the style
of a pamphleteer. It is a remarkable proot
of the inherent and indestructible interest of
his subject that his two volumes, under such con-
ditions, should be readable at all. As it is, they are
more than this, they are entertaining—and, in spite
of Mr. Cayley himself, not noinstructive. When he
speculates and theorises, the judicioas reader will
skip; when he narrates, few will fail to read. As at
once a specimen of Mr. Cayley's manner, and an
instance of the surpassing interest of his theme, we
will extract a portion of his narrative relating to
those wondrous days when the Provisional Govern-
ment was France and Lamartine was the Provisional
Government :

At daylight o• the morning of the 26th, people who had
been beeught together by the chiefs of the terrorist pulp
lariat the night began to gather in knots in the streets
ludo( to the Ho el de Ville, and gradually drew together
into compact mimes o• the Plate de Orfve and along the
Oasis as far as the Piece de la B.stille. The groups 'p-
utted to form 'roiled • useless of persons better deemed
then mere workless, and one of these in each nucleus
carried • red Bag, made in hute for the ocersion of what-
ever materials had lute me to band, while the others
were decorated with • red sub, or at soy rate with • bit
of red ribbon in the button-hole ; they were armed with
all kinds of Inertias, and they mattered about morsels of I
misuse rag for tr.+, people to adopt es their colon,. Der-'
leg the same time ;Taupe of workmen from the distant
quart in were +mishap, who were not initiated Into what
was goleg forward, and came shouting, " Viva le Oon-
seueseent Previeoles ;" but me getting into the midst of the
assembly of red republican", they were surrounded, beetled,
and insulted, and grsdadly induced to adopt the red alone.
Every row and then • tight would between tame
of the more pelisse-toes; and the respective humus were I
pulled down sad lifted up alternately, and sometimes bra
in shreds by the excited throat ; but the terrorists were I
generally successful, the triclor was pulled down, and a
red fig, the sips of blood and fear, was hoisted in its place
in the hands of the statue of Retry IV. Some amen-
pdtes is the Interior of the building snowed some red e. bare
tut of see of the corner window', the rabble below them
sheeted and tired goes keeled with ball es a salute, which
broke the windows of the Hotel de Ville and anaapec its
incepads.
In vain did Lagrange (who situ be had +sprinted
iim-
self governor of the Hotel de Ville bad also assumed the
rank and uniform rf • mewed ellen) strung", with the
mob; they forted the railings, and their leaders obtained ad-
mission to the meanest where the provisional government
was sitting. Orders we re seat to the =llona the diffwent
pars of Paris to send HMO of the woU-diapoited of the ma-
tiossl guards to help the g went, who were besieged
be • multitude, demands, the instant adoption of the red
flag. After • deputation had been admitted end addressed
by the various members of the government, they were con-
vinced of the impr.ipristy of their liquor, and on Mango,
to those outside who had sent Was, they were of ewer
regarded as traitors; others wen thee sent in to take their
place, more load, more rabid, mere patriotic, mere de.
terdced, and if any thing dirtier. Convincing three de-
patst'oaa appeared to be vain, so feet were they emended
by others. To add to the confabs (b, whose onion so
time keew at the time), all the bodies of those killed were
brought and deposited in the coeds of the and
some of the populace %skies the ides, dragged a 1 the deed
hones together, sad piled them she there. I,Portaaarelp the
name wee winter.
. - . .

The WsiTi-Of the red dog was a Ansi of nob role;
the national paid were to he disarmed, and their sunken
given to the populace ; war wee to be declared at OOP with
all inearchies sod aristocracies; all the Wasters of the
crown were to bit arrested; the (whiten of all royal pro-
perty to the nation ins to be defined: in @ben, the soh
waded bleed, the blood of all the e'isses better or cleaner
thee themselves. Even Lents Blue, though hi did not
think then wee is much hang is the red flag as his co"-
bogus supposed, dad his beet to penoale the mob to
noon; though he also eideavound to make the govern-
neat give way, if only far • time, for he Imagined that the
adoption of red would be a signal of concord. Ose
whom Limning describes es of • nide" du, straight,
stow. with a fan dirty yet pals with elective, his lip"
iremidiog with sager and his eye dining fire, and vt o
pointed his eloquence at the end death phrase by bolting
the butt of his musket ea the posed, appears to han
*reseed that orator's indigestion by his paindiuly unna-
meable conduct. Laseartine idesecied ti the mated Saar-
gent, and laid a heed on his arm; the non and shake
him off; but the orator wosld not let loin go, sad talked to
him till he tooted kin to tem.
Five Case was Lame:dee obliged to Neu dews and
harangue the esseabled multitude. lliessead ea his first
appease, he was applauded when be eeacladed; but
seareely were the seared hearers padded than their plans
to re taken by others who had beet out of hearing. Again
and again he had to repeat the tame eliminations. On age
soussieo„ ells they had miffed foe him he was greeted as
traitor. " Traitor 1" said he, "strike me if you believe it:
bet you do sot. Before bora*, you we .at betray
undo e. We risk more than you in this matter. If the
republic fails, It is set ea you that will fall ihe vengeance
of its asemios." Nor did Vie populace conies thentsslen
to verbal threats else ; • band of anted men were making
a rash et the orators to overture the., when one of the
crowd, clothed ha rigs sad very dirty, who had been
wounded by • bullet on the bridge of hie nose, noshed
rw .rd sad ()imbrued Laminate, collier hi. the simian ,
of the pimple. This formed • striking tableau, such as pro-
downs au elfin on a From& tumult; however ridiculous it
would be to us cold-blooded Slender', who are set is the
habit of imbricate at all : it soy rate sot In public This
accident obtained Laminas" an sadism*, and he says that
to this person he owes his life and Frazee her lag. " Cal-
ming," cried 1•1111111nille. " the red du pen carry has only
made the circuit of the Champ de Mare, draggled is the
blood of the people. The tricolor hal made the circuit of
the gain, with the rune, the glory, end the liberty of oar
seestey.-
We have mid that we do net enneider Mr. Cayley's
forte to be refection. From moat of his political
theorise we fled ourselves compelled wholly sad
absolutely to dimwit. It is fair, however, to give
one instance in which his views, though by no means
original, are well expressed, and happen to coincide
pretty newly with oar own opinions regarding the
subject on which he treats—the baneful Keystone,
of the bureaucratic or fonctioesry class on the Conti-
nent generally, sod in Germany is particular.
Dories the period of the first Fmeth roulettes, the
wh de paver of the asident feudal nobility of Fusee and
Gentauy wu dent' put ; there was lett no slim like the
pears and larger Isodhildan of this ecuatry in menus
There wee no istessediste power between the esteems
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