The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-25 00:00:00

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TUESDAY

MORNING, APRIL 25, 1848

ANOTHER Revolution in Paris ! Yes, gentle rea-
der, such is the fact; and we are happy to say that,
this time, the revolution is a pleasant one. Our
lively neighbours have been visited during the past
week with a return of common sense. They have
refused to permit their provisional government to
be upset, and a reign of terror and anarchy, of
bloodshed and open robbery, to he commenced.
The National Guards and the Garde Mobile, the
military of the line and the people have triumphed
over the communists and the socialists, the follow-
ers of citizens Blanqui and Cabet; and betrayed a
disposition to see established upon the ruins of the
monarchy a government possessed of some regard
for social good order and honesty. The fact is
reassuring thus far. It is calculated to dissipate
much of the fear with which the pending elections
have been looked forward to ; and to inspire at least
a hope that Europe may be spared the spectacle of
a great nation revelling in delirium and crime—
s pest to the world, which would be called upon,
for the sake of the entire human race, to trample
its maniac people underfoot. Most sincerely do
we trust that the'expectations which we have formed
from it are not destined to be disappointed.
Another gratifying feature in the crisis of French
affairs has been looming gradually upon us during
the past few weeks. It is beginning to be very
apparent that, M. Ledr Rollin's circulars notwith-
standing, Paris is not henceforward, as of old, to
be France ; the people of some of the leading
departments and cities to be treated as political
nonentities ; to be dictated to as to their choice of
representatives in the National Assembly; to take
their cue from the spouters at the Parisian clubs;
to be snubbed by the feuilletonists and triflers of
the Parisian press ; to have their industrial pursuits
interrupted, and their social organization thrown
into chaos, whenever the scum of Parisian infide-
lity and folly choose to have an emeute or a spec-
tacle. The reception with which some of the
commissaires of the minister of the interior have
been met in various quarters affords pleasing proof
of the growth of this feeling throughout provincial
France ; and the day may not be far distant when
it will shew itself still more decidedly. The French
people may reasonably ask themselves what have
they ever gained by past confusion and change.
What, save conscription after conscription, hearths
rendered desolate, agriculture prostrate, and their
fields converted into battle-grounds—what save
debt, misery and crime—did they gain from all the
vaunted glories of the Empire. Paris had her
shows, her fetes, her triumphal processions ; the
French people paid in blood, in treasure, and in
tears, for the tinsel splendour which they were
never permitted to see. It must be borne in mind,
too, that during a period of thirty years they have
been making progress in the industrial arts; that
they have gained a foreign commerce, established
manufactories, constructed railways, acquired new
habits of thinking, new tastes and new pursuits.
This change in the minds and objects of a whole
people must work out its result, which,laappily, will
be the growth of a hatred of anarchy, from which
theyhave always lost a real and known good, without
receiving any substantial equivalent. Should no
unfortunate collision therefore occur—no encroach-
ment of a foreign power—no menace—to excite
the passions of the French people, we feel some
assurance that the reign of good sense and order
will ultimately prevail, and be strong enough to
crush the clubs of Paris, with their reckless dis-
turbers and fanatical visionaries, beneath the weight
of their just indignation. . •
We are not without hopes, either of a return to
tranquillity, shortly, throughout Europe. Germany
has already got her senseless bauble " nationality ;"
and does not seem very clearly to know what to do
with it. The Prussian Schleswig affair will ulti-
mately be settled, in part by the firm attitude of
Denmark, and in part by the intervention, if neces-
sary an armed one, of Great Britain, who is bound
by treaty, as well as by interest, to maintain the
inviolability of the Danish kingdom. Prussia
could not afford to have her ports in the Baltic
blockaded, and her commerce interrupted for the
length of time which would have to elapse before, if
ever, she conld hope to succeed in subduing an en-
tire and unanimous people, inhabiting a country
peculiarly defensible and possessed of ample mari-
time resources, when the only object to be gained
was the gratification of the fantastic wishes of a
few Holstein students, and a minority of the Hol•
stein people. Russia maintains a position of
defence and non-interference with the affairs of
her neighbours. In Italy alone the seeds of danger
to the peace of Europe are to be found germinating;
yet, even in that quarter, with respect to which
France is peculiarly susceptible, the restoration of
order, and the formation of neutral arrangements
between the Italian states and Austria are not past
hope. The absence of any prospect of effective
assistance from the French government, in their
present crippled financial condition, may induce
the one party to lean to reason, whilst Austria has
learnt a lesson, which will dispose her to grant
terms to her late subjects, the proposition of which
a few months ago she would have treated as

insulting,
The establishment, however, of a responsible
and well-regulated government as France, even
though it be republican in form, is the source from
which we have mainly to hope for the general paci-
fication of Europe. To the result of the pending
elections, therefore, and the meeting of the National
Assembly, we look with the deepest interest, as to
the solution of one of the most important problems
which has presented itself in moc'ern history—the
question whether unwilling Europe is to be dragged
into the vortex of revolutionary confusion, and a
fourth of the entire human race is to lay aside the
pursuits of industry, to abandon all progress in
social improvement, and to rush into a universal

at the present hour knows the object or can specu-
late upon the result. What a vast amount of
human misery ; what tremendous consequences
have they to answer for, who instigate a people to
rebellion ! The torch thrown by a madman's band
may decimate half a world.

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