The North-Carolina standard., 1847-10-06

Throughout Italy, from the Adriatic to the
Fyrenees, the same sentiment of resistance to the
Austrian is as deeply entertained as in the Roman
States. Opportunity alone is needed for il to break
out IN open rebellion. -..- -.. ..r-
SWITZERLAND is convulsed with intestine dis
sensions.. Religious controversy is at the bottom
OF the whole and as the hostile factions are arm
ring-even the very women participating therein
.-bloodshed may soon be the result. 1t is to be
hoped that the calamity of civil war may be
averted.
la GERMANY all appears calm. The occasion
al outbreaks of the people, Notwithstanding the
strict surveillance of the petty sovereignties of the
country, show the workings of the public mind
The cause of Liberalism is making rapid progress
among the people; so much so, as to excite the
apprehensions of the governments. 1t is greatly
aided by the circulation of the American German
journals, breathing the most ultra democracy. and
which find their way among the pople in grea
numbers. The good cause finds essential support
too in German liberal paper, published at Brus
sells, and which, although now prohibited in Ger
many, still is generally read Thus is the rigid
censorship of the press avoided. The refusal o
the King of Prussia to yield to the demands of the
Diet in the formation Of new constitution had
also excited no little discoatent
In Russia, on whose hyperborean throne the
great spirit of Autocracy and Absolutism sits en-
shrined in all its pomp and powerful is appar-
emily calm. The war agains, the Circassians it is
true is still waged with varied success and an oc-
casional wall reaches US from unfortunate Poland
So with the other northern powers, Sweden and
Denmark The same calm is apparent. g..
Turn we now to FRANCE. The reader shrinks
with disgust and horror from the perusal of the
developments that are being made of the revolving
depraviry and crime that pervade and pollute The
government and the higher classes of society.
The particulars of some of these we have already
given. With such on example before them in the
higher and educated classes, what can be expected
from the people-the masses? Thus far the only
effect these these things seem TO have upon them is
the exciting in their hearts of feeling of disgust
and dislike of the arislocracy, and the increase of
the hatred that naturally exists against them as a
class. The people see in the crimes of the Peer
age the result Of system-the natural conse-
quences of the existence of an aristocratic class.
Many of the journals seek to encourage the idea.
The expression ofthis sentiment thus far is con-
fined to daily and public insults to the members of
the oristocracy--the Kings family not excepted,
in the streets. l. was not long since that a lady
who was suspected of having Iiaison with the
profligate Due d. d'Nemours, was stopped in the
streets on her way from one of his fetes, and amid
the brutal jeering Of the mob, compelled to sub
nit to their kisses. Indeed general demoraliza-
lion, in which religion, morality, the sacredness
OF the marriage lie, all, are utterly disregarded,
seems to pervade society. The government to
whose connivnnce at least, the people attribute
much of this melancholy state of things, are be-
coming seriously alarmed at the evaporation Of
the people, and are adopting vigorous measures TO
guard against its results One can hardly avoid
the conviction that France is on the verge of one
of those fearful and bloody convulsions which
have characterized past changes in her govern
ment It's administration is now directly aniagon-
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volution of 1880, and upon which the govern
ment was based and in the hands Of NJ. GuIzo
France, Instead of being as hop d, the rally
ing point of the free spirits of Europe, is one of
the most efficient supporters of Legitimacy and
DesPotism. A change cannot be for the worse.
In The PENINSULA a melancholy picture is pre-
sented. A land, the farest the sun ever shone
upon, with people brave and chlvalric 10 pro-
verb has for years been cursed with mbecile gov
ernment and Ambitious leaders, " no have involved
their countrymcn in a perpetual civil war, and
deluged the soil with their blood. The unfortu-
nate Queen of SPAIN forced through the machin-
ations of Louis Philippe and her m 'serable moth
er, 10 wed with an imbecIe, in order to secure
the succession to his own family, has. as might
have been expected quarrelltd with her husband,
and consoIed herself with lover. The fruits of
this illicit connection can now no longer be con-
cealed, and the end may be, and seems probable,
lnal inc SlOeen VIII De IOICcu 10 dUuICdtC. nIS
brings up the French succession, and with 1t a
new distur bance of the balance OF power, which
will call for the Intervention of England If she
remains steadfast in her adherence 10 the principle.
In any event, the prospect for unhappy Spain is
gloomy enough. .,." "..
1t is nearly as bad in PORTUGAL. Military
power and foreign intervention, alone sustain the
Queens government.
TO the southeast-iA GREEcE-the torch Of
civil war is lighted and only foreign aid supports
the weak King Ohio on his throne.
We have thus attempted synopsis or resume
of the foreign news and necessarily incomplete
and few as are the interesting points that are en-
braced, the reader will, We think, find much for
reflection therein. The dreams of philosophers
and phianlhropists yet far distant from their
rralzation-and the day of universal peace and
good will as remote now as it ever was IN the his
tory of nations and OF the world.
Superior Court. At the late term of The Su-
prrior Court for Orange county, Judge BAILEY
presiding, the state docket was pretty large but
consisted mostly of misdemeanors. The only
crimes of any magnitude were the following:
William Lasiter, and Green Maybe, "a free
ncgro) indicted for grand larceny, were convict
cd, and having been allowed the benefit Of clergy,
were sentenced to receive thirtyhine lashes each.
William Budde, alias Heritage, indicted tor
r. oil he