Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-10-20

| German Journals, breathing the most ultra
democracy, and which find their way among
the people in great numbers. The good
cause finds essential support too in Ger
man liberal paper, published al Brussels,
and which, although now prohibited in Ger
many, is still generally read. Thus is the
rigid censorship of the press avoided. The
refusal of the King of Prussia TO yield to
the demands of the Diet in the formation of
new constitution, had also excited no lit
tie discomfort.
In RUSSIA, on whose hyperborean throne
the great spirit of Autocracy and AbsoIutsm
sits enshrined in all its pomp and power
all is apparently calm. The war against
the Circassians it is true is still waged with
varied success, and All occasional wall reach
es us from unfortunate POLAND.
So with the other northern powers, SwE-
DEN and DENMARK. The same calm is APP
parent.
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 depravity and crime
that pervade and pollute the government and
the higher classes of society. The partic-
ulars of some of these we have already Civ
en-. With such an example before them in
the higher aud educated classes, what can
be expected from the people-the masses !!
Thus far the only effect these things seem
TO have upon them is the exciting in their
of feeling of disgust and dislike of the
arlstocracy, and the increase of the hatred
that naturally exists against them as a class.
The people see in the crimes of the Peerage
the result of systematic natural conse-
quences Of the existence of an arstOcratic
class. Many of the journals seek to encour-
age the idea. The expression of this sem
tlment thus far is confined to daily and pub
lie insults to the members of the aristocracv
the Kings family not excepted-in the
streets. 1t was not long since that lady,
who was suspected OF having a H0iSOn with
the profigate Due 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 submit to their kisses. Indeed,
a general decentralization, in which religion,
morality, the sacredness of the marriage tie,
all, are utterly disregarded, seems TO per-
wade society. The government to whose
connivance at least, the people attribute
much of this melancholy state of things, ARE
becoming seriously alarmed at the exasper-
alton of the people, and are adopting vigor-
Gus measures to guard against lis results
One can hardly avoid the conviction that
France Is on the verge of those fearful and
bloody commissions which have character
lied past changes in her government. It's
administration is now directly antagonistic
to those principles which called forth the
revolution of 1880, and upon which the
government was based; and in the hands of
NJ. Guizot, France, instead of being as was
hoped, the rallying point of the free spirits
of Europe, is one of the most efficient sup
porters of Legitimacy and Despotism. \
change cannot be for the worse
In the Peninsula a melancholy picture is
presented. A land, the fairest the sun ever
shone upon, with people brave and chiv-
alric to a proverb, has for years been ours
ed with imbecie government and ambitious
leaders, who have involved their country
men i'll perpetual civil war, and deluged
| the soil with their blood. The unfortunate
Queen of Spain, forced through the machi
nations of Louis Philippe and her misera-
bic mother, to wed with an mbccile, in or
der to secure the succession to his own fam
| lily, has, as might have been expected, quar-
relied with her husband, and consoled her
| self with a lover. The fruits of this illicit
connection can now no longer be concealed
and the end may be, and seems probable,
that the Queen will be forced to abdicate.-
This brings up the French succession, and
with it a new disturbance of the balance of
power, which will call for the intervention
of England if she remains steadfast in her
adherence to 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 sus-
tain the Queens government.
TO the southeastern Greece-the torch
of civil war is lighted, and only foreign aid
supports ike weak King Ohio on his throne,
We have thus attempted a synopsis or
resume of the foreign news, and neccssari-
ly incomplete, and few as are the interest
ing points that are embraced, the reader will
we think, find much for reflection therein.
The dreams of philosophers and philan-
thropists seem yet far distant from their re-
alizatlon-and the day of universal peace
and good will as remote now as it ever was
III the history of nations and of the world.