The New York herald., 1848-11-21
The Foreign News.

BY the wonderful power of steam and its appli-
cation to the purpose of ocean navigation, we are
again in receipt of one weeks later intelligence
frem the old world.
The news is in some respects important, and
interesting IN all. France has got constitution;
the forms of establishing permanent republican
government have been all complied with, and the
people were preparing for the election OF their first
President. The most prominent of the candidates
before the public for that high otice-certany the
highest and most honorable in Europe-ls Prince
Louis Buonaparte-the associations connected
with whose name, and not the possession OF any
great merit of his own, will probably be sufficen
to carry him into the Presidential chair. Indeed
all mertorious attributes in Louis Buonaparte are
dlsclaimed by his adherents; the glory attached
to his great relatives name, his services, and to
the empire, being the elements of his popularity.
II he be elected, change IN the policy OF France,
especially as regards the foreign relations of the
republic, will be almost certain. Indeed, Prince
Louis will be forced to steer different course
from that Fu sued by Cavagnac and Lamartine,
in order to MAINTAIN his administration. The
spirit which was evoked among the masses of the
French people, by the overthrow of Louis Philippe.
will not brook the temporizlng policy pursued by
that monarch during his reign, and followed by
Lamartne and Cavaignac. The French people
are sick and dlsgusted with the entente cord,ale
man9uvres of all of them, and are eager to act as
propag agandsts, to disseminate the spirit of liberty
to all nations, and to assist in the overthrow OF
all despots and monarchs IN the old world.
In the event of Buonaparte's election, he will be
guided and controlled by this spirit, or crushed by
it. There will be no middle policy for him. In
the election for President, the French people have
a model before them in the United States, which
it will be well for them to follow as strictly they
can. We have just elected our President without
any strife, turmoil, bloodshed or confusion. In
one day, twenty millions of people, scattered over
a territory of two thousand miles square, left their
counting houses their fields, and their stores, and
elected their chief magistrate for a term of four
years, by the simple of the ballot, and without
the exhibition of violence or outrage OF any kind
that called for the Interference OF the officers of
the law; and we may add, without any breach of
the peace of any magnitude. Here is an example
which we commend to their attention.
Austria remains In much the same condition as
1t was In at the previous accounts. The struggle
for freedom is still going on, and the result Is
eagerly awaited. Vienna was being besieged by
the forces of despotlsm and it may be that before
this great battle has taken place. England Is
calmly looking at what Is transpiring before her
on the continent, and which she is powcrless to
prevent. Meanwhile. the elements of destruction
are enawing her very vitals, and she looks for a
prolongatioH of her existence only in the calm
which she fondly thinks will succeed the storm that
now RACES over the European continent. But it
will be calm that will be perdiuon to her instltu-
tons, as they are at present formed; and sooner or
later, she must cave In crumble and fall.