New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-08-07
EW-YORK TRIBUNE.
STATE OF EUROPE.
bs European Revolution not soon TO be
hulshed-Paris TraDquii-Debates Of the
MISUNDERSTANDING Riot.
Correspondence Of The Tribune.

the state of siege; the Assembly is still sitting
! .gnty in a noisy row. NJ. Theirs is not yet Presi-
isnt the treasury is getting ready for new loan.
!, Germany the earthquake is growing, but has
u broken out in Italy Charles Albert is hard at
sork as usual at preparations for great things in
g.lachis republic has been proclaimed for the bene.
so Russia most probably in Turkey the Cholera and
s,ischd Pacha are again at the hesd OF affairs in
ipsand the Queen has gone to the lsle of Wight in
Gland the Government is steadily advancing with that
sk Of pacifcstion which consists in imprisoning and
.nishng the rebels and which will be completed when
he last Irishmsn is exported. There, you have the
.seks history in brief, compressed into paragraph
How slowly TO our impotence the revolution seem
% 70 forward here in Europe ANY sharp Yankee having
me business in hand would have had it all finished some
weeks since and now would be ready 70 undertake the
v,enent Of South America Asia even of another
Janet in any unfortunate as to be involved
revolutionary difficulties. When we think that all
pgs marching straight forward to their conclusion
rms new element comes in some old one goes out ;
Kaleidoscope Ichanges stops to rect and it takes
week to accomplish what we had expected to see
done In day. Continent at such lime this does
,oigo exactly by the rules Of experience of what
nsn sometimes call wisdom.
We in the United States have from the beginning Of
6e Revolution encouraged ourselves to believe that it
you'd be over and that Europe would settle down
u.o order under the new system without any long
.sy When the French Revolution broke out in Feb
1ssy we had no doubt or endeayored to have none,
hat the Assembly would in due time complete the Con
rnton that il would be adopted and that france
would s once proceed to the tranquil development OF
. resources under its safeguards But since that time
shat changes and commissions have arisen to show
lat our faith was hssty We have had the insurrec
100 Of June, the downfall of Lsmsrne, the dictator
hip and the almost toi oberstion of the,doctrines of
february from the programme of the Government
The Constitution is not yet completed and when it is
b would be rash man who should say that it was the
s considering the past fecundity of France in that
groduct We have had too the distress of the sborng
classes the stsgnstion of business continued and likely
be continued for months to come and we have had
snd still have the many other causes of which have
spoken former letters, and which make it most pro
liable that tranquility and peace and established public
order are still far distant The movement of Europe
toward the modern Canaan of Freedom and Social Jus.
ice leads through difficult and dangerous deserts and
france. as the advanced guard, will have to bear the
hardest OF the journey Her revolution is not tits
hoped above ali things that what remains may be sc
eompshed without more fratrcida conflicts and blood
aed that il may consist in the labor OF building up
Of tearing down. still less in the strife for the possession
Of the site of the new edfce But anxiousy
hope for ths is than expectedb by the most Judi
ccus and clear sighted Frenchmen more, as it seems,
than the spirit of the nation and the circumstances IN
which II IL placed authorize any to expect. The
nd n
spenod cannot be avoided, nor with the present ten
deneies of the French people, are they likely to be
shortened.
wherever you look in Europe, you find similar ind
cations The elements have prepared Tor long storm
has set in with violence and darkens the whole hor
the rivers and brooks up the old bridges and
roads swept away, with the dungeons where the
people imprisoned well as many OF the hospita
Die inns where they rested and the mills that ground
their corn. In the intervals of the tempest, men ven
ue out Some attempt to set up the old bridges and to
se the dungeons again under the same roofs with the
and mills others try TO repair the damage by build
ing all things what they conceive 10 be better
places and firm foundations but before either have
hly begun, the storm rises again, and has skill
enough in this sort Of weather TO tell when It will
clear of
SO it is in France SO il is in Germany agitated
from center circumference by Communistc- Social
sm, by Republicsnism, and the impulse for National
unity There are three distinct movements going on
here with ignorance and the prejudces among the PEG
pie 10 be overcome and removed with more systems Of
policy and government proposed and advocated than
here are leaves on the trees In Summer and with
hirty odd Kings and Princes 10 be got rid of. Who
suppose that Germany is likely 10 get through her
evolution very shortly
Then In Italy there the Austrans first TO be driven
'ut If the Princes postpone their private desires
nd ambitions long enough to allow their subjects to
10 it, How long will be required for this purpose II
'ould be difficult to tell but at the present the
'asness will not be accomplished either this year
y the next; possibly they are waiting for the final
M An Epnpt m
them the trouble. But sooner win Italy have
ecome really Independent of Austria and able to
Ter attention to her internal affairs than grand in
yo1lio will follow. Republcanism, Monarch ism
'hsres Albert Leopold H. Rome, Florence. Milan. all
camoring and intriguing for the mastery
The Italian revolution has vet fairly begun; when
does commence 1t viii take time to finish. We may
Sy we must hope and believe that in Italy as well as
n Germany and France the present agitation will ut
nately produce the noblest results The world was
ever moved before and unless adopt the opin
IN heard advocated by young Frenchmsn the other
veniug that the earth is utterly given over and that
he human race escape out OF this faseness
ntssonism and misery must believe that it is
moved for grcs, Provdentsl purposes Blu, if we are
n hurry to see those purposes consummsted and
made clear 20 all eyes shall run the risk of pro
onged disappointment
During the past week the attention of the French
Government and Assembly has been a good deal d.
ected TO the condition of the working classes On
'ridsy last very animated discussion took place in
4 workmen and their former employers, by allowing
hem to undertake jobs on the public works on
conditions more favorable than accorded TO in
viaual contractors The difference contemps ied
y the proposition that such associations should
be required 10 give security for the performance OF
be work undertaken by deposits OF money, as is ex
cted from contractors generally The Assembly rejec.
cd the proposition and passed in its stead simple
rce authorizing the Minister OF Public Works, TO nd.
udse associations OF wOrknen such works as should
e adapted to be performed by them NJ Floeon AZ
empted to add TO II amendment requiring All such
ssocsnons to submit TO the Minister proper evidence
regular mode of dividing their earnings among the
Members and of the creation OF fund for the reie OF
be sick the wounded and the widows and orphans OF
deceased members also, that they had estaohsncG
o1nci Of three persons chosen from their own body
. rom without for the settlement OF all dihcuites
'nicn might spring up among them
ms amendment, which was finally referred was inc
cessiop OF regular agitation" OF the Assembly
N the one side was insisted that the Assembly had
iresdy voted on the question, amendment OF
dduon could be entertained This the opinion OF
u the opponents OF the original bill but among them
many things were said showing what an extent the
ocia ideas have penetrated in France even into the
lass OF minds mos, opposed TO them NJ Deslongrais
thorough Conservative, who against the amend.
~ classes he held 10 the opinion expressed by friend
horty before In a report made 10 the Assembly He
eieyed that there was not person In the Assembly
rho did not desire with all his heart the progressive
levstion OF the classes hitherto kept In inferior po
lion and for his part he had the intimate conviction
hat the day coming when the greater part of the
workers. would have passed from the state of hrengs
That OF voluntary associates just as formerly they
aso passed from the .saoe :. slaves ~ 10 and