The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-03-21

Mark the change which has come upon that turbulent
Popular agitation in these days is of purely
tiopsl, and so TO speak, legislative character. Thou
sands and tsnf thousands to impress upon repre-
sentatives their opinion their wiss opinion
society or the reconstruction ofths state but minor
and debsabe point The discussion isawul In itn sub
so and regular in its tone because the people feel that
under the existing state Of things they have voice in
the government If the country and utter
that voice with effect. We gratefully acknowledge
that the country much Of this to the ast French
revolution, and, if not greatly mistaken, the
world will recognize in the present French revolution
Turn now 20 Fesnc wSs Ss. on Philippe done
while we we're running the race which he himself had
helped to set us? He has done the contrary Of all
that have just described He has contracted the
stiuency to mere fraction of the people That mar
row body he BIAS corrupted with tn endles. qualifications
free He has built not the fabric Of popular con,titu-
ton but gigantic impostureof mnseeral corruption
The C 1rsttuency the Chamber Of Deputies and the
peersge, are all equally retained The vast web hangs
from man The people,sre dfrspchised They know
~ mSve 40 appesi S"y ;;I
istence Is in he hands OF army Of rcteioers We
speak Of his still If it present; but tits passnor
can We wonder in TINS country that It should soon or
late come to violent end But what has Louis Philips
done to attons for this vast Generalization OF his
pie, and abuse OF his prsrogatve! What efrenyth has
h. substituted for tho affections and oon6dence of his
people! He has worked for the dynasty he has formed
dyuastc asnces he has sacrificed the respect end
fdence of neghborng nations not to say his own
hooor to brilliant family connection; hs has raised
enormous army; he has Paris with fors and
ramparts, aud filed it with military stations; he hiss
turned cold glancs newborn Hbsrty and he has
courted despotism; he has conquered Algeria, and
brought into France noble captive, whose ia was
ominous of his own he has doubled the bit and
pondture Of his couotry We need not 20 on, Much
more will readily occur to the mind Of every reader
Such il the French story of this last seventeen years
Such Is the career which that nation now con-
denn, We have done justice, and we will do JUS
sar as they Doubtless be has been hitber great
secaity for the psacs or his volcanic reslms More
than present peacs we never expected. The game ne
has played 1t evident to all must day to
an end "Tsmporzing snd artificial as it was, it must
out His life thought the spell Of its tenure
We mistaken 1t has not lasted his time. He lives
to see his work in ruins The conqueror Of Add ell
Kader shows that strength as well as weakness can fall
The victor overthrow;
The arbter Of others fate
supplant for his own"
Under the ystem which this statesman has adopted,
contrary to the promises his earlier generous
career, contrary the hopes all constitutional Eu
rop including the vast majority OF the people be affect
the cast of a die. fatal weakness exists in every
policy which dsclsm, the sympathy and dsfss the re-
declared to be the character of that political fabric
which M Gazot has contributed so willing hand to
establish Its cole securities the respect which
might still surround ths psrssn of the sovereign the
prestige Of the dynasty overpowerng military force
and perhaps more than ALL dread CT those troubles
which might ensue upon Q subverson of the existing
systen As long these securities promised to be
effective We felt too great an anxiety for the peace OF
France and The world to ipsinuate entertain
any doubt that Louis Philippe the survivor OF go many
changes AT chances would be able to suppress mere
civic emeute. We deplored the obstinacy whcn in
duced him press what according to English views
might have been easily conceded but little doubed*
rather little wished to DOUBT the power of 100000
men to reduce present submission the upared popu
latiou OF metropolis The result shows that the sys-
tem was even more hollow the core more rottea
the surface more deceptive, than we supposed The
event which oil saw to be involved Ia the ultimate con-
tingencies of unpopular and unconstitutional system
hoah on Id Ailrr and aid
what more thoroughly, than we expected The younger
branch Of the Bourdons, If has not ceased TO reign
France only Nth nominal aud professionally
existence ~
From the Liverpool Chronicle, Feb. &c
The news this week from France Is startling At the
time write, 1t is questionable whether the Orleans
dynasty has not been swept away and numbered with
he things which The National Guard have fra
ternsed with the peop the troops cannot be depended
upon and the latest accounts show that neghbors
are Ia the throes Of political CONFUSION.
The whos career Of Louis Philippe eince he was raised
TO the throne, faithfully the comtsmptuous
expression of Napoleon respecting the Bou bans, that
hey had learned nothing and they had forgotten moth
thing " Never did monarch commence "a rsign more
pciously and never has ruler more completely fshed
the oonhdng hopes of his ceuntrymen In his day of
tribuStion there is ons to syupathsc 18th himDo
tongue to exclam God bless hm!' To curtai pubic
libertyto gag the presto surround the capital with
forts to attach the army to his rely for pro-
teciion brute forceto find subservien ministers and
% promote schemes OF family been
cecn influenced And his last arocity that OF prevent
ing the opposition deputies from meeting, eating and
together about defects electoral
ennis utterly subversiss OF the independence OF
ree people, end so characteristic Of sovereign who de-
sres put down all discussion, and to establish mill
tary despotism that it to excite surprise that
spirited people like the French should recoi i'll disgust
from The tyranny Of selfish old man who outragss in
their persons the rights and dignity Of citizens
The faulty that could dictate ioe of conduct
btraty at n moment when the Italians IN asing
splendid effort to throw off dsspo.m establish free
institutions is in tie case OF eagacous Jar seeing man.
Ike the French monarch at once extraordinary and I'M
accountable. But those whom the Gods destroy they
hrst make mad" mere change or ministry -eubsti-
tuting Mole for Guzotwi not it is evident satisfy
the requirements of the Parsians Whatever issue this
contest lakeland OF ts results have yet judge
the end must be fatal to Louis Phlippe's dyuas "
which he hss spared neither pains expense nor Chi
canery to establish 1t is amsntabls to see as. expert
minister OF Guizots fine talents shipwreck his cna-
rsoter in order carry out crotohe Of master so
iotensely selfish
Tbs Progress or RcpublIcanIsm In Europe.
tkroni the Liverpool Chronicle, Fec. 20
Yesterday all London astir, exctedby the gori-
news from Paris Thrice noble Frencbmen, whose
frsting OF the hearth fratlins Of The hand" ye are
up and doing, while sit in the Houss OF Commons
sSaps listening to Chisholm Anstey ana great Pal
,aking notes of his bsbbng Bets in and about
,ae houe laid and not taken that Lord John Rus
cell will not have courage enough to brng forward his
tax after the proceedings of the last
eight and forty hours in Paris Whether he will not
signifies nothing. give the general feeling whionle,
that he dare noe Though we'll know the prompt mode
q the French people, scarcely this grand out
burst; every honest mans heart in the metropolis
dancing for joy. Let not my apparent enthusiasm be
both sides and these committed by sage politicians
Much dissatisfaction, need scarcely tell your readerr,
has existed in the public mind Of France Tor some time
past owing to the acts Of the Minister backed by the
majority Of the deputies What call parliamentary
reform any shape, resisted by the government
psrty. Odion Barrot, with about seventy opposition
deputies, not having opportunity Of stating their
sentiments with effect from the tribune within the
Chamber, sought safety valve in sort of White Con-
duit House reform dinner; permission was refused by
he government, and herein was error the first In ut
tie time the prohbtory order withdrawing II
you'll but the Legality OF tue act mus be SUBJECT 10
sitter considerations hesecond. But We want tue
National Guards, just to form show-an avenue for
the diners to pass Co the sale dnget; not much te
but it ia the third The National Guarcs dare net
NEEDLE with any public political display, and here be-
gan tbs mudds. The promptitude of tine French peo-
Pile Is the thing TO be euogzed " hatever turn out
the result the sacred of reform s 70 be sd
vanced; though there is wide difference between the
a IL II tha uaXa "