The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-10-03

Every weeks intelligence from Europe is deeply
interesting. The contest in that quarter of the
world is for eat,powerfu, land Interchangeable prin
clples of progress in human society. The crisis
In England France, and other nations of Europe,
is as important that which broke out there with
the reformation of Luther. Then II was contest
Of religious liberty against religious despotism;
now it is civil liberty against oLgarchy and civil
tyranny.
Every weeks intelligence from England is as
..; &c it might have been during the old
revolution In the sevenI-v--' III oeA'"-' "-'0' eHN.u
IN the establishment of the commo..~eai'i; ~
this moment a reign of terror exists IN Engia--
as deep and bitter the reign OF terror established
BY Charles the First, against the reformers OF his
day. In the full and comprehensive details who.
we have lately given of the legislative, executive,
and judicial proceedings adopted by the British
government and their subs ervent tools, against
The chartsts and the other political bodies Of the
British empire, there is developed as deep and
bitter spirit of tyranny as ever was exercised by
Judge Jeffreys and the government OF his day.
An Enelishman reads a paragraph from one of the
American papers, commenting IN general terms on
the policy of the English government toward one
OF its provinces, and tor this act arrested tried
convicted, and sentenced to two years lmprison-
ment in the penItentlary, felon No VIOLA
ton of civil liberty and personal right went farther
than that in the days of Charles the First. Andyet
the English journals talk ofhberty being enjoyed in
that land by every one claiming TO be an English
man. The truth Is, the British government is an
odious landed olgarchy, IN whom all the powers
of this civil liberty, so much Wanted and so much
abused, are concentrated and directed to the en-
joyment of oppressive monopoly, and to the
deprivation of the great masses OF the people OF
every social and civil right, beyond beggarly pit
lance that barely supports human existence One
million OF men monopolize everything ike power
and property over the other twenty seven millions
composing the British population.
The nots which have been lately renewed IN
Ireland, will not, we are afraid, produce any last
ing reform or amelioradon'in the condition Of the
people. The discontinued masses of Irish society
are not pervaded with any advanced ideas of Ii
berry or government. Their efforts spring merely
from the overwhelming force OF the desutuuon
and physical evils under which they are groanlng,
but are not directed by strong powerful ideas to
ward the attainment of anything real, or political,
in human advancement. The real revolution, lift
ever should take place in the British empire, will
commence simultaneously IN the three kingdoms.
and spring from higher ideas and more effective
instrumentality than have characterized the late
movements Of the Irish people. The present con-
duct of the British government towards the char
lists and the other political malcontents, forms but
the first step in that reign of terror which will ult-
mately produce a general conhagration throughout
the land. Time Will mature events.