The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-09-10
TWO CENTS.

that parties msy be dsappoin ted In their expeo.
taons regarding this valuable'crop. Beans hitherto
in some parts Of Ireland as in many parts Of England
and Scotland, most important crop, give this
year but faint hopes of their general adaptation TO
the majority of soils to many Of situations
me crop last year be sud to have proved in
useless to discuss this yexs failure to certain
cipated.
ARRIVAL OF THE STATE PRISONERS IN BELFAST
About half past twelve clock day (ssturday) the
Government steamer Trafalgar la nded fourteen
OF the state prisoners ut Dunbars Dock where large
attendance Of police with MIR Jenkins I'M, a. their
head head waited their arrival; The quay was denseIy
thronged with spectators but word expressiye or
feeling, pro or con. escaped from the crowd
a. They entered the priaon van, and escorted to
bineers The crowd followed the van short distance
from the quay but the driver having received orders to
move QUICKER drove OIL at rapid pace and left the
The prisoners. with one exception, young men
Of manly appearance and robust constitution looked
the personaton Of good health, and seemed quite
cheerful. They came in charge Of Sub.Inspeotor
Mathew and seven policemen.-Beyastp indicator.
Chronscie) the prisoners privileged to remain
during the day in large room together but at night
each one retres to cell allotted to himself They
supplied with writing materials, we understand, and
have, therefore, the liberty Of corresponding with
their friends the letters, OF subject rigorous
surveillance The corps of officers belonging to the
houfe have been strengthened by the addition OF a
sergeants guard Of the 18th regiment
The Freeman's Journal says The startling pro-
speots Of the supply of food have caused the question
OF prohibition of distillation from to become
again the subject of discussion among the various
parties interested in the subject aud finds many ad-
vocates The large stock. and unprecedent low
price Of sugar present facilities for the and
any which will tend to increase the available
stock of food for the people of this country deserves
serious consideration.
The Con sifufonnel states that Mr. Richard O, Cor
man, of the leaders in the rebellion in ireland
has been landed at Brienc near Brest, by fishing
boat.
The Condition of the French Republic.
From the London Times, Aug 26l
During the extraordinary period in which the affairs
of France were directed by the provisional govern
mebt, various motives contributed to induce the prn-
cpal organs OF public opinion throughout Europe to
suspend their direct ccensure Of the irregular and
scapdalous proceedings Of that and to
postpone the complete exposure of the depravty and
the crimes of those who had suddenly been invested
with the supreme revolutionary power We do not re-
gret the ndugent which observed wards
that government because, bad 1t was powers more
fierce more sanguinary and more wicked lay beyond
it, and by comparison with such Sobrer, Huber,
and Barbcs, Ledru Rollin and Louis Blanc
seemed almost endurabe Butsthe great inquest Of tho
French Assembly the which have already on
than two occasions brought the republic itself to
the of ruin, has preserved in lasting records
exceeds the darkest suspicious and heaviest ACCUSE
tons ever brought against and only regret that
the infinite confusion Of the evidence render
1t impossible for to analyxe condense suoh null
hilarious treachery and such intricate iniquty 1t Is
vain even draw between one part of the gov
eminent and another for although there Is doubt
a distinction between such a man Albert (ouurer),
who boasted to Ledru Rollin on the 18th Of May,
that in half an hour his wretched Chamber (the
National Assembly, would have the fate 1t deserveSh
and his moderate colleagues, yet from the first
those colleagues had been we'll aware what fuel
every day hsaped upon the FIRE Clubs OF the most
atrocious and violent character were In hourly
municaton with the Minister Of the Interior, and,
through their leaders vast sums Of the public moneJ
were spent on the missions Of revolutionary emisss-
ries to the departments On occasion alone
Longepied, one Of the chief agents Of Ledru Roin,
received upwards of OOOf to be spent upon these
creatures. And what emissares were selected to do
honor to republican principles Umbrella makers,
pastry cooks an agent for wet-nurses
q n Vulnerable ~, n
few branded galley slaves formed this motley host of
the professors of Liberty the lords of equality the
chartered bernss who were sent forth ike destroy
ing spirits to pervert the reason, to excite the pas
sions and to dsmoraiize every honest sentiment Of
the French people. No wonder II 34i prohigate adven
turers reekng from the clubs Of Paris raised wherever
they passed the adherence Of all who not al
ready degraded by the revolutionary contag:on to
the level Of their frsterna infamy. Mean while in
Paris the press freed from all the restrictions Of law
and from all fiscal obligations, gave the rein to
thing grotesque and absurd and ferocious Since the
Gath OF February less than III journ poured
gance upon the nation and before the Of June
had checked these saturnaia two papers respectively
have reached the furthes limit in these ephemerdes of
horror. What, meanwhile, were the government do
siderable share to Of literature which polluted
the walls OF Paris female writer whose energy
Of stye Is only surpassed BY her avowed contempt
God and man, was expressly hired by the home de-
partment to frame these Bulletins de Ia Repubhque,
some Of which openly threatened the National As
semby with repetition of the popular exploit of Feb
ruary whilst others nsnuated their baleful and dis
honest into the very core Of social life, and
into the deep seats of the domestic affections cabi-
uet minute has luckily been preserved which shows
that the diufna revision of these felcitous produc
tons assigned in rotation to each member of the
government, and that they divided with ridiculous
precision the avy burden of this literary RESPONSE
bility With this abundant supply oftuiton, and this
unbounded amount of audacity, NJ Ledru Roln and
his associates fattered themselves that they could
make all Frenchmen as thorough republicans as them
selves in six weeks; but If the experiment failed and
the Assembly when elected proved to be less advanced
in fha VIII hauc aforth to
society it Is evident that the republican party had all
along been fully prepared to destroy BY violence
The 18th Of May the attempted execution of that
project and for three hours might to have
csedsd After the temporary dispersal Of tho Assembly
where bis first to write with his hand o de-
cara,ion Of instant war against Russia and Germany
NJ Ledru Roltn had, however long before practised
with greater dspgenuousness the species Of fs
reign policy. The expeditions Of Belgium, Southern
Germany. and Savoy, now proved to have been
dertaken with his full knowledge and approval; and
are now their trial Antwerp for piraticaI iuva-
sion Of the Belgian territory, from the stores Of the
French government and by the authority of the min
listers
These details might be inf ntely multiplied from the
strange report before but they amount to more
after all, than sickening display Of the worst ana
m eanest Of the human passions devouring in an evil
hour the vitals of great country. will remain the
great wonder of all time how it came to pass that for
thoee 12O days the French nation remained as 1t were
passive under government base and far more cow
ardly than any of the sangunary exhalatons Of the
arst revolution which prolonged its miserable exs-
tence only by tampering with the mob through the
clubs, and betraying all the other interests Of the
stare The tits considered and the more its Sc
cret history known the extraordinary will the
existence Of such government appear IL subsisted
without military strength, without Integrity without
political talent supported only by occasional bit Of
tawdry eoquence, but, above all, by the groveliing
fear Of entire people, which fell fiat the tarth
whilst the SIMEON passed over the land. Is IL concei
vabe that nation like France should for months have
been ruled by men who consorted with the ag2wei
professors Of massacre, arson. and psge who chose
these rufans for their emssaries and INSTRUMENTATION
then in the hour of real danger, forswore ana aoan
doned that desperate cause which they themselves
had plunged desperate and famished populsce! II
the galleys and the jas become the seats
of power and the halls Of justice they could scarcely
have produced q more lswless and treacherous crew