The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-05-08

ueh'iy expected that the existing dfflculfies be-
tween Denmark and Schleswlg will be amicably
arranged, through the mediation of England. Al
the same time the board OF trade AZ Copenhagen
have gwen the assurance that private properly at
sea, even IN Of war, would be respected
Hamburg was occupied by Danish troops"-
Charleston Mercury, Mays.
Inc Berlin papers OF the 9th contain the follow,
ing paragraph" During the siege of Santen, the.
Clrcasslans made an unexpected sally at night and
cut of one third OF the Russian army, incudiu0
three generals and $50 officers. Schamyl fouxiit
like a lion" r>glf
sPoiand.
The ByesLaHsr Zeifung contains also news from
Warsaw up to the LIST inst The Emperor has made
numerous and important concessions to the Jewish
inhabitants of the kingdom of Poland, hoping there's
by to detach them from the national cause. III
Switzerland. II
decree was issued on April g. by the president
and executive council of the Federal Directors,
whereby they prohibit in the cantons the formation
OF any armed or organized corps. BY a circular
they also convoke the Diet for April 49,
Italy.
We learn that the basis which the federative
organization OF Italy proposed to be constituted by
the soyereigns who now cooperate with the King
OF Sardinia, when the present war shall be brought
to conclusion, is asfollows:-
The peninsula will be divided into six great
States-l, Naples z, Sicily; 3, Pontlhca States A.
the kingdom of Etrura, comprehendng the present
Grand Duchy of Tuscany and some of the smaller
duches 5, the Lombardo-V Venetian States; 6, Sar-
dina. The population of these States will be as
follows Naples, $4,000 Sicily, ,05O, 900 Pom
hhcal States, 100000; Etruria, $3.50, 900 Lom-
bardo-Venetlan, 1900 900; Sardinia, 100000.
A line of fortresses will defend these States upon
the Alps upon the Plain, and on the Apprentices
A Diet will be held at Rome, under the presiden-
cy OF the Pope for the solution of great federal ques
tons, in which each of these States will be repre-
sented by the same number of deputies.
An Anrlo-R enu hlico,, V,.,., ,r ~. v,,,o,n...,
Revolutions.
From the London Telegraph, Apriln12l
The agitation that peryades Europe does not
spring solely from desire of political change
Let us not deceive ourselves. The cause lies
deeper In England as in France, in France az in
Germany, IN Germany as In every other country
where political CONFUSION has aroused the masses,
a sentiment burns In the popular mind, which
seeks change of government merely as a means
to an end. 1t is folly in the bureaucrats, and in
those who pretend to be the instructors and leaders
innovation has led to the great moral upheaving of
which we are the daily witnesses 1t Is not from
any hatred to monarchy, as monarchy, from any
dislike OF abstract aristocracy, from any love OF
change tor the sake OF change or from any destruc
tivcness alleged to be natural to the people, that
the political excitement of day has taken its
form, and communicated its pressure upon us.
The revolution Of 1913 is strictly ond en'nently
social repOtmtion Let our public men be warned.
1t is longer safe for them to deny qualify or
to palter with this mighty fact.
The people of Europe, and an increasing num-
Der of the people of England, dislike monarchies
and arstocracies, and support democracy, for the
great reason, paramount with those who suffer,
that under these ancient governments Of the few
the many have become degraded and miserable
They have been morally stlgmazed unfit TO
rule themselves. They have been physically de-
pressed They have been weighed down, pressed
down, sunk down. They do not eat bread like
their fathers. Although. they. may have no desire
to divide the rich mans Injuries, they have very
strong, very natural, and an hourly increasing
desire to share with the rest of Gods creatures
the necessarles OF existence. The bureaucracy,
after having fixed burdens upon their backs front
which nothing but revolution release them.
have driven them into slough of despbnd-to
sink or MOTTO live or to de-as chance may de-
termine: Hence the idea. which pervades the mass
es in all countries, that democracy may lift them
from the mlre, and give them, in addition to the
great right of thinking and speaking, the still more
essential right of living and eating. The hungry
belly is the most furious and invincble of demo-
Gratis Let not our government and arisocracy,
and our well fed members of the upper strata of
the middle classes, forget in their pride of victory
this weighty truth. The political history of hun
GER would form the key to all the revolutions
ofthe world, past, present. and to come; and he who
would write that great book ought to be written,
would derive from the present uneasy and alarming
tons of the danger of trhng with the stomachs of
the people, and of fostering system by which the
wealth of few individuals is greatly augmented
while the numbers and the poverty OF the poor are
auRH1enteU III u sui more Tdplu TillO. NO QOuDL
the problem to be solved is one of excessive diff
Guilty but, difficult, the reverse, must not
wonder if those who suffer should be somewhat
clamorous for solution, even although our politi-
cal, social, and moral knowledge may not enable
MS to discover 1t: The tory Morning Chronicle, in
its impression of Monday, states that it GO has re-
hglon which teaches II that the end Of mans being
and the completion of his happiness, are not to be
looked for in this world "a fact which may be
quite true in the sense in which n comfortable
would have the people believe it but which is not
at all incompatible with the truth, that if one
be happy in this world, in far az food, Clothes
and shelter can contribute to his happiness, two
men can be happy-and if two, then two thousand
# two thousand, two millions, If two millions
then all mankind. Perfect happiness no man
aspires to; but Christianity is not religion
oftoryism and exclusveness, but of peace, equali-
ty, liberty and fraternity 1t IS democratic faith.
The Chronicle may affect to believe that the men
who are anxious TO make this earth somewhat more
similar to heavan than the wars of monarchs and
the excluslvcncss of arlsocrats have made it, have
no hope of any future heaven but it has yet to learn
the fact, that the great social revolution of time
is essentially religious and a Christian revolution.
1t will not do for the uphoders of the present sys-
TEN to raise the cry of atheism against those who
have more exalted ideas than they have of the des-
tiny of man in this world The cry is worn out;
and those against whom it is directed will treat it,
not with anger and scorn, but with sorrow and pity.
Those who, with the Morning Chronicle, consi-
der that " their conceptions are iuhed--their In
sncts satisfied If earth Is made place where good
men may win heaven "-must open their minds
some day or other TO the truth that "good men"
cannot be found in hungry men who offer their
willing hands TO work, and find none TO employ or
feed them. II is the problem of our day to trans
form these men, who are unfortunately the mass OF
the laborng classes, into the good and we-fed
men, who shall have the serenity Of mind necessa-
ry to enable them to cultivate their moral nature
and to lit themselves for heaven.
This serenity never can exist in the minds OF
those who are suffering from hunger, and who see
their wives and children pInlng for food in a world
of plenty. BY the system of rendering men mise
rable, we not only deprive them of the compare
tive heaven that this world might be made, IT men
loved each other; but brutalize the heart OF
millions, sink them into degradation and vice, and
unfit them for that superlative heaven, which Is
not held out to as the compensation tor misery,
but as the reward of well doing. Were heaven
the COMPENSATION for misery and starvation, what