Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-04-22

ALISON, the well-known historian, has contribut-
ed an article to the April number of BLAcKwooD's
MAGAZINE upon the recent Revolution in France,
under the title Of the Fall Of The Throne Of The
BarricadeS." II Of course denounces in the most
uniheasured terms the whole movement. 1t has
great interest," however, as indicative of the senti-
ments entertained upon the subject by the large
class in Great Britain which ALISON represents !;
and we therefore make from the article the follow
ing extracts:
BLAcKwooD
The Government of LOUIS PHIIPpE was a continual de-
nial of Its ognan ineessan effort crush the spirit which
had raised IT, The repeated and sangunay disorders in Pa
s he two dreadful instructions in Lyons the awful drown
ing Of the revolt Of the closer of St Merry blood demon
ad before two years had elapsed that the Government
had felt the necessity Of exngushng the visionary ideas which
had been evoked the Of eevaing itself power
More than stood the edge Of the abyss and il
saved only by the vgor Of the sovereign and the newly
kened teros Of the holders Of property which prevented them
from openly coaescng with the determined republicans, who
aimed at ovenrnng all the institutions Of society, and real
zng in the nineteenth century the visions Of Robrspee and
Babuf in the eighteenth In the Of this protraced
struggle the new Government felt daily and the
necessity OF resting their authority force and detaching
from the anarchcal doctrines amidst the umphs Of which
il had taken its rise. Paris declared a of siege
the oiinances Of Poignac reenacted with additional
rgor the military establishments of the country were
bled its expenditure raised from nine hundred millions to f
hundred million francs ncessant aud perseyering
waged with the democratic press and Paris surrounded
by chain Of forts which eectuay prevented any other will
from governing France but that Of the military who in
possession of their baaions Such the result the cause
Of freedom in France pf the triumph Of the Bacades.
But in eighteen years entirely generation rises to
the active direction Of affairs In s4S the personal expert
ence the eounde1 fears the sights of which had
t..r nfE Il.
ricades forgotten The fearful contests with anarchy
by which the first yars of the reign Of Louis Philippe had
been marked had passed into the page Of hory that
become familiar TO aenh part only of the active population
To those who did barn from this limited source was
known chiefly from he volumes Of NJ Louis Blanc who in
his Ten Years Of NE reign of Louis Philippe painted that
monarch in otter light but of the most deceit
fu and sanguinaF yrans who dsgraced humanity.
Thus the lessons experience lost the majority
of the active citzns The necessity of keeping at peace
which Louis Philippe strongly felt and energetcaly
Serted became the Of yeas nsupporabe re-
srant upon pdple faught with revolutionary IDEAS and
heated by the gbwng recolecons OF the empire. nation
containing six millions of separate landed popeors the
great majority whom at the plough and possessed
of six pounds in the world necessarily chafes against
power wh imposes the restraints of order and peace on
the appetite fol plumber and the lust of conquest This was
the secret the fall of the dynases of the storaon
and the Barbados. They fell because they kept the nation
at peace with Is neghbors and peace with tse-because
they erminate the dream of foreign conquest and checked
the visions of internal utopia because they did not like Ma
poleon open pe of to every the country
capable of cafying musket like Robepiere pursue
supposed advantage of the working classes by the desuc
ton OF every Interest above them society. Had either
Charles X. Louis Philippe been foreign conquerors and
the state of Europe bad permitted of their wagng with
success, they would have lived and died the throne Of
France and A honored crown their There
never mtnarchs who moved down the population and
wasted the Of France like Napoleon and Louis XIV
but long they successful and kept open the career
OF elevation TO the people, they commanded their universal
attachment was when they grew unfortunate, and could
call them only 10 discharge the mounfu duties adversy
that they became the objects of universal execraon The
revolution has been true its polar star worldly
success.
misunderstood We do that the present leaders
the revolution desire foreign war; in the pac
hc professions which they have put forth in their public pro-
carnations We have doubt that Liberty Equality and
fraternity is what they really desire aud that with Eng
land In particular they sincerely desrous remain pre-
sent at least terms of amy The early promoters Of the
revolution of l7s9 Seyes Baly Mirabeau and LAFAYETTE
equally loud and probably their pacific prote
tations a the outset Of the first convulsion What assert
another proposition entirely corroboated by past history
and scarcely less important in IFS present application, that
the members Of the existing Revolutionary Government are
placed false position that they have been elevated to
power by the force OF passion, and the spread of principles in
consistent with the existence of society that they continue
TO fan them they will ruin their country they attempt TO
coerce them they will be destroyed Themselves This Is the
constant and dreadful alternative in which Revolutionary
Government placed and which has uniformly led in past
history what called departure from the principles free
dom by its successful leaders 1t was this which brought La
ayette into such dcred in Paris that his life saved only
by his fortunate confinement in Austrian dungeon il was
this which rendered Maeau in the end roya and for
ruined him in popular favor it this which made
Robesperre strive the sway Of natural religion
in the inGde metropolis il this which gave Napoleon
such horror of the metaphysical " Idcalogues" Who ac
codng TO him. had ruined France and rendered him the re-
ue and unbendng opponent Of the revolution But even
Napoeons iron was unequal to the task Of aesng the
fiery OF democracy be only succeeded in maintain
He turned them against the Tuieries against the
kremn he preserved peace in France only by wagng
in Europe Napoleon Of Peace will never succeed in
restraining the revolution
Observe the pledges with which the Provisional Govern
ment commencing their They are that the State
Is 10 provide employment for all who procure
private individuals that ample remuneration be
cured 10 labor that the right of combination raise wages
Is TO be protected by law that the House Of Peers be
abolished well all titles Of honor the bearing Of which
Is to be sbsoutely prohibited that noble all
Frenchmen to be opened in The army; the national repre-
sentaon placed the democratic basis Of Ma
donal Assembly, elected by millions Of electors all bur-
dens subsistence be abolished unlimited circulation
Is 10 be provided for newspapers and the extension of know
ledge but the fdres in the time least upder
go no dminuton. These promises and pledges sufficiently
demonstrate what interest in the State has got the
dency II is the interest rather supposed interest Of labor
In opposition that Of capital Of numbers against property
The revolution that taken place is a communist
cfdf triumph the chiefs who have been Installed 10 power
are The leaders OF the party who think the grand evil Of civil