The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-04-03

Present and Prospective State OF England.
The French revolution, the spark which has
fred the train OF combustion in Europe, is, in
deed, a portentous omen. Nations that have
for centuries and centuries endured the oppres-
sor's yoke, feel at once new life, are instilled
with a new principle, animated by new spirit
aud that spirit is resistance to oppression, and
the bursting of the bonds and shackes of mo-
narchy. The great truth has been established
in Europe, as it has been In America, that the
creature whom the Creator formed in his own
image, is capable of selfgovernment. The in
stinct which the God of Nature has implanted in
the breasts of mankind, has triumphed, and man,
IT the consciousness of his might and his
strength, has arisen from the slumber of ages
and proclaimed in thunder tones, that, like the
rest of Gods work, he will, and he shall be free.
We live in a momenous and extraordinary PEE
Rod of the worlds history. The whole family
of humanity are In a state of transition. The
prejudices, the opinions, and the landmarks of
centuries are burst asunder; and man, in his
might and strength, stands forth as a new being
the prerogative with which nature invested him
is asserted, and, in the pride of his victory, he
procaims that he can govern himself.
Such, in truth, Is the new position which the
world has thus assumed. The small cloud in the
Western horizon, which at first appeared no
larger than mans hand, has in day obscured
the horizon, aud enveoped the whole of the
Eastern continent. The decree has gone forth
the die is cast-and henceforth and forever the
rule of monarchy virtually ceases in the Old
World, and man, through the width and breadth
of the worlds confines, will ere long become as
nature intended-one fraternal band, animated
by but one instinct, and having bat one object in
vlew-the happiness and welfare of his race
We have already noticed the causes which
have produced this great change, and we shall
merely confine ourselves in this article to the
results which it will effect on the country from
which we have derived our language, our rel-
glon, and our laws. Once the mistress of the
world, by land and by sea, protected as her sons
believe by guardian angel, and possessing ter
ritories and colonies in every part of the globe,
civilized and uncivilized, England totters, and
her fall is nearer at hand than people imagine
Monarchies, like card houses, are safe as long
as they are untouched but, as in the one case,
the breath of a child, SO in the other the breath
of a people, reduces and RACES them to the
ground For centuries England has been but an
edifce of cards. The shock has come, the breath
OF people ID ABOUT 10 De down, and she tails
never to rise as monarchy. If France, in the
words Of her ex-monarch, has had her last king,
England has, and in short time will have had,
her last queen.
1t will unquestionably be doubted whether
England is in this state but we spprchend that
little examination and thought bestowed on her
condition, will set the matter at rest In the
first place, che is incumbered with national
debt of eight hundred millions of pounds ster-
ling, the principal Of which she never expects to
pay but the interest of which is a tax, not only
on the income of the country, but on its very
industry. The expenses of her royaty-we
mean the cost of malntai aiming the royal family
amounts TO the sum of nine hundred and thirty.
four thousand pounds sterling. These are but
two items OF the immense tax bill which the
laboring and productive classes of England have
from year to year to provide. Formerly, while
that country swept the seas, and wa isyiroItle
by lsad her chssns cheerla!ly contributed 10
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