The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-02-27

sage projects, and reduced them TO the painful
necessity of locking on quietly and seeing their
friends and adherents tramped upon by the VIC
torious radicals. This is the first great triumph
of revolutionary principles, since the glorious
days OF July, when new era appeared 10 be
dawning upon Europe, until the aristocracy OF
wealth cont1ved, by some legerdemaln process.
to wheedle the people out OF the spoils OF victo-
ry, and to vault into the saddle just left vacant by
the downfall Of the arislocrecy of b,rth No
wonder, therefore, that this event is contem
plated with alarmanf anxiety by the few with
hope and expectapontby the many. All seem to
have foreboding THAT serious crisis ID at hand,
and that some mighty convuis on sabout to dis
turb the fictitious tranquility in which this quar-
ter of the globe has, been buried for the last
thirty years. The civil discussions in Switzer-
land-the universal ferment of the popular mind
in ltaly-the declining state of Louis Philips
health, and the ieversdand unhealthy condition
of Frsnce-the suppressed dissatisfaction that,
prevails through out Germany-ths liberal attitude
assumed by the Hungarian Dlet-thc threatening
demonstrations of Turkey, aud the silent watch
tuness Of RussisE-sll, these are signs OF the
times, which he thatTuns may read.
There were reports current few days since,
that the cholera had broke out at Breslau, about
two hundred, and at. Stettin, about hundred
miles from this city but they are now stated to
the dread epidemic had come to stand IN Rus
STA. Next spring, however, we may calculate
with certainty upon its paying US visit. II took
a Similar course on It's nISt appearance LII ePc
sixteen years ago ; after penetrating from Per
STA to TifIs, Astrecan, and the south OF Russia,
it. made pause during the winter Of ls30-3l,
and then broke 5uf with renewed violence on the
Germany, France,I Great Britain, and even
across the ocean to,the United States and South
America. Add tolthis' the high prices of food,
occasioned by the fa'lsre of the potatoe crops,
and the man euvfes of the spectators in grain,
and. you will.perceive that our prospects for
1S48 are gloomy enough. Who knows, whether
the three great scourGcs OF mankind, war, pes.
thence, and famine, are not about to unite their
waited race, subjectiIg it to the purifying ordeal
OF suffering and privation, and arousing 1t to
more healthy and vigorous state OF existence!
The debates inthe British House of Commons
considerable interest, in this country. 1t was
all very we'll of Lord John Russell to deprecate
the injustice of slfutting the doors of Parliament
against 10000 .Engllshmen,*' for no other crime
than that of protesting a religion obnoxious to
the majority of their countrymen; but he ought
to have added word on the much more crying
injustice of deprivipg SIX millions OF his fellow
citizenst OF the most essential Of al rghtsLthat
of suffrage-not on account of their religious
opinions, or their moral character, but only be-
cause they are rot possessed of the requisite
amount OF pounds; cshillngs, and pence. No
doubt it is greathaTdship that milliopaires, like
Baron Rothschild, Sir Isaac Goldsmid, Sir Mo-
sss M0ntlfoIre, &c',' &C., who can purchase IT,
ties and orders K6m all the princes of Europe,
should be unable.to purchase seat IN the House
of Commons but it is, perhaps, still greater
one, that men of the, highest cast of genius, the
most extensive. ,scquirenents, the most spstless
integrity should nQtiony be disqualified from
entering the Halls Of St. Stephens, but even from
voting at an eectlan,N their income happens to
fall short of so rnucH a-year-that the eloqusnce
of a Burke, the.witofa Sheridan, the statesman
ship ofa Canning, or the financial abilities of
Peel, should be Of 70 avail, unless accompanied
by good round balance at your bankers. What
an incongraiiy t6se9franchise ten thousand Is
raehtes, while nearly six millions Of Christians
remain in bondage, To affect prodlglous zeal
for the emanci patton OF the former, and to con-
tinue blind the servitudc of the latter about
tho same thing as STAINING at gnat and swal.
lowing a camel. But this unnatural state of
things must soon come to an end, and no one
Z no watches the march Of public opinion will
universal suffrage and universal elIglbffitSS'
sc at in the coudcils Of the nation, will be nlti-
mately triumphant in England, as 1t has long
been in your great and.hsppy republic. A. b.
Lord John said 10000, but that was including wo.
men and childrsnJ
The number OF male adults in Great Britain and Ire
land amousts to a5ot millions, Of whom little be'
than A miliio rAfe slactOrs.