The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-06-29
The French Republic-Its Posltion-Its
Stability.


Stability.
BY the last steamer from Europe, we received
vast mass Of foreign exchanges, and letters
from our various correspondents in different
parts of continental Europe. We publish
ed day or two since, extracts from our English
exchanges; and to-day we publish a part of our
special and private correspondence.
A perusal of the English newspapers will satisfy
any unprecedented person, that there ia no use in
looking for facts in them, in regard to the present
revolutionary state of Europe, especially the
French republic. We have, on former occasions,
expressed this view, and we have abundant rea-
sons to reiterate it now According to those
journals, France is In a state of anarchy and
confusion, dreadful to contemplate; and, as to the
idea that peace and order can ultimately be pro-
duced out of such chaotic state Of things, as
produced by the overthrow of the government of
Louis Philippe, and the formation Of republic, it
Is the height of absurdity. In fact, if we COIN
clded with the views expressed by the newspaper
press of England, and their numerous correspond
ents in Paris the people France are already sick
and tired of the experiment of free govern
ment. This is downright nonsense. France
never will be governed by monarchy again.
Louis Philippe was the last monarch Of
that country Hereafter she will be a re-
public, one and indivisible; and hereafter there
will be more ORDER more tranquility, more liberty,
more freedom, personal and political, as well as
more prosperity, general and individual, than have
ever reigned there before; or that ever will be OBJ
served in any of the other countries of Europe,
unless they adopt republican form of government,
as France has done. The truth is, in political mat
tiers there is no truth in the English journals.
There have been to be sure, eneutes, disturbances,
rows and riots, in France but who is unreal
sonable as not to find either sufficient paiation for
them in the exoisenent of the times, the mis-
taken zeal of the friends of freedom, who wish to
push the cause to extremes. But these circum-
stances, 30 far from endangering the strength of
the new republic, have actually solidfed it; and
from day to day it has gone on increasing in
strength and power until the present; when, not
withstanding all the assertions, wishes and sur
misses of the English newspaper writers, it is POSI-
lively the most tranquil, the most prosperous, and
the most powerful nation in Europe. There Is no
country in that quarter of the world but France, the
general prosperity of which can be at all compared
to the United States. A constitution is about to
be formed, on basis like the constitution of the
United States. A President will be elected like
ours and we have no doubt that, in other respects
our political institutions will be applied in France
as far as they can be followed considering the diff
ferences existing between the manners, habits, and
wants of the people of the two countries.
Our special French correspondence, portion Of
which we publish in to-day's Herald, will give our
readers clear insight into the present condition of
France. These letters are written in fair, un-
prejudiced, and impartial manner; and 1t will be
seen at glance, that the statements therein made
are true; and any deductions that are drawn
from them, are done so In reasonable and phlo-
sophical way, by writers who are liberal in their
ideas, and who understand the workings of demo-
cracy all Its various phases From the few eeufes
which have taken place in Paris, they do not
jump at the conclusion that republicansm is i'm
practicable; neither do they assert, that, because
few of the aristocracy, whose wealth was depend
ent on Fictitious credit, have fallen, the people
generally are not prosperous. No, they do not do
so; neither do they assert, as the English press
does, that there is reaction in favor of monarchy:
but on the contrary, they say that 'h prospect for
the establishment of constitution Is put beyond
any reasonable doubt, although there may be
many occasions for alarm and agitation to the
timid."
The predictions and assertions of the English
press, are repeated and reiterated by the cores
pondents of some of our American journals We
aude, especially, to the letters from France which
appear in the Commercial Adocytissr, the Courier
and Enquirer, and the Journal of Commerce, of
this city. The same quasi lugubrious forebodings
are entertained by the Paris correspondents of
those papers, not only because the winters are
Englishmen, but because, also, they know they
will suit the columns of those papers.
The ren,,h1ic of France 10 th;nL soCo LnvcoJ
question, notwithstanding all that is said by the
English press, and long may it continue SO. If
the writer's would look nearer home, they would
find more materials on which to base the pre-
dctions of disaster and ruin than are exhibited in
France When the chartists Of England are ST.
lent; when the Irish cease from attempting dis
membement of the empire; when the taxes are
mduced 30 that the poor can live for themselves
and not for their taskmasters--the aristocracy and
oligarchy when, in word, the English people
are no longer the most oppressed and over bur-
dened people in the world those English journals
may, with some consistency, find fault with what
is disagreeable to them in other countries
SPEECH OF JOHN VAN BUREN.-We give in ano-
cher column the last speech of John Van Buren,.
NJ will be read by all the Old Hunkers in the coun-
try. We intend to give in day or two, perhaps
on Saturday, the address which was adopted by
the Barnburners, at their convention in Utica, on
abe 22d inst. That, also, will be read by the Old
Hunkers. These political papers will read Gu
riously enough few years from this. The
speeches. addresses, and resolutions of the polit.
clans of 184S, ought to be sailed down for future
use.
The STEAMER SoUTpERNER arrived hence at
Charleston, on Sunday morning early.