Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-04-29
STILL LATERF FRoMEURoPE.

| BY tie Cunard steamer ACADIA, which arrived al
Boston on Sunday night from Liverpool on the 8t
Instant we have adyices from Europe five days
later than those brought by the Sarah Sands.
The subjoined letter of our London Correspon-
dent embodies the results Of recent events on that
Continent and presents general view of the pre-
sent condition of affairs
LONDON, APRIL 2, ls46.
There is new interest at work in the reforma-
ton, or rather revolution, which is at this time so
rapidly changing the social and political face of con-
tnental Europe. This interest is as novel in its
principle, and will prove SO in its results, as the
revolution which it has assisted is rapid in its pro-
gress and extensive in its operations FRANCE,
where the mighty movement commenced, has been
the of three revolutions within the three score
years and ten allotted the usual period of human
existence. Feudal and aristocratcal rights privi-
leges, and distinctions routed by the first
luton; the claims of legitimacy were subverted
| by the second, when Citizen King was placed by
the hands and voices of the people on the till
| then hereditary throne of the CAPETs and now
the third change has abolished the throne ITSELF The
people nave proclaimed their own sovereignty, and
willed that France shall be republic. They are
taking the initiatory step to give form and shape
to their republic but at present the populace of
Paris, the two hundred thousand men who repre-
sent that population the nation, the government
the magistracy, the courts of justice, the army and
| nayys the bourse, the alpha and omega of France.
We do not see how this is to end, but hope rather
than 6eiseOe, that will end we'll At present. even
with all our leaning to republican form of gov
ernment we must be excused in saying that France
Is suffering under the most ntolerable Of tyrannes-
that of the populace.
Almost every measure which the Provisional
| Government has hitherto adopted has been at the
dictation Of the populace, and for their immediate
real or fancied benefit. We have endeavored to
find excuse for this, and have given the Provi-
| sonal Government credit for desire to conciliate
and soothe the excited feelings of the populace--to
gradually bring down the fevered pulse of the lower
and less Informed classes of the people of Paris to
a healthy and temperate state. They no doubt
thought that time, and perhaps no long time, would
accomplish this end, and that power would ere long
become concentrated and consolidated in some ac-
ceptable form or other thus preventing that
chy and dreadful devastation which would have
| been almost TO occur had the people been
opposed in their demands, however unreasonable
and prejudicial TO the best interests of the
| try, whilst they were yet drunk, as it were, by
their first trlumphs, and blind to all the conse-
quences Of indulgence in every crude and short
sighted notion which their excited feelings might
give birth to.
| There is an old adage that gold may be bought
too DEAR" May not the French Provisional Gov
ernment find that they have purchased peace too
dear! We greatly fear they will for the price
which they have paid for present peace has been
the sacrifice of the interests of all classes of the
people but one to the wild caprice and blind desire
of that one. The legislation of the Provisional
Government has been most decidedly class legiSia-
hon. Peace has been maintained in Paris but the
present peace is full of anxetes and fearful anci-
paons of the future.
! We had great hopes that M. DE LAMARTINE and
his colleagues would have remained firm, and not
have yielded TO the demand of the people of Paris
TO postpone the elections of the Deputies to the Ma
tional Convention. They have not done so, how
ever They have advanced the designs Of LEDRU
RoLLIN and his very dangerous Clique by deferring
the elections until the 23d of April and the first
meeting of the Convention to, the 4th Of May.
| This we regard as false move, for it has allowed
the time which was wanted by the demagogues and
the destructonists of France to work their party
machinery, and to do their utmost to fill the Ma
| tional Assembly with congenial spirits.
The new interest which we have stated as form
ing principal an ingredient in the great political
movement of the day is, the introduction of the
rights of industry, of mechanical labor, of mere
physical exerton, as the paramount interest of So
ciety. God forbid that should gainsay by
single word, or diminish in our own estimation by
i HOugllt, Hlc Tglit, ult
trovertible claim which labor, industry, and useful
bodily exertion have to the full enjoyment of every
natural, physical, social, civil, and political right,
and a proportionate participation in all and every
blessing which the earth afford, or ingenuity
and skill produce. We hail the introduction of this
claim Of the rights of industry this elevation of the
working man TO the social and political man we
regard il as one of the great advances of the age
as one Of the most important steps which progress
has taken, and having tendency TO urge TO other
advances in the same direction. But we cannot
advocate this interest at the expense Of the other
most important ones which society has long recog-
1 nsed, and which must continue to be recognised, or
society will not be worth maintaining. What we
lament TO see is, that the rights and interests of
capital of skill, Of commercial Enterprise, of sound
Judgment of long descended and heretofore legally
projected property, have been sacrificed. or emf
nently disregarded in the furtherance Of this, now
for the first time prominently recognised, right OF
of the laboring class. Give this honorable this
most important class, all the rights il is fairly ent-
tied to protect its interests, elevate its position and
its character, and constitute it. what ii never yet has
been any where in the civilized world, except m
Great Britain and the United States one Of the
great component parts Of the social and political
body one Of the equal brotherhood of the family OF
man. Wefear that Trance, in endeavoring TO do JUS
tice TO this class is in great danger Of doing nus-
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