Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-04-28
WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL &c. 1919.
The News from Euronc

Within the past five days, the wondcr.craving
and news.oving portion of the people of this
favored land, have been rraifed bv an ara
lanche of European intelligence. Three mas.
senger ships have arrived in quick succession,
at the ports Of New York and Boston, and, on
I" the viewless wings" of the Woodworking
Telegraph, the interesting, exciting and impor-
tant news with which each was freirhted has
been borne to almost all parts of this widely
extended Union.
On Friday and Saturday we gave pretty full
Telegraphic Dispatches Of the intelligence BY
the Duchess dOrleans, which arrived at New
York on the Goth inst, having left IIavrc ON the
9th nit. and by the Steamer Sarah Sands.
which reached the same port on the 2lst from
Liverpool, whence she sailed or the Sd instant
To-day we have a full despatch of the news bv
the Acadia, which reached Boston on Sunday
evening from Liverpool, with five days later
| dates.
The news by these arrivals is of the same
Character with that which has preceded it
though, it strikes us. Of increased importance
and portent. Agitation and Revolution sus.
tanning the relation Of Cause and Effect, are
maniiestly over-running. if not eflectually orer.
turning, the oldest and apparently the strongest
Monarchies OF Europe. and, in many cases,
without the accompaniment Of any sufficiently
well-deiined and well-developed Interior purpose
to afford a serious guaranty of beneficial results
to those at least Immediately engaged in these
popular outbreaks
The most significant and important in,eli.
gence by the Acadia, as it appears to us, is that
from England and Ireland. As we predicted in
| Yesterdays NOR tbo lei j. bavo oil A,
began to take the step beyond agitation; and the
Despatch in another column ominously informs
US that Dublin wW soon be put under marta
idw, AS If any thing better than martial law >
mad been allotted to The oppressed, yet gallant
warm-iearted and brave people of the Greer
Isle ct the Ocean," for many long and bittel
years England has certainly ''sown the wind
in Ireland, and powerful and prepared as she ma
be tor all the conflicts which threaten to ''disturi
her peace she may find the promised and un
avoldable labor of So reaping the whirwind" OH,
in which success brings no good fruits.
England finds, moreover, as will be seen, &c
casion enough, within her own limits, for alarm
Her ministry, in prohibiting the Chartist process
sion and meeting, have taken step remarkab
similar to that which led to results so di-asrou
to kingly rule on the othor side of the Channel
, The Chartists are men who are not likely to su,
render a hairs -breadth Of their rights. Thei
ideas Of humanity and its prerogatives, and c
arbitrary rule and its limits, have been represent
ed and cuAirated By such potent and fearle-
agents as CARLYLE. ELLIOTT, and the IioWrrT.
whose burning words have long heated the pol
ical atmosphere Of England, and welded togethe
the sympalhes and desires of masses of MEN .,li
are compelled to labor for their daily bread
without hope of any thing more. For any r.
form to struggle, hand to hand. against the coles
: sal power OF England, would certainly seem t
be hopeless attempts but with men of Savo
: blood, who declare their determination 'to twfs
their Tires. if necessary, in the atteupt" to reli'
rate their condition, Il GOOD CAUSE stands strong
in the place OF bayonets.
= The Continent Of Europe is equally the thei
{ ire of great and universal contest betwee
the rights and prerogatives of THE PEOPLE an
e of THRoyEs-between abstract rights, post:v
d undoubtedly, but ill-defined and worse undo
= stood, and constituted authority. Where an
r, how it viii end no man may venture to predlc
II The Provisional Government OF France, whcl
c the project of Freedom has been most mature
considered, and where its management is &c
). tainly in the best hands, has been induced ttci
o 10 postpone the period appointed for the exerc
o of the electoral franchise by the French peopl
Certainly the almost limitless extent which h
IT been given to that franchise may well lead
apprehension in respect to the manner in whit
o it will be exercised 1t is a powerful agent
IF place i'll the hands Of hirty-tour milionS of pc
i pie nearly oYE-iGALF of whom are unable
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