The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-07-17
New York, Monday, July ~, lS4S.
The French lnsurrectiOn-tts Effects on Great
Britain md Ireland.

The French lnsurrectiOn-Its Effects on Great
Britain and Ireland.
When the mind is relieved from the excitement
which is occasioned by reading the accounts of
she recent sanguinary occurrences In Paris, 1t ma
turaly is directed across the Channel, and seeks to
enquire what influence those scenes, and the sue
esssful suppression of that nsurrecton, will have
On the political condition OF Great Britain and Ire
and. The state of affairs which has existed in
tn, se countries SO long, cannot. in the nature of
things, continue much longer. Gag laws, sedition
laws and crown security statutes, of great strin-
gency, may be passed by overwhelming majorities
by the two houses of Parliament; but such mea-
sures are of no avail when the majority of the
people are dsaf1ected to the government, and de-
pland change of their political system. few
brave leaders may be convicted and sent out of
the country as parliamentary felons; but others
step In and fill the places which are thus vacated,
and preach the same doctrines for which their pre-
aeceesors have been punished This, to a great
extent, is the condition of England at the present
time, and it is universally in Ireland More
felons will be made, perhaps, to order, according
10 parliamentary statute; but governmental prose-
s0tion and punishment attended with no moral
EJECT So far from quelllng the spirit of revolt
which prevails in Ireland, the operation of the
stringent and despotic laws that have recently
been passed, has added fuel TO the flame, and in
creased and concentrated, more than ever, the OPP
position of the masses to their rulers
Such was the condition of Great Britain and
Ireland when the recent instruction in Paris
broke out; and as to the effect which the scenes
which marked that capital during the four DAYS of
the civil war, will have countries situated as
these are, we think 1t will be adverse to the go
vernment, and favorable to the people-especially
20 in Ireland In that fight, forty thousand men
the computed number of the insurgents-without
proper arms or ammunition, successfully defended
their rude and imperfect barbados and other de-
fences, against well disciplined and fully equip
ped army of eighty thousand of as brave men as
ever pulled trigger; and it was not until they
were decoyed from those defences to the level
ground, that they defeated. But for this, the
result ght have been different, and Paris might
At this hour be In the possession of the mob. 1t
shows concluslvely, that street fight, the clt-
,ens of city are almost invincible When we
take into consideration the fact that there are but
thirty thousand troops in the whole of Ireland-a
large portion of whom cannot be depended upon
as loyal to the government-it must be perceived
mat tne people VI tndt country, as wen as the
chartsts of England have a strong proof of what
they can do, when occasion requires it, at the
breaking out of hosulities. They have learned a
lesson, too, which they seem to appreciate and
hat lie, to keep to the streets, and avoid level
ground, where the superior discipline, skill and
sunnery of the regular troops would give them no
chances OF success. If the "pluck" of the Irish,
or of the chartiets is only equal to that of the
workmen of France, as exhibited In the recent in
surrecton, they could, in very short time, over
turn the government.
With these views, therefore, we are of opinion
that the events which have recently occurred in
France, will hasten the crisis in English and Irish
affairs, and give the disconnected portion of the
people-those, mean, who evince determine
ton TO upset the existing order Of thngs-greater
advantages, and more hopes Of sue cess, than they
possessed before We may look, we think for a
collision at an early day; and from what we can
CLEAN from our Irish exchanges, and the general
tone OF the press OF that country, we think such
collision will take place within three months, both
m England and Ireland, notwithstanding the gra-
sious condescension of the Queen in visiting the
enc country, and announcing her determination to
give upa portion Of her income, in order to lessen
ne agitation oi the chartists Of the other
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