The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-08-05

I pIOPOstH by Mlnlster Finance. ACOOrdipg h
TINS credit OF $4,000 francs month is to be ope
TO the Minister OF Finance, to be applied toows
| Francs
Sc at $50 francs each. .......... 1850
! Chief Clerk in bureau de publicite. ....... 500
4 Trapslators at $50 francs each ., 1000
Copying Clerks ut $50 and 200. ......... 45O
at loo francs each :. 100 doS o.
Messengers at So 80 each. ....,..,..,.. Q %
Subscriptions to French and foreign journals 200
Printing, publishing notices, &C SO, (this
includes the expenses Of the Nonifeur). -. 10000
nIre' ''''''... ........... 800
Suhofes' ...'... '....... ........... 2il 6s
| Total. ....... $4,000 OC
The allowance to General Cavagnac personally as
chief OF the executive power out of which he has
provide his own hoteD is 10000 francs month
A curious and novel project has been put forth by
the government of our infant republic IL is nothing
less than to establish system of publications dali
and weekly having the official stamp of authority to
supply information of undoubted authenticity to the
Pubhc, and to deep the people, including even
those who have neither the time nor opportunity Of
reading the journals, informed Of what is going on
1t is proposed thet journal of the government shall
appear every morning At Paris, second edition of
which shall be published at four O'Clock for the de-.
partments
Journals of smaller size, intended to popuIarise
calculated by the daily papers, shall be likewise pub
| lished by government
One Of these papers, edited for the working classes
ana Tor the inhabitants of the rural localities shall be
sent to schoomasters, who to read, after school
hours to all those citizens who may be pleased to come
The Sunday reviews will also add their sh are to these
daily publications, and will form the first eeme nts Of
| the communal libraries
The communal Libraries will complete the insttution
Of the press of the government well tho means
of instructing and educating the people.
The journal Of the government shall be sent to all
the eommunes OF France They who cannot pay for it
! are to receive 1t gratutously.
1t shall likewise be forwarded to oil functionares
| wAo by their employ ments, obliged to be made
| acquainted with all the acts of government.
general direction of the press to be established
| Of nnbl ic I'M truo tion
committee, chosen in the National Assembly, the
of State and the Institut with the director Of
the press are to preside the editing the popular
publications of the government of the republic
The following view Of the political relations existing
Russia, has appeared here this merning and as it is
Understood to be from the of NJ de Lamartine it
VIII De read with interest far off New York
Line revolution is the spirit of God, which pass
eth over the world, and which stirreth up nations
when constitutions, which bat the spirit man,
oelng no longer equal to their movements and IDEAS
cease to be in harmony with their internal life
The revolution is at one time religious faith, it
power, under Richeleu; sometimes philosophy, as
IN the 18th century sometimes, the Acknowledgement
OF the disnherited classes as in $685. and sometimes,
E1SrS as under the Empire At our ep0'h it is
g., Nations divided by the nmity Of By rival
frontiers which policy or war have marked st theyy
choice, not all ripe at the same hour to a th
spirit Of God to pass without resistance and vtbout
struggle In times Of revolution, among nations ss
wen as among individuals there always to be found
refdrdafary as well as impatient men, If France is
impatient, according to the opinion .haee kiaas
hindhand according 70 the opinions of those nations
who now yearning for justice and liberty.
"And are not France and Russia, those tyo power
full personifcations Of young and of old Europe
those living symbols of the future and Of the past
in reality, civilization and basbority moveme mt and
resistance force and right the spirit of God and the
spirit Of man, the idea and the fact!
Behold, at the first rumor Of revolutions, Russia
her steppes and ices Her nattering promises which
she will not keep u to rest the neighboring nations
she evokes the remembrances Of the past she fatters
those passions she lately blamed; she recognises
those nationaltes which she has just stepped in Blood
and she appears sombre and menacing, with 100000
at her extreme frontiers ready to over rivers
decided to occupy cities and to point her cannon at
the terrible prepagand which has galvanized every
nation.
"And France, kneeling with pain upon the tomb
stones of her sons decimated by internal divisions
France who suffers from strength and from want
of occupation, and who has all to gain from a war
which would carry the most adventurous and the
most ardent far from her cites-remains silent and
| immovable beneath the distant threat because she
well knows that glory would annihiate liberty, and
that IDEAS like to the thunderbolt, noun.
tans and rivers and will be stopped neither by armies
What deep lesson does not this contrast offer to
the historian and what magnificent spectacle it
sents to the eye of the philosopher. Nor does it ap-
pear to to be either NAL dpropos without interest
to take rapid survey Of the intermediary countries
| which separate France and Russia and which
about to settle their destnes between the fact and
| the idea.
If we do not err in our provisions never will the
map of the world, which has been modified by ach re-
| volution, have undergone more suddenly, and in
consequence Of the shock, radio al change
But most remarkable fact which prevails throughout
the present situation IS that want of power and of
| force-that tendency towards unity which seems to
lead the people of every nation to nd to their
cradle, in order to reunite under sole authority
all the dispersed elements of the primitive nationa-
| ties.
Thus Germany, that singular assemblage of States
and Of sovereign prncipaltes, took years back
its first step towards unity in adopting the zoverein
that customs union which has caused the frontiers to
~ IN he III.
verein was the forerunner Of the National Assembly
Of Frankfort, which soon followed it.
Then Italy, that magnificent and generous coun-
of its archdukes, and to the brutality Of its soldiers
after having paid for the of her ter
tory with the purest blood of her citizens has offered
to be the strongest and the devoted her
and has thus laid the foundation Of her glorious unity
But let us not dissimulate to ourselves that the
homogenity Of Germany and Italy will considerably
change the balance Of Europe and will greatly modify
their national intercourse In times of peace, the
change Of produce and the transactions of commerce
will doubtless be great gamers by it but in of
war, or of a Misunderstanding, offensive and de-
fensve alliance between the two great powers may
prove to be unto US a direct and even an imminent
danger
mistress of the Baltic and of the German Ocean, of
the Gulf Of Genoa and Of the Adriatc, they would
succeed by their joint efforts and in concert with
Russia, in destroying our trade, in interceptng our
arrivals Of timber In running In Africa
and would throw, unexpectedly, upon our frontiers,
of those In Vulnerable armies of which modern his
tory has lost all recollection.
"And what should be the policy of France foresecns
"A new policy springing from the very nature Of
things, geogra phically indicated firm policy. openly
acknowledged clearly designed and persevering above
ali policy on the look out for events and
cbments, acting confermably to the recog
historical rights by the influence of traditions by
an intellectual crusade by the propagand Of ideas by
the intercourse of persons. by the increasing
fusion Of commerce SOLITARY interests
"France must, in one word, insulate Russia by de-