Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-04-06
FURTHER BY THE CAMBRIA,
Opinions of the English Press on the
French Revelation,
EFFECTS oFTHE BRITISH PARLIAMENT.
PROCLAMATION OF THE POPE OF ROME.
from the London News, Feb. 25.l

1t has triumphed this time, fortunately, not
after three days of carnage and of struggle, but
by the moral attitude of the population. The
guard, the middle class of the citizens,
joined with the lower orders in offering resist
anee, and this sufficed French soldiers are
citizens, too, and however, ready to sweep
away few idle rioters, they were not prepar-
ed to treat as foes, and to decimate with grape
shot the united and thronging population of
the metropolis. The example is a pregnant
one, and the lesson such as every monarch and
every minister must ponder over. Neither
must provoke, for neither can overcome, the
hostility of million voices, not to speak of
million arms. Voices alone have, in the pres
ent case, sufiCed to overthrow one of the old
est and strongest governments, headed by the
shrewdest king. and having at its command
most powerful army, led by an experienced
and determined general, and possessing every
means of influence and insuring that armys fl
deity, which character, talents, long success
and unbounded resources could bestow.
From the London Telegraph, Feb. 26.l
The greatest revolution OF our time, the over
throw of the whole system of government,
founded on coertion, has been more complete
ly and suddenly accomplished than we ventu-
red yesterday to hope. The reign of Louis
Philippe has come to deserved and shameful
end. Democracy, which is the true character
of the French nation, the whole soil being
divided into small properties, prevails in the
State. The attempt to establish bureaucracy.
headed By monarch, has failed in the heads
of the most renowned POLITICAL of the age at
tended by every advantage. The triumph is not
over man, cut over great untruth. The flag
OF f;.0atlicaniSm floats once more oUer France
tho tiag ot equal rights and honorable free
dom.
from the London Times, Feb. 26.l
The magnitude of such an event cannot be
overrated The royalty OF July has well nigh
ended as it began; and after the labors, the
struggles, and the contrivances of seventeen
years, it has undergone d feat scarcely less
decisive, and more surprising, than that of the
elder Bourbons. For seventeen years the pol
icy of Louis Philippe has been continued
protest against the principles of popular pow
er, to which he owes his throne, but it was in
his destiny, to feel once more the bitterness of
losing cause-to stand again or the verge of
anarchy. and to learn that the terrible ener-
gies of the French revolution defy the stoutest
precautions of authority.
Such defeat is the temporary humiliation
of government. No security remains. The
court, which has been obliged 10 yield yester-
day. and to dismiss an unpopular Minister,
stands comparatively unarmed in presence of
the excited people, whose animosity may be
directed ere longagainst more illustrious head.
The dangers which has been dissipated by such
lardy concession Is insignihcan. In compari-
son with thoss which now lie before the coun-
try. France has been suddenly and violently
awakened fom apathy to revolution. These
events in Paris will shake the kingdom with
electric force. They will reverberate through
! Europe, where the materials of combustion are
already profusely strewn abroad, and mo-
ment of extreme difficulty in many other coun-
tries sudden shock is felt from the quarter
where 1t was least expected. These considera-
tons disclose most threatning and uncertain
! future. We turn, however, from them to the
actual state ofaffairs in Paris.
| The first act of the King, when it was found
necessary to yield to the requisition of the ar
med people, was to send for Count Mole. We
are vet uniformed whether M. Guizot's Cabin
ct voluntary rendered itsresignation, or wheth-
er they were dismissed on the last emergency
The list VI Ministers circulated IN the Chamber
consists of men of far more liberal characte
| than those who have before co-operated with
Count Mole 1t includes, indeed, those who
| in 1889 were his bitterest opponents. Such a
! Ministry would be pure Centre Guuche with
conservative head; and at any rate it is proba
Bile that NJ Dulaure and M. Passy will be tn,
most prominent members of the new govern
ment. NJ. Thi ers' name has not yet been men
| toned.
1 The position of the members of the late cab
met is beyond measure critical. As ministers
their ill-judged pertinacity has brought tn
/ crown into the cruel necessity of submitting +
a popular tumult; as men, they have INSPIRED
their antagonists and the people generally, viii
an inconceivable amount of personal hatred
M. Guizot's character, the gigantic proportion
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quence, the inaccessible height of his disdain
have left the wounds of seven years of triumph
al power all unhealed.
i We do not, for an instant, doubt that the me
who will be called upon to assume the dutie
of government at this crisis, will exertall thei
powers to restore peace to the city, to main
tain authority, prevent violent popular reaC
t ton, and to rescue their sovereign from tn
hazardous position in which he has been left
his late advisers. Twenty-four hours has su
feed for the monarchy of July to slide precip
tate from the height it had so laboriously al
tanned; and the Prince, who was dreaming BIT
u yesterday of the schemes of Louis XIV, the sut
iugation of Spain, the repression of Italy, tn
intervention in Switzerland, and the forcib
coercion of the radical party at home, wake
the following morning in the rough harness an
equivocal position of our old fried the Citize
? King. We have no wish 10 recriminate
: such distressing moment when we are keenl
alive to the dangers which this event must pre-
pagate over the world; yet it cannot but be oil
served that the delusion of the French govern
ment, which it has followed to the length of il
fatuation and ruin, coincide with itsenstrang
ment from the alliance of this country: Spai
e ish intrigues and Austrian councils where Il
o appropriate diplomatic pursuits of a cabin
f which had turned its back on free England. al
threatened TO sacrifice to the interest of d.
nasty the peace of the world.
From the London Standard, Feb. DC.
That the events in Paris may have powe
: full influence upon the destinies of all Eurol
. is too certain, but great deal will rest upt
: the judgement and discretion of the Europea
l. nations generally. Let the mistake ofl792
If carefully avoided-let US, as we are bound
do, cheerfully acknowledge the right of Il
French nation to regulate its own affair
wholly uninfuenced, in the acknowledgment
. by our opinion of the wisdom, or even the ju
q, tice, Of the regulation made. We have s.
t, proof that nothing is gained by interference
W such cases as that before us; and that even I
expression ola wish or an intention to int
fere must reflect fatally upon those interes
which we may wish to see protected. So Fl
be therefore, from what has occurred in Fran