The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-04-09
u'hs Revolution In Euvope.

at this port. She is in her fifteenth day.
v'hs Revolution In Europe.
We continue eur extracts from French and
European journals, together with our private
correspondence, describing the extraordinary
revolutionary movements which have now be-
come European-spreading from country to
country, the old world over, and not confined
to France alone.
The readers of this journal will recollect, that
during our visit to Europe, year ago, when we
had travelled over England, France, Italy, and
Germany, we told them Of the complete rotten
ness ofthe state of society in the old world, and
the principles and elements that were at work,
which would, in very brief space of time, pro-
duce one Of the most terrible and general revolu-
lions that ever astonished the world. We de-
scribed the immense public debts under which
the various governments were staggeriug-the
large standing armies maintained at the public
expense-the corruption and the tyranny of the
various governments, with general view of the
progress of the principles of liberty, swelling
and moving under this superintendent formation
of rottenness and corruption. The revolution has
now come. France is not only republic, but we
verify believe that all Europe, with the excep.
ton of Russia, will become republican before six
months shall have elapsed.
The movements in Germany are most interest
ing. The German people are already half repub-
lican ; and we would not hesitate to predict that
the Germans, as a nation, including Austria and
Prussia, with all the smaller prlncipalitie., num-
bering people of probably over forty millions,
homogeneous in manners and uniform in Ian
guage, would much sooner establish permanent
republic in Germany than even the French can
do In France. There is, to be sure, in Paris, a
great deal of intelligence, education, and the
higher branches Of mental developement; but
there is less of general diffusion of sound and
useful intelligence. as applicable to new political
habits there, than there is in Germany. In
France, Paris governs the tone and rules the
mind OF the country. In Germany, on the con-
trary, there is no large city that controls the
whole public mind. In this respect, Germany
more resembles the United States, with its num-
Der of large cities, rivals to each other, with in
Vulnerable medium sized cities, having an influ-
ence and an instinct of their own. Germany
consists of nearly thirty independent sovereign
ties, all Injured to self government, such it is.
Their transition from their present federal mo-
narchical system, to ederal republic, inc uding
Austria and Prussia, Frankfort, Hamburg, and
perhaps Saxony, Bohemia and Bavaria, from the
Rhine to the Oder, and from the Danube to the
Baltic, would by no means give sudden jar to
the state of society, or the public feeling, in that
region Of the world. We are, therefore, in hopes
that Germany will yet be a cessful republic.
With regard to Italy, the people and their prin-
| c,ples resemble so much those of France thar
they will have the same difficulties to encounter.
We may say the same of Spain and Portugal.
They must pass through great deal of excite
mcnt before the government settles down in or
der in France. The north of Europe and Ger
many present fewer obstacles to republican GO
vernment.
In England, Ireland and Scotland, riots are be-
ginning to prevail. The revolution is spreading,
and no one can tell how ser Ious affairs may be.
come in those countries. We have little or no
hope of successful attempt at revolution in Ire.
land, separate and distinct from one in England
and Scotland. A revolution in England, and
throughout the British dominions, to be success
ful, must originate in London, Manchester and
Glasgow. These are the three great centres
that influence the British empire; and if
the people Of these great centres should rise
simultaneously, all the military within the
empire would be insufficient to put them down.
The monarch and the eristocracy would pass
away like the scenes of vision, and the next
morning the British empire would rise up
British republic republic in England would
be organised and carried into effect without
much trouble. The people of that country are
accustomed to political habits and political move
ments, almost as much SO as we are in this
country. Ever since the reform bill passed, the
elective franchise numbers nearly million
almost as many voters as the United States
could number for the first forty years of our
existence.
These are the most accurate and sensible
views we can give Of the recent news, and pre.
sent position OF Europe. One thing must spring
out of those matters, and that is, the destruction
and humiliation of the present race of bankers,
merchants, and large dealers, throughout the
continent, and all Europe. The financial re-
vulson which we have frequently predicted, has
commenced with terrible intensity in France,
and will spread all over the world. All those
branches Of business situated in the United
States, and connected with the other 8 de OF the
Atlantic, will fall. Indeed, financial revulsio'
in Europe is part of political revulsion. Tn =
is an immense aristocracy there, dependipr q
heir exiatence and strenUth On the vast . =.