Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-04-14

in France, it was re-echoed in many other
kingdoms, and the blaze is yet spreading.
Ireland excites deep interest, and may
give England some trouble. A monster meet
ing has been called in Dublin. The call was
signed by 5000 persons, whose names are
subscribed to the requisition. Military pre-
parations were being made by England 10
subdue any outbreak that might happen IN
Ireland. Thus it will be seen from the news
in this days paper, that the whole OF europe
is in commotion. We do hope France will
stand firm. and attend solely to her own affairs.
She set the ball in motion. With her rests
the fate of the old world, so far as the estab-
lishment of Republican form of governments
is concerned. At least her course will, in all
probability, be immitated by others. 1t has
been so thus far. May she set noble example
to her sister States, is the prayer of every true
hearted American. The Provisional Govern
ment has issued an address to the people of
France. 1t is noble production. If the ad-
vice given should be carried out by the peo-
pie, all must end well. But we on this side
of the water have our fears and this state of
feeling only causes US to be the more anxious
TO hear the final result.
The London Times congratulates England
upon escaping {" the shock under which all
Europe now reels," and it processes to assign
the reasons for this immunity. 1t offers the
following speculations upon the subject:
'The State is wise, and good, and great IN
the eyes of humble men. They fear it, they
worship it, they love it. What chi!dlke con-
fdence does the honest laborer repose in the
gentlemen who rule the destines of his little
sphere! The British laborer is taught from
his childhood 10 look up for counsel and aid
For our part, we have continually urged that
it is the duty of the State to fulfil such expec-
tations. We have rejected and denounced the
system of leaving things to take their course,
and the poor man to shift for himself, as ut
ter y inapplicable to our social state. Amid
such obloquy, we have impressed upon the
duty OF supplying work to the willing and re-
lief TO the destitute; of protecting the more
helpless sex or age; Of enacting by law the
dictates of humanity and common sense; of
adapting legislation to the facts of the case;
of laying the chief pressure of our fiscal bur-
dens on those who are most able to bear them;
of helping industry by timely exemptions
We cannot better denote the spirit of our ad-
vice than by referring to the chief stigma we
have had to endure Not month has passed
for many long year without a repetition of
the charge that we were falling into the errors
of communism. The smallest interference
with wages, time, circumstances of employ
ment, was compared to the frantic demands of
a rustic demagogue. That was our offence.
We aimed too much at a domestic, paternal,
protecting legislation.
CHOW, we do not hesitate to say that much
of our present peace and security arises from
the extent to which the nation has complied
with these principles, imperfect and partial as
that compliance has confessedly been. The
population of these islands knows, and con-
fesses with more or less readiness, that it is
under kind and thoughtful government, anx-
ious to assist the weak and to relieve the
poor. Every child of poverty knows that
there are laws and institutions of charity,
with a powerful section in the press and the
Senate laboring to give them more efficacy and
scope. The vast population of the factory
and the mill feels that its rulers watch over its
strength, its health, its education, and its COM
fort The State thus rises up before the ma
tIonal mind as reasonable and tender. In point
OF fact, under very great hlndrances and draw
backs, the dream of the communist and social
ist receives its nearest possible fulfilment The
State becomes a society for the common good,
giving to all its members a ratable share in
the common benefit and stock, providing for
the sick and aged from the funds of health
and strength, and securing the weak from ex-
cessve competition. The British Empire is a
great friendly society. We have often de-
scrbed it in that character, and done our best
that it should act up to the responsibilities i'm
piled.
"Hence it is that we alone stand when ev-
cry realm is shaken, and revolution, like the
beacon fire, glances from throne to throne
In one month the whole of Central Europe
has not only quailed, but succumbed. Why
need we count up twenty States Austria
has capltulated! That speaks for the rest
Austria, with her untold army, with her hun
dred and fifty thousand men to spare for Italy,
with her gigantic ally, with her undisputed
ascendency, with her Meternich, has submit
ted to the common fate. Surely the fallen
despots will say, art thou also become weak
as we? Art thou become like unto us -
There is scarcely aught left for revolution
But its course is from the west. What next ?
If Vienna had its Hungary, its Poland, its We
nice, and Milan, has not St. Petersburg also
its Moscow, its rebelious Poles, its Teutonic
tributaries, its Siberian tribes, its Circassian
| foes? Nay, the capital itself is built on
new territory. Meanwhile, thus far, Eng
land pursues the even tenor of her course
Revolution shrinks from metropolis where
it cannot find one respectable malignant II
sinks at once into vulgar burlesque. What
hundred thousand armed men could not do
in Paris, has been effected in London by a few
pocket truncheons. In the sister island two
mounting fanatics have been bowling treason
for twelve-month, and have done their best
TO make Dublin suburb of Paris. The bloody
design proved as hollow as a maniac's dream.
So fares revolution in this United Kingdom
and so will it fare as long as the legislature
anticipates its demands"
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENTAL truly melan-
choly occurrence, (says the Charleston Cou-
rier OF the 10th instantly took place on our
Railroad at an early hour yesterday morning,
which was attended with loss of life. The
engine Buena Vista,'' to which was attach
ed a train of freight cars, left Hamburg on her
downward passage, but when in the vicinity
of the 81 mile post, the engine exploded and
we regret to add, that her engineer, Mr.. GEO
M ARToPE, Jr., his assistant, Mr.. HENRY w
HAMMER, and fireman, were killed by the
explosion. We learn by passenger on the
roau' mat the bodies were horribly mangIed