The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-08-27

agree 10 And venice having option left,
but to fall into the power Of Austria, to throw
self into the Of Charles Albert sbe has chose
the latter to which the trrsche-y Of this Bourbon
king has reduced her. Perhaps the Italians may yet
be victorious and relieve from the position in
which failure would place her Lsmartine. ia his
late address before the of the Chamber re-
affirmed the If bis foreign policy nd de-
clared, that he had doubt that neral
administration dspos ID to preserve it, and
raj Oudnot was examined to the condition Of the
Italians the French army &C. all which looks stron
towards coming to the aid of the itxlixus in
necessity The French may aud probably will dstiu-
gush between the king and the people; end IL they
go into Italy the kingdom II Charles Albert may
only a momentary existence followed by republic
France will not fight TO build up monarchy for a
Bourbon as their next neighbor, because they MOI
have no more confidence in Charles Albert than in
Louis Philippe OBSERVER.
PARIS, July l6, 1643.
The Minister of Finance and the Railroads.
The Minister of Finance has notified the As
sembly that the government will not seize upon
either the railroads the insurance companes;
and, therefore, those agitating questions are def
nItely settled, and, In my opinion, settled as they
should be. The grounds assumed for seizing
them were, first, to give employment to workmen;
second, to obtain additional means to repenish
the treasury; and third because the companies we're
not able to continue their existence and their opera
tons The companies resisted this appropriations
denied the least obligation AS to labor it would have
furnished but little additional and would have given
very little employment, If it had any; those who
are now idle for two reasons first, because most of
those who are idle from choice; and secondly
those who are not, could not have been employed
upon the railroads.; they are not capable; and men
In inns country have never been but thing-they
are like pces of mach merry in this respect there are
no Jack at all trades here The treasury would not
have been benefited for this simple reason that the
would have cost the State than the amou MT Of
their incomes and in the third place, my impression
m Qnin anita kuIx
them as would be the in its present
state France has enough for the government to
attend to- without making aud running railroads
No man, who has not with his ow n eyes car be
made to believe the difference which exists in the ca
pacity Of the French and the American people, to
complsh. There is no estimating the diHere noe but
consider it one half, perhaps more II appears in all
conditions of life. Their system ia to make men oper
ate like machinery. turn in the same circle a whole
life and everything has go through so mauy hands
follow just such trade, and take much tune; and
because their fathers did the must follow the
example. give you an example-A customer enters
the shop to purchase the value of franc; one clerk
takes him long distance to the place the article
there he finds another behird the counter the first
waits perhaps till the customer is suited to take him
back again. if not, when the purchase is made the
clerk behind the counter attends him back to the
place ofpaymept and Their to the
Ia woman generally each item sold and the price
which she enters down at full length upon her jour
nal and adds up the the clerk waiting all the
time and if the customer has purchased of different
clerks in the dere parts the store two three or
four clerks: return with the customer, aud each
waits for his turn to give the lady of his
sales. One of our clerks, under system will per-
form the labor OF three, think under the system
the yard where the horses of the Duchess dor
leans that was. are now kept by the govern me mt;
there are about twenty and each horse has sersxut
and there are three or four besides who
fine themselves to that business exclusively A house
and fur nure for all their servants and their families
are provided by the State And that of the Ia
boring men, except when they build barricades, is
much upon the same system Consult cur people
who have been in Mexico MS ia the capacity of the
To acc Mi ba Far
eDce is not so great bet ween Frenchmen and mer-
leans as between Spaniards and Americans. In old
TENS and old ideas oxst; and there is great want of
enterprise. OBSERVER
The Defence or ~. de Lama rhine and the Pro.
visIOnai Government.
From Gaiignanis Messenger, July 81
Inc B'em Public, which, as our readers know,
mas The reputation OF being the organ of M. de La
naltlne, devotes the greater part of . page of its
number OF this day to a defence of that gentleman
and the Provisional Government. The article is
foundtd on some remarks made by members of
the National Assembly, and contains a general
charge OF lDgratltude against that body and against
the public at large. The B,en Public says. -
owe have already given expression to the sud
ness OF our impression from the sitting OF the Ma
tonal Assembly on Saturday. 1t was only an i'm
preston. We must today stale the real serious
cause of our sadhess-it is resumed In one word
Ingratltude! There was ingratitude, In fact, IN
being SO economical of money TO a CORPS which
had been so prodgal of its blood There was in
gratitude in accusing the Provisional Government
OF irregularlty in the creation Of the Garde Mobile
when the irregnlarlty was only inspiration of
patriotism which saved the country There was
iDeratitude also In the words OF M. Lacross, who
declared that he could only approve one single act
OF the Provisional Government, which during
three months devoted Its breast, lis Ike, Its popu-
larity to nil The gulf oyened by u revolution under
the feet of society There was ingratude, finally,
IN the odious accusation of which M. de Lasteyre
did not fear to make himself the echo, and which
imputed spollatiUn to men who had sufficient
power sufficient genius. sufficient devotedness to
protect every right, TO restrain the bad PASSIONS
which ragged In the streets, and to remit to the
hands Of the nation the republic pure OF the she'd
ding Of human blood and 81. attempts against per-
sons and properly. Yes, this is IngIatt1de. or we
know not what the word means. And il is not oniy
ingratlude OF the mlnd--it is ingraiitude of the
heart. If the National Assembly, which
represents at the same time the intelligence and
the heart OF France, and tor which we have such a
profound veneratIon, should give way to wretchsd
malice, and inscrlbe ingratitude on the tables oil
the law, after having therein inscribed gratitude,
by declaring that the provisional government had
merted well ut the country, il would lessen ITSELF
would lose Its prestige and its power, and wonid
make Itself little as party, inste ad OF being great
as the people. What was then the solemn unani-
nous vote by which the National Assembly, in
auguraiing it's labors, declared with one voice and
heart that the provls ional government had merit
ed well OF the country? All! II was because then
the republican sentiment had not been changed-it
issued strong and powerful from amidst the people,
as the element o. life, OF new society. AL France
had their eyes fixed on the Hotel de Vllle-she
clspped her hands at the lntrepidty of M de La
marine. standing alone u balcony In presence
OF an army OF bay oDets: and with &c sture and
word putting down the red flag she receiv we'd
with gratitude the decree fer the abolition of the
penalty OF death, pledge OF alliance between
d. mocracy and the Gospel; she admired and sign
ed with both hand the Manifesto to Europe, which
kept from us the Disasters OF war by securing us
the alliance OF nations, by the propagation { pa
cl6c ideas; she applauded the formation of the
Gsrde Mobile, recruited with children, who were
SO soon to b. come heroes; she received every day
duIiDgtwo months good and a hope the words
which Tell from the lips of HIM who, after having
been the tribune of tho struggles of democracy,
seer med desuned, by the choice OF God and the
people, to become the legislator and the ph,loso-
Iher of 1t; .he had in word accepted the repub-
lie such las il had just appeared, not as fury but