The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-07-11
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England, SC.
So rapidly are the events of the present day oc.
curing, that il requires considerable activity TO
keep pace with them and, in fact, the aparlia-
menay" slow train people. are left sadly in the
rear, to speculate in obscurity the maze that
surrounds them. To record them all would be
work Of some difficulty, n done with accuracy
and IL would also be one Of some danger. since
the coercion act of ON government has come into
operation. "open and advised" speaking and
writing has already made its victims, though doubt
hthe crown and government Of Der Majesty has by
its operation, far been better secured Its seeu-
rity Mitchell well remarked In his ease secured
according to act Of Parliament IL h obvious. o..
curity built piece Of printed paper, not equvs-
lent to built that love for government that
arises from the hearts q well governed, happy, and
prosperous people. In the Of Mitchell which
must be familiar to your readers, tho effect Of his
fair trial has been make him martyr and to con-
vert thousands Of those who hostile 10 him into
active sympahssrs and repealsrs State prosecutions
being the order Of the day half dozen Of chartis
leaders have had true bills found against them. by
Middesex Grand Jury for sedition That they will be
convicted Is certain, shopocracy determined
to lend the government helping hand to put
down" the chartists These willing tools our Ars
tocracy have lately made themselves especially rdicu
lous in their display special constsbes They
not be better described than being complete eoun
terpart Of your Goldfish aristocracy probably
more servle when their immediate interests are con
erned being alike strangers to the feelings Of pa
triotsm and the claims Of humanity presented by
the suerings of the starving population TO their no
tce. In fact no distraction can they allow, by the
al o. mi on lat vii hair
business curtail their profits. sslfinterest Of the
most sordid kind am sorry to say Is the characters
Tic of the English shopkeeper and middle class man
interest does he feel for the suerngs OF the poor
long as he is comfortable. This, however. cannot
last long the Millions becoming alive to their
condition their rights and their power and begin
ming to express it very unequivocsy; and hence our
The bennington Common meeting was pronounced
an affair finished never to appear again. The FIRST
Monday, however, Of the present month, proved the
falacy Of the superstition On the evening OF that
OusIy, in Cierkenwen and marched With military pre-
csion, six abreast through the principal streets Of
tSs hosss ~ was h s0 tnsy rus
fully proved by the immediate organization Of .
large military force in the metropolis with its attsn
dant train Of police and specials The journals de-
scribe the procession to have amounted to fifteen
twenty thousand but the principal evidence before
at 10000 persons, when it headed by Willsm..
For upwards Of fortnight has this system Of agitation
d,
the military and police and harassing the business Of
the shopkeepers This may seem very vexatioas and
very wrong the working lasses but the fact s the
mass of restitution and misery In London, aud all
the country. is fghtful and 1t not to be ina
gned they will await with digninsd patience, the
rsdress Of grievances they have pstitioned so fire.
auenty have redresed, for the last ten years A
far they concerned petitioning rs sbandonsd a.
they assert with much show truth that only IL
no attention paid to their wants. but their constitu
tonal demands treated with contempt. Hence the
advances towards physical force which the govern
men vii n Ia
public meetings and professions are not stopped.
Whit-Monday may be long remembered day in Eng
land, for from it may date, in the year 1S4S the
right of public meeting in the open air being virtually
abolished On the attempt Of this constitutional pri
on the above named day. to express their woes and
their wants. sodiery and police, eager for carnage,
dispersed. A heavy rain, coupled with full know
ledge Of the ncompetency Of these poor men to COM
when advised to do 60 by one Of their leaders Nc
Dowa he at the same time told them Zach to reflect
what was the next thing to be done What that next
thing viii be- time alone will prove; in the meantime
driving them into secret societies, where, If spy
is detected, he is summarily treated In very rough
manner and turned out with further disposition to
make second visit. 1t must think, appear pretty
evident from the alarms and preparations Of govern
not stand upon very firm basis The fact is an OPT
MON Is fast gaining ground that 1t Is rotten to the core
that Kings and Queens by "Divne right, very pro-
blematical that intelligence IL marching too rapid
ly for the present state Of things in England to last
the middle classes not dreadfuly afraid Of con-
tact with the artisan and alarmed at the assumed an
archy and spoation the admission Of the great
the people into share Of representation Of
the country.
be stayed and it cannot be stayed let 1t be fairly met
before it overows its boundaries and overwhems Its
going on rapidly all over the United Kingdom it is
divided and subdivded into districts, all communica
n
ing to about three millions fully organised and armed
rising simultaneously in every district through the
length and breadth of the andwhat could our troops.
amounting to only 100 600 do In opposition to this
of human beings, fighting not as hrelings, but
each for his family nd himself for e for existence,
for liberty The fact the English monarchy hangs
by thread which is at this time tightly strung and
may snap any day; then follows the awful crash.
crash must follow, and prove this have only to
the fact that the earnings Of the
humber classes is cutched by the government in the
savings banks the amount Of 80 millions, which is
twice the amount of bullion in the Bank of England
at the most prosperous times At this time SO far has
The expenditure Of government exceeded its income
jim present year that there is present deficit of
nearly five millions sterling If the English press
one 1t would expose these dangers ; but such is
the iaisses fairen propensity Of this class that
selves truths they little anticipate The English press
of the present day is bound in one system OF mis-
represe NATION TO promote party views, OF when ihe
exceptions exist in the independence of the metropo
Titan pressbut 1t is rare; and this will be the more
readily believed when the assertion publicly made re-
mains uncoDtradeted that they assentedto Sir George
Grey's appeal to suppress dstort all accounts of
popular connections. 1t is facts such these, that
enlist sympathy behalf of the working classes, who
have neither bsf the kindness the comforts of one
Of your Carolina slaves. In the manufacturing dis
trcts Of Yorkshire and Lancashire the working popu
iaon described being the verge Of sarvaton
whilst in many parts of Ireland the condition Of the
poor is beyond description; yet these are the poor
wretches whom Prince George Of Cambridge, and his
grace OF Wellington propose TO make food for cannon,
and who would like to have "a cut at them.n Will
Gods vengeance overtake these wretches
Dark as may appear our domestic prospects, our
ternaI policy is beginning to bear its fruit Our off,
cous meddlings in the affairs OF other countries are
notorious. The mpertnence Of Lord Palmerston's
tone towards the Spanish is generally
demned, both in and out Of Parliament IL appeared
n little amusing. the free and easy tone assumed by