The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-04-12

is far more lengthy performance than the pro-
duction of the Archbishop of Lyons. 1t is a
manifesto of no fewer than five. closely.printed
pages, and has all the weight Of authority that
the pen Of the Archbishop of Paris can commu-
nlcate: The Partisan prelate starts with an ex-
PLANTATION OF the principles upon which the Ro-
mlsh hierarchy are rendering their more than
then come, in their nakedness, the staggering
principles themselves. The Metropolitan, like
his brother, is bold Interpreter of the mysteri-
Gus purposes of Heaven With the penetrating
glance of the clairroyant, both discern the vi
sions hidden to the mortal eyes of meaner men,
Will 1t be believed, that whilst the king, who a
month"; week-before received the hollow
blessings and the adulation of his arch-minster
OF truth, was still a fugitive in the land; the
gifted archbishop had the modesty to declare.
that he g at once recognized the mysterious de-
signs OF Him who delights IN showing to kings
that their majesty is borrowed" and that no
christian could do otherwise than "adore, pro-
strate on the ground, an act OF justice so prompt
and so terrible - as the reinforcement of the So
vereien whom he had himself served, and the
substitution OF republic, whose value, to say
the least, was as yet not fully. established or
easy to ascertain. These declarations made,
the guileless prelate proceeds to argue, by a
train of reasoning certainly novel in a Romish
hlerarch, that the democratic principles now pro.
claimed and dominant In France are, and al
ways have been, the fundamental principles of
christianity, and the !" Catholic" church Of
al the revelations which from time to time have
proceeded from the " Catholic church, this,
perhaps, is the most barefaced and astounding.
For fifteen centuries and more the Romish
church has Inculcated, as all men must know,
principles the very opposite to republican, and
yet, with the garing fact staring us in the face,
the Archbishop of Paris is ready to adore
PROSTATE on the ground " republican institu-
tons, because they represent the very policy of
the church OF which he is so Ingenious a dis
ciple.
But let the archbishop explain the seeming
anomaly 1t is astonishing how much contra
dictlon is susceptible of explanation in an cx-
banding church, or amongst squeezable divines.
Cases OF conscience are motto be tried in courts
of common law. That which takes the garb of
contradiction before the vulgar, becomes recon-
cileable and agreeing truth when explained by
the initiated and the learned.
The church, the archbishop (of Paris) tells
us,lf she has not proclaimed her vitality republican
doctrines, has, nevertheless possessed them. Be-
cause a man does not display his sovereigns on
the table, it does not follow that his purse is not
laden with gold. 1t was not the mission OF
the church," says the Archbishop of Paris, sc to
force upon the world doctrine (the doctrine of
democracy Identical with that OF christianity
which was to cause no other blood to be shed
than that of Christ's apostles and disciples"
But this is not all The writer, daring to the
last degree boldly asserts that not only have the
clergy of France in al! ages been the chief de-
lenders of the national liberties, but tn 1t if the
clergy have stood alOof from constitutional go
vernments established in France since the resto-
ration, it is simply because such governments
have not been liberal enough "We had no ia.
vor for the political liberties which are proclaim
ed by the Qppressors of the church and of the
country-those on which the foot of the conque.
ror trod-those which were never aught but the
stalking horses of ambition and covetousness
But we shall favor those liberties which are
about to triumph, because their object will be to
protect the rights of all alike, and to insure to all
the members of the great family, not chmeri-
cal happiness, with which we have been so often
deluded, but all the happiness OF which a great
nation is capable under laws and perfectly Just
government"
We have nothing more to say. We give the
words of the archbishop as we hud them. The
moral to the humbest intellect Is obvious. If
we are not prepared here In England to see eve-
ry Pfiac pie OF loyalty swept away, and Charism
rampant III tbs land, let US beware OF POpery,
that falls PROSTATE before democracy, and hates
royalty when most 1t seems to worship at It's
shrine.
From the London Athepeum, March1I]
The revolution now Ill progress OF accomplish
ment in France yields-as so entire a reconstruc-
ton OF society must-lt5 morals TO every class,
and, avowediy unpolltical as are the column Of
the AthenGum, yet there can be few great p0liti-
cal movements which do not afford a tact or an
inference to the especial Interests of which we
and such as we have charge. In the midst of a
subversion so sudden and complete, and with so
much for the revolutionary workers yet to do,
the time for safe Inference Is not come; and we
will coniine ourselves to facts-recordlng from
time to time such features of the great and COM
pick action going on as affect the particular world
in which we are labOrers.
The prominent TACT, then, is, that the third
French revolution has seemingly completed the
work which the second had begun, In assigning
to mind the supreme social position, aud eleva-
ting the intellectual professors to BE- formally
as 1T the time of the first revolution they were
virtually-the rulers of France. The new con-
vulsion has been consummated-sO far as there
Is cOnsummatlon In the matter-and is In pro-
gress of being consolidated by band of poets,
men OF letters, artists and scientific celebrities.
Such names as Lamartlne, Victor Hugo, Beran-
ger, and AragO, are turning up IN the highest pla-
ces In the case of M. Hugo, some minor incl
dents have made the moral OF the change strl-
king. He was one of those in whose person the
influence OF the second revolution had already
made itself visible. AS mere literary man, he
had attained to one Of the most eminent of so
clal posltlons-being Peer OF France. We
waive the wittlclsm which, on his being made a
Mayor of Paris, played with the moral, after a
French fashion, by asserting that he had been
transformed from pere into mere. But 1t Is
worth recording as direct expression OF the
substitution which has taken place, that when a
mob in the Palace Royal shouted, 'Down with
him he is Peer" the cry Of "Never mind
he Is poet 20 converted the denunciation into
shouts of "Long live Victor Hugo!' The poet
is to be the peer of thrice-revoluionlzed France.
AS journalism made the revolution, 1t Is natu-
raj 100, tudt JoutHdhs'iA S"viu NC o"o vi thc Hse
orders in the State to benefit by 1t. The stamp
duty on periodicals is abolished, and reduction
OF price to the reader has, ofcourse, followed in
many instdnces-probably will in all. We may
mention, as a fact worth bordering by the public
of this country, where sound literature is so inn
portant to the well being OF society, and yet on
account of the fiscal burdens TO which il is liable
so de ir-that the present price of the Presse, one
OF the best conducted journals in France, Is three
ffths of penny, English money-litte more
than half a penny Der number The descent of
the spirit OF communism, too, from politics into
the relations of commerce, Is another fact we'll
worth noting. 1t will be curious and instructive
to watch the working of such principle, should
it spread-whch seems phllosophIcally impossi-
bic. Born of the long sense OF intoera,e ex-
illusions, it is seeking to push itself TO conse-
quences practically absurd. II would destroy, in
tne field OF enterprise and speculation, the great
Ego which has in all time been the moving and
presiding spirit there. The Principle OF associa-