The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-04-22
Highly Important from Europe.


The auxiliary steamship Sarah Sands arrived
at this port yesterday, making remarkably
excellent passage of seventeen days, and bring
ing to US six days later news from the old
world.
The intelligence confirms the hopes of the
friends of liberty. It is astounding tits over
whelmiug. The little sea of troubles on which
France launched her bark of republicanism, has
divcrged from there, and become an ocean. ex-
tending over the whole of Europe-and it's tu-
multuous waves now wash the very shores OF
Russia itself The inmost recesses of despotsm
have been reached by the spirit of freedoin-and
whole continent is in an uproar.
The news is positively overwhelming But
few weeks since and kings and despots, with
their courtiers and ministers, ruling by the right
divine, were reposing safely, and, apparently, in
security, engaged, perhaps, in devising new
schemes for the taxation, and forging additional
letters for the oppression of their subjects. How
different the picture now! Governors have to
accede to every thing demanded by the govern
ed, the masses have arisen, and the voice OF the
people, which is the voice of God, has proclaim
ed that man must be Free Kings, who have
refused to yield, have fled in disgrace from the
people whom they misgoverned, and those who
conceded what was demanded of them, hold
their places by weak and sickly tenure. Sic
semper tyrannis.
tits almost impossible for the mind to grasp at
once the whole of the news which has reached
us by this one arrival Since the receipt of the
intelligence brought by the packet ship Duchess
of Orleans, the old world has progressed an
age. Events of the most gigantic moment have
occurred; the brain is distracted with the at
tempt to concentrate the mighty movements
which have occurred within that brief space of
time, or to reflect on those mighty events A
torrent OF lava, from a smouldering volcano of
| six hundred years, has burst its bonds and inun-
dated the whole continent of Europe, destroying
in its course kings potentates and princes, with
all the trappings and paraphernalia of royalty.
The die is cast, and the ''divine right of kings"
is abolished. Before democracy is fully esta-
blished and made permanent, blood and carnage
may reign triumphant Already the shrill blast
of the trumpet Is heard, and the word has gone
forth to the minions of tyranny to arm in de-
fence of their tyrant.m asters. Russia has called
to arms, and symptoms of general European
war, which will encircle Europe with a blaze,
are perceptible-but, perhaps, we are too fast.
The accounts from every country of the old
world confirm the predictions that have been
made, that the reign of monarchy there Is over,
and an nterregnum is about to succeed it, to pre-
cede the permanent and eternal sway of repub-
licanism. This intelligence informs us that the
people of the whole of Germany are arming;
that a revolution has broken out in Venice,
which declared for republic; that a provisional
| government has been established in Denmark,
and that the king was on the brink of abdica-
ton; that there are symptoms of war between
the Poles and Russia; that vigorous attempts are
being made to renationalize Poland, and that
hostilities have been commenced between Dem
| mark and Holstein. From Ireland there is
nothing very exciting; but there is the strongest
evidence that tie people are thoroughly i'm
bued with the spirit abroad, and are making pre-
partitions for an expected conflict with the 60
vernment and troops of England.
| In fine, on all sides-wherever the reader di-
reefs his eye on the map of Europe, he will see
either direct conflict and disturbance, or prepa-
tions for either. No one can tell what day
may bring forth. The times are pregnant with
seeds-the fruit of which will turn the old order
of things, and date the commencement Of new
era in the history of the world.
We shall make our comments on this news lei
surely; in the meantime we leave our readers to
read the details on the first page of this days
paper.
PROCEEDINGS IN CoNGRRss.-We are compell-
ed, by the pressure Of foreign news, to defer,
until another day, the publication of our detail
ed rennrts of Thursdav,s proceedinqs in both