The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-08-05
The Foreign News.

The Foreign News.
BY the arrival of the steamship America at this
port yesterday, we were placed in possession of
intelligence from the old world, of date later by
one week than what we had previously received.
The details of the news, together with Geographic
dispatches to the latest moment, from all parts of
the continent, will be found in to-day's paper.
France and Ireland continue to be the points of
most interest. In the former peace prevailed; but
in the latter, according to all appearances, mo-
mentous crisis is near at hand. A blow is about
to be struck, the result of which no one can pre-
dict. The people appear to be sternly determined
10 rid that country of every vestige of English
domination, and to take their stand as free and
independent ere long The opinion which we
have formed on careful perusal Of our exchanges
is, that the hour of Irelands emancipation and
separation from England, has at length )me; and
every steamship that arrives, may bring us tidlngs
of Me outbreak which is to decide the matter. 1t
will be either one of the bloodest revolutions that
|. mark the history of the world, or 1t will be one
of the least bloody. If the government have the
best Of it at the commencement, 1t will encourage
them to proceed, particularly if Lord John Russell
be at its head, to every length, with the hope of u
timaely suppressing it if the revolutionsts have
freedom will be accomplished with but little loss
of life. 1t is apparent that the people are or
ganized, armed, and ready. They need but the
word TO be given to them, and some quarter of a
million of plkemen will take their places in the
ranks. Now is the time for the people of Ireland
to prove their mete. AS they themselves say,
the hoar has at length come when acting not
speaking should be the order of the day. Both the
governmenfand the people seemed to be preparing
for the result of the trials of the Confederates.
The gage of battle has been thrown and accepted.
The people say that their leaders shall not leave
Ireland as felons the government, in reply, pro-
claimed Dublin and other parts strengthened their
military resources, about to apply to Parlia-
ment for additional powers, in order to be prepared
to carry out the verdict of the jury, in case it
should be one of guilty The Sth of August, then,
will decide the matter. The God of battles
has, therefore, been appealed to and the final
struggle between an oppressed and down-trodden
people and naughty, imperous, tyrannical,
monarcho-aristocratcg government is about to take
place. Ere three moons are past the fate OF Ire
land will be sealed. She will, at the end of that
period, be as she has been for centuries, an ano-
may among the nations of the earth, or she will
be all that her poets have pictured, and all that
her sons have desired. May God prosper the
cause of the oppressed and, if desirous Of liberty
and Its attendant blessings, may Ireland achieve
it, even if her have to travel kneedeep in the
gore of their enemies to secure it.
Our readers will be delighted with perusal. of
Lamartine's vndlcation of his foreign policy.
Oppressed and almost borne to the ground with
the weight of the suspicion which has been cas-
upon him, like a Hercules he raises his club, and
scatters to the four winds of heaven his enemies,
the deamers of his fair name. His motives and
his conduct he displays to the world ; and IN the
triumph OF his innocence and purity, and in the
presence of the assembled delegates OF the great
republic, he defes scrutiny. more eloquent, a
more convincing document, we have not read
within a long period OF time. He was willing, II
appears, to sacrifice himself for his country. He
did so most willingly. lie encountered the fiery
ordeal, conscious of the rectitude OF his inten-
tions and the purity of the principles which actu
ated HIM and he comes out of 1t as pure gold
douby refined.
The details of the intelligence from other parts of
Europe, will be found in our correspondence and
extracts
FROM ST. THOMAS AND ST. CRoN.--We learn
from Capt Davis, of the ship Emily, arrived yes.
terday from st. Thomas and St. Croix, that order
had been restored on the islands, the blacks having
submitted and returned to their work. Every
thing was going on as previous to the outbreak.
ARRIVAL OF SoLpmRs.-The bark Gen. Taylor,
Capt Bursley, arrived last night from Brazos, with
detachment of the 10th Infantry, under command
of the following oflicers:-
Major j. l. McCarty LIST Lieut.. H. RUSSELL Acting
Adjuant; Assistant Surgeon, John Conger I'd Lieut.
W. H. Hull, Acting Assistant Commissary Of Subsist-
ence Company T. Capt. s. n. drummer, LIST Lieut.
III. Russell, I'd Lieut. /. s. Konover I'd Lieut. Charles
Bennett, and Of men. Company Capt. w. w.
Tompkins, I'd Lieut. w. ii. Hull and 81 men Com
pany K-Capt. f. Nj. Cummins LIST Lieut. P. H. Bru-
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