The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-11-09

To know whether the AutOcrat Will tdke uP uie
gauntlet which the Porte has Indignantly thrown
to his feet, and send his Cossacks to make gooa
his imperial threat, we must wait for ano'nei
stesmer-perhaps still longer.
But in the meantime, although the surface ri the
great stream of Europeon affairs seems calmer
Than before. 1t is evident that the Continent Is
sleepinp on the bosom of volcano. Two hun
dred millions of men, in whose bosOms the hope of
liberty has been so recently kindled, will not be
driven tamey back TO their kennels-fer this new
flame, although smothered, has not been quenched.
The fires are smoulderng through all Italy, in the
south of Europe-through all Hungary, in the CEN
tire of the continent. France robbed of the soul
of liberty, while she remains republic in form,
is, at heart, republican still and as France feels,
SO will Europe. She has been, since the time of
Francis 1, the magnetizing power of Europe; she
will be SO in the future. France means Paris, and
Paris means the French people-for the depart
ments are all represented in the capital by thou
sands Of their citizens-and it to be rule of
Gallo history, that the splendid conceptions OF
Paris shall be executed by the heroic bone and
slnew of the provinces France, then, is fostering
with the remembrance of several things.
l. That, for centuries-beginning wththe white
plume of Henry of Navarro, which was the orr
famine of Gau in her days of trial down to the
victory of AusteThtz-she has a history of heroic
triumph She IS impatient to renew those days.
2. She remembers the retreat from Moscow, and
across her farcy, dreams, floats the vision of
Cosseck riders sweeping along the faterlpg CO.
lumrs OF Napoleon, as they went staggering back
to their homes through the blasts of Poland win
ter. There is great vengeance yet to be wreak-
ed by France, for the bodies of her gallant men
eaten by wolves before they were dead.
g. She has not forgotten Waterloo! The wound
ed pride of that gallant nation is awaiting the hour
when she that painful page In her history.
1t was no disgrace OF France that all Europe could
defeat her, but she felt it as disgrace She is
determined to wipe it out--she will
| H. She has not forgotten the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of
Poland-he fall of Warsaw. She has held thou
sands Of Poles, for nineteen years, guests in her
capital, and they have made her hate Prussia.
5. But she has felt later aud more touching
sympathy. She has followed Hungary in all her
fortunes. Hardly could Frenchmen be held back
from rushing into the recent combat, and ninety
nine Frenchman in an hundred have longed
for Hungary to lift her bleeding form once
more, that they might be with her when she
struck her final blow. Monsieur Theirs may
prate in his Constitutional about moderation,
which means monarchy, and justify the expe.
diton to Rome, which has turned out so disgrace
full an affair for Louis Napoleon it is all useless
France will not be wheedled into another Roman
expedition. If her brave soldiers must again pass
her frontier, il will be to cross the Rhine. The
historian of la Revolution" {" LIE Consuat,"
and "L'Empire," is a man of vast genius, for
government, for books, and for Notifications. But
France understands his real policy; his present
position. He is too feeble to resist the current of
popular. feeling in the land of Bonaparte and La
ma rtne.
And England, (for Spain Is severed from Europe
! Portugal nobody thinks of, except when Port
wine is on the table-Sweden, Holland, Bavaria,
Switzerland, Wertemburgh, and some score or
two of other States in the centre Of Europe, are
hardly makeweights In the balance,) England,
then, powerful, opulent England What OF her
What will she do! What is her position No
nation will attack her-she spent three thousand
million of dollars in putting down Napoleon. She
will spend more in such games. Oaly three
things can now drag Englan into European
war Flrst-Attack from without and what ma
tion'will attack her Second-The loss of her
commerce, or rather the prospect OF impairng 1t.
She island, and her vessels must go over the
sea for wealth. Without her foreign commerce
(Which is greater than all the commerce of the rest
of the globe) her nexhaustbe mines Of coal and
iron-her innumerable steam engines bristling
through her myriad fsctsries, and ploughing
up the waters of every sea, would be to her
nothing better than the ivy covered walls OF
the ieudal castes-she lives on her commerce.
Those numerous lines Of packets and steamers
which ply between her and every seaport IN the
world, are the great veins which bring back to her
\ the hfe-blood Of her empire. She has, since the
decline of Holland, and the fall Of Spain, through
these agencies, sucked up the substance of the
world. Strike a blow at the commerce of Eng
I land and the entire available force of the empire
/ will leap to its rescue. England could no longer
live without her manufactures than we could
without our agriculture il IL the wants OF foreign
nations which keep her looms moving this, alone
makes the clank Of her enormous machinery eter-
nal. She must, and she will, fight to keep for
herself the markets Of the world open. She had
at one time retired from the field, during the strug
gle with Napoleon, and given over the conflict, and
ANONYMOUSLY yielded to the peace of Tllsrt But
her commerce was not and could not be free
while Napoleon ruled France. The Berlin and
Milan DEGREES attempted to close the continent
against British manufactures. This was the object
of those idle efforts Of the French Emperor lie
reasoned well he knew that he had conquered
the world, and the last enemy left to vanquish was
British gold. He thought he could slowly sap the
castle he could not carry by storm. He was mis-
taken. II he could have excluded British goods
from the continent, he would have ruined Egg
laRd-fOr he would have impoverished her.
lie nearly dad it as it was. How did he leave Eng
land As the world finds her now-crushed under
the tremendous weight 81 a national debt, the pay
ment OF whose interest alone makes her s,agger
-Four thousand million dollars Is considerably more
than England, or the worditsef would sell for, if
set up at auction While England can pay the IN.