The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-07-27
AMUsEMENTs THIS EVENING.
The European News.

Vhe european News
The regular arrival OF news from Europe-which
can be relied upon every week and almost to the
very day, by the steame rsexcltes the public mind
much more than in former years. when news
came from abroad at uncertsin intervals. Europe
was then afar off, and excited, comparatively
speaking, but little interest; but now, when we
have news every week, brought to us in nine,
Ten, and twelve days, it would seem as If European
nations were nearer-we feel more deeply interest
ed IN their aflairs-they are no longer strangers;
and what is passing there is matter that con-
Germs deeply.
In addition, there are other and more powerful
reasons for this sympathy, which have grown up
within the last few years, and particularly since
the Introduction OF ocean steam navigation. There
are few sections in any country In Europe, that
have not more or less representatives in America.
Scarcely city, town, or petty village in Ger
many, France, Great Britain or Italy, whose po-
pulatlon is not connected with this land by ties
of relationship and friendship, by those who have
left their European birth spots to find home in
this land of freedom
The representatives. from the masses of Europe
exert far more powerful influence on the other
aide Of the Atlantic, than presses and papers, and
more direct in their influence, by the millions Of
little paper missives that despatched by them
frsm their more prosperous homes, under free flag,
every week, and regularly reaching their scattered
destinations In every nook and corner of Europe
unexamlned by the public censors of the press, or
by any eyes, save those for whom they are intend
ed. No wonder that in Continental Europe, thrones
are upset, and monarchs driven into exile. No
wonder Pope is deposed, and shorn of temporal
power. These family bulletins are doing their
work truths, facts, and contrasts are set forth in
them, and go TO every household, and into every
home in Germany. More powerful than the press,
not to be guarded against, like the undertow of the
ocean, its power is resistess, unseen, yet felt with
terrible power wherever il reaches, or what
ever il embraces. 1t is this that has, to a GER
tain extent, caused the embers of revolution
TO burst out into an almost simultaneous blaze
all over Europe and our own attitude in the
world, as people, Is one that would i'll deserve
freedom, could we look unmoved upon the strug-
giles Of others who but initiate u.s. and are striving
20 achieve the freedom that blesses our Union.
Yet, while We sympsthise with the nations OF
Europe who have flung off the yoke or are striving
10 free themselves from despotic sway, we cannot
but be struck with the different position in which
they are placed, from what we were when our an
cestors succeeded by power of arms, in separating
from Great Britain, and establishing a free repub-
hcan form Of government for themselves and their
descendants, and the hundreds of thousands who
have since come 10 these shores and become citi-
xens
Nations are not always fit for liberty, nor the
people of a nation for freedom. They do not I'M
derstand it, and it becomes curse. If they throw
off monarch, anarchy is exalted to the vacant
throne, and becomes the worst of tyrants. The
people themselves then seek for protection and he
who can protect life and property-be he general,
consul, emperor-becomes a saviour, and the
idol Of the masses. This accounts for the rapid
sometimes exhibited by people, from
the greatest freedom to the worst Of despotisms-
q military one. We have, in former years, seen
France 20 through all these changes. They are
the records OF history; and France and the French
eeem. at this moment, to be on the eve Of similar
change,
81" Cove out despotIc, but once citiaeh
king, made by her own people; formed and ADOPT
ed a constitution; elected a President; and
where does she now stand A President, elected
for his name alone, alreadygdependent upon the
army for support and existence! portion OF that
smy-in order to foster religious prejudces and to
gain favor-have encamped in and about Ronel A
French general, operating with French army
against a new republic, to reinstate the Pope
over Roman republican citizens! Thus, France
will continue unsettled. And what is TO be
the result Who will rise up out Of future
events TO be leader is a problem. She has
made a great blunder in the Roman matter,
and the result will be disastrous. The army
will probably produce some man who can control
The movement, and be able TO protect the property
and people of France against themselves
The present year will do much 10 decide the fate
81 Continental Europe for tweny or thirty years TO
some. The seat Of interest, and Of future events,
the wsging in Hungary. That brave nation
is the main spring which will move Continental Eu-
rope Austria has not sufficient power to subdue her,
and has called in the aid Of Russia. Hungary is
fighting for something substantial. by compact,
she formed part of the Austrian emeire. That
COMPACT has existed for centuries. Austria has
violated ard trampled upon that compact, which
gave certain privileges TO the Hungarsns, and the
latter have Withdrawn from the union, and war is
the consequence. The Russian armies are in the
Seld against her. IL Hungary should be able to
Withstand them, and should drive out the Rus
sians, the Russian empire itself is IN danger The
effects in Russia would be terrible. Thai
point attracts universal attention. There are
over forty millions Of the Sclavonisn race,
~he form the great body Of the Russian en-
pire, who would rise to her overthrow She
would find it difficult to resist the spirit of
revolution, which would 60 eastward with her de-
fested armies. II, on the contrary, Hungary
should be subdued, and the Russians prove VIC
,orious, Western Europe is in danger. The Gar
would be strengthened to degree that resistance
against him and the Russian armies would be
hopeless. Austria would be restored to her former
power and despotic rights, and yet be under the
complete control and direction Of Russia SO, in
Scf, would be all the principal powers Of Germany.
The srieis is now nearly at hand. Europe rs to