New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-31

Continent from Europe to the North Pa
cifc have led 70 no practical result.
Great Britain, already bereft Of her most
valuable colonies by the American -.eYo-
luton, has built up two new Empires with
in the present century-the first by sue
cessive conquests and annexari0ns in Hin
dostan, where her possessions now cover a
territory as large as Europe South of the
Rhine and the Danube and peopled by
hardly less than One Hundred Millions Of
human beings From the Indus GA the
Vest the Irrawadi on the East, from the
Ocean on the South to the Himalayas on
the North, almost the entire continent is
now under British rule. In Australia,
still vaster and more prosperous though far
less populous British empire is now rapidly
forming from what were in 1900 immense
wildernesses, scantily inhabited by the low
est grade of savage beings and infected
along the coasts by few cargoes of expa-
triated rascality. The growth of British
Australia is now proceeding with rapidity
scarcely paralieied, ard apparently with en-
tire solidity and health
discrimination decline and overthrow
of Napoleon's colossal power belongs to
the first quarter of the present Century.
In 1900 First Consul, in 1904 Emperor of
the French in 1911 master of nearly all
Continental Europe except Russia, with
Italy, Germany, Austria, Spain at his feet,
and even Russia, Turkey and the United
States virtually his allies, and only England
stubbornly resisting his strides to universal
dominion, 1914 saw him defeated and ex-
lied 1915 discrowned prisoner for life,
and 1921 witnessed his death on lone,
barren isle almost eqpi-distant from the
Eastern and Western hemispheres. On
his complete discontinue, Europe reverted
very nearly into the condition which it
exhibited prior to the outbreak of ohe
French Revolution France being restored
to monarchy and reduced to her mod
enlimits, Germany reconstructed despotic
anarchy; Italy surrendered to Austria
and Absolutism; Poland left wreck and
divided ruin; Turkey still further crippled
and Fastening to decay; while only Russia
manifested external growth combined with
internal vigor, Since Napoleon's death,
Spain. Poland Italy and Germany have by
turns been the theater of revolutionary
connections looking to Republican Free
dom, but these ebullitions have all been
quenched in blood, and Monarchy, more or
less absolute in form, but generally despot
ic in substance, is now the common
law of the most enlightened quarter
of the Earth, save in France and
Switzerland France is now nominally
Republic, but, practically ruled by the twin
aristocracies of Musketry and Money, to-
day enjoys far less real freedom than the
smaller kingdoms, Sardinia, Sweden and
Denmark. Switzerland still retains her
ancient liberties, though convulsed by Fac
ton within and menaced by banded Despo-
tisms without. So all on the Continent
seems fixed as Royalty would have it, but
it is only seeming. France is a volcano
ready for eruption; her Millions will never
acquiesce in the arbitrary and unlawful rob-
berry from nearly half their number of the
Right Of Suffrage her Aristocratic predomi-
nanceis undermined by intestine feuds, which
will yet divorce the Sword. the Money
Chest and The Miter from their present
alliance. and restore the rule of the Masses;
and the day which sees Democratic as
tendency restored in Paris will arouse the
Republicans Of Germany Italy. Hungary,
and perhaps of Poland, to another yehe-
ment struggle for the Liberties of Mankind.
Despotism has now the Bayonets and the
Arsenals on its side as of yore; but in
Popular Intelligence, in comprehension of
the Rights of Man and the necessary in
EQUITIES of Kingcraft the world has made
vast progress since 1900. Catholic Eman
cipation in Ireland and Parliamentary Re-
form in Great Britain are two of its peace
full trophies.-Such are the Political AS
poets on which opens the later half of the
Nineteenth Cent fury.
Appeal to the Friends of Freedom.