New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-01-24

from tie PRESCRIBED rules fgr manufacturing st1f-
Of cotton worsted or SIX without running tie risS
o. being heavily fined, having his frame. ce'iroy
ed and hE manufactured goods burned d lie P-O-
la place bv he hands u the eIecuuone-
Mauv inventors were forbidden - reduce me
Inventions INTO practice when their aPpAcat.on iof
letters patent was rot supported By powerful r.
c-unardat0us or when they were unable 70 nld a
hrl prce FOR the good VII Of the clerks Of o.hce-
What made the nights and privileges Of corpora
lions still more oous and oppressive was That they
were granted fo- an unlimited time
Bat the public mind. instructed By the writings
Of Voltaire Rousseau. Montesquieu, and many oth
or authors had become too enlightened 10 allow
such abuses. transmitted from ruGer times, % De
maintained m Their original barbanty = CRY Tor
the emancipation Of the human mind. raised az hrs
by philosophers. was soon echoed BY the people
and concession to public opinion became eveTy'
day more necessary.
\ declaration of L1ais XIV. made IN 1852 70
d1Ced Fl privileges % fifteen years. This was Ger
taluly al ameloratIOn
The memorable cdict Of l776, given by Louis
XVI by SURPRISING al mOnopohes and corpora
q rs opened 70 Arts aud Manufactures new
career. and offered a powerful encouragement o.
Industry Bat this suppression OF monopoles eX
cited the opposition Of private interests and tAe
French Ministry, by RnnuIlng without any com
pensatOn. mon0pOles which bad been purchased
by several trades and sold at different times by
fTtFcfulr M lL5tI, al 4ilNrlA-S "AiA
breach Of faith which the best intentions could Lot
stify The celebrated Turgot Trainer Of the edict
was obliged 70 retire from Office and the cdct itse
was repealed
After the failure Of the attempt made to throw
open every trade and every profession, several 9th
edcts issued - lessen the oppression OF the
EXISTING statutes but the evil hal taken too deep
a root to be removed by such weak measures 1t
sul sisted therefore, more or less until the French
Revolution, when all privileges were IL one day
abolished and destroyed.
French arts and manufactures freed from bondage
and from the oppressive yoke under when they
had groaued for so many centuries. began new
life. The French people possessed at asst the Tree
and Uncontrolled exercise Of their faculties by the
-emoval OF obstacles which Il blind policy had
thrown in the way OF Improvement. That was
material point obtained, bat II was not sufficient
% was necessary beside - secure u all men res d
lAg in France whether natives or foreigners, The
pcaceab.o enjoy ment Of the trults Of their exer
tous this was done by the laws on patents, passed
n The year 1921
The connection Of civil and religious emanclPa
ion with progress IN acts. and consequently with
fne highest OF human interests IS becoming daily
more and more apparent The influence OF tree
Institutions IS extending Tar beyond mere pohtica
regeneration; they have higher objects 70 attain
and grander results to bring about It's not enough
Tor them to lift up the long Frustrated victim OF op
pression-to cause hm 10 stand erect and with
papitatiDg heart and swelling chest, to feel himself
n man ths is but prelIminay--a removing OF the
Dads that have pressed down his aspirations and
held him from lis destiny. They have TO introduce
ln into higher disponsatlous, Intellectually and
morally. By the silent teachings OF our example
,he world is awakening TO the evils OF absolutlsm
IS a foe that would rule the present by the past
AID perpetuate n combination OF puerllltles and
wrongs that arc doomed to be associated with FOSSIL
,emais
A belief is prevalent that the eniranchsemen'
q the world IS drawing nigh nor are they who be
.leve this without grounds on which 10 rest then
'ath and build high their hopes Everywhere men
are beginning 20 feel that they are not made solely
for rulers 10 sport with and prey on TO be drilled
eladaors Tor their pleasures and used as dradges
or their profit TO have the most sacred OF natural
rights taxed as privileges and endure an excise on
existence. Better for millions had their orgAniza-
ton been below the human type than have their
souls impulses crushed and the Chief purposes OF
he orcguno in order to minister to tho luxury and
perpctuate power IN the hands OF the lniandous
The great reality Of the age, the start taken by
the species in social. civil and intellectual advance
meLt, is not more obseryab IN the improved and
improving condition of the arts than that II origin
1.cd an them The movement, too, not only began
WITH hut its increasing momentum comes from
them Il thew flag so must Il while they pro
cess nothing can retard it, But the prospect Is
oyous Tor as respects them the cup OF the future
8 trimming. and ioamng, and sparkling with nope
Never be.ore have draughts so refreshing. 50 pure
ind priceless, been brought within reach oil human
bps. To arrest Them enemies of progress should
.syv taxes on teegraphs electricity and steam. as
thev have done upon knowledse or ask the Deity
,r their sakes to withdraw water and ire from the
earth and lightning from the heavens
To proclaim perfect, that is. absolute liberty "a
thu sciences and arts is to establish the sancuiy Of
human nights on their surest, because their natural
ouudations Had rulers never been permitted to
neddle with them-to cripple under the pretehce
uf protecting them-to smother genius while affect
iAg TO foster it-our current marvels had been de
,clopcd years ago, and devices and discoveries ct
IN the womb OF the future had been IN universal use
now.
Leave the arts free, and the world never
become a desert again There can be no decay o.
nations without decline IN them but when they
IRE no longer iostercd, or when such only are cher
l,hcd as tend TO aggrandlZe the great empires
mus become extinct and their proudest monu
ments crumbe away Ancient Legislators did not
understand this, and the present dlsordered con
tion OF q great part Of the earth is the result OF
their ignorance. They preferred the exaltatiou OF
lass TO that OF the masses mis- took maguiicence Tor
power and military force and idle display for pros
pcrity What are the accounts OF their contests
md what the relics OF their palaces and pyramids
but monuments OF their iolly-sad "reminiscences Of
populous cities. now desoate was;es-of people
once mighty now no longer known. Had they
perceived that nothing can DO lasting that Il not
beneficial ~ society at large, and had they Under
that conviction devoted the treasures they squan-
dered to the general diffusion OF science and art
the earth had not now been sprinkleG with the
tombstones Of nations.
- Mr. Collector Maxwell has ordered the Gus
tom House open from to o'clock daily instead
,f IN IN . a clork { before
- A Dispatch from New Orleans says The
Presidents Proclamation. reyoking the eNequatur
of the spanish Consul at this port has been pub
.hed and meets general approvs!
- The steamer Canada, Capt JuDKINs. sailed
nom her dock a,Jersey City, atl2 o'clock yesteay,
6r Liverpool, takins out one hundred passengers
and small amount Of specie.
- The Annual meeting Gi the Massachusetts,
Anu.SAvery Society was 70 have commenced a. Fsneuil
Han, Boston, yesterday
sir John Franklin.
The following is the Message which the Pres
dent sent IN on Monday In regard to Sir John
Franklin:
10 ne Scsafs end House Of Rsrrcseztasre' % the L