The New York herald., 1851-10-21

rity by legal and pacific means alone, but ret too
70 submit without resistance to the authority
OF their aaversaries. The republican minority AZ
ready ayGw their intention Of appealing 70 force if
the republic should be placed In serious danger.
and they expressly the right of insurrecion
as one OF the safeguards Of public liberty even
against the will Of majority Of their countrynsn
dns royahst parties are more restrained and quiet
ed by the division OF their natural chiefs and by
the want of popular support than by their volun.
tsry submission to the law. The existing govern.
nens is probably OF all parties that which is least
ded confidence in psblic opinion. and its efforts TO
preserve the internal Of the country are Justly
regarded as one OF its principal claims to the suf-
rages and good will OF the nation. But how 10 it
ultimately to deal with "a Y whica terminates its
own existence-with people who attack that law
by every weapon of public opinion-and with ad-
yersares who make tnat law the cover and pretence
Of their own schemes of insurrecton! Such a state
OF things can only give rise to the greatest appre
tensions unless the manifestation Of publ, opinion
be universal and intense to loat the President
and his government over every obstacle.
Amongst the impediments to his success we do
not rank the now hardly dissembled intrigues of
the Orleans party and the pretensions Of Prince Of
Joinville. Enough has recently transpired to ex-
pose the schemes entertained by those of whom We
had wished to preserve a different opinion. The
Duchess Of Orleans, acting on behalf Of her son and
under the advice Of M Theirs, perhaps moro
as his instrument than she supposes, has con.
staptiy stood aloof from the policy recommended
by King Louis Philippe to his family, and has Of
late distinctly favored the extravagant scheme Of
making Prince Of the younger branch of the
House Of Bourbon, President by universal suf
that the termination Of the next Presidents period
of Office will nearly coincide with the majority of
the Count of Paris. The most appropriate lesson
which can be given to the authors of such devices
hA IN hvtn 20 tkA kaakc
in order that having first descended by their low
ambition from the station in which they were born,
they may next be thrust down by the contempt of
the people from the station to which they aspire.
VI their absolute defeat We can entertain doubt,
for even among those who would be content to re-
store the dynasty Of the house Of Oleans there
few besides M. Theirs and his immediate adherents
who desire to restore it upon discreditable and
precarious terms; but, at any rate, such a compe-
titor will carry little weight in deciding this I'm
portant CONTEST in which some principle must ulti
mately prevail and not the exclusion of every prin-
ciple which makes monarchy respected or republi
can government secure.
Telesraphic Com municatIOn In Germany.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LONDON NEWS.
The numerous discoveries made by the rapid pro-
tipguish present century, derive their great i'm
portance not from the astonishment in the minds Of
the wondering multitude, and admiration they
create but from their utility and from the material
benefit they confer on the community, and on man
kind at large. Of all the agencies applied to the
grand object of accelerating locomotion and the
transmission of intelligence, none is better calcu-
lated to astound our imagination at the same time
prove useful to material interests, than the ap-
picaton Of electricity to these most Important pur
poses 1t is natural, therefore, that the introduc
tion Of electric teIgraphs ia England should have
been followed by the erection Of electric wires
throughout Germany, which being commenced in
the year lSi7, were completed with marvellous ra-
pidity The electric telegraph has served the Ger
man government excellently;i it enabled them, when
they had once screwed up courage to combat the
revolution, to do so efectually; it overlook many
of their flying adversaries; it prevented the out
break OF q frghtful war between Austria and Prus-
sia; it then acquiesced to summon prime ministers
to amicable interviews, and even condescended to
invite monarchs to friendly suppers. But the peo-
pie derived advantage from its fairy like powers;
1t was closed to the public until M Won der Heydt,
the Prussan Minister Of Commerce, was graciously
pleased, at the end of lSi9, TO give it free-no to
give it fettered-to the German nation. To 60
vernment dispatches the frst preference was se-
cured, another priority was claimed for railway
directors, and then, last and least, the public
to be generously allowed to send their messages by
this vibrating SPIRIT on its winged courier Of iron.
The minister reserved to himself the right Of sus-
pending this boon whenever it should please him to
do so meanwhile, interminable regulations and
bylaws, of a very complicated character, were
framed, calculated to confuse the clerks, to cause
vexaon to the public and to occasion delay in the
transmission Of de spaches 1t is unnecessary to state
be paid, but it might not be supertuous to remark
that guarantee whatever is ri zen for its due de-
livery, nor any money returned, or compensation
made for delay and negligence. Every clerk is
empowered to refuse any message, the tenor Of
which might appear revolutionary or dangerous to
his judgment, and in order to be safely protected
against all spiteful enemies Of the state, the elec-
trio wire, covered with guta persia, was laid seve
raj feet under ground. But alas the Prussan go
vernment is not omnipoten, and If in its dominion
above ground the very dogs bark at IL, in its sub
terraneous regions certainly the very rats gnaw at
it. The gutta percha covering turned out to a.
tract the gastronomc propensties of the feld rats
by whose voracious appetite and sharp teeth the
telegraph has suffered ncessant destruction. A
SPECIAL mech anism has been invented to detect the
injured places but scarcely repaired, the indefat
gable enemy has made fresh breach at another
point, and proved himself more troublesome and
exaspeIating than the most crafty demagogue un-
der direct orders Of the Central Revolutionary
Committee could be. Instead Of devising means
for counteracting these lamentabe delays and con-
slant Interruptions, pains appear TO be taken to
sggravate the evil and to make 1t permanent.
Esrlin Is made the central depot Of oil teegraphic
communication from Posen, Bromberg, and Stcttin,
on the one hand; from Odcrberg and Bresau on
the other hand; from Hamburg asweil a. from
saa ds1 sSa sj oT 1.nfs
to Calais inse ad Of going the direct road has TO
travel q few hundred miles out of the way, via
Berlin, where an immense pile of retarded mes
ssges Is constantly accumulating. At the present
moment, that most frequented portion Of the line
between Berlin and Magdeburg is broken; and In
consequence, delay, irregularity, and uncertainty
with regard to all electric communication through
Germany has arisen. Another bad arrangement Is,
that through dispatches stopped to give way TO
intermediate messages, whilst the opposite system
has justly and fairly, and with the best result,
always been adopted in the management Of the
diligence and the railway. But through dispatches
are generally sent from station to station, causing
an immense loss Of time, there being twentysix
stations between Berlin and Verviers alone; most
Of the officers are unable correctly to work
Mores apparatus, which Is alone capable Of trans
mitting messages from one extreme TO the other
The figures not sufficiently known by the clerks,
who conseauentlY ever inauire Mhather they hAye