Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-06-12
Gortgu Nus.
Arrival of the Asia.

1uhhIiloJ utliFCN " ANbH AOih "HAC y hu'
ing left Liverpool on the 9th ult.
In the French Assembly there was an an
cry discussion, on the 23d, between the
I.egitimitists and the Republicans, on a
motion for referring all petitions praying
for a revision Of the Constitution, TO a Sc
Iect committee. Girardin was called to
order. The motion was adopted. 1t is
said that the Mountain reckon upon 1910
votes against the revision of the Constitu-
ton. If they can command $50 votes, any
legal revision will be impossible.
The state of affairs at Rome causes the
French Government much uneasiness. A
battalion of infantry is ordered to leave Pa.
ris for that city. General Gernier has or
dered the officers and %privates only to APP
pear in rather numerous bodies, to avoid
the danger of assassination and if they
were insulted or attacked, to enforce re-
spect by vigorous action.
A modification of the Spanish Cabinet,
according to accounts of the 18th ult., was
again talked Of
Advices received from Madrid, state that
the elections had terminated, and their re.
suit was, in almost every instance, favorable
to the government.
Accounts have been received from Lis
bon to the 18th inst. Saldanah had char
tered two steamers to convey him and his
troops to Lisbon. The Queen is said to be
disposed to meet Saldanha's views with re.
respect to the formation of a,mInistty.
1Nbora hag hoop - most 1,uorou, laol
at Vienna; all the bridges, with one ex.
c%eption, have been carried away.
Nothing is doing in Parliament.
Cotton has declined again three-eights
Of a penny.
The ~selfsupporting character Of the Ex-
hibition is indicating itself in the most
remarkable manner, for on the Odd the re-
ceipts at the doors from IS. payments a
mounted to no less a sum than "a, 095 los.
From the sale Of season tickets gfI34 s..
was taken, so that the total sun added to
the finances of the commission was G4,22g
l8s. This is really a prodigious success,
and must astonish even those who had the
most %sanguine and extrayagant calculations
on the subject,
No ministry has yet been formed in Bel
GUM.
The Times " on American Affairs.
The London Times of the oath specu.
lates in this wise on the election Of Mr.
Sumner to the U. S. Senate:
" 1t may be regarded as one of the most
permanent characteristics of the United
States of America that the most ancient
settlements of the British emigrants to the
northwestern coast of that continent, have
retained an undated superiority in those
moral and intellectual qualities which are
the most essential conditions Of true liberty,
prosperity, and civilization. 1t is in the
states of New England that the most pro-
found and accurate observers have sought
for The fruitful germ of the Republican in
stitutions OF America. From those states,
comparatively small and u|nimportant in
territory and population, we receive the
%fairest proofs that literature, art, and scien-
tific culture are not wholly absent from the
realms of that energetic and unreined peo-
pie. And, although the power of the I'm
ion is doubtless expanded by the mercan.
lille grandeur of New York, by the cult
walton of the valley of Mississippi, by the
conquest of those regions-half Indian and
half Spanish--which future generations
will explore and subdue, and by the tide of
m migration which has forced a state into
existence on the shores of the Pacific, the
results of this forcible possession of the
earth, and of this stupenduous augmenta-
ton, are as yet but uncouth and imperfect
advances. We have before our eyes the
rude produce of those extensive territories
rude even in the first operations of az
rlculture and industry but the principles of
public liberty, of intellectual cultivation,
and even of moral obligation, are still pre-
served with more vigilance and respect in
Massachusetts and her sistet states, than in
the broad territories of the West, or in the
slave-holding communities of the South
1t is still to New England that the Amer.
can people look for those thinkers and wri-
tiers who constitute the strongest link be-
tween the vigorous activity ofthe new World
and the mature wisdom and experience of
Europe, with all her accumulated treasures
of literature, and the large Inheritance of
the human mind. Nor can it be doubted
that in the assemblies of the Union, but
especially in the Senate, that little mem,
Der y who is most versed in the science and
the traditions of politics, in the iurispru-
dence Cf the commonwealth, and in the
strict obligations of right and duty, speaks
with an authority far above the representa-
tives of regions and states which have con-
structed their governments with as much
rough %alacrity as they have shown in build.
ing their Lighthouses or hewing down the
primevaI forest.
With a view to the general policy of
the American government, the character
and influence Of the representatives of New
England are, therefore, a matter of consld-
cradle Importance; and our attention has
thus been called to the election of Charles
Sumner as a member of the Senate of the
United States for Massachusetts. Mr.. Sum.
ner is a lawyer of some eminence in Bos-
ton, and of the junior members of that So
ciety which the names oil Charming, Of
Story, and of Prescott, have rendered j.
lustrious in letters and in the Interpretation
of law. The tendency of universal suffrage
has commonly been found to repel men of
great cultivation and refinement from pub
lie Office in the United States and accord.
the influence of the eminent men to
whom we have Just alluded, has been indi-
rect, though not the less imperceptible and
honorable to themselves.
"Mr. Sumner, following their example,
no candidate for political honors or
duties but the agitation last year against
the application of the Fugitive Slave bill
called him from private life to assert
with great energy what the people Of Mas
sachusetts held to be the inviolable priyi-
leges of their constitution, The applica-
ton of the law to runaways in the territory
of Massachusetts has already given rise to
disturbances. and the marshal Of