New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-02
TIE OLD YEAR.

I few " 49,
rear may lie in produced but yet unaPprecisted idea
/ Of some unrecoenzed man of genius, we might De
serving mp the ordinary prstte of Congress or Chanse
o. con handing stand point or vital element In pro-
cress and destiny instead of the highest manifestation
I ofJ553
In looking at the year that although liberty
has been checked progress has not been denied iran
guilty for the most part has regned throughout the
States ofEurope The political eye, turned inward is
looking to social evils and their remedies and each month";
or almost each day presents some brsnt evidence OF
I rpening ard ripsned fruits Of progress In England
We pereeiye greater result than political changes
which resound in history in the attention given 70 the
condition of the people. While her institutions are
essentially eudal, and the superintendent nightmare
of Church fattens the individual man INTO
an almost s0ulless pauper as regards MS true
Personality; yet little by little, we see the
advance Of the People TO the high table-and OF sere
lance and dignity which are their birthrght. Ireland
misery too seems to have touched the deepest sound
inps of despair, and now her course Is upward The
/ tyranny of the British Government exercised
through free trade secalled aud numerous minor OPP
pressons csused ireland to wilt away and become the
bowling mendicant of the nineteenth century, taking In
her nerasmus broken meats from Turk and Christian
ake-but this extreme sorrow has passed, and though
immigration may continue leaving the existence OF the
Cet in the island mere souvenir while his blood is
ixed up with our own yet the process is not one oil
actual agony Whatever defects, too, the immigration
system may labor under (which this journal has so
largely exposed lately and placed under the notice OF
Congress they must be Temedied, and the lmmigra
ton Bridge across the Atlantic to have such pit
falls of dseae and death in evidence of the adyanc
ing condition Of the people of England, take the nstu
lion Of the Model Lodging Houses for the Poor Here
in this City might take a useful lesson from London
in this regard. We find statistics of popular arch-
lecture which are more important facts aud prom
es of progress and dignity than all the defeated reyou
tons of the Continent since 1913. We find the People
giving evidence Of power in substantial i'm
proyements of their condition. When we learn that
for few shillings a week the sober labOrer
can have personal comforts and decences which could
not be commanded by the Duke Of Norfolk in the time
of Queen Elzabeth-csn inhabit a room with car
pet of come sort upon the floor ventilated chamber,
and bath In biz own dOmicile-the whole dwelling
well guarded by porter against fire and robbery-we
feel the grandeur of the epoch in which we live, more
truly than when we read OF big mouthed treaties,
swelling protocols truculent or ilunkeying diplomacy,
or all other mpertinent swndles of the past which
yet thrust into our own Haying these facts be-
fore US as regards London we can let the noisy and
hollow ones 60 unnotced in an annual survey the de-
cayine power in India the absence Ofsupidy promised
English mercantile profits in China the checkmaes of
officials whether the thimble rigger Pamerston is in
outofofice; speculatiOns whether Her Majesty is
going to give yet another possible heir to the throne
all ord Iets in
history for the year compared to the single fact that
the people beginning to be treated as human beings
worthy of soap andwater, clean linen, Gresdes and
books These to us, the herOics of history-of the
history of the yearapd not the ordinary rubbish of
speeches victories privileged achievements or short
comines
Turning to France we find her paying the penalty of
forgetting in 1845 that a change OF Government in
highly taxed country must bring reduction of taxes
il must fall Our revolution was question of taxa
ton. 1.-THE Revolution said RobespierTe of the
French lis question OF money If the Provisional
Government is unable TO reduce taxes they are un-
able 70 found Government France is like sick pa
tent bed who turns to any new position to gain
Moments respite from pain. She has turned to Louis
Napoleon and accepts him despite lis perjury and MUIR
ders. While cODdemning her present ruler we may do
justice 10 many things in France The regard shown
for human life in railway cars or that in houses and
streets in broad contrast to the cheap estimate hed
OF Il in this country So too the laws delay which is
blot national name, may be conrasted with its
ready execution in France. The present Emperor will
hold bis place in all probability if the interests
prosper under him. and he can diminish taxation by
reducing the army navy it is we see no evidence
OF such reduction. The comparative prosperity of
France at this time is due to the fact that it contrasts
with the DEFICIENCIES of the revolutionary years of 1913
and e49 when the Commissions of society caused great
disresses people economical to the last SOU but now
the quiet which regnsin France stimulates trade and
industry, which are psraded in triumphant parallel
with tie ssenation and ideress of the revolutionary
period.
Spain is improving. Since 1912 great efforts have
teen made 10 mend her manufacturing interest Hap
PLY for this her Government is not totally nOecie
Ike that Of Portugal and has excluded the wares of
British nonoposts. BY this is developing par
eular, The production Of her own iron-that touch
store Of civilization.
Italy reposes but does not stagnate. Eyes Rome
becomes more and more pen TO strangers every year.
who distribute wealth ID ID as among her citizens
Piedmont bss more positive resurrection railway is
building from Trim 10 Genoa which it is expected viii
double the population of those eities The PRINCIPLES
ofrelgous liberty steadily progressing, especially
in that part Of the peninsula.
irusss Is growing in prosperity. She ia completing
a magnificent chain Of railroads whose rnanacerept