Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-01-07
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.
LONDON, DECEMBER l6, 1853,

mass, ready to explode at any fitting moment is too
tte an assertion to need repetition, did not every
day supply additional confederation OF Its trutss
That the whole of Italy, great part OF the Aus
tran domnions, many of the German smaller ma
tions, Hungary, Poland, much OF Prussia, and even
of Russia are in this condition Is confirmed on all
hands, The two disinherited branches OF the Bour
bons keep France upon the qu. Dave; and he'd kepub
licanism. Communism, and all the varieties of mad
Democracy are far from being rooted out of the
Empire Even placid Belgium is watchfu Of the effects
which the marriage Of the heir apparent to the throne
With an Austrian Archduchess may have upon the politics
Of the reigning monarch The wise Dutchman the
sny one on continent who smokes his ppe and drinks
his schnaps and counts his prts in quiet and peace
rejoicing under prudent and fraterna form Of govern
men without desire Of change But is Great Britain
free from this desire Of something unpossesssd Far
from it, There is contest going there between Con-
servatism rather Preservation, the hand and
Radiealism, Chartsm, and other iunumerabe isms on
the other which does not bodo we'll for her future pease
The contest s between workmen and employers be-
tween labor and capital The dispute has assumed the
worst Of all possible shapes that in which the rich are
arrayed side and the poor upon the other The
sss, in the manufacturing districts which have been
succeeded by similar proceedings the part Of opera
tves Of nearly every kind have been and the result
Of this anagonistic feeling At the meetings Of the ope
raves words haveb uttered and sentiments enuncated
which quarter Of century ago would have been called
not merely incendary, but reasonable, and would have
subjected the speakers and those who applauded their
speeches to punishment. But the Government Of
the present day is WISER and hope the people than
to notice these proceedings any thing than mere
ebutions Of feeling, discharged in certainly rather
mprudent and improper manner but vanishing into thin
Dir they escaped the lips of the speakers Tens
Of thousands Of workmen in Lancashire and West York
shire continue out Of employment the mills being closed
against them unless they accede to the terms proposed
BY their propretors This the steadily but temper
atey refuse to do But winter has set in the
and Yorkshire hills will be covered with The
funds upon which the unemployed have been sup
ported will grow smaller and smaller; hunger and cold
will pinch and subdue the most hardy fames wives and
children will vail and lament and shiyer in the streets
Incendiary orators will speak words Of vengeance against
the employers to the open and the empty somachs Of
the suffering non-employed Machinery will be denounced
the wealthy will be called and yrannical op
pressors, and the poor their suffering and iused VIC
Tins; and the result may easily be anticipated We do
not think that there exists in England any desire for
ltical change beyond notifications in the represen
tion and minor matters of administrative
than fundamental nature. The}evs complained Of
Of social nature, difficult to be remeded because
grow Oh very 1aDrlc OF EngISn commercial
e have arisen from the of English pursuits and
have grown with the growth and strengthened With the
strength of English prosperity. To remedy part of
these evils thus interviewer with the very Of Eng
sh fe of the orators of the million have proposed
the assembling Of what they call Labor Parliament, to
be composed of delegates from the various bodies of
raives who should decide upon mode of arranging
listing difficulties, and provide against their
We do not any objection to this mode Of settling the
business and wish it may be practicable for quite
that, unless it be speedily settled great mischief
will arise from it. We remember how the cornaw ques-
ton brought to right solution by the operation Of
the Anti -oornaw League, and why the
labor question should not be settled by Labor League
We perused the address to the working of Great B
tain which has been issued by the inauguration meeting
at Manchester and, although wish of the ex-
pressions had been temperate nothing very
Objectionable in the principle of the proceeding; all de-
pends upon the temper in which the delegates meet and
the line Of conduct which they adopt. The masters will
be reasoned with they will not be coerced and the men
have doubt the same determination. We do not be-
ieve that the operatives dscontented class but they
in position to be made the tools and the victims
Of ncendary demagogues who have ends Of their own to
advance which entirely irrespective Of the interests
of the workmen ard afraid Of the possible result
The employers have, think, been pursuing course
which may make an Industrious people dangerous and
they far than the men, answerabe for the agi
tation which raising its front in the manufacturing dis
trots. If this continue the mstake-the mutual though
equal misake-w be painfully apparent and, when
too late regretted We probably not near enough to
see the end but that end will be regretted,
and its effects will not be botted out Whether
conquered peace will be than suen truce will de-
pend upon the conduct of the victorious party.
The present contest between Russia and Turkey is
think the determining crisis Of the condition of Europe
for the next half century at least We would not have
England and France rush hotly and mpatiently into
with Russia, but think they have tried diplomacy for
peace long enough. NICHOLAS is too willy for them; he
will not commit himself to any thing without sapo
which permits him to escape should he wish it, from
the conditions Of his propositions Under this view
Of the character Of the CzAR dearly love peace
deprecate the attempt which is being made nego
tiate. At all events preliminary should be that the
Russian troops should evacuate the Principaities The
SULTAN has patriocay and justly taken this ground,
and England and France should manfully and decidedly
support him in maintaining it. Any peace proposed to
him not based upon this preliminary would be dshonora
bic for Franco and England propose and dshonorabe
for him to accept The allies have promised support
the Sultan those promises have led him to make most
incredible exerons maintain his dignity md the honor
and independence Of his Empire. France and England
desert him now because he will not patch up hollow
truce upon dshonorabe terms they win purchase peace
on their part at price which will not render peace worth
having. While England and France, backed by the two