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

o, ,esetiou in her government and now suffers from
an almost nullifcation Of all popular rsns ou' "o
observe in looking particularly into her cc2aon 'aa'
b;s resctiou growing out Of the Seheswig hol'sein
war has not been accompanied by any didinu'ioh "
her protection of home industry which is rap'af
growing and promoting decentralization anu ''"us"'
werbeiug. Tie Improvement in the condition OF 'ne
neople of Norway may be cited as equal! prominent
The progress of temperance 10 that country ana IA
Sweden has another most cheering angury for tue iu
,rs prosperity morality and happiness OF the people
Austria having lost her national poise since Russia
had 70 assist her in the Hungarian war, has been IN
,lse poson. Excepting that she had no just rights
in Milan and yonice-and ruled foreign race BY mere
rce her reign was not so oppressive as that OF the
Italians themselves in those cities Neither city was
bsd, governed according to the European Standard OF
patriArchal supervision Industry and Agriculture
were prowing--sIowly to be sure according TO our
stapdard-but stll they were growing Milan in fact
was the best governed and most prosperous CITY III
ItaJy. Now, however that is changed. tyranny
exssperated BY rebellion, presses Austrian Italy uo"n
Sharp espionage relentless punishment are among 'n'
nsnalties which unsuccessful reyolutioDar! attempts
must nav But what shall we cay OF Hungar! !"
there 70 be a rising VIII Hungary be long a1Anced 10
Austris. htched to the Hapsburg car along WIN isag
We cannot believe IT, We cannot think that such
nation will quietly coalesce with Austria when covered
before her heroic arms.
Tu,nino 70 Russia we find material improvement
steadily though very slowly, augmentng NeSseirouo
in 1916 determined that it was necessary ior
Russa 70 manufacture for herself and not depend
on ENGLAND. OF course, this fact alone MAKES
Russia progressive. Turkey, on the other hand
owing to her treaty made with Engiahd III 100
sduitsTnelish manufactures at three-percent' du'y
to the utter destruction OF her own, which were
previously growing Like Portugal, she Is ruined OF
course. Whether the present end OF the war Win
Russia will be the destruction of the Turkish Govern
usnt ia question; but that it will inact blow on
ts diminished resources from which in years 1t can
hardly hope to recover is beyond doubt. Unpopular
Improvement and progress there is nothing to record IN
Turkey.
In the East we find that the Anglo East-Iniian Com
pany stick to tie opium trade to save themselves from
bankruptcy 1--WE are always at war IN the East
SAWS TIE London Times; of course, chronic war must
kill colony. Soon comparatively, the carca'e OF In
da will not be worth holding and the necessities OF
having such hospital for the poorer members OIL tue
privileged orders Of England will pass away
Upon looking closely at the Chinese Revolution we
cannot agree with the statement that 49, or is TO De-
the greatest Revolution the world ever saw. Inc
mere fact of semi barbarans having extracts from the
Scriptures will not make them Christians. They al
ready had the precepts Of Confucius, which are the
pures morality and include in terms the golden rule
The change of China to civilization we underestimate
no confE nDaror bn SAINT
adrif it VIII but little alter the procyity to Oriental
rhodomontade and " celestial" fummery in general.
We can look for no miracles in that quarter.
Turning to our own country, we may say quietly that
we find cause for graduation in condition aud pros
poets. We occupy now thirty one States. Our annu-
al productions rating them at three thousand mlhon
collars year show us to be the richest nation in the
world Our increase of population, doubling within
every twenty five years. and our wealth nearly quad
rupling in that time, ID history of progress which
causes precedent to stand aghast with wonder We do
row in ten years than achieved formerly In
ore hundred. All England increased in population
from 1900 to 174O no more than the single City of New
York did from 1910 to 1850. Er pede HcrcHicm Let
this fact of cur national prowess and capabilities be
borne in mind 1t should teach that, with such pro-
gressiye resources we assume higher moral RESPONSE
bilities. But, amid much that dashes us in contem
plating the corruptons of our local government we per-
ceye much more that is cheering in contemplating the
whole drift and scope Of our national means. We find
the slave has voice at Last find that the genter
extending their legal rights despised since
ciety began we find schools and books, and journals
and material comforts rapidly spreading. We find the
culture of the Fine Arts advancing We find the prin
cpes of Temperance and the philosophy of Health bet
ter understood and enforced We find the ancient idea
Of the quantity and quality of Government functions d.
ninshng, and the American People marching forward
toward complete sefgoyernment. Heaven grant that
the future development Of this nation may be marked in
history, by morality and Justice than by adj
vanciDg power