New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-05

Ismartine. Louis Blanc, Ledru RoLin, Mazzini,
MANN. Blum, Mitchell, Kossuth, and many Others
enioved brief career Of democratic alteration.
How changed the popular breath in Europe
now! The French Emperor and the Sandman
Monarch receive al ovation from the English, aud
muncipal addresses flow in both of them from all
mart. of the United Kingdom. The British Queen
is similarly greeted in Paris and Canropert' la'e
one Of the Decembrist generals, but now dlP-
lcmat. can call forth enthusiastic popular de-
monstrsticps at Stockholm. The late expulsion
of the French refugees from the Isle OF jersey
awoke 10 general protest anywhere.
An hsbitaiion giddy and insure ~
Hath he that builde.h the vulgar heart
II is only some occasional manifesto more than
ordinarily wild and ghosily that recalls TO memory
the revolutionary heroes of lS45. The European
public buses itself not at all with the fate oil these
men, but is eagerly canvassing the intellectual &C.
compliments and personal appearance of Counts
Orloff and Walewski, of Baron Brunow and Lord
Clarendon and the other notables who constitute
the Peace Conference now in session at Paris.
More even than the great issue Of peace or war,
now engages the interest of the gay population
of the French capital. That a conservative
reaction has sunk deeply into the strata OF
European society there is no room to doubt; it
dates from the year 1854, and has seemingly been
carried to its climax BY the concentration OF poPu-
lar attention on the events of the Russian War.
The impercephble sympathy or equilibrium that
always exists between the intellectual tendencies
of the whole civilized world from one end to the
other has brought upon us period analogous in
character to that which obtains in Europe. Its
features are much fainter on our side of the At
lantic, but they are such as will not escape the
scrutiny of a careful observer. Its first national
manifestation was the formation of the Know
Nothing party. In Connecticut popular rights"
have been so far invaded as to strip of their suf-
frage all those who cannot read and write, whether
native or foreign. In this city and State the signs
of reaction are numerous. The cry that was
"eItenson of popular power" has changed
into the Conservative watchword of "good
government" The amended City Charter
of 1853 was framed in this sense. Mayor Wood,
in his last annual message, declares that the city
charters, which are the creation Of the popul,
those which depend upon the one-man power.
He demands an centre change Of the present sys-
tem," goes for a concentration Of power" and
winds up with the indignant protest that "this is
not government, it is little better than legalzed
"anarchy." No Mayor would have ventured upon
,ob La 6t,av in
now before the Legislature at Albany is more re-
dictionary than that of 1858; it proposes to add
largely to the Mayors power of appointment and
to limit the domain Of popular election. The de-
mand that justices of the peace and even the
Judges of the Superior Courts, shall be appointed
by the Executive instead of by the popular vote,
also shows that spirit is abroad the very reverse
of that which presided over the Constitutional Con-
yentiOn of 1876.
In perfect harmony with these symptoms at
home, there has occurred lull in immigration
from abroad. While tho immigration to this port
fell from 3l9, 900 in 1854 to 1856, 900 in 1885, the
arrivals for the first eleven weeks of the present
year exhibit still more rapid decline, being 5, 125
to 15,C7S for the corresponding weeks in 1855.
Tie ascendahcy of Radical sentiment in this coun
try has always been favored by constant supply
of large annual accessons from Europe. With the
cutting off Of this supply, it is an inevitable con-
sequence that American Conservatism will gather
up its strength. The few immigrants whom we
now receive, taking into account the decline of
the Revolutionary spirit in the Old World, are
probably less Radical than those that reached our
shores five or six years ago. Indeed, the tide Of
population is flowing from the West to the East;
we are beginning to hear from many parts Of
Europe Of "mutitudinous re-immigratiOns." The
Democratic period Of 1s44-ls5i was marked by a
food Of immigration unprecedented in history;
and the reactionary period which commenced
about the latter year, and which still subsists, is
sgnalized by the stoppage of that flood and by its
ebb back toward Europe.
THE BROADWAY RAILROAD.