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


different porte of Europe, has from 1885. varied
IN ihe follow ne proportions, according to the re-
turn Of tie fnt seven months OF tho year tho
export Of bales being as follows:
ror 1853. 1854. 1883, 1s5s;
FvIt nnho ''''.''.. ltngcS Stpo $500 iSt ~
,th,' EurOiean rort.. 1900 I7sco i67 coo $4,000
Hence it follows tina. the Costipent which in
le53 received only about one third of the cotton
tIportd to England, received in 1856 as much -
FIVE IL tbs Of it To this must De added the cot
ton reshiPped by England to the Continent. The
great export to France is only so in appearance.
considerable quantities being transported from
HAVE to Switzerland, Baden. Frankfort and Ant
werp. The development of Continental Industry
as exhibited by the above figures denote there-
fore, above all. the increase of Germ,n, and
chiefly Of Prussian industry. The wealth &c.
cumuated by the industrial midds classes Of
late years is nearly rivaed by the appre-
citation of landowners profits during the war
period of dearth and high price. Horses, cat
tie, livestock in general, and not least corn,
have kept so high in Germany itself, that the iDu-
etce of foreign markets has hardly been needed to
weath-the rapid increase Of wealth never before
experienced by these two classes-which has far
Listed the basis for the present speculative murrain
IN Prussia.
The bursting of the bubble will put the Prus.ian
State to severe te.t. The different counter
revolutions it has undergone since l349 have ended
in placing the Government in the power Of the
narrow class of noble landowners, with respect to
whom the King, who has done everything to create
their supremacy, now finds himself in the same
situation as did Louis XVIII toward the Chambre
;ntrour0bt Frederick William had never the
sense 10 put up with the dry bureaucratic
machinery of Government beaueatbed him by his
father. He has all his life been dreaming of
identifying the Prussian State edlfce by somo TO
msptco- gothic decoration. The short experience
which he bas had of bis Hsrrenhaus, however, must
have satisfied him that in reality the lsndocracy or
kromjunk,rs, as they are called in Prussia, so far
from deemiDg themselves happy in serving as
medieval ornament to the bureaucracy are striv-
ing with all their might to degrade the bureaucracy
and make it the simple executor OF their class
al the Administration; between the King and the
Prince of Prussia To show the Government how
much they are in earnest they have just refused to
renew tie grant Of an additional tax which had
been levied during the war-a thing unheard OF IN
constitutional Prussia. They have cOolly and de-
lterately proclaimed the doctrine that they are &"
much kings over their little estates as the King
bns II is over the country at large. They insist that
the Constitution, while it is to remain sham for
all other classes must be reality for themselves
Emancipatirg themselves from all control oil tho
bureaucracy. they wish to see it weigh with double
force on the classes below.
The middle class, who betrayed the revolution OF
I-48 have DOW the satisfaction, even while hey
ore accomplishing their social triumph by the I'M
r. strained accumulation of capital, OF seeing them
selves politically annihated. Moreover, the
kyGuJrake,s delight in every day finding fresh |
occasions TO make them feel their humiliation, |
ry, to setting aside the common laws of etiquette
When the mlddle-class spokesmen get up in the
House of Deputies, the Juhkefs leave their
benches en- ,nasse, and when requested at least to
l,ien 10 opinions contrary to th,ir own, they |
Wh,n tie latter complain of the obs;ructiOns put
IN the way Of el.c tiob-, they informed that il
is ply the duty of the Government to protect the
masses from seduction. When they contras. the
Of the arstOcr atic with the shachled
conoition of tie liberal press, they are re-
minded that liberty in Christian State is not
to do a. one pleases, but az pessos God aad
the authorities. One day they are given to
understand that I" honor is the monopoly of an |
aristOcracy; the next day they are stung to the |
quick by u practical illustration of the exploded |
theories Of Halter de BOoald and De Mls-
tire. Proud of bis philosophical enlightenment, |
the Prusssn citizen bias the modification Of
seeing the first scientific men driven from the |
universities, education handed over to gang Of
Obscurants ecclesiastical courts meddlirg with his
family concerns, AID the police taking him to
church a Sunday. Not content with exempting |
themselves from taxes 10 far they could, the |
Juukers have packed the middle class in guilds
nd CORPORATIONS, adultersted their municipal in-
.ti,uioDs, abolished the independence aud immov
ability Of their Judges, cancelled the religious
quality of the different sects, and 80 forth. Ii at
lines their choking anger breaks through their
.ars if they occasionally mu.ter enough courage
o threaten, from their seats in the Chamber, tho
Junkers with coming revolution, they are snoer-
ngly answered that the revolution has as heavy an
account to settle with them as with the nobility.
Ii deed, the higher middle class is not likely to
ind iteelf sgaip, as in LAS, at the head Of q
PrUssisn revolution. TIE peasanty in Eastern
Prussia have lost not only oil that the revO-
ution Of Ia4e had brought them in the shape