The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-05-13

political changes and reconstructions, and can we
| expect to escape?
England's Position I'm the Present Contest
Coburg Intrigues, and the Example OF
James II.
A wise policy at the present juncture of
affairs in Europe will keep England out of all
entangling alliances with the continental Pow
ers, and lead her to tread alone the true path of
greatness.
In whatever way we contemplate her position
we can but see that she is not continental
Power, and is in no way called upon to imbrue
her hands or pour out her treasure in the present
strife. 1t is the admitted principle of her politi-
cal existence that the Hanoverian dynasty reigns
for the good of the people of England, and not
for the benefit of the house of Hanover or the
family of Coburg The English people have
neither sympathies nor interests with the rotten
remnants Of the old euda system that still stains
the face Of Europe. They have neither love nor
craving for the oligarchical and ecclesiastical
systems that still enchain the energies of the
continental nations Their true sympathies and
their real interests link them with the free ma
tons beyond the seas that have sprung from
their loins, and those younger members of the
republic Of trade whose growing wants lead
them to quaff at the fountains of her industry.
In fact England is an interoceanic Power, aud
not continental one.
In the present strife that agitates Europe she
can gain nothing by taking part in it, nor can
she lose, whatever result betide. France and
Russia, whose modern political systems are so
essentially different from the Charlemagnian
scheme Of government, have embarked in the
conflict for the purpose of assimilating the 60
vernments of Europe to their own. In order to
succeed, they must avail themselves of and ele-
vate the popular element; and in doing this they
deprive themselves, in no small degree, of that
power for evil which concentrated despotism
Yields. The conflict of today may be confined
to Italy; an Italian nation may be created by
the force Of Napoleon's will; but the moment
The elements Of popular discomfort which now
exist in Italy, and which give him the power to
tear down there the old feudal and ecclesiastical
tyrannies are removed, his empire assumes
new character and becomes subject to new laws.
Extension and diffusion will have weakened his
centralizing force, while the popular exigencies
fostered by him cannot be ignored or set aside.
He must modify his system so as to comply with
them, or other Powers will avail themselves of
the hopes he has created to overthrow him, as did
the allied sovereigns Of Europe to overthrow his
predecessor. 1t was only by promising constitu-
tional government and reforms that the old
dynasties were able 10 rouse the people against
| the first Napoleon. Those promises are still
unfulflled, except where they have been COM
PEELED in part by the terrors of ls4s.
There is a party in England that still clings to
the remnants Of the feudal system, and which
would gladly re-establish there the policy of
George ILL., and William Pitt. 1t sympathizes
with Austria and the priest-ridden tyraunies of
Italy 1t would again install the old plans of
European coalitions and British subsidies to save
the rotten thrones 1t would wiring millions of
money out Of the British people by taxes on
every conceivable thing, to be squandered in
saving corrupt dynasties and selfish crowns from
the wrath of the continental nations. This party
is to day in possession of the cabinet the palace,
and even the throne of England. Coburg in
trigues agitate every circle in London, and pene-
trate every court in Europe. They have led the
British government into numberless follies in the
recent negotiations; they have cooled the friend
ly sentiment between it and France; they have
lowered the prestige and moral influence of the
national power abroad; and they have striven to
defeat the aspirations of the popular heart at
home. We shall not be surprised to learn that
in order to carry out their selfish aims, they
have gone or will 60 still further in their I'M
righteous labors
1t is well known that Nicholas II. proposed to
England a division of the effects Of the sick
notwithstanding Egypt to England, Goa
stantinople to Russia, and dividing the empire
of Asia between them. England refused this
because it was full of injustice aud fraught with
danger to her. The great point of the Coburg
intrigues will now be to break up the Russo
French alliance and in order to do this they
are very capable of making to Russia the offer
which England has before SO scornfully rejected
This would bring England again into the Ed
ropean conflict, and besides forcing her to accept
what was and is 30 full of danger to her empire
in the East would lay upon the already well
burthened shoulders of her people another noun
tain of many milioned debt. There are not
wanting liberal and right minded men in Eng.
land who perceive the full extent of the dangers
to which these Coburg intriguers subject her:
and it would not be at all surprising to see, if
they undertake to make England again TO pay
the cost in blood and treasure Of rivettipg the
chains of the nations of Europe, popular eifer-
vesceDce that would drive Prince Albert from
the land and Perhaps even the Queen from the
.nron" placing the Prince Of Wales upon it, as
/ uid the English people in the case Of James II.
and his daughter Anne.
MUSIC IN THE METRoPoLIs.-The particular at
tentlen that has been paid during the last TWEEN
tY Qears To tho rnua;aal