The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-27


question on this island for the next twenty years
The question is up. 1t is great and compre-
hepsive question, and shrinking and housing
politicians are afraid of it.; but the working
classes of our city people, with whom the right
of wholesome recreation on Sunday is right Of
the highest value, should compel the politicians
to face the music. And they will have to do it
in November and in December, or we are very
much mistaken in our estimates of the pressure
of these Sabbatarian movements upon the limited
social epjoyments Of the great mass Of our city
population.
The Latest Phase Of European Anairs--No
Peace for the Wicked.
We presume that almost every one has forgot
ten the peace agitation which was commenced by
some British philosophers twelve or fifteen years
ago, and which resulted In the forming of seve.
raj societies having for their object the hasten
ing Of the time when the swords shall be beaten
into pruning hooks, and the spears into plough.
shares; when the lion and the lamb shall lie
down together; when the Frenchman shall love
the Epglishman as q brother, and when the Ger
man shall clasp the Gaul to his bosom. The
operations Of the Society were to be felt in hea-
then lands as well as in those blessed with
the light of Christianity. The East was to be
converted, the Hindoo tanned, the Tartar hordes
brought to sense of their barbarous condition,
and the reign Of peace, love and tranquility to
be speedily inaugurated in all regions accessible
to the missionaries of the society. Cooperating
with these men Of peace, have been found Ger
tain politicians Of what is termed the Manchester
school, who argue that it is not good to go to
war, because it arrests the material progress Of
the combatants diverts the industry of the couu-
try into wrong channels, increases the debt
heightens the taxes, and, ID fact does not pay in
any possible manner Yet, although the Peace
Society and the Manchester men still flourish 10
England, and exercise no small influence
in political affairs, we do not find any
diminution Of wars, nor any reduction in the ar
mics, nor any decline In the martial spirit of the
peoples. Since the peace agitation took an or.
ganized form Europe has been several times on
the brink Of general war, and the roar of artil-
lery has hardly been stilled during ten years.
First came the events of 1s4s, with war in
France, Germany, Hungary and Italy. Then
the Crimean contest, in which five European
Powers were engaged. Then the Persian, Chinese
and Indian wars; and lastly, the sanguinary con-
Aicts of Montebello, Magenta and Solferino,
staining anew the plains Of Lombardy, already
sodden with human blood.
And now the eight weeks Of slaughter are
over, and there is peace-that rest which the
oorood Hoor FOL hofnro ba ar 10 f-ovr he ;,x
gle in search of new victim Not even the
Manchester men can read the history of Europe
for the last half century and believe that either
England or Germany are safe while a Napoleon
gives the laws from the Tuileries. Montague
Gays that the chief characteristic of the French M
ton is valor. Thus, we say he is valiant man,
when we mean to pay the highest compliment to
Frenchman. What was true in the day of the
great essayist is true to-day. From his cradle
the Frenchman is taught to hate all the ancient
enemies of his country, and especially to detest
the English. 1t would be difficult at this mo.
ment to lay ones finger on Frenchman, at
home or abroad, who would not feel satisfaction
at the invasion Of perfde Albion by the Army Of
the Alps, flushed with victories aud drunk with
German blood. The Emperor of the French,
anxious to make for himself great military
name, and feeling that st. Helena Is yet to be
reveDged, fosters this feeling in every possible
way. In all the schools throughout the Empire
the orders Of the day and military bulletins were
read to the pupils to inspire them with that mill
tary ardor which, under the first Napoleon, won
the battles of Marengo, Austerlitz aud Wagram,
"out Of the fire" and which, in this latter day,
held the bridge of Magenta against an over
whelmiDg force, and pierced the Austrian centre
at Solferino. From the viale moustac'e who
stumps about the courtyards Of the Invalides to
the youngest f1euf of the Lycee Bonaparte, it is
the same old feeling-the glory, the invulnera-
bility, the invincibility of the French arms.
That this state Of feeling is well understood 10
England is quite clear. Lord Lyndhurst lately
made remarkable speech, urging upon Minis
tiers the absolute necessity of increasing the
British army and navy. He deprecated, in the
strongest manner, the idea of depending upon
the "forbearaRce" Of France: Eaglishmen should
not put too much faith in their ancient enemy
and recent ally. Steam, said the noble lord,
had placed the English and French navies on
an equality. The boosted superiority Of Britain
on the sea had departed Opposed to the Eng
lish army Of one hundred thousand men, France
brings to the field four hundred thousand tried
soldiers, to whom fighting is pleasantly; finer
troops than they never followed drum. The
Cassandra warnings of Lord Lyndhurst have not
been unnoticed by the Emperor of the French.
The speech has been translated, and copies distri
buted from one end of France to the other-trom
Paris to the Pyrenees and from the Channel to
the borders Of the Rhine. The projects have
been charged to make every Frenchman &C.