The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-09
NEW YORK HERALD THURSDAY, JULY g. lees-TR1pIE SHEET

in political philosophy 10 not exactly within
the range Of letters purportins TO describe
things Is they are, not a. they have been.
But az ! nrst visited Europe m le4s ana returned TO
1t in 1893, win notice some contrasts between the
two periods in order to show the degree ana charac-
ter Of the present advance. --~~rr-
At that Date Ireland, o. now, was disturbed BY o
struggle for freedom from British authority The
habeas corpus was suspended within her limits, and
some OF her noblest were on trial for their lives
In England, Feargus o'Connor ana the chartists
We're sgtatins reform with the utmost revolutionary
violence, and pamphlets Of the most rax.ca charac-
ter and attacking the very fcsandations Of English
society were sveE!.--aere circulated and read. In
1858, after bsSine suppressed in twenty years. two
rebelliQns and made Of Irish enmity . source Of
danger England " sS to ,s 90
time to her own citizens, in peaceful
The suffrage has been extended the poor laws an
proved the administration OF justice smplined and
the people individually made more prosperous more
charitable in their donations and longer lived Agri-
culture has not refrigerated although free trade has
succeeded While London and its larger towns have
continued to grow, house rents have risen between
forty and ffty per cent, servants' wages have in:
creased nearly at the same rate and the condition Of
his getting more for what he does and paying less for
what he eats. The traveller who visits England only
for few weeks. on his way to or his return from the
Continent, may not observe all these ameoratiOns,
but he Is struck with the fact that the hotels are
larger and better kept while board and lodg-
ing are but little more than half what they were
ali this within twenty years under the rule Of wo.
man. without universal Suffrage, with Wellington,
Peel, Palmerston, Golden dead and the novelist
Disrael at the head OF the government.
The English are protested grumblers. Notoriously
too selfish to admit sentiment in their public policy,
the world q great moral lesson IN the Succession
marching, without loss, Of splendidly equipped
army four hundred miles into tropical region over
the mountain desert to rescue from tyrant some
fully; boast Of what the expedition has done for
tyrant as their only spoils Of war; resolve that his
r q cSs9ea PRINCES re Ensss
been esteemed q proud people, jealous Of their
national dignity yet rather than to war with the
their naturalization laws and yield the Alabama
claims, II allowed to do so In their own way, just as
they have to the SndpSmstO
condOling with them under them.
Mr.. Golden said, twenty years ago. that
revolution in England than any reform In her
government for peace would then De
in thus
without seeming to change for society In England Is
stronger than government. Ideas that when uttered
twenty years ago were radical are now conservative
and society has advanced while proclaiming itself
stationary.
such Is the anomalous character a. this DAY OF Eng
lish institutions and such the peculiar genius OF her
people, They have constitution that is the boast
Of every loyal Engshman, and yet few can tell what
1t is her citizens practice liberty rather than possess
It, and yet they referred to all over Europe as
free people. When their present Queen, as young
girl, entered upon the throne there were many pre-
dctions that her reign would not close In peace and
yet she is the only sovereign in Europe who has sur
vved the changes Of the last twenty years. except
the Queen OF Spain and the Pope.
Those who were deemed the feeblest have proved
the most permanent Every nation has had, even in
its era OF greatest prosperity some one trouble as
skeleton in Its household. In 1848 England had its
Ireland, France her socialism, the United States her
slavery; and In 1858 the problem still remains un-
solved how far these questions are to AFFECT their
future. Ia
In France the contrast between 1s4s and 1868 has
been even greater.