The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-18
England and the European Revolution.
From the London Saturday Review.


From the London Saturday Review.
That ENGLAND country changing every day. and almost
every hour with increasing rapdy obvious every
In great many ways this change sunpeasant and in
WAYS very serious those who have got hold of the
ght end of the stick of English life and consider them
selves entitled perpetuy of the comfort and respect
ability to which they were born There is undoubtedly,
when regarded from the point of view of the comfortable
classes spirit of nsubordinaon and sefasseron most
painfully visible in the lower classes There of
bold outrageous ranism in the floating population outside
the pale Of decent society," There foolish purposeess
uppishness in servants who always giving warning for
nothing and behaving like crushed but spirited beings
Every one aims of enseess grandeur: Housemaids
have given up getting wages, and ask for salary COVER
have given up getting salary and ask Tor
The poor very poor but almost impossible to get
work out of them. woman who Will do real days
work at sewing ouseceanng scarcely to be had for
love or money The lower classes rebellious without
thriving and are corrupted by the nsoence of riches in
which they do not share All this has its good side, will
hope and merely ymbozes period of transition with Its
inevitable defects and ugness. At any rate it is unavod
able 1t comes from railways and cheap newspapers and
cheap fiction and cheap Clothes and the decay of the old
territorial system of morality and the expectation of demo-
cratic triumph AS cannot help alter it, we are not
going cry it, but very lately there have appeared
symptoms of change in English society which are
really worth remaring Hitherto have been insuar in
social difficulties and collisions Some people always
wanted something which the existing Constitution did not
give Them but which they conceived they had right to have
because they Engshmen 1t nothing to them that
foreigners had had not got privileges and advantages
poor rich happy unhappy They wanted tohave
Engshmen conented in England and that enough for
Them They hated this that English institution class
or person. They would get rid of the king, lords the
clergy The House of Commons corrupt feeble pre-
JUDGED All the good things belonged few fine people,
and this was neither right English But the grievances
and the remedies alike English and local and even the
social revolution going around and increasing every
year in intensity made think of other countries
The pert maids wanted to slip out of church to show their
cheap fnery English eyes, and grand governesse took
aront only in English homes and to the annoyance of
English families The poor becoming and more
aenaed from the rch but it only to herd together and
nurse their misery and their sadness and their ilw in
company Dissatisfaction meant dissatisfaction with the
Governments and based the theory that if some
change in government made the evil could be mended
Ballot or Manhood Suffrage legislation to the taste of
Trade Unions to be the cure and then all would be
| we'll.
But recently spirit has, according to the unanimous
statements of those who know them BEST seized the most
energetic and stirring and typical part of the English
They are no longer nsuar and local in their feelings and
aspirations They have become an offset of the great
European party of revolution. This is change and
an important one and alarms those who accustomed
to think of themselves popular leaders of opinion The
execution of the Fenians Manchester has been widely
received in England with comments of kind. There
much blame thrown upon the Government There is
nothing like what ordinarily by disloyaty. Full
allowance made for good intentions for the honesty of the
motives which prompted those in authority distinguish
between the murder of Brett and political crime But the
execution of these has been taken a browning sign
that the Government has separated itself and that all the
governing classes have separated themselves from the
of European democracy.