The New York herald., 1870-05-05

-Rcvolutionlsm In Eurepe, with Its Centre
h Lendsn-A Csnsress ef tho Natisnalities |
aud tho Platter. sf The Peoples.
The special correspondence from London
which is published in our columns to-day con-
veys to our readers Old World matter Of the |
very highest import. Its contents are of direct |
interest to the democracy Of America, possess
an almost vital attraction for our fnanciers,
and will command the earnest attention of the |
executive. Our special writer announces that |
the peoples of Europe have resolved on the |
gradual subversion of the throned and the |
healthy realization Of universal and con- |
federated republic. He supplies facts and
dates, and submits the arguments which are
used by the representatives Of the struggling |
masses in justification Of the approaching
movement, its intent and consequences. The
European nationalists have been assembled IN
Universalist Reform Congress in London.
The information which we publish is special
outline of the proceedings of its members. The
obtainment of this intelligence is Of itself one
Of the highest compliments which has ever
yetbeen paid to the free and independent press
Of America; one of tho most touching tributes
which has been yet rendered by the struggling
peoples to the well-known kindly sympathfes
of the free sons of the American Continents
one of the most direct pledges of their abso-
Lutte confidence in the justice-loving and manly
bearing of the educated millions who enjoy
the blessings of free thought, free speech, free
schools, and freedom Of conscience and wor-
ship under our national flag. Our special
correspondent was admitted to the meeting OF
the European revolutionists in congress in
London; his pen chosen, as it were, as the
exponent of the democratic indictment against
royalty, and our steam presses relied on as the
means of submitting the united international
plea to that vast transatlantic cosmopolitan
jury which is made up of our readers. We
have afforded to Bismarck, to Premier Mena-
brea and to Count Beust opportunities Of
explaining and defending their different systems
of rule, with their plans of ameliorated govern
ments under the crowns. To-day we hearken
unto the peoples who assert that they can
manage their affairs without the crowns.
This radical revolutionary Congress In
London must not be confounded with the
tumultuous aggregations of the French ''reds,"
as now heard from in Paris. 1t was calm,
deliberative assemblage. The members were
fully cognizant of the plants of their fellow
men, and equally convinced Of the many diff
culties which surround attempts for their
complete redress. France did not enjoy any
particular lead or prominence in the council.
Russia, Poland, Ireland, Rome and Italy
appear, indeed, to have ranked before her,
looking almost as if the order Of precedence
had been arranged according to plan in
which the duration of national wrong and the
duly considered and conceded. The languages
spoken were French, English and German-the
tongues which have so far brought the greatest
amount of enlightenment to the world.
Having perused our special letter the reader
will see that England is, after all, now, as
she ever has been, the real solid substantial
centre of popular reform-reform with rea-
son--reform adapted to the time and circum-
stances. England received and sheltered the
monk Augustine. and this completed q religious
revolution. Her barons, representing the peo-
| pie, at Runneymede delivered the first blow
against the "divine right Of kings leaving it
| to Oliver Cromwell to repeat or complete it.
Watt Tyler initiated the system of national
financial reform, with an equitable impost Of
taxes, which Gladstone and Lowe are just now
perfecting after Golden. Sir Francis Burdett
prefaced the British constitutional democracy
stcoy To 10 kho b,,n& g.,
Parliament, in Hyde Park and the columns Of
the HERALD. Calvin, Knox, Wesley and the
rest, freed the altars of Europe. Memory"
| Woodfall was the first independent newspaper
reporter in the old lands. ''Junius" pointed
out the economics, the moraliies and rights of
the nation, and Peel and Wellington completed
the work by assuring stubborn royalsm that
conscience was free and the genuine catho-
| licity of the Reformation universal
| Thus has Great Britain ever acknowledged
| progress and respected the accomplished
facts" of humanity. Thus does she to-day pre-
pare herself to accept the consequences Of the
propagandism Of the great idea. of democracy
| a confederation Of republics-and thus, as will
be seen from our special London letter, does
she array and vest herself for solemn attend
ance at the font in which the Old World
nations will be regenerated by the baptism
which was in the beginning and will endure in
eternity.
TIE ARCADE RAILWAY BILL BEFORE TUE
GoyERNoR-A delegation of prominent citi-
zens waited on the Governor at Albany yester-