The Principality

THE BALLOT. THE usual debate on the ballot has just been decided in the House of Commons, as was to 1,c expected, in the nega- tive. Neither Whig nor Tory, with the exception of Sir H. Verncy, considered it worth while to attempt even a reply to the arguments brought forwarcf in its favour. It was with difficulty its. advocates—and they were but few—wore allowed to speak in its behalf. Nothing can show more 0 clearly how the people are misrepresented—how their in- 'terest is the last thing thought of by those who profess to legislate for their weal. Blessed are they," said Swift, who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed." Verily, this blessing the people of England, owing to the kindness of their representatives, are permitted most copi- ously to enjoy. And yet nothing can be clearer than that the voter needs protection. No one can be ignorant of cases where the ballot is most imperiously required. It is a fact that in Birmingham itself a thousand electors, at one election, were prevented from going to the poll, from a fear of giving their votes. It is a fact, as Mr. Williams stated, that at this time there are many tradesmen in Maryiebone, with houses rented at from £ 200 to X300 a year, who avoided paying their rates purposely to disqualify them from voting; and if such be the case iu such populous districts, it is not difficult to imagine the degree of independence permitted to the small tradesman or the tenant-farmer by the landlords, who, like his Grace of Newcastle, are much given to do what they like with their own. How indignant would that fine specimen of a full blown Conservative be, were the ballot to become the law of the land. How furiously would he sing, Things are-come to a pretty pass, When a man can't wallop iiis own jackass.' Is not this the real motive why the ballot is rejected with such contempt ? Are not these men, be they Whig or Tory, wise enough to see that if once the ballot be granted, their power will be weakened, and the vast system of injustice and class legislation they have reared with so much skill will totter to its fall? This is the true reason why the ballot is refused—why the poor hard-working artisan or shop- keeper is denied the protection that gentlemen deem essen- tial to themselves. It is difficult to find any custom more thoroughly English than the ballot. Not a club in fashionable life can exist witlioiit it; the hero of Waterloo dare only vote against a candidate for the Carltwl by dipping a black ball in the box; the hereditary lord of a county seeks the same ignominious shelter for himself. The mild curate of some rural town, who every Sunday tells his flock to do their duty in the face of an opposing world, on the Monday may be found timidly excluding from the book-club to which he belongs Mr. Smith, the Radical, or Mr. Brown, the Dissenter, in the same ignominious mode, in which, however, lie but follows, as in duty bound, the example of his rosy-fed vicar, steeped in prejudice and port. We must have vote by ballot," says the vicar of Little Peddlington, as he takes the chair at the meeting for the formation of the Little Peddlington United Book-club, and the motion is agreed to iiiiaiiiniousiv. i We must have vote hy ballot," says the soldier at the United Service. The Tory squire at the Carlton repeats the cry, which is echoed by the Whig political economist, as he lounges over the last Edinburgh in the magnificent saloons of the Reform. Well, gentlemen, you shall have it. Vote by ballot, if you please but let your tenant-farmer—the shoe- maker whom you honour with your custom-the worthy soul of whom you purchase your soap—let them be no worse off than yourselves—let their will be as unfettered as your own-let them blackball, as you may if you please, the noblest and proudest in the land. And yet we fear that the ballot, for the weak, for the needy, fur, those who require it most, is un-English. We fear it is un-English to allow voters to vote without being bullied or bribed—we fear it is un-English for men of high degree to act out the fundamental principles of Clirist- iau morality, and to do to others as they would have others do to thcm-Ive fear it is un-English for the haughty land- lord to consider the farmer who tills his fields as a- man created in the same wondrous manner, and born for the same great end, as himself. We could have wished that we might have been led, by the debate of last Thursday, to a different conclusion. As it is, we trust that the people will see how completely their true interests are disregarded. We trust that the spirit of English freedom, which now seems to slumber, may awake in its indomitable might—may tear to tatters the shams and hypocrisies which a grasping aristocracy would so reverently preserve—may show the world that hore the good old cause, for which Milton wrote and Sydney died, is still cherished in our midst—that we have still amongst us, in our silent hamlets as well as in our peopled towns, men—it may be with hard hands and fus- tian jackets—destitute it may be of that grace of manner deemed aristocratic which wraps up the selfishness which reigns ,vithin,-yet, Men wh > know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain."

THE CAMBRIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB. Tins institution, established at Aberystwyth, in 1847, has lately presented to our fellow-countrymen its claims on their sympathy and support. Mr. Rhind, its able and dis- interested principal, has recently been pleading its cause- the cause of the unfortunate—the cause of those who are to be pitied as much a"; any class—in many of our principal towns, where his system has been explained, and its bene- ficial results shown, and we trust that Cardiff will prove it- self a friend to an institution so philanthropic in its aim. In the principality alone there are upwards of six hun- dred persons who come within the class whose distressing situation this society seeks to improve, six hundred indi- viduals cut off from some of the greatest blessings it is given our common nature to enjoy—by whom the word of friend- ship and of love is never heard—to whom hitherto the les- sons of morality and the consolations of religion have been addressed in vain. To such this institution acts the part of the good Samaritan. The pupils are boarded and lodged. Their intellectual and moral faculties are developed—habits of industry are carefully inttJlcatçd-and they are fitted in after life to earn their clailv bread. Such is the aim of. the Cambrian Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. The benefits it lias already couiorrod aID great-they would be greatei were its funds more worthy of its noble object. This last difficulty an appeal to Welsh generosity will, we trust, soon remove. In this good work every town in the principality will be expected to take its part. In them, at least. Mr. Rhind should not have to plead in vain.

TOWN LETTERS-No. 4. To write about nothing is by no means an easy task, not- withstanding that we are acquainted with the Earl of Rochester's poem on that same favourite theme. And yet we have little or nothing to record—not merely nothing in the sense in which Horace Walpole used the term nobody when, with the insolence of his order, he wrote from Lon- don, then as now full of the mighty tide of. human passion ,1 and intelligence, that there was nobody in town or as Sir Walter Scott used It when he gave up writing the Annual Register," as the peace was cstablislu-d, deeming only and their curses the fit subjects for his chivalrous pan but actually little or nothing has been done. Parlia- ment has been holiday making, and common folks have done the same. There have been monster exclusions io Paris, and monster meetings at Greenwich. Whit-Monday has been kc'nt as it has been annually kept for generations past. In all'matters of amusement the people of England are wonder- fully conservative. In these affairs, as Coleridge writes, 01 ratiier Schiller before him, the heart is true "To its old instincts;" a, I ti ill spite of all the excellent- institutions for making men better, which everywhere exist, and the worthy and benevo- lent gentlemen by whom these agencies are set in motion, people still will be foolish and improper, once a year. This is to be lamented, but are our educating and reformatory machines all that they might be ? Might not they in such times seek to join amusement with instruction P Might not wisdom have a bit of a smile now and then ? Or does she fear that even in her case it will be found that familiarity breeds contempt? We were struck, when a few years since spending an evening at the Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, at the immense number of very elderly ladies with spectacles and truly grandmotherly appearance,'who were riding little wooden horses that went round by machinery, as furiously as any blue-eyed Scandinavian of a dozen summers, and we have no doubt but that the dear old creatures lived all the longer for their merrymaking that glorious August night. Great gravity is not the inseparable companion of real wis- dom. How majestically solemn is an ass The man whom Coleridge took for a philosopher at the least, till he exult- ingly exclaimed, at the appearance of the dumplings, Them's the jockeys for me," was undoubtedly as sapient a looking in- dividual as Solomon himself. The philosophy least under- stood in England is the philosophy of relaxation—its Bacon is yet unborn. Mr. Shore, the victim of a Church that calls itself the Church of Christ, has at length been set free. Gold has done what nothing else could do. The London committee have sent down to Exeter sufficient money to satisfy all de- mands, and lie who, like another Shy lock, Craved the law, The penalty and forfeit of my bonds," is for the present appeased. The character of a gaoler is a new one for a successor of St. Peter to assume, not exactly in accordance with the spirit of Him who heaped coals of fire even upon an enemy's head—but we have got used to such strange anomalies. When a new Vision of Judg- ment" shall be written, it will be a fine theme to sing how Poor Phillpotts sat at his own prison gate, The key was rusty, and the lock was dull." Another great topic of the week has been the annexation of the Punjaub. The Maharajah is to receive a pension of 50,000 dollars a year. The chiefs who have been guilty of fighting to recover their lands from British usurpation are to be punished by the loss of their property. The Government is to be managed by a council of three,—Mr. J. Lawrence, Mr. Mansell, and Colonel Sir H. Lawrence,-of which the last is the president, with a salary of £8,000 a year. The others have each £ 4,800. Our new dominions comprise 100,000 square miles, yielding a revenue of about a million, and containing about three millions of inhabitants. Thirty- three thousand troops are placed for the present in the newly conquered territory, and thirty-eight thousand more are maintained close at hand. We go canting about American annexation, the French occupation of Algiers, and arc a thou- sand times worse ourselves. But we do it in self-defence. Such is the plea. We have so long done wrong, that it would now be highly impolitic to leave it off. A pickpocket will urge precisely the same thing in extenuation of his of- fence. &He did so before, got a bad character by it, nobody would employ him in consequence, and was obliged to steal or starve. It is not difficult to imag-ine the force of such an argument at the Old Bailey. Nevertheless, it is one that passes current amongst our statesmen and honourable men." No indignant voice of remonstrance will be heard. And in the House of Lords, bishops in lawn will benignantly smile on the men who have been spreading devastation and death all along the fertile regions of the East. How lamentably progresses the people's cause in the House of Commons. In the debate on the army estimates, Mr. Osborne grew facetious on shell jackets, as if there was no need of further reform—as if the question was merely one of sartorian oestheties-and not a murmur was raised by the people's men, who certainly should have been in the House on the occasion. It is hopeless work, we know, aim- in"- to enlighten the House, but men speak there so as to be everywhere heard, the press carries their words to the re- motest corners of the land, and conviction is produced—public opinion is matured, and the House ultimately is compelled to advance in the right direction. The Radical band are in a somewhat unfortunate predicament—there seems no pro- per harmony between them—every one does that which is rio-ht in his own eyes. Like a famous volunteer regiment, raised in Suffolk during the war, tliey are all officers, and it is found impossible for them effectively to act. Meanwhile, Whi"-s and Tories recklessly cling to the state vessel as long as she has her head above water-satisfied with that, like Metternieh, quite content if after them comes the deluge— desirous only that a system that has worked so well for them—that 'has found 'them so many of the good things of this life—that has married so many portionless daughters, and clothed so many younger sons that has helped to pay for so much claret and venison for tnemselves, and for so much fashionable millinery for their wives-may last their time, and be what it was to their fathers before them, a comfort and a stay. Sir Charles Wood has sent in his little account, and as he has a small amount to make up, he would be glad if John Bull could make it conveiiient to settle it at once. It is as follows £ T. Public works and buildings > 4(51,905 II. Salaries, &c., public departments. 1,083,231 III. Lawandjustiec. 1,196,814 IV. Education, science, and art 386,189 V. Colonial and consular services 421,703 VI. Superannuations and charities 200,652 VII. Miscellaneous. 75,237 Civil contingencies 100,000 Votes Cf,,925,731 In 1847 the sum total of these votes was £ 3,920,539 in 184S, £ 3 946,231. Tims, as compared with last year, there has been a savino- of about £ 20,000; and a trifling increase as compared with 1847.C" It is surprising with what a liberal hand a man will spend money when it docs not happen to be his own. J WIDE AWAKE.

CARDIFF. THE CHOLERA IN CARDIFF. Last week we called public attention to this alarming disease. We mentioned the fact that even then the cholera was in the town. Since then it has been raging with deadly effect-all Saturday last five were cariied off by it—on Sunday, four-on Monday, five—on Tuesday, six-oii Wednesday, two—on Thursday, four. The locality in which it has appeared has been that comprised in the "following streets—Stanley-street (here it has been very fatal), Love-lane, Mary Anne-street, Tittle Frederick-street. No filthier spots no spots more adapted for generating disease—can be found in the whole of Cardiff. Here at present it is stationary. Its victims have been princi- pally the half-starved Irish, who are crowded together in the badly ventilated wretched hovels, with which this neighbour- hood abounds. Not a day should be lost for succouring those unfortunate creatures, and in putting the town into a proper state. The board of guardians have divided the town into three districts, and have appointed surgeons to each. This is well, but this is not enough. We are not alarmed. We know well that the healthy, if they continue to obey the laws of health, are in little if any danger, but still something should be done that may fit the town to withstand contagious disease better than it'can at present. The fact is, there has been gross neg- lect in all these matters. Already.there has been sufficient loss of life. For the carelessness of years we have now a fearful penalty to pay. Exertion is now demanded. More must be done than has been done at present. A correspondent has suggested the following plan, which has our hearty ap- proval :— Let a public meeting be immediately called, and let the inha- bitants elect a few to constitute a local board of health, whose duties shall be to sit daily, and receive reports from the inhabit- ants of every street as to what is the best mode of temporarily cleansing the streets in the absence of proper drainage, and to supply those who are too poor with lime for the purifying ot their houses; and, where the desire is wanting on the part ot any, to employ our pauper poor for the purpose. I also think that every surgeon and physician in town ought to have constituted the staff, so that those who cannot pay for medical aid may call in who they choose, and the nearest to them. I do not say this for the purpose of finding fault, because it was no doubt done without thinking circumstances would need much attendance, but appear- ances indicate a wide spread of this dreadful malady amongst us, and every aid should be given to stop its progress. I have seen several attempts at cleaning our streets during the past week, which I think is very objectionable. Twice Whitmore-lane gut- ters have been cleaned out, and the dirt thrown over the middle of the road, instead of immediately taking it away, and there left to be trodden on by horses, with all the putrid matter again send- ing forth its stench, and to return by the first storm of rain into the gutters again. Bute-street and Lewis-street have been simi- larly done, with the exception of the filth of the latter streets being put into heaps, and then left. Every court and alley ought at once to be immediately inspected, and preventive measures taken, where the landlords are liable, at their expense, and where other- wise, at the expense of the parish. At any rate, whatever be done let it be done quickly. Ouit LETTER-BOX AGAIN.—The same evil-disposed person who annoyed us last Friday week with what he mistook for wit has favoured us again. We know no other way of making him thoroughly ashamed of himself than by putting him in type Whereas John Nicholl, D.C.L., left Cardiff some time in August, 1847, on his way to St. Stephen's, and has not been seen or heard of since. This is to give notice, that any person who can give any information respecting his whereabouts will be handsomely rewarded. If this meets the eye of John Nicholl, the aforesaid, ha is earnestly besought to return to his disconsolate borough, or the consequences may be serious. He is assured that if he does so, the past will be forgotten and forgiven. At any rate, his disconsolate borough assures him she can only be relieved by seeing his name in. the Parliamentary division list." b CARDIFF ATHEX.EUH.—We have been requested to say a few words on this head. We do so unwillingly, for its miserable state has excited our pity ever since the first moment we were aware of its existence. In its way it is certainly unrivalled. Had George llobins been commissioned to put it up for sale, he would have described it as unique like a dead donkey, or a black swan, or a gleam of sunshine on Lord Brougham's irascible face, or a fit of generosity in a Scotchman, or an industrious Irishman, it is what a man sees only once in his lifetime. An athemeum without a library, and without lectures, without classes of any kind, with a deadly- lively life to which death were far preferable, it was never our lot to see before, and it is our daily prayer that We ne'er may look upon its like again." Surely there is sufficient population in Cardiff to make such a thing answer well. As it is it but adds insult to injury, and creates a hope that it instantaneously destroys. The committee, if there be one, should remember that Pope long ago said— J A little learning is a dangerous thing." WE understand that the clerk of the board of guardians has received a communication from the board of health, in Lon- don, inquiring as to the localities in Cardiff affected by the cholera. SEVERAL complaints have been made as to the mode in which the ditches in different parts of the town are cleansed. It ap- pears that this operation is performed in the middle of the day, and the stench arising from them is described as very great. This should be seen into. BRISTOL AND CARDIFF PACKET BILL.—In consequence of the non arrival of this bill, we give the departures of the Prince of Wales and Star steamers for the first week in June. From Car- diff:—Friday, June 1st, l2 afternoon Saturday, 2nd, 11 after- noon Monday, 4th, 3 afternoon Tuesday, 5th, 3 afternoon Wednesday, 6th, 41 morning Thursday, 7th, 41 afternoon Fri- day, 8th, 5 afternoon Saturday, 9t3, 5 morning. From Bris- tol -Fi-idity, June 1st, 2* afternoon; Saturday, 2nd, 31 after- noon Monday, 4th, 4} afternoon; Tuesday, 5th, 51, afternoon Wednesday, 6th, 6 afternoon Thursday, 7th, 61 morning Fri- day, 8th, Gl morning Saturday, 9th, 7l morning. SUDDEN DEATH.—Mr. Evan Rees, farmer and hay-merchant living at Lys-talybont, near this town, died suddenly yesterday morning in a field adjoining his house. An inquest was held in the afternoon on the body, when it appeared from the evidence of the servant boy that deceased got up in the morning at his usual hour (about half-past five), walked about the farm, and came to the field in which the servant was ploughing. He then went home r to breakfast; after which he again returned and conversed as usual when all of a sudden he fell down. The servant thought he was in a fit, and sent for a surgeon. Mr. Edw. Kvans was immediately in attendance, and found him quite dead. Mr. Evans was of opinion that he died from a disease of the heart, and that it was instantaneous. A verdict was returned accordingly. DEATHS FROM STARVATION.—Mr. Reece held inquests this week on the bodies of John M'Arthy, aged ten years, and Ellen M'Arthy, aged twelve years, who died under the following circum- stances. It appeared in evidence that the deceased, who were na- tives of Cork, came over with their mother from Ireland in a vessel from Kinsale, bound for Newport. They were put down at Penirth on Wednesday week. The children were then in an- emaciated state. They called at a farmhouse, and had some food. They then came to Cardiff, where two sisters of the de- ceased were livin. THAV "1'1,1;¡ "cl.a;-4- 1-1.0' Lu, but were refused admission because the boy was then ill. The boy died in the course of the afternoon in his mother's lap. The mother and daughter then went to Cowbridge, where another daughter was to be married. On Saturday the little girl was taken ill, and died on Wednesday last. The mother, instead of applying to the parochial authorities at Cowbridge, carried the dead child all the way to Cardiff, and brought it to the relieving officer's door. This strange circumstance led to the inquiry. Mr. Edw. Evans, surgeon, examined the body. and stated that it was a complete ske- leton, and that she died for want of food, accelerated by diarrhoea, with which she was attacked after landing. Verdicts were re-, turned accordingly. The mother stated that the boy was simi- larly attacked, and a similar verdict was given in his case. ST. MARY'S NATIONAL SCHOOLS.—On Tuesday an examination of the children took place in the girls' school of this institution, Whitmore-street. The Rev. W. L. Morgan was the examiner, and the answers to the questions in Scripture history, grammar, and geo- graphy, were very satisfactory, showing that the care bestowed upon the young folks was far from being useless. In the afternoon, a, large number of children partook of tea, &c., and the teachers took tea together afterwards. We may observe that the mistress of the girls, Miss Lowress, has obtained the Government certificate of merit in the last few days. CARDIFF SUNDAY SCHOOLS.—On Monday last, the conductors and friends of Sabbath-schools in this town, connected with the Independent, Baptist, and Methodist congregations, gave the children under their care the annual treat, which has now been their custom for twelve years. A field belonging to Mr. W. Evans, jun., of Roath, situated on the brow of Penylairs Well, was kindly lent for the occasion, where almost a thousand juveniles spent a delight- fur afternoon. Upon their return to Cardiff, they were kindly met by C. Williams, Esq.. and his lady, who permitted them to shorten their journey by crossing his lawn, and liberally supplied them with the choicest flowers A meeting was held at the Welsh Calvin- istic Methodist chapel, on Monday evening. The Sunday-school children were provided with tea, and in the evening several inter- esting addresses were delivered. CHURCIl MISSIONARY SociyTy.-On Monday evening last, a meeting of the Cardiff Auxiliary to the above society was held at the Town-hall, at half-past six. The Dean of Llandaff took the chair. The number of persons who attended was large and respectable. The business of the evening commenced by singing and prayer, after which the dean called upon the Rev. W. L. Morgan to read the report. The Itev. B. Pritehard moved, and J. B. Pryce seconded, the adoption of the report. The Rev. W. Bruce moved the second resolution, which was seconded by the Yen. the Archdeacon of Llandaff. The Rev. W. L. Morgan moved the third resolution, which was seconded by the Rev. Tnos. Tate, vicar of Edmonton, the deputation from the parent society, who, after a few preliminary observations, went into an interesting detail of the society's proceedings at Sierra Leone, the East Indies, New Zealand, &c- from which it appeared that although the, societies could not record any very remarkable events for the past year, yet there had been a very steady progress in their missionary stations throughout the world. The collection was then made, which amounted to about Ell 10s. A portion of Bishop Ileher's celebrated missionary hymn was sung, and after the benediction from the dean, the meeting broke up. Sermons were preached on behalf of this society, at LlandaffCathedral, and St. Mary's, Cardiff, by the Hey. Thomas Tate, on Sunday morning and afternoon. The report states that £37 4s. 4d. had been collected for the jubilee fund, of this society (a fund of which E20,000 had been devoted to the service of sick and disabled missionary children, and other pur- poses), and E82 6s. 4d. for the general fund. LLANDAFF PAIn.-The usual fair was held at this place last Monday and Tuesday. The cattle show was not very brilliant, nor was the sale very brisk; hut the fair drew together, as usual, an immense number "of people, of all ages and of both sexes, who were furious in the pursuit of mirth. Amongst them were many persons, who, judging by appearances, certainly were not the dis- ciples of Father Mafhow. The road between Cardiff and Llandaff was thronged with pleasure-seekers, going to or returning from the fair. During the day, the following case of do occurred A STALE T ICK.-At, the fair a very old trick was again played, and with success. A farmer from Llysfane sold a small heifer and a steer to an old man, a stranger, dressed as a fanner, for which he was to be paid at the Heath-cock public-house. When he entered, the farmer found his customer wrangling with another man for the purchase of a couple of cattle, which the young man refused t# sell, aliening that his father had cautioned him against selling them to that particulat individual. In this dilemma, the yo-uni* man offered to sell them to the worthy farmer in;;tc"Hl, if he would pay the pncf ( £ 12 10s.), which, at the solicitation of his customer, the farmer did. No sooner was the I)argaill and the money paid, than one of the parties went to look for the cattle, and as he did not directly return, the other went to look after him. We need not add, that the farmer never either of the gentle- men again, or the money which he so foolishly parted with. The same trick was successfully tried last week. Tanners should take in newspapers, and then they would be on their guard at such old dodges as the above.

THE BEGINNING OF THE END. To the year of revolutions by which Europe has been agitated, has succeeded a reactionary system, marching steadily, yet surely, to the consummation it so devoutly de- sires. Beneath its hoof, with the exception of Rome, the energies and hopes of the sunny south have already been blotted out. Already, owing to the guidance of Louis Na- poleon, Changarnier, and Leon Faucher, France has so far 'n committed herself to it as to have wen an infamy that will long sully a name from which liberty had hoped so much. German principalities and powers are leagued for the same had end. Russia, yet sunk in barbarism—Russia, that yet remains, in the midst of progress, as steady a foe to human rights as it has ever been—Russia, yet the land of despotism as dark and gigantic as the vast realms that own her sway- has rushed to the combat, and has already poured her savage hordes over the soil that civilization had blessed with her presence, and where a new-born freedom had already found A home. To stop the march of man—to destroy the spirit of the age-to say to the waves of human progress, Hitherto shall ye come, but no farther"—to blot out that immortal love of freedom which the God of Heaven has planted deep in the heart of man, more than 300,000 Cossacks are on their way. It is now manifest to the world what "the friends. of order" mean. Englishmen have most contentedly allowed themselves to be gulled on this head. They have listened to the ravings of Brougham, who, provided he can but speak, cares not how big is the falsehood on his lips. Even a decent appearance of impartiality has never been attempted b 7 our daily press. From our brother editors in Germany, knowing the position in which they are placed, we can hardly expect that they can publish, however much they .may desire it, the truth, and nothing but the truth. Conse- quently the old fable has been realised, and we have been graciously permitted to walk up and see the man killing the lion. How few are aware that, for instance, Hungary has, for the first time in the history of the world, shown a privi- leged class renouncing their privileges for the common go°od. Not contented with this, she has boldly established tree trade; and yet because she has done these things-be- cause she spurned the Austrian yoke-because she looked down with contempt on the espionage and emasculating centralisation of Vienna—because she would be what she was in the days of old—our national sympathies are to be given to the imbeciles who blindly cling to the principles of the Hoiv Alliance, and who would fain rule the present in the obsolete spirit of the past. This state of things cannot be permitted to exist—events are thickening—the crisis is hastening—the drama is ap- proaching to its close. The powers of Europe are aiming at 0 eric common end, and are arming against a common foe. L-rnis Napoleon has committed treason against the Republic t3 p and the people who too blindly placed him at its head. France has protested against his policy, and the Red Repub- licans have a^ain returned upon the scene. The emeutes of Berlin, of Dresden, and of Baden, show how sternly the people' are for progress and reform, and against the men who are ro-,v leading armies to aid Austria in her crusade .».nS{ rio-ht. The line of division is obvious. Oil the one side arc the people—the only sources of political power. On the other side are their hereditary rulers and kings. The iroproachiri* contest is no common one, and will have no common result. Not for nothing does the Czar leave his home in the icy north, and spill like water the blood of his serfs in this unholy war. If Hungary wins the day the darkness of ages will be swept away. Poland will come forth from the tomb; the German fatherland will be an united and happy whole Italian nationality will no longer be an lie dream, but a living presence and power, and every- where ,Ilan the image of his God" will stand Erect and free, Untaught by superstition's rod To bend the knee." if Prussia prevail-if might triumph over right-if brute force be a more potent power than a valour flushed with suc- cess, and sanctified with a noble cause—it can only be for a time. Before this the Cossacks have appeared upon the scene. They have bivouacked in Paris itself. History has told how they were reviewed by Platoff, and W ellington, and Alexander, when Louis the Desired came in the rear of a foreign army to reclaim the hereditary throne a mightier than himself had seized. It is true Louis the Desired was buried with his fathers, but one brother sleeps in a foreign laud, and the other is an exile at Claremont. Does that signify 1\<' truth ? Is history a mere almanac, or may it claim in the opinion of s'atesmen and kings to be philosophy teach- ing by example ? The ultimate success of right is guaran- teed by Heaven, and it is only for a time the Croat or the .Cossack can impede its victorious career. A congress at Kalisch will be an idle barrier in its way.