ENGLISH AND FRENCH REVOLUTIONS.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2649, 14 August 1871, Page 3

ENGLISH AND FRENCH REVOLUTIONS.

“ There Is one point of the comparison between us and our Parisian neighbors,” writes the Times, “happily to our advantage. They do their revolutions at home ; we do ours abroad. We may really claim a priority in revolutions ; n'y, it is charged against us that we set the example. A century ago we had a very grand revolution, which resulted in founding the model Eepublic, to which some believe all the earth will one day be annexed." Bnt we did it 3,000 miles off, across the Atlantic. The event was heard of in due time, a month or two after it hap pened ; but except an addition to our taxes, which no amount of victory would have spared us, the result made just no difference at all here. Nobody cared much to know that henceforth about half the Britisli race would be Republican. From that day, to avoid a repotit : on of the surprise, wc have revolutionised our Colonies ourselves quite as fast as they desired, not to say faster. The fact is we are filling the earth with Republican institutions. It is impossible now to suggest to the excitable yet helpless multitude of the French cities that, if they have visions and dream dreams, impossible to be realised on French soil "without blood and fire, they had better look abroad. The United States are a home for all nations, and they hj ive land enough for the entire population, if it should think tit so to escape the evil eye and grasping hand of Germany. Cur own Colonies are as open to Frenchmen ns they are to ourselves, and once there they enjoy equal rights with the best of us. As colonies and all transoceanic States arc now constituted, the nationality signifies nothing, and it is quite unnecessary for France to wait till she can make a colony of Frenchmen. Everybody, whatever his occupation in France, can pursue it with equal ease nnd greater profit in any colony abroad. If the French peasant proprietor wishes-to escape Prussian exactions, or if the Parisian tradesman wishes to be out of the reach of the Communist, if the Communist himself wishes for a property from which he has not to drive the present owner, ho will find this easily by a voyage both shorter and pleasanter than a siege or a winter campaign. Wc British subjects have come to consider that we carry our country with us wherever we go, and that all the earth is, in a manner, ours. That is a nobler, and, as it turns out, an easier ambition than that of the French Commuuist or petty proprietor. It is realised before the world, and the world admires our fortune, and even thanks us for the example and the benefit. That is more than can be said of the suicidal struggles of France, which always end by leaving her where she was—her fortune still to be made, her career yet to be run.”