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BROTHER JONATHAN AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. (From the Times, May 8 )

The crusade of freedom lias coit us a sum that would have transported all li eland to the shores of Lake Superior, but has not proportionally redounded to our reputation for sincerity and sense. We have sown our wild oats— in the shape of a huudred million sovereigns or thereabouts— broadcast over the world, and have reaped a harvest of trouble, jealousy, ingratitude, and abuse. So now we are wonderfully philosophic. The population of London will not run to arms to fight any nation's battles. Z It is evident, however, that our cousini on the oppc - site shores of the Atlantic have all this experience to go through. No, Johnathaa is rather too 'cute for that. Nothing can surpass the jubilation, the congratulation, the expectation, which pervades the great model republic at each steamer arrives from the old world of nobles and king". The Philadelphians hope to hear soon that drab is the only wear, and calculate on sending fashions of straight eutto the Palais Royal. Cincinnati is aheady fraternising in hope with tepub. lican Milan, and the Broadway greeting St. Mark's. Texas, Mexico, Cuba, are all forgotten in the brilliancy of the scene that now opens to the New Engiandci's speculative gaze. There is not a crown or a coronet, nor a sceptre, or n red in all Europe, that does not fall before Mr. Polk'g hat and umbrella.—

twenty-six stars, seen through the gtess of hope, expiinds into as many s.uns as the milkywuy before a lk-rschf II or a Rossc. To show that we don't the least exaggerate the excitement, we will just give a single precis of European events, as it figures in the top ol the fust column, in the first page, of the New York Herald, of Saturday, April 22, and we can only express our regret that our limited resources do not enable us to imitate, afc the very humblest distance, the magnificence and variety of typogiaphical illustration with which several headings are distinguished :—

ONE WEEK LATER NEWS FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF THE AUXILIARY STEAM-SHIP " SARAH SANDS." VERY IMPORTANT NEWS. BEGINNING OF THE REVOLUION IN RUSSIA*. REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS IN IRELAND. THE PEOPLE ARMING, CONFLICT EXPECTED. SYMPTOMS OF A GENERAL EUROPEAN WARj ARMING OF THE PEOPLE OF GERMANY. BADEN DECLARED FOR A REPUBLIC. REVOLUTION IN VENICE. REPUBLICANISM IN SPAIN. ORGANIZATION OF THE MILITARY ALL O\El( i EUROPE. KING OF DENMARK ABOUT TO ABDICATE. PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT IN DENMARK* COMMENCEMENT OF A WAR BETWEEN HOLSTEI?} AND DENMARK. | THREATENED WAR BETWEEN THE POLES AND [ RUSSIA. MOVEMENT OF FRENCH TROOPS. PROGRESS OF THE FINANCIAL REVULSION. MORE FAILURES. Why, this surpasses Ihe invention of Fleet-street or the Strand. A month ago it was impossible to wulk from Trafalgar square to St. Paul's without finding a new sovereign deposed, a new archbibhop crucified, and a new republic proclaimed. The old ladies who went to the Bank for their dividends, found, on their return, that the European emute had spread a hundred miles in the interval. The average destruction of soy creigns \va3 three a day, and on one particular fine mot nil);; as many as seven were disposed of. The Picst sorted the nutritious and savoury matter, divided it, with suitable tact, into second, third, fourth, and filth editions, and at intervals of two hours announced on huge MS. posters, the politician's breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert of anarchy, ruin, and rebellion. We only al.uJe to those dxvi of speculative excitement, in order to show how far our most speculative and go -a- head newsmonger* have been surpasied by New York. The feeling that cra'/y old Europe is tumbling down at last, veiy generally pervades the pile of papers which t be recent anivals have accumulated round vi. The journal we have quoted is, however, not only the most anti-European ot all, but it stands by itself in its vio« lence. From its first number it hns never ceased to utter the darkest prediction* as to what must speedily befall the monarchies and anarchies of the Old World. Others have done so in this country. Our prophetic Almanacs prophecy a political catastrophe a month <>n the speculation that one must happen at last. The New York Heiald takes \cry great ciedit to itself for not having uttered a thou.-and predictions in vain, and for persevering till constancy was awarded by the event. As far ab we are concerned, we only perceive a hostile bias, unbecoming the impartiality of the true prophet, in the avidity with which this paper gloats on the thought of British discomfiture. Its calculations on the combined agency of Chartism and Repeal h&ve been so exploded by the fact, that we need not conlute them. But what will our readers say lo the pretended sympathy of the writer for the people of the islmids* when he looks to a successful invasion us the instrument of their deliverance ?— •' It was as much as Louis Phillippe could do to restrain the young and fresh spirit of i'rance from rush* ing into that country, and now that a Republic u eatublishcd, a alight cause would be considered sufficient to crca'e an opportunity which has so long been hoped fjr, to vvipe out the stain which the national' honour and courage sustained on the field of Waterloo. Wilh the btcam navy which France now pos-esaes, being safe from Continental conflicts, and with the difficulty which tho English Government will experience in manning an armament in time to resist its progress,, as developed by their own writers, an invading army o 50,000 French soldiers could be landed on the English blioies in the short space of 24 hours, every man of which would considei the glory of Fiance, and the duty of washing out that stain, as reposing on himself, la the event of such an occurrence, the prophecy of the Duke of Wellington would be fulfilled ; and with the assurance wh cli the presence of mch an army would give the disaffected subjects of that kingdom, a com* plete revolution, that would scatter to the four windi the monarchy and all iti appendages, would be the consequence— the final reiult of which would he the establishment of a republic, the repudiation of the national debt, and the complete reorganization of socitty." We repeat, however that the paper from which we quote is happily sui generis, as little American aa biitish. There arc other papers in the Union which, take a very different, a kinder, and withal a more sensible view of the state of affairs.

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New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 243, 27 September 1848, Page 2

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BROTHER JONATHAN AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. (From the Times, May 8 ) New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 243, 27 September 1848, Page 2

BROTHER JONATHAN AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. (From the Times, May 8 ) New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 243, 27 September 1848, Page 2

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