Spirit Of The Age (Newspaper) - October 7, 1848, London, Middlesex JOURNAL OF AND INDUSTRIAL THIS THAT THEY CALL OF LABOUR IF WELL THE PROBLEM OF TUB KOll ALL WHO WILL IX FUTURE TO GOVERN SATURDAY OCTOBER RICE of THE Foreign news of the week is of a quieter character than the Judging from the o o respondence and news received from the French it seems that the chasm between the mo derate and ultra Republicans the and the daily In fact the two classes are in open and the end of it no one can On the one the cause of order so or more properly speaking the cause of are ranged the old dynas tic opposition and the supporters of the various backed by the commercial and trading classes who conceive interested in the present system while on the other side are banded together the ultra Republicans and Social who have resolved that the Republic shall be something more than the mere name that it shall be in reality an order of things for the public judging from present is and each party is doing its best to forward their respective interests in the work of the party of progress have the decided They have nearly the whole of the working classes in their especially the of the cities and and a considerable portion of the educated middle W those connected with literature and the learned they are animated by a resolute which and have leaders of great ability and determination to lead them Hence it is that the Paris correspondents of the London journals begin to cry out so lustily about the progress of Communism in and fear the advent of the Red on Wed the Times told us was making gigantic strides through the departments hence it is that General Cavaignac is obliged to increase the gar rison of the capital to enforce the more rigorous surveillance of the and to act the craven in regard to the affairs of after the pledges France has given to ensure Italian the small prophets of tne press told two months had disappeared with the barricades of the Moderates have endeavoured to form a union for mutual and to check the progress of the red flag but every day demon strates the trickery and hollowness of such a The Legitimists have no motive to actu ate but blind attachment to an exploded and the desire to see the of in the person of the Duke of again established in and fight for a with the Count de Paris as the royal puppet of the French with a and some bastard kind of to create a market for gewgaws in the and find customers for the manufacturers of Ions and other small The genteel Republicans wish for something of the same with the difference instead of Prince the Count de at the head of the desire General Cavaignac or Marrast as of The various sections of the Moderate while agreed on the main point of keeping intact existing social and holding the industrious in are far from harmonious ing the division of the loaves and though strong enough in the National Assembly to oppose the carrying of measures for the ameliora tion of the they are at sixes and sevens on all points of policy that have reference to political and the conducting of public affairs they are likely to exercise little influence over any portion of the but the ignorant peasantry and when information gets diffused among assuredly it also repudiate when they will become pow Their strength at present is in the rural in which universal suffrage has given them a temporary triumph but the light oi knowledge and the doctrines of Socialism are about invading the as well as the North of remote as well as the great That once neither sham nor Napoleonism will suffice to strangle the rights of or prevent the advent of a new order of At present the question of the election Pre sident of the Republic excites much The Thiers anxious for the election by Universal the hope through the the on by the they might the election of one of their The Cavaignac party wish the Assembly to elect the fist in the hope that the General will be the lucky individual and the as the UltraRepublican and Socialist party is under existing cir only a provisional until penetrated the sentiments of the and the institutions of the country placed in harmony It is believed that direct Universal Suffrage will be unless some extraordinary event should arise to give a new direction to public opinion on this With respect to who shall be the opinion is much Many think that Louis Napoleon will prove the lucky indi vidual though doubt is beginning to be enter of this on account of the poor figure he has made in the and the fact that the nearer he is viewed the loss wonderful he General they has no doubtful who will as changes take place in France with such great and the popularity of public men is so The news from Italy is to the effect that the Sardinians are about recommencing hostilities as there is no prospect that an amicable settlement of the differences will be ar rived Coupled with it is said Sicilians have retaken Messina and driven out the litan troops with great We have intelligence from Vienna to the effect that another insurrection has broken out but we are without particulars as to the exact state of It is evident that the reactionary party are on the qui vivo to bring back the old state of and no doubt they have taken advantage of the success of the Ban of Croatia to make an effort to restore absolutism in the Austrian It is to be hoped they will pay the penalty of such a breach of Rhenish provinces are more settled than as re corded in our the Republican movement in as we are having been put and Struve In Republican bands have been and Ba varia is excited in a similar since the recent victory of the Berlin National Assem bly over the Court and is tolerably though how long it may remain it is difficult to From a lot lor which we have and will appear next seems Socialism is ra extending throughout nil that the reorganization of labour is becoming the growing faith of the millions We have now reviewed the major events of the week those who wish further information will find it duly recorded in the proper From the close the Chartist it will bo soon that they as every person believed they in a By means of a disreputable spy which is a scandal to the age and the Government who employed these convictions have been ob for such is the animus of jury class against all who entertain opinions hostile to bourgeoisie that no difficulty on the slenderest or most suspicious ot ob the verdict once secured the no doubt anticipating the vindictive feelings of the has awarded a tenco such as a Jeffreys could have pro under similar On these four unhappy men to conspiracy by wretches of the most and immoral character the sentence is transporta tion for Thus the dupe is made a convict as goes but receives out of the public raised from the toiling industry of the the wages of his infamy free to mix in and poison with the moral atmosphere with his presence wherever he Such the dispensations of the powers that under this u best of possible Cuffey and his colleagues expatriated by hired the working classes be any bettor reconciled to the as it than ever Will m of the swearing of Informer or the of Judge PI look with more on an of things that order to continual and toil and it absorbs the produce of their and denies them all right of political suffrage Will that large proportion of the people who agree with C i if ley and his associates in political though dissenting from the insane po licy to which they have fallen in virtue of ihe severe thus abandon and become reconciled to law and order as now maintained No nor is it to be ex that they It will rather strengthen O them m their arid lead them to associate lothing but cruel and with the whole political and under which such events can take The State Trials in Ireland wore still proceed ing at the latest and are not likely to as as Smith OBrien is till Satur day The case for the which depends almost entirely on evidence of the and is in cases very on The peasants who were ex on the gave their evidence with great and but little direct evidence ob from We shall go at some length into the case in our next when the whole facts are before We have much pleasure our that Louis Blanc has junt finished his reply
