The Anglo-Maori Warder. TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1848.

Anglo-Maori Warder, Volume 1, Issue 12, 11 July 1848, Page 2

The Anglo-Maori Warder. TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1848.

Each successive mail is now likely to bring us news of more turbulent aspect. And it will be strange if the present agitation, which has spread over nearly the whole face of Europe, should subside quietly without having first broken out into war. It is a torch among powder-barrels ; it may possibly burn out with out an explosion ; but a single spark falling in the right place is enough. By the Osprey, we have received intelligence from England, via Hobart Town, and by the Eleanor L\ncaster. via Sydney, up to the 10th March. The English domestic intelligence is not of very great interest. There had been some Chartist rioting; breaking of windows in Waterloo place, and a rising of a more, serious nature in Glasgow, where the mob had been tired on by the military and five .persons shot. Lord John Russell after proposing to rase the income tax to five per cent, hud been -obliged to give way. His budget calculated on a deficiency of upwards of two millions. — Much dissatisfaction was occasioned in consequence of papers in reference to the Caffre v.ar (for the expenses of which ujns as vis of one million was required) having been put in the hands of members.-only the day before they were asked to vote the money. Mr. Hume had announced his indention to move for leave to bring in a bill granting free institution, to the colony of Van Diemen's Land, Mr. Laboucheac, when pressed upon the subject having returned an un&atisfactoiy ans-. iver. But the attention of all parties seeiiis to be riveted, all minor topics absorbed in reflecting upon the consequences which the French Revolution cannot fail to exercise upon the destinies of the whole civilised world. The Provisional Government, irapar congressus Achilli, had undertaken more than it was likely to accomplish ; to form a set of permanent institutions tor a new republic. In spite of so many warning failures, they are still as ready as ever with their pen and ink constitutions ; as fertile in expedients as the Abbe Sieyes himself. One of their measures, however was of a very practical and intelligible nature ; it was to sequester as much the property of the Royal family as they could lay hands upon. Luckily for himself, Louis Philippe, with provident forethought, had long since invested enormous sums in nearly all the different funds in Europe. All the European states had recognised the republic, excepting Spain and Russia; which was likely to profit it but little; for it was confessed that the chief danger lay rather in domestic disorder than in foreign war. There was already the commencement of a monetary and industrial crisis, of which it was impossible to see the end or calculate the extent. The house of Gouin and Co., the successors of Jacques Laffitte, and Co., had suspended payw ment, and many others were spoken of as on the verge of bankruptcy. Thousands of workmen were out of employment in Paris and eveiy day added to the number. It was only a few days before,that the labouring classes were refusing to accept employment, excepting upon such terms as they thought suited what M. Luuis Blanc calls " the dignity of man." They were then glad to get work on any terms, for the masters were daily diminishing the number of their employes. Public confidence had been so completely shaken by recent events, and the prospects for the future were so dark, that capitalists would not venture more than meet the actual demand. Bine usura vorax, rapidamque in tempore fcenus; Hiuc coneussa fides, et mult is utile bellum. The miners demand that their wages be raised from a frank and a half to three franks a day—that is, be exactly doubled; and the calico printers quietly suggest that an increase in exports would afford them relief! But the most extraordinary claim, is that set on foot by the hotel keepers, who require an immediate decree, to prevent their landlords from claiming more than half their rents, and have voted a petition to the National Assembly to re-adjust tßfi relation of Landlord and Tenant, according toShe altered state of affairs: in other words, tfiTpass an agrarian law. The shopkeepers in Paris no sooner heard of these propositions than they hastened in crowds to co-operate with the hotel keepers. The escape of the Royal family seems not to have been so easy as the last advices had led to suppose. The King had travelled by byeroads to Dreux, wlie*e a farmer procured disguises for the royal fugitives and suite, which enabled them to succeed in effecting an unmolested embarkation. They finally landed at Newhaven. The excitement spread over Europe like wildfire. Even quiet, steady going Germany was infected. " It seems, 1 ' says the Chronicle " almost as if magnetic wires had been drawn from capital to capita]* and the word " revolution * sent along tbem with electric velocity, with a postcript of " liberty of the press," a " German Parliament," " General arming," '* Trial by jury," &c. The French Revolution has been the disenchanting kiss in the fairjC tale, wh'ch aroused the dormant inhabitants/' in Italy concessions to the reformers were

being made in all quarters. It was reported that the British Government had signified to the King of Naples their intention of supporting the Sicilians in their endeavours to erect their country iuto an independent kingdom.— Still, we can hardly suppose that Lord Palmerston would go so far as to take active intervention upon himself. WJiere is all this to end?