New Hampshire Statesman

EUROPE.

The two following articles relative to the political situation of Europe are from the pens of an English and American writer. That the whole continent is in a state of internal convulsion, is the opinion of learned writers on both sides of the Atlantic.

It is beyond all denial, that the whole Continent is at this hour in a state of internal convulsion; that, like the spirits of Pandemonium, there is among the more powerful minds of Europe a sense of loss and defeat, a desperate love of fierce hazards—a wild and fiery dream, of rebel grandeur, to be won by force of arms. The Frenchman cast on the ground by the fortune of war, feels his hostility to thrones unextinguished: the German, who fought for his country under the promise of a Constitution, feels his hopes defeated; the Italian, proud of his ancient memories, and flung ten thousand fathoms deep from his late ideal independence, feels and groans; the Pole, loaded with the Russian fetter, feels and curses his degradation.—Through the whole circuit of the Continent there is but one preparation, great and terrible, for a catastrophe, of which no man can calculate the horrors or the close. The field is sown with the serpent teeth of bitterness, ruined ambition, and inveterate discord. Are we to see it send up its harvest of the spear? The thrones of the continent stand at this hour in a mighty cemetery. It is in the will of God whether the dead shall be added to the dead, and the nations melt away, or whether the trumpet shall sound, the graves be broken up, and all be terror, judgment and ruin.—Blackwood's Magazine.

In case Republican institutions should continue to flourish, as it is almost certain they will, over the vast territory included within our Union, and prevail, as is highly probable, throughout this continent—in fifty years from this time all the monarchies of Europe will be supplanted by similar institutions. We see but one alternative for Europe, Despotism or Liberty; and by Liberty we understand universal equality of rights—popular, representative government, with safeguards for the freedom of the Press, and the security of person and property. Until the order of things shall be rendered conformable to nature and justice, there can be no quiet, save that which may be produced by the sword—by absolute, military rule.

Nat. Gaz.