The New York Herald

The Foreign News—Our Foreign Private Correspondence.

We give in our columns to-day, nearly the whole of our private foreign correspondence, which we received yesterday from Boston, and which was brought to that port by the steamer Niagara, from Liverpool. We have drawn the attention of the public, frequently, to the high character which marks the private foreign correspondence of the New York Herald. In a more especial manner, we now invite our readers to peruse attentively the letters from Paris, which we furnish in to-day's paper, giving a full and exceedingly graphic account of the recent insurrection of the socialists against the National Assembly, which was fortunately put down by the good sense and general union of all parties in that great metropolis.

A perusal of this exceedingly interesting correspondence, describing the recent scenes in Paris, is equally, and perhaps more deeply, interesting than the famous history of similar events which are recorded by Lamartine in his history of the Girondists. There is a striking and remarkable analogy in the circumstances, the ideas, the cries, the policy, and the efforts of those insurrectionists, with many of those which took place under the old republic during the regime of the old convention. Fortunately, however, the socialists, or modern terrorists, including the Fourierites and the communists of the sections, have not the physical power or the intellectual capacity which their ancestors of the old revolution possessed, under the leadership of Robespierre and St. Just. The French public men of the present day have more practical knowledge of public affairs, and their leaders unite more practical courage with physical energy, than the Girondists of the old revolution did. It is a curious coincidence, indeed, that Louis Blanc's personal appearance, manners, dress, and demeanor, resemble in a strong degree those traits which distinguished the Robespierre of a former age. But the Girondists of 1848 are a different race of men and politicians from those of the last century, led on by Madame Roland and her coterie. Ledru Rollin may be taken to be the Danton of the present republic. Fortunately, however, Lamartine snatched him from the centre of the socialist camp, took him into the executive committee, and by dividing the counsels and the strength of the socialists, contributed to defeat them, and to preserve intact the power of all the moderate and conservative sections in the National Assembly. It has also been a very fortunate circumstance for the success of the republic, that this insurrection was attempted at the period at which it broke out. Had it been delayed until divisions had taken place among the great conservative parties, it is likely that the impudent and audacious faction of terrorists, though greatly in a minority, might have accomplished more mischief and done more injury to liberty, in a divided assembly than they have done to one that is united.

This new and extraordinary phase of the French republic, is most fully, clearly and remarkably described in our private foreign correspondence, furnished to our readers to-day. We are more and more encouraged in the firm conviction that the republic will be successful in establishing its government, and maintaining its position in the heart of Europe. In some respects the French people present similar characteristics to the American people. Here, in the United States our business men—our practical politicians—those useful persons who work silently in committee—are generally the delegates from the Northern and Middle States, where you find the manufacturers, the men of business, the financiers, and the whole practical talent of the nation. The most of the splendid orators in Congress, and of our popular leaders, are generally Southern men. It is a remarkable fact that similar characteristics prevail in France. The French nation is composed of two races—the Southern and the Northern. The Southern supply the republic with all its splendid orators, its fine poets, its exquisite historians, its original philosophers, and its remarkable thinkers. The Northern furnishes the bankers, the men of business, the manufacturers, the mechanicians, the practical lawyers, and all men of real practical talent. United together in a National Assembly, we have the strongest faith in their ability to produce a useful and working constitution for France, and to give it such a form of republican government as will place the thirty-six millions forming the French republic, far ahead of every other nation in Europe. If peace be preserved in Europe, and the factions that cry out for foreign war can be put down, there is no danger or difficulty before the French republic. She has an army and a navy, stationed on the land and naval frontiers, sufficient to protect her from the whole of Europe around her; but to her physical and intellectual power of defence, may be added the revolutionary condition of Germany, Italy, England, Ireland, the Netherlands, all around her. The imperial despot of the North, with all his power and all his hatred to democracy, dare not touch France, if she chooses to preserve peace, to keep within her own limits, to organise her own internal government, and take care of her own interests.

Such is the position of the great European republic—noble, glorious, and encouraging to all the friends of liberty throughout the world. May God protect her in all that is right, and pardon her in all that she is wrong!