TOPICS OF THE DAY.

TILE _RESTORATION OF 1851..

Mimic the Revolution of 1848, the one power- which reassumes the ruleofsEurope is absolute:military power. Of fthose Governe ments that have been_ implicated in the movement we:do not de-

scry one that has any other reliance: Thin- week we '.sec . Anstria consummating her rearganization-of-Jtalyby sending back Ras• detsky. Hesse-Cassel--a state, which has farexceeded any model

in-history; even our own model at the best-times, or the French; in the perfect adherenceto law and order when its sovereigrorebellad

.witlingly-supports it. We did not make this difference ; most deeply do. we - A Lou a- isno better-than-that miserable culpritof Hesse, deplore it; and happy would the day be for --Irel.ind which. should see her „a fugitive:criminal-who. ought to. have, been. placed in'thel National Church occupying the same pronct and assured .position as berfEng- doek,hutisi placed ors lb- thsetie e -while the stateishrought, .with_ a. lish sister. But, of that.day we see no-promise and we refuse as practical,. rope routukits meek; to do homage at his feet,. Atifth-is -Frederick • politicians to. substituteour. wishellor facts."

humiliation, and an European calamity. j which it so confidently claims for the English gook. That we

—has been coerced by the swords of two of .thegreatest states in Europe,. combined:against that one small comnranity. . We are told: that the same fate is reserved. for. Schleswig-Holatein; Even in Republican Franoe, the conflict of the bureaucratic intrigues which.

sway the majority- of the Assembly, with the personal interests which actuntethe President, results in elevating GeneralChangar, nier, a mere dragoon, to a dangerous. altitude. It is important to, note .factswhich indicate the actual-state-of advancement among-na- tions, and. have momentous bearings on the future: In all:the cases:to :which we allude, it is not only the power. of Crown or- Cabinet, whiols. is restored, for .the.eenfesatheir bus

potenerwithout thasworcl. it is . not Diplomacy, for that .'is the

mere servile means to an end; nor is it Absolutism subsisting-byl

the subordinationof• power: tmder powers -hilt the nakedsword

—as naked as .the _sword. was in the sleeline of the Roman Empire,.

Still it is the sword Of A.bsolutism: The sole relation between-the state and: the soldiery is the one chief; and .ax the sward. is by the

facts confessedto•be thesolefrepository of real power, the sovereign,. ties of Europe virtually lie in the immense army. which each,mo- nar-ch has organized. When • it has grown to,this size: and pe-wer, the soldiery createdliy monarch can-scarcely-be used except for purposes AA tyranny;.' nay, occasions of tyranny arealmost neces- sary, in order-to keep:alive the spirit of .the soldiery - it must at times . be fed'-with blOod, like the serpents that grew ,frome.the breast of the Easterstking This great fact, so strikingly- illustrated by -the' recent news,' is momentous in. thestore of: trouble which it implies for-the future,

butstill more momentous- in the barbarism which. it -indicates -as.

stilLruling the Legitimate gossernmerts:s Their. implicit reliance on tha. sword is a- confession that they have not yet: learned the

effective use of anyibetter tool : it shows therefore,that the Legi-

timaM.rulers of Europeand. their • immediate coadjutors,: have mot yet advanced beyondsa very losestage- in-the science . of governe • ment. Their inability to rely tipon..airylother:tool indicate:3111M, government,t in the sensenotenlythet it imiyranniaal, but ale° that itis ignorant,: nnskilfid, andinefileient.s Itindinates Is style' of government which provokes resistamme not' on1 bib, tyranny, butialsoliy its inherent badness, and, incompetency—which as. con, temptible: as wellas odious. It is too little • to say that such a: government fell-.in' preserving order-s-it; rather. originates dis- order; since ,it must continually outrage, the better knowledge. andlighar civilization of those who are- subjected to it Such a governmentmill be unstable; it will incite-resistance while it en,. duress- and sits :endurance will become every day more impossiblee for 'Win not to-he supposed. that- Extpape of the•nineteentheentory will indefinitely permit the goverament of the inidilleages and of theiGoths:, Anythingsnore unreasonable than the position- of Eunipeunder the. general restoration which is now- taldng. plane .cannot

trian family, to ally:Maisel with the imbeeiles of that dividod.hou Another is the representative-of an energetio dint coarsorace, whose. hereditary -volley it is to debar, Russia from -the progress of Eu- rope and keep her in Tartarian barbarism; A_ third-isthe King- of: Denmark better ;known-in the annals of seandalsthanin political hi

his birth, he has been endowed. with a great state for. his play- thing: In common life he might have passed as a..well-meaning incapable: his aspirations, -however dim, are not bad-hearted ; he halals philnuthropic.s; and-could dangle-after Mrs. Fry, or moral- ize the trowel of ceremony; at some stonelaying, with a lay ser- mon.on.religious•harmony; he could hanker after being an- Alfred the ,Great, .and offer to his people the free.municipalities.which he

What can be the effect of such spectacles as thereon-the mind of. Europe?' Can you forbid men to thinkq or nations-to act? Can: anythingso- intolerable, so obiolete, so silby; be immtutalia The, great crash has been deferred, not eupersededs