So with the British throne and privileged classes. The only tenure, he remarked, by which even now they retain their ancestral prerogatives, is CONCESSION after concession to the demands of the people, which are annually becoming more and still more imperious. Peel saw this, and yielded up one of the royal bantlings, in the form of the corn-law. Other concessions must soon follow; otherwise the people will rise in their power, and break the regal yoke in pieces. Similar predictions were made of all Europe; and embraced also Turkey, India, and even China. How completely do the recent revolutions in Europe accord with this prediction, except that they have occurred much sooner, than in the address of the Editor was anticipated!

Readers of our articles on Republicanism will remember the importance we ⚫ have attached to REPUBLICANISM. We have called it "the great salvation" of our race-physically, intellectually, and morally. We rate the declaration of our Independence as the SECOND great event or era of human destiny. Many look upon the French revolution as the great turning point in human affairs. We say, No; it may be even greater, considered separately, than our own, yet it is only one of the millions of legitimate effects produced by ours. As every improvement in the application of steam to machinery, however great in itself, is a mere trifle compared with the first conception of this great idea, and only a child of such conception-as every advance in astronomy, since the discovery of that great law of celestial revolutions, is but the amplification of the first grand idea-so the French revolution, and the tottering and the downfall of dynasty and throne, in such rapid succession, are only an amplification and extension of that grand principle of self-government, conceived and executed by our puritan forefathers. Indeed, and in truth, they regenerated the whole world. They deposited the powder, laid the train, and set it on fire. True, it burned slowly; so long was the explosion in taking place, that nearly every one of them have slept with their fathers; but its very slowness is the secret of its power. The despots of the old world, ate, slept, reveled, in comparative security. They indeed saw the smoke of the igniting torch, and felt an internal consciousness that some terrible catastrophe threatened them; and hence poured out the vials-BARRELS of their wrath, upon our republic—that firebrand which was igniting the magazine of their destruction. What, that aristocracy and malignity could say-could do-against our institutions, have they not said and done? But, as "whom the gods would destroy they first make mad," so, intoxicated with unnatural powers and prerogatives, they abused them more and more, and thereby hastened their overthrow. Mark and remember the fact, that it was the DESPERATION of the people, caused by the abject vassalage, and the universal robbery of the people, which overthrew the French throne, and is now hurling to the ground the tyrannical institutions of king-craft and aristo-craft. And as that explosion is the loudest, and does the most execution, in the rock which is the hardest, so the tearing to tatters of every thing in any way related to monarchy, will be proportionate to those unheard-of aggressions with which kings, nobles, priests, police, taxgatherers, and the entire hoard of monarchical satellites, have ground their forlorn subjects into the very dust of subjugation and misery. But now, that their deliverance has been effected, with what exultations do the people rejoice! Oh, it does the republican soul good to witness their gambols, and participate in their universal joy! Our independence celebrations are hollow and soulless,

compared with the almost frantic revelings of their wildness of joy. As we little appreciate the value of breath, food, and health, till deprived of them, so our liberty rejoicings are icy coldness, compared with theirs. For proof of this, look at the perfect adoration with which most foreigners-the "privileged classes," of course, excepted-worship our institutions. I was first struck with this, on becoming intimately acquainted with some Germans, who had fled from the oppressions of their cruel father-land, and tasted, in contrast, the sweets of political liberty. I extended these observations to foreigners generally, till I became satisfied, that they are by far the truest friends of liberty in this country, and if our liberties are ever endangered they will spring first to the rescue. Indeed, I have trembled for my country, when I see what outrageous games our rascally politicians are playing upon their blind, bamboozled adherents; yet I felt that the influx of foreigners, who had tasted the sweets of liberty, after having drank thus deeply of the dregs of oppression, will prove our salvation. But a new star of promise has now risen. We have given liberty to France, and signed the Declaration of Independence for Ireland, for Scotland, for even England-for every kingdom, nation, and tribe, under the whole heaven. The decree has gone forth. Henceforward, the world is free. Republicanism HERE, has undermined not their thrones merely, but their church and state monster, their insatiable horse-leech taxation system, and ALL the prerogatives of the privileged orders. All that now remains is the mere execution of these mandates, and that will not long be delayed. THE NEW WORLD HAS SAVED THE OLD, AND THE OLD WILL NOW SAVE ITS SAVIOUR. France will soon have a FAR BETTER government than we have, and thus teach us practically how to remodel ours. THE ICE OF THE PAST IS NOW COMPLETELY BROKEN UP. The sun of republicanism has THAWED OUT THE MASSES, has swollen the great river of human progression, has set the ice-cakes of feudal institution in violent commotion-is now bearing them proudly, irresistibly, to the ocean of one common brotherhood, and at the same time melting them into the same fraternity with the many. And those proud old families, personages, and sceptre-bearers, who will not melt, WILL SOON BE BROKEN IN PIECES and ground to atoms. Nothing can now arrest-nothing even retard—that complete revolution which is now regenerating our race, and ushering in the millennium. And woe to all who attempt such arrest. England will doubtless try her best, but her very trial will be her overthrow. If she would throw over one after another of her royal bantlings and aristocratic usages to the people, she might hold on, for a time, to some of the lesser ones; yet I hope I know-she will not. She is now reckoning without her host. That old throne has perpetuated her tyranny and usurpation, by an amount of sagacity employed by no other nation on earth. Her greatest stroke of policy, was the borrowing from so many of her own subjects the money which constitutes her national debt, and thereby appealing most powerfully to the INTEREST and POCKETS of millions, to uphold the government, in order that they might secure their interest and principle. Yet even this appeal will not now save her. Her death-warrant has been SIGNED, SEALED, and DELIVERED over to her executioner, and now awaits only those delays incident to the erection of the guillotine for so august and so dreadful a monster. How long a respite will be given her, depends in part upon her bearing in this crisis, which is now just opening upon her. If, as I pray she will, she pursues that proud, arbitrary,

people-scorning, and murderous policy, which her recent demonstrations against the Chartists indicate as her policy, she will be dashed in pieces like a potter's vessel, and her imperial queen will be a crownless subject WITHIN TWO YEARS. THE GREATER HER TYRANNY, THE SHORTER HER REIGN. Let her concede to her subjects whatever they may demand-let HER consent to become the subject of her sovereign people—and she may hold on, yet a few years, to many regal emoluments and prerogatives. Let her throw over her children, one by one, to the clamors of the masses, and she can retain a few of them for a time. A change of ministry, a conciliatory policy, a prompt response to the demands of the masses, a curtailment of her extravagances, a severance of church and state, rigid entrenchment, and compelling her aristocracy to pay deference and tribute to her mighty many, would postpone her execution, and leave her to die a powerless prisoner in the palace of the Stuarts; but just as surely as she fires upon the people, just so surely will they rise up, in their resistless might, and put her down her throne, I mean, not her queen merely. And then, woe indeed to her aristocracy. Once in arms, the people will make a clean sweep. All those ancient usages of the " upper crust" will be torn to tatters, and every perquisite they have enjoyed—every thing which savors of hereditary aristocracy, will be hunted up and shot down. Already, the people are lashed up to the breaking point. Her third day of grace has come, and even the three-o'clock hour of protest. Let her fire one gun-shed one drop of blood-and her reprieve will be utterly hopeless. Already is the die cast, in those arrests for treason she has just made. She tries, and especially executes Mitchell and others, at her certain peril. Their death-warrant will also be hers. Most of us will hear the mighty crash of that stupendous structure of tyranny and blood; and when she falls, our race is indeed redeemed. Human progression will then run the appointed destiny of ameliorating the woes, and elevating the character of our race, with locomotive velocity. God speed this day of days. England's lords, do your worst, and you will do your best. Be inflexible, that ye may be broken in pieces the more easily and effectually. Bend cheerfully, and at once, into the very dust, and you may possibly be allowed to live a little longer.

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We designed to have treated of the French republic, its probable fate, etc., in this article, but our number is too full to allow of the requisite room. must wait for another number:

CONTINUITY, FIRMNESS, AND CONNUBIAL LOVE, ALL LARGE.

ON Saturday, at 7 o'clock, P. M., at the Church of St. Martin, says the Attakapas Gazette, a very uncommon and interesting ceremony took place at the foot of the altar. It was the youngest couple imaginable receiving the marriage sacrament. The groom was ninety-two years of age, and the bride, with white robe and white veil, had entered upon her second century; that is to say, she was 101 years of age. Both, without any serious infirmities, kneeled down, and made their first communion. A marriage promise had existed between them for the last sixty-five years.

MISCELLANY.

PHRENOLOGY IN BOSTON.

To the many and urgent solicitations of the citizens of Boston, continued ever since 1844, that the Messrs. Fowlers would repeat their visit to that cradle of Phrenology as well as of liberty, we now yield, and shall spend the last of May, and a part or all of June, in re-urging those great practical truths taught by Phrenology and Physiology, amplified by reflection, and matured by the experience of intervening years. We are not the tame repeaters of the thoughts of former years, but believe and practice Progress, and hope to render this course far superior to all former ones.

Amateur Phrenologists, who may wish to learn its PRACTICAL application, or how to EXAMINE HEADS, will find classes formed exactly adapted to their wants; and those who would "know themselves" SCIENTIFICALLY, will find us prepared to make professional examinations at our room in Tremont Temple; where, also, the public lectures are to be held every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings, commencing May 10th.

P. S.-The course announced above has already been commenced in Boston, under circumstances of unusual promise. Our reception in this city of notions, has heretofore been most cordial, but is much more wholesouled now than ever before. Every where-east, west, north, south—our science of sciences is on the ascendant. God speed its final triumph, till it shall mould that new order of things now taking place here and every where.

QUERIES ANSWERED.

MR. PLATT asks how we reconcile our views that men need not be sick with unhealthy climates, contagious diseases, etc. Thus: The more truly healthy men are, the less will contagious diseases and unhealthy climates affect them; so that, if the laws of health were obeyed from infancy, the constitution would become so powerful, and so strongly fortified against all diseases, contagious ones included, as, if it took them at all, they would be so very light as scarcely to be felt.

James Ambroes asks whether it is possible for true genius or master spirits to pass through life without bursting forth in spite of all opposing circumstances. It is. Not a tenth part of the native talents of any reader has been brought out by culture, nor do one in hundreds of nature's great men ever develop their powers. Greater men than Webster, Clay, Franklin, or Washington are Now LIVING IN OBSCURITY, and many such will probably read these lines. It takes personal EFFORT, as well as natural talents, to make a great man. Reader, do you actually PUT FORTH even a tithe of the mental powers you possess? I have examined better heads not known beyond their native village, than our 66 great men" possess. Men must not only POSSESS great natural talents; they must also EXERCISE them.

WOMAN DEFINED.

WHAT CONSTITUTES THE FEMININE? In what does womanhood reside? What makes up the chit and essence of the female proper? Perfecting what perfects woman, and impairing what mars her in her constitutional character and relations? In our articles on Woman, we have pointed out many weaknesses and many excellences in the female character, and told women how they might improve themselves in many important particulars, yet we have not even tried to develop the very CORE of this subject. Nor has any writer on woman disclosed its real philosophy and rationale. It is high time this were done. Woman requires to understand what constitutes the inner temple-the holy of holies-of her nature, that she may perfect herself by perfecting it. Man, too, requires to understand it, that he may know how to treat her. It requires no small degree of moral courage on the part of the editor to probe this subject with the sharp instruments of phrenological philosophy. But the time has fully come when this task must be executed. Gladly would he hand it over to others, yet as no one else has, or proposes to execute it, he must. both sexes may prepare themselves for thorough work. Mince this matter he cannot, be the consequences what they may. A plain, thorough, AD HOMINEM, or personal and specific laying open of this whole subject, may be expected, without fear or favor; and those who are not fully prepared to look the whole truth relating to this subject fairly in the face, and receive the good-that which commends itself to their inner consciousness of truth-into good and honest souls, and also to put it in practice, are requested NOT TO READ the proposed article. He also desires that readers will endeavor to solve this problem in their own mind, aud write and talk about it, so that they may compare their results with his. Our article will probably appear in the August number.

And his readers of

MESSRS. FOWLERS & WELLS:-' -The cause of Phrenology in our region of country, and indeed throughout the entire West, is rapidly gaining friends; indeed there is scarcely an opponent to the science to be found, who is worthy of notice at all, that CAN bring up a single argument against it, that will bear any more weight than which can be brought against any other established truth. Indeed, every opponent of Phrenology, whenever they attempt to account for ANY of the manifestations of the human mind, have, of necessity, to resort to phrenological principles, in order to explain them.

Within the past week, we have been favored with a series of lectures upon Phrenology, from Mr. J. G. Buckly, a native of our state, and who is, in my opinion, an excellent lecturer and demonstrator, of not only the different functions of the brain, but of all the subjects connected therewith. FAIRFIELD, OHIO.

SMALL POX.

J. J. McILHENNY.

A CORRESPONDENT suggests, with how much truth I know not, that the use of milk, butter, and cheese, occasions this loathsome, and often fatal malady; and asserts, as proof, that those nations who live on the products of the cow the most, are most afflicted with this epidemic. We give his suggestions as he gave them to us.