The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-11 00:00:00

SOCIAL ASPECTS OP THE MONETARY

CRISIS IN 7711 UNITED 874715.

We find in the New York and other American
journals, which are continually discuming and describing the
effects of the present mimic both immediately and remotely,
upon the habits of the people and the probable destiny of the
Lulled States, several interesting pamagas. The most dime-
trom results are, of course, anticipated from the fact that
great numbers of the working ckasee, end especially of
women and girls, are already mat out of employment in the
great commercial cities. The New York Tines of the 26th
ultimo says
" On the 18th of October our reporters semetained that be-
tween ail end seven thousand girls had, up to that date, been
thrown out of work in this city. Appalling as this statement
wee, it will doubtleas fall short of the actual truth at that
time, and it may be safely assumed that more than ten thou-
sand of this class an now absolutely destitute of all means of
support, except such scanty savings as the more provident of
their number may have accumulated, and such insignificant
advances as they may be able to wring, at ruinous rates, from
the reluctant pawnbrokers. Them resources must, of course,
he very soon exhausted by those who can command them,
and it is perfectly plain that if something cannot be effectu-
oily sad speedily done to renpar the channels of honest in-
dustry to theme victims of the panic,' they must begin to
contribute largely to the rising tide of misery end of crime
whkh =Mkt/ the metropolis."
To remedy this evil an emaciation has boon form iat
Now York, to supply the funds and the requicite agency for
sending Otte to the western states, where there is said to be
a great demand for them as domestic servants.
The New York Nereid has in view another danger
" If the repots are to believed, over twenty thousand
working men have Andy been discheraed from employ-
ment in this city alone ; with their famines probably
amount to en aggregate tbene,
of fifty thousand persons who are
already in want of f end incapable of finding employment.
It is obvious, moreover, that the curtailment of manufac-
turing industry and the cessation of almost all enterprims
employing mechanical labour has but begun ; by the first sk
the year we may expect that the number of idle workmen
will be not lees, in New York alone, than thirty to forty
thousand, and the aggregate number of persons deprived of
their usual support, and dependent on casual aid for their
daily bleed, scarcely if at all below the enormoos
ftare of one hundred and fifty thousand. What is to become
of these persons during the long, cold winter that is at hand ?
In some Sunnis the dimes of the poor has been' rammed
down their throats with bayonets' to use the humane ez-
premien of a famous statesman ; but there they had a large
and reliable and available army. In Prance it has for many
years been the practice of the government to endeavour to
counteract the demoralising tendencies of famine by creating
work for the unemployed. Louis Napoleon la one of the
most prominent converts to ibis doctrine ; the magnificent
works which have made Perk the queen city of the world
since his accession have mostly been constructed for the sole
purpose of giving work to the poor. Augustan, in like
manner, embellished and aggrandked the city of Rome—
not from • love of architecture or splendour—but in order to
give bread and occupation to the mob which had rendered all
government impossible for half • century. The precedent
may be contrary to the laws of trsde and sound economy,
but it seems to ham answered ; and any expenditure is better
than a succeisful outbreak of ' the dangerous classes.' We
desire to submit to the authorities and the leading citizens of
New York, whether in view of the ooincidenoe of extreme
suffering among We unemployed thousand, of our city, end
large aggregations, in well-known centres, of grain, food, and
specie, it would not be proper, before we get any deeper into
the winter, to take some thought how our too:haulm and
working men may be prevented from becoming dangerousclasses. It belongs to the people of the city and to their
znagletracy to suggest a means by which the and sought may
be attained ; but perhaps it may not be superfluous to remind
them that acts of the legislature have been obtained sanction-
leg Mega expenditures for a central put end • city hall. In
prosperous times the work to be performed on them would
coat full twice as much as it would now ; hence, • wise eco-
nomy, as well as higher considerations of prudence and
humanity, would seem to dictate some immediate step to-
ward their vigorous commencement. In proper hands these
two works might feed all the starving people of the metropo.
lie throughout the winter, and the City Treasury might save
near 50 per cent. to wages."
The New York Herald, however, in sometimes inclined to
suggest ales pacific issue of the ddlieulty
We have repeatedly called attention to the hundreds of
thousands of men, in the vigour of youth and prime of man-
hood, that are now thrown out of employment in our midst,
end who are ready for any enterprise, any prospect of ad-
vancement, that may present itself to them. Their condi.
tion here is not like the condition of the poverty stricken
cleric of Europe. There are no standing armies, no 'd-
unned social organisation of superior and inferior dames, to
keep them down and force them to suffer in silence and
inaction. Individual enterprise is free, and every man may
go where he likes and as he likes, with arms in his Made or
without them, provided he does not infringe the laws by
making en armed organisation within our territory. To ties
we have to add the facility with which every man among
us abandons one vocation sad takes up another, and those
military tastes that lead all our youth to . play the
soldier, and practise the use of arms at his lemurs, and
merely as a matter of amusement. Ever since we were a
nation our people have gone on martialiskg themselves, till
now we are the most military people on the fen
of the earth,
and our volunteer service is the most popular army in the
world. While such ti the condition of the people, ?mot
lion of our public and representative men is equall_y
During the political canvass a year ago Mr. Boaciltsais
appestats dared not use against him, to any great extent, his
participation in the Ostend manifesto for they well knew
that it would operate much more to his benefit than to his
injury among the ma'am. Now, when • financial revulsion
has swept away all the old political issues that once divided
parties among us, and new forms of public agitation are
springing into life, • clique of shrewd sectional leaders are
seizing upon certain popular cries, in order, ilf*Esible, to
force the adminietration into carrying out the of the
Ostend manifesto. Just mama of war can be o at ea
moment that will readily influence the popular
The elements of war are effervescing within and around
us. Whatever map be the wishes of Mr. Buchanan and his
cabinet—and there as no doubt of their desire to preserve
peace, and their determination to prevent illegal expeditions
from our thores—there is no telling how soon they may be
carried irresistibly into a popular foreien war, and forced to
gin employment to the hundred thousand men that
are at this moment ready to embark in any filibuster
expedition, and thua meet the exigency of southward
expansion and an equilibrisatnon of the Senate. We
are now in the midst of revolutionary times, when
the minds of men are becoming ready for any and every
desperate enterprise; and if we do not get some Mad of
a war upon our hands, to work off the surplus
energy and enterprise that will soon be unemployed among
us, we may anticipate that it will follow the lead of private
individuals, and develop • filibuatering spirit such as has
never before been seen. Let but one partially successful leader
anywhere show an opening and an opportunity, and
voluntary emigration will become the order of the day, and
such • tide be poured forth from these states as will astonish
the world. It will not be composed, like the armies of
Europe. of the rabble drawn from the purlieus of crowded
cities, fit food for powder only. Mechanics, skilled in every
art that the labour of civilized man knows • agriculturiata,
familiar with all the soils end products of the earth ; mere
chants bred to trade, and who are capable of organizing the
commerce of any new country at once; young politamans,
ambitious end competent to become statesmen in a new com-
munity; inventors, that with a jack knife and a piece of
wire, are capable of building • steam engine; labourers
Inured to toil and with a ready adaptability to every kind of
work ; priests to build churches ; lawyers to frame codes;
doctors end surgeons to attend the wounded; officers
trebled to the art of war in every elms of military
school, from West Point to the worst fundahrft
state seamy and hosts of men ready and ospable
of turning their hands to anything—Wes are the maiden&
that are being now thrown out of work here, and who went
only half a chance to overrun Mexico, Central America, 81.
Domingo, Cube, or any other of the countries that are Dow
going through the disintegrating process of preparing for the
advent of the filibusters. We shall need • war to start the
life currents of the body politic. and to clear the atmosphere.
This country is ready for it ; the people are ready for it—all
me trained to the use of arms. Priem and layman, 'asthenia
and labourer, professional man and him without a pro
muter and apprentice, high and low, rich and ,17"2
know how to use the rifle; and when they hays
nothing else to do, all are ready to nee it. In this state of
things, look out for wild fruit from the present revulsion.
The filibusters are on the watch, and war is always a popular
cry. It will be more so than ever daring the coming year."

The following are among the latest arrivals at
Brighton —Sir Walter and Lady Mary Farquhar, the Earl
of Ripon, Sir John Pally, Lord Marcus Hill, Lord Evers's',
Sir Norton and Lady Knatchbull, Lord Chewton, Lord
Charles Psulett, Lady To enshend, Lord and Lady Dynevor
and fsently, Lady Selina Bridgman, the Earl of !Sulgrave,
the Earl of Crawford, and Bon. Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs.
Charlie Lindsay and family, Mr. Gerald and Lady Augusts
Start, Mr. H. T. Bars, M.P., Lord and Lady Ernest Brow,
Lord Craastoun, Col. Griffiths, Cul. and Mrs. Begot, Baron,
Lady, and Miss Channel', Sir John Easthope, Sir John.
Lady, and the Misses Croft, the Marquis Carraciolo Sento
Teodoro, Lady V. Webster, aid Mrs. Dudley Parceysl.

We regret to announce the demise of Lady Eliza-
bah Henrietta Cole, youngest daughter of Edward, 12th
Reel of Derby, by his first marriage, with Lady Elisabeth
Hamilton, only daughter of James, 6th Duke of Hamilton.
The deceased lady, who was step sister of the Countess of
Wien, was bora in 1778, and was therefore in her 79th
yaw. no mulled, 1793, Mr. Stephen Thomas Cols, M
Stoke Lyme, Ono., who died in 1835. The Earl sad
Countess of Derby, the Earl and Counts,. of Wilton, the
Rev. Mr. sad Lady Elinor Hopwood, Colonel the Hon.
Charles Stanley, Lady Charlotte l'enrhyn, and other fwd.
lies of rank, ere placed in mourning by the demise of hit

The Cattaito of Genoa states that Narsini waa
there a few day. ego, and that the police had some anaploilit
of the matter, and endeavoured to snort him, but withonl
inweap. the Cattoliro doe. not, however, mention the smog
'fusee it has derived its informal's.