Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-14 00:00:00

£3,090,000. The war with France in 169
o
The war f titt

raised it to £14,000R00

raised it
war which began in tot
raised it, in the three years during: whicilteo
war continued, to £54,000,000. The Cited
years' peace which the _country enjoyed, re': of
it to £46;000,0001; but the war. of the nig?

Spanish Sue Cession furthe

£34,000,000. The

Sedi-ch with Spain, and that of Austrian Slicv-ty
sion, left it in 1748 at the startling sum of seeiO4]
five millions. After a stationary interval 01' s

fa'
years, the seven years'-war took it under tS
irool
tering hands, andadvanced it to the gee'''l ca'''p,
sum of £130,000,000. 'The American War ffo'
and left the debt, in 1784; two hundred an
0011"
"of good metal in it." We, on the contrary, millions. Hitherto we may be said' to have o
& -
are of opinion that there is far greater percent- been tyros,—mere children in-the art of b°fr
opt,
age of Brummagem in it, even than usual. The ing. Twenty years nearly quadrupled the ~odof
habit of Arr. BRIGHT, of striving to set class and we almost date in our minds the Perior3l
against class, is most reprehensible. Snipose the National Debt from the great French itap
the same audience, out of whose " thew and i. e., from 1793 to 181-5, which had workeu
oiof
he had accumulated a handsome for- to the fabulous sum of eight hundred and bf A
tune, had been told that the Master Manufacturers millions. The 40 years, peace reduced it
gait possessed a great deal too much property, and hundred millions, but the recent at
that it ought to be more equally distributed war added to it £50,000,000 more, leavillit
among the producers : how would this have present eight hundred and five millions. ciPle
suited this champion of England's grievances ?' And certainly exemplified the snow-ball Pr% .01r
were the issue to be that no such justice" would viresque crescit eundo. It is curious, toe, 'toty
be rendered until there was an extension of the serve how the Interestof the debt came dewllBoo
franchise, etc., should we find Mr. BRIGHT so con, 4 per cent. and 31 percent. ofthe present &l' itp,4o
sistent and ardent an advocate for it as we find at a fourth of its present sum, HtTME and 4,0°
him now ? We are quite alive to the fact, that SMITH looked with serious apprehensions t
there is a distinction between the property which its increase, believing it impossible tilihooba4
a man acquires by his own enterprise or industry, nation could escape ruin, with such an t
stior
and that of a fund provided to be applied to a upon it. They had not forecast the grea
public purpose. But we would remind ' Mr. lus which it would give to industry, °Toa
ot,'
BRIGHT, while he enjoins the performance of economy which it would teach a peoPle" witi6iff
public obligations by Ecclesiastical Bodies Cor- not have created the discoveries of A 115,,,, tlOt
porate, he ought not to allow it to escape him, and WATT; but it is not chimerical to
that property in the hands of individuals has it may have hastened those inventions per'''
also its duties as well as its rights. We do not have so greatly multiplied our productive r cam.
onlol
know that Mr. BRIGHT requires this remark ; and therefore widely extended our %jog to
but we recall to him, that they who have large The retrospect is therefore net diseetir:ititere'a
possessions, have grave responsibilities growing us, while we aspire, notwithstanding edge dies °f
out of them,—so grave that their due regard cares and interests, to influence the
thoritl la
ought to leave but little leisure to meddle with the' world. To' maintain power and all neeeS'
-other people's affairs. The revenues. of the the affairs of Europe, it is unquestielia,lltlY; and t°
Church are derived from property left to the sary that she should be prepared to fight' to par
Church for the spiritual guardianship, and be prepared to fight is to be prePare. nionu.
ebttlislea worlat
teaching,. and training, of the souls of her child- Hence the aspect of our National P
ing
ren . for eternity ; and :therefore its re-adjust- , ment, stamping our character
ment is not to. be dealt with by such men better than any history_ could do—sliefroforitr'
Church, but avowedly inimical to her : being, as
as Mr. BRIGHT, who is not a member of the, -thisis a nation which will never desist. _ scoop"
he. is, a member isbet°;lll-.
of a religious sect utterly so long as a legitimate object
plished, or 'its own security is to
opposed to her teaching, and as such only desirous

BRIGHT and the

The Tidies, in commenting upon the. speech
we refer to, says " there is seventy-five per cent.

" sinew

of making out a case of grievance against her. - ,
NOTES -v.r - -
villiel'
The proper persons to deal with the funds of the - ----- outrage ,ey-
Church, are they who are the members of her The further accounts of the barbarous coil -tera
own body, and not Sectarians or Schismatics' ing British and French. Plenipotentiariors, iropressw_,.
We are of those who think that much more might of Peiho, only serve to confirm one's Nir '
acter of tbos:r
therebe made. of the resources of the Church, than as to the treacherous and sanguinary
clirdoes not OP°,
most unmanageable barb.arians. There
,eo _
coo
s at present. But the worst of it is, that
to be the slightest excuse for their outra, I."'
such men as Mr. BRIGHT are continually throw- the Chinese have committed upon the segguaid:
°the vis.:..-05

NOTES OF THE DAY.

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