Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1839-09-05

2 ,vas horn on that great continent, and am
..a5dcd 10 the fortunes Of my country for
veal or for wo. loud cheers. a.cI
There isno other region ofthe earth which
I can call my country. LCheers.l But !
know, and am proud 10 know, what blood
flows in these veins. Cheers.
1 am happy TO stand here to-day and 10
remember. although my ancestors Ter scVe-
raj generations lie buried beneath tue solt oil
the Western continent yet there has oecn
time when my ancestors and your ancestors
toiled in the same cities ana vn'ages-
TcLrers. ! cultivated adjacent fields, [chcers.]
and vorked together to build up that great
structure of civil ro!ity which has made
England what England is. [Cheers.
When was about to embark, some friends
asked me what was going to England TOR
To be sure, gentlemen, came for no object
of business, public or private; but told
them / was coming to sec The elder branch
of the family. loud cheers told them
i was coming to sec my distant relations
Tcheersl-mY kilh and kin of the old Saxon
race. Loud cheers. L
With regard to whatsoever IS important to
the peace of the world, its prosperity, the
progress of knowledge and OF just opinions,
The diffusion of the sacred light of christian
itv-Ilcud cheers1-I know nothing more
important to the promotion Of those best m
terests ofhumanity and the cause of the gen.
eral peace, amity and concord. than the
good feeling subsisting between the English
sSssssiH ; i'S q Englishmen on tho o,her@
[Cheers.l
Some little clouds have overhung our no.
rizon-I trust they will soon pass away.
am sure that the age we-live in docs not ex-
pect that England and America are to have
Controversies carried 10 the extreme upon
any occasion not of the last importance to
national interests and honor. [Cheers.l
We live in an age when nations as well as
individuals are subject to moral response
bility. [Cheers.l Neither government nor
people-thank God for it-can now trifle
with the general sense Of the civilized
world, [checrs,l and I am sure that the civili-
zed world would hold your country and my
country to very strict account, il, without
very plain and apparent reason, deeply at.
feeling the independence and great interests
Of the nations, any controversy between
them should have other than ON, amicable
issue. [Cheers.]
willventure to shy that each country has
intelligence enough TO understand all that
belongs to,its just rights, and is not deficient
iii means to maintain them [cheers,l and if
any controversy between England and Amer
len were to BIO pushed to the extreme of
force, neither party could or would have any
signal advantage over the other, except
cause or the appreciation of the world.
* With respect TO the occasion which has
called us together, beg to repeat the gratifiss
cation which 4 have felt in passing the day
among such a company, and conclude with
the most fervent expression. of my wish for
the prosperity and usefulness of the Agri-
cultural Society Of England. Loud cheers
From me London Quarterly Repiep 'g.'
STATE AND PROSPECTS OF ASIA.
In estimating tho assailing forces now in
operation against The institutions Of Asia, we
should advert to the relations in which that
stood to the rest of the world, prior
10 the opening of trade with Britain, in 1914
That measure might not have produced cf-
ects SO contrary to the anticipations of ma
ny, had II not conceded with the general
oeace in, Europe, and the consequent fall in
he cost Of producing articles Of commerce.
From the time of Pliny, who estimated the
bullion annually sent from the Roman En-
,ire to the East, at 4OO, 000l, down to 1914, In
liz had been the great recipient ofprecious
metals. According to Humbolt's calculation,
about 30 years ago, $25y50O,O 900 were yearly
'ent to Asia. (i. "a. 25, 4Sl, 1907 Of which
l7,5O0,O0O went round the Cape of Good
Hope, 10000 by the Levant, and 100000
rom Russia.* This bullion trade has almost
entirely ceased, and given place to an cxpor-
alton Of commodities. Since 1914 the resto-
alton Of the monetary systems of Europe
md North America TO their former metallic
,asis, has occasioned demand for from
,O,O00,000l. TO 1O0,O00,O0Ol., according to
Lord Ashburton; and IN addition u this the
produce of the American mines has dimin-
shed 10 half the previous amount. Owing
o these circumstances, the cessation of the
bullion trade to Asia has produced no de-
in the market of the world. sgg
The opening of the trade with India has
,cen followed, not only by a great increase
If the commercial relations Of Europe and
he eastward, and with the Red Sea and the
5ulfto the westward. Signs of change in
he national habits have become manifest,
ind it is alreodyeyident that in Asia the CIR
:ulation of new ideas, ms well as of new COM
nodities, is set in,fnotion. sa N b s..s.t
Turkey had, for ages, been the wall Of
BRASS which separated European from Asiat-
G institutions it is d barrier no longer,
ind it is becoming the advanced post Of the
system. Egypt has felt The same
Influences, and probably no long time will
,lopse before ship canal, cut below the lew
il Of mean tide in The Red Sea, will conduct
is waters, by an imperceptible descent, into
he Mediterranean, and reduce the voyage
rom England TO Bombay from Il, 900 miles
ind upwards, to 1900.
When to those powerful agencies Of fnuta-
ion, we add the rapid increase of wealth and
If demand for tropical productions in Eu-
'opc- the establishment of European colo
lics ins Australia. and the great;effects which
must result from steam navigation of the In
lian rivers, nothing but blind. apathetic in.
credulity can hesifase to admit that against
70 many aud such powerful causes ofchange