New-York daily tribune., 1843-04-27
From The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser

DISTRESS IN NENGLAND.-I hose who would learn
the true cause of the distress of the laboring
classes in England, and of the falling off in the
revenues of that country, and the probabilities
there are Of permanent improvement In these, must
seek that cause in the dininution Of England's
foreign trade-in the loss of her foreign markets.
for British manufactures: in the workings of Ma
poleon's continental system, IN short, which just
begins TO be seriously felt by England. Time
was when England furnished all the continental
nations with almost all the manufactured goods
they consumed: not 30 now. Take France and
Spain as examples. At no remote period Eng
land mainly supplied both these; but how stands
the case at present 2 Bya late article in a French
paper, the National, it appears France has so
iostered her manufacturing interest that, i'll 1889,
she exported to Spain Sl0,790,0 900; and in the
following year, namely, lS40, her exports of the
products of French industry TO the same, wero
$l4,960, ,OO0-being an augmentation, in single
year, to Spain alone, of more than four millions
of dollars. In 134l the exports were the same as
the previous year, with only slight variation In
the items ofwoolen ard hemp fabrics.
Of the $la,960,000 SO exported in lS40,
SS6,249, ATS was III cotton goods; while the re-
mainder was for linen, hemp, silk and WOODEN
goods, machinery, cutlery, &c.-all the products
of French industry The four millions Of excess
in the exports of 1910, over that of 1889, was al
most wholly for cotton, linen, hemp, silk and
woolen fabrics
Against this heavy trade Of France, it is shown,
by British official documents that England ex
ported to Spain, in lS40, of the products of her
industry, no more than 81 1894, ,S75-bcing less,
by more than thirteen millions Of dollars than were
furnished by France to the same nation, within
the same year. The same is mcasurably true Of
other continental nations The twenty five years
of desolating wars in which England cnlbrollcd
the nations of the continent, in consequence Of
the French Revolution, taught those nations the
necessity. at least the sound policy, of supply
lng their own wants, in manufactures, through
the industry of their own people, thereby retaining,
within themselves the entire profits of such in
Gustrv and it is the loss of these markets that
now deprlves England of the power of drawing
from those countries the heavy balances of trade
which she has 30 long enjoyed, and through which
her people were employed, and her revenues suS-
tanned. While France thus furnishes SO large
surplus, to Il single nation, from her workshops.
Austria, Prussia, Russa-all, i'll short, are rapidly
following the example thus set them, and thereby
lcssening, each year. the amount of manufactures
which they require from England.
L. w. HAsKlNs.
DISTRESSED AuTnoRs.-l see BY an English
paper that the London Literary Fund Society
has expended since 100 in donations to distressed
authors and their families $l95,000. This is
very cred,tahle TO English feeling, and wish that
some benevolent spirit would lay the foundation
of similar society IN u,is country. 1t is char
Itv sadly wanted-small as seems to be the num-
Der of American authors. The number OF per.
sons OF both sexes who are in want of literary
employment, (as translators, contributors TO PERI
odicals, etc. and who arc continually and unsuc-
ccssully offering their productions for the mercst
pisance to the editors and publishers of large ci
ties would very much surprise and touch the
charitably disposed. The surteit of foreign liter
aturc BY the absence of proper law Of copy
right, takes bread out of the mouths of the mos,
finely constituted and gifted of our compatrots.
Is there no public man among US willing to make
himself Immortal BY devoting his craftsmanship
and eloquence to the noble cause of literary pro-
Pesty Cor. Nat Intel.
BArHs.-In Philadelphia there are a variety OF
cold baths established throughout the city, and at
very moderate prices. The water is more penti.
full IN this city than In Philadelphia, and may be
had at very low prices. Iii surprising that three
or four bathing houses are not established In ev-
cry ward Of the city. They would be invaluable
TO the health OF the inhabitants and productive to
the proprietorS. American
PARRY ksRN.-The Albany Patriot says =
g One Of our own Methodist clergymen last Sum-
day remarked that if all the world believed the
Second Coming was to take place on the 23d of
April, lS4S, at 3 O'Clock, ?. NJ, two-thirds OF
them would delay all preparation for 1t tll halt
past fteo.' !"
9j- a London paper states that Forrest, the
actor, has been nominated by the Loco Foco or