Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-11-27

curlties 10 an extent beyond what the fired circn
lalion OF the Bank would have enabled it to do
Government promising an act of indemnity for the
Bank, should the increased discounts lead to cir
cuation OF notes beyond the limits of their char
ter. II is well known that Sir Robert Peel was
consulted by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, be-
fore Ministers communicated their wishes to the
Bank. Political quidnuncs are busy guessing and
anticipating the effect of this relaxation of the Peel
policy, and wondering whether the measure was
with or against the ex-Minister's advice. Thus,
according to the prophecy Of the Times, has the
first step towards. g national bankruptcy" been
taken.t The measure is also deprecated by other
journals, and the COOL dispassionate, and liberal
daily News " is far from considering it prudent
one. One effect Of this relaxation will be the
tinuing OF work on the railways during the winter,
which must otherwise inevitably have been sus-
pended, and the hundreds Of thousands of laborers
employed thereon would have been thrown out Of
work, and they and their wives and children cast
as paupers, either into the streets or the work
houses. This is, however, only postponing the
evil day, for The time must come when labor on
railways will cease, and a great number of Eng
lands poor must, apparently, be unemployed. 1t
would be unwlse! however, to anticipate an evil
which something Unforeseen may arise to prevent !;
at all events it is wBdom to postpone it much as
possible, admitting Mat you do not pay too much
for the postponemett. There certainly is no ne
cessity for an increas of streebeggars at present
1t has been ascertainsd that there are upwards of
10000 persons in tho streets OF London who OBJ
tain 81 100000, or g2p each annually in alms-a
higher average, by the BY, than that of the incomes
of working Clergy in Wales! This is pretty
severe tax to be levied upon the London pedestri-
ans, but the distressing tales which they are com
PEELED to hear, and the miserable objects which
they are obliged to see, are heavier tax by far
upon their feelings. The oily way to walk through
London in comfort is to shut up your heart, and
button up your pocket; you cannot close either
ears or eyes, it is true, but you may console your
self with the assurance that at least half of the
wretched beings who accost you are impostors !;
but even then the question remains whether wick
edness is pleasanter phase of humanity than want
Revering for moment to London merchants
discovered yesterday, III conversation with highly
respectable member Of that class, who is frequent
ly my companion in my rides to town, that man's
standing on Change and elsewhere, admitting that
he is not otherwise known, will be measured and
estimated by the position of his residence. Thus
if his place of business is in the STRAND, he will
be considered being al par; should he reside in
HoLBoRN, he will suffer depreciation of tlcenty
per cent; and if in the Cry RoAD, thirty but if
he unfortunately be domiced in WHITE CHAPEL,
On the contrary, should his office be in the CRY
or the WEST END, he will rise t,centy 10 ftty per
cent. above par, according to certain graduation
OF distances and localities.
This may be piece of cockneyism, but it I'M
doubleday had its rise from well-founded assump-
tons, although its effects may have outlived the
originating cause. There is much information to
be picked up in these omnibus rides, and | occa-
sonaly undergo much questioning respecting the
United States. Certainly on no subject whatever
do Englishmen so much need enlightening as they
do respecting that country. The worst of it is,
that, although you may put them right upon any
given point they will not keep rights you must turn
again and again the task, until repeated impress
sons have penetrated through the of ignorance
and prejudice which overlays their perceptions. Ii
would scarcely be credited, if the paper was not
now before me, that the editor of the Morning
Chronicle in his leading article of this day, re-
fers his readers 10 the report Of the United States
Foreign Secretary upon the social condition and
government of Paraguay" which is published at
length in the same paper. Now, this United
States Foreign Secretary" is neither more nor less
than Mr.. Graham, the United States Consul al
Paraguay Can il be wondered at that the mass OF
the people should be ignorant upon subject, when
the editor Of the organ and advocate Of the ADM.
nistration betravs such an extraordinary want OF
information There is scarcely newspaper among
the two thousand which are issued in the United
States which would have manifested such ignorance
respecting England and its functionaries. II is
true, neither the editor of the Chronicle nor any
other Englisman is Obliged to obtain information
respecting the United States but then if the coun
try be not worth inquring about, il would certainly
be decent not TO deal in invectives respecting it. and
TO censure il for matters about which the censurers
unblushingly betray, and sometimes acknowledge
their ignorance. It's unpleasant, however, TO touch
upon these things; but the most efiectual step, a
least the absolutely necessary FIRST step towards the
removal of an evil, is the CONVICTION of its exist
ence; the second is desire for its removal now
both these initatory processes rapidly going
in England, and the effect will be productive of tin
greatest possible good. The United States needs
only TO be known in England to make its people
respected its institutions honored, and the capabil
ties and resources of the country estimated ds they
ought TO be. The good work is going on. Slavery
and reputation are the only subjects which design
ing demagogues and party journalists can seize
upon, and as those talk loudest and write Longest
upon these matters who know the least about them
they every day are diminishing in their power tc
msiead the public mind.
An able and impartial American journal IS want
ing IN London. None of the newspapers printed
there at present will open their columns Tor com
munications at sufficient length upon American af
fairs none of them will allow American subjects
to be freely and fully discussed. Now is the time
lor the Manifestations n ha The editor