Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-06-03

ed as s increased circulation rendered 1t profitable
ect of financial cupidiiy.
The French Government has abolished the stamp duty
newspapers The English Government retains both the any
and the advertisement duty, and refuses establish equ
table and proportional of either according the price
the paper upon which is levied What the English press
would be best satisfied with would be charge for the STAMP
IN proportion to what the public pays for the paper and
of advertisement duty which would not bear out of all proper
ton upon the humber classes of advertisers.
The nett produce Of the newspaper stamp duty in Great
Britain for the year which ended January 5, 1918, was
43l5, ,735 that of the advertisement duty was el5l 672.
The fng amount of these duties in financial point of
must convince every that it is money cacua-
ton which prevents any modification reduction in their
rates and, some alteration be made, it will give the
opponents OF Ministers occasion charge them with desire
TO indirectly check the free expression Of public opinion
There is series Of very useful articles the cotton
trade publishing in the Examiner weekly newspaper
These have reference principally to the produce of the
material, and particularly the question whether Eng
land reasonably expect obtain her supply OF
from the East Indies. From these statements appears
that the value Of the annual crop America nearly
sixty times much that OF India, after all the and
enon and protection which has been bestowed upon the latter
The difference OF price, too, when taken into combnson
with that of quality very much in favor of the former Be
from the Leran Spanish America and India from six
teen to eighteen pence per pound; is not than
one fifth of that price the average The investga
ton made into this subject the satisfied must every
that the United States fear no rival in the British
market for her COTTON
mentioned in my last that considerable attention was be-
ing paid the subject of emigration know not what plans
in contemplation, but is cutie evident that something
must be done either to support the surplus population in idle
ness reduce their number by deportation, or what would be
best of all, find them profitable and useful employment
home and with the products of their labor pay foreign nations
for their bread Now, the rs have no idea that any
commun, socialist pan by which the people either
be supported in deness employed in Improbable labor
will find favor with the English nation or be recon-
mended by its Government
Then, sufficiently reducing and permanently keeping
down the population and the point the measure
would be mpractcabe in the present British finances
How commerce and business be far expanded
give profitable employment crowded population would,
Think puzzle entire college Of political Yet
TO end began something must be DONE London has
again increased her population and this 52l persons
days the births for the last week having $685.
the deaths LOIS. Another phenomenon of the week was
that the weather average q degrees than
had been during the corresponding week in any the
twenty preceding years.
The late political Europe have caused grea, de-
rangemens in the financial word There report in the
newspapers Of the day that among other sufferers the house
Of Rohschid & Co. has might have been expected oc
cuped undesirable pre-eminence. The prodigous wealth
and resources Of this pncey band of brothers may be ina
gned, when is stated that they have experienced ii
absolute losses pecunary disappontmens the Of
two hundred millions Of francs say forty millions of dollars,
or eight millions sterling, without having had their daily
business disaranged, their credit impaired Probably
other merchants or bankers Of ancient moen times could
have withstood such a storm.
IRELAND grows pacific every day, although Mr..
0BREs has reinquished his ntenton hastily adopted at
Limerick when smarng under bruises and annoyed with
black eye Of retiring from public life he appears
becose but he is harmless, and Ireland will not
rise at bis bidding
In France the great event is the assembling Of the Ma
toDa Convention, and the organization Of that
body Of in great measure, by the election Of large
majority Of the Moirates places of and importance
For President NJ BucHET the candidate Of the moierste
had $50 votes and NJ REcUnr, the favorie Of the Lsdu
ROln section only sl The Vice Presidents Secretaries
and Questor nantaners of order) were very nearly all
Of the same moderate party The proclamation .! the
public by the National Convention the por.co Of the
Chamber and before least hundred thousand the
asc and striking that has yet occurred No doubt
be entertained but that republic will be established. How
long may the OF the French people, be found APP
pcabe 10 their condition nation, or bear up against all
possible and probable contingencies and combinations, must
be left for time to determine The Provisional Government
resigned its powers to the National Convention Immediately
after the latter body assumed its preliminary organization
ani France from that time the present may be said have
been without any Government de je, although the PIov
Government he supposed to discharge its duties
de facto until its appointed. NJ. LAMAR
TINE read on behalf Of the Preden, Of the Provisional
Government, NJ. DuPosT (pE L'EuRE,) who was, on ac
Of mis- great age and feeble voice. unequal TO the task
the report OF The Provisional Government II exceed
ingy clear, dgniiee and modest and concluded with the
following striking passages
eve have passed fve.andforty days without my other
Executive power than that derived from moral ahoy,
urely divested Of physical attributes"
eve have passed more than two months Of a crisis-cf
cessation work. Of misery OF elements Of political agi,a-
on and social anguish accumulated in nnumerable
in capital Of a million and half Of inhabitants without
having property violated, and without life threatened by
anger without repression without prescription, polit-
cal imprisonment drop Of blood shed in 10 sad
den the Government in Paris We may descend from this
long dcaorP and minge with the people without the pos
sbiy OF citizen asking us, 'Whai have you done with
a citizen :"
"Citzen Representatives, work i done and yours
commences The presentation Of plan OF Government,
or u project Of constitution would have been, our
part rash prolongacn Of power encroachment upon
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