Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-07-29

need to be ashamed of our native land nor to
mourn over her condition or her prospects. Mr..
CoBpEN evincedmuch, not of the spirit of prophecy,
but of the philosophy of that thought which draws
correct conclusions from sound principles, when
he said "That this was an age and an epoch OF
peace and that war was so decidedly against the
current of public opinion in Europe that we might
hope TO see il no more" When could there have
been so many incentives to war thrown out as have
been by the events of the present year! Not only
have the internal principles Of European Govern
ments been broken up, but the landmarks OF many
European kingdoms removed. Patriotic zeal and
private ambition have both been let loose. Actual
war has been kndled by the ambition Of fends in
two places, yet even these wars languish and die
out No country feels or feeds the martial fame.
Generalship is languid, the very soldier slumbers,
and after skirmish or two, the combatants are
more anxious to shake hands than continue the
work of slaughter. France has broken up her army
of the Alps, the troops ordered to Paris and the
interior, and her new chief, although General,
has declared that the policy of France is pacific
and England has admitted her policy to be the
same. The petty insults Of Spain will not induce
her to depart from her dign6ed and tranquil att-
tude. She sees nothing in the attempts of other
countries to remodel their own Governments which
concerns her sufficiently to induce her interference.
diator between contending parties. England has
abandoned her national defence schemes her mill
tia estimates have shared the same fate. She has
external respect and internal peace. She beholds
her manufacturers employed, her commerce revi-
wing, her domestic trade increasing, her fields rich
in the promise of an abundant harvest and if there
be poverty in her streets, and too many evidences
of want and suffering in the gaunt looks and rag
ged hablments of many of her people, she can
point with satisfaction to proofs of public exertion
and individual benefcence in the cause of philan-
thropy and benevolence, which proves her character
and that of her people to be such as would render
want and suffering unknown within her borders, if
they could be separated from the condition of hui
manty.
July 6.-The state of the revenue for the quarter
which ended on the 5h, if not SO good as could be
wished, is yet better than was expected. The year
which ended 5th July, l847, was an excessive year
in point Of receipts of an extraordinary kind and it
would not be right to compare that which ended
yesterday with it. Compared with that year the
present is g2 ,5s7 700 deficient in amount, and
the corresponding quarter g367, ,74l. But if the
present year be compared with the year which
ended 5th of July, 1916, which would be farer
comparison, we shall find the following results:
Receipts of the three months ls46. ls4s.
ending 5th July. En- 573 1877 1885, s5
Receipts Of the year which ended
the 5th July. AT, 203, Sol 47,407, 1856
being in both cases in favor of the present year.
Ministers made statement in the House Of Com
mons the other night during debate upon the
sugar relief BILL which showed that, owing to vari-
causes, the deficiency in the revenue which had
been estimated as likelysto amount to 92,000,O00,
would, probably, be reduced nearly to nothing
This was cheering announcement and was
hailed by both sides of the house by the friends of
the administration as evdencing good manage
menf, by their opponents as proof of bad calcu-
iation. However, it is not quite clear that either
management or calculation have had much to do in
producing this result.