Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-02-09

and comprehends and appreciates the direction and
iorce OF public opinion, on the great pending ques-
tons connected with the social and moral we'll
being OF the community, the ensuing Parliamentary
session may be fruitful, as any former have
been barren, Of timely aid benefcent legislation
ministers have in reality no organized opposition
10 encounter nany course of reformatory policy
which it may please them to adopt
No fewer than ninety-three ships are building in
Sunderland, most of them of large tonnage Seve-
raj ships have been sold to foreigners particularly
Danes. The general opinion at Sunderland is that
the trade of shipbuilding will be more prosperous
in 1850 than ever. We have heard OF gentleman
who visited Liverpool with the intention Of contract
ing for the building Of three or four large ships.
but the -wrghts SO full of orders that not
one OF them would contract at extraordinary
price, for the commencement of another vessel
We believe that the builders on the Thames are in
similar position and we shall not be at all sur
prsed to hear that orders have been sent to foreign
ports, not because foreign ships better cheap
er, but because English vessels cannot be obtained.
1t is toerably clear from these facts that however
much alarm has been felt for the ship-owners, they
themselves have no fear Of being ruined by the
peal of the navigation laws. Already has the alter
alton led to the establishment Of steam navigation
between Havre and Liverpool; and goods have been
received from the former place, and reshipped at
the latter for the United States. The last Ameri-
can mail steamer had two hundred and ffty tons Of
goods of this description on board. which preyi-
ousy would have been inadmissible into an Ameri-
can port. Similar shipments are expected to be
made from Belgium and Germany. Here is one
OF the first exemplifcaons of the beneficial effects
of free and unshackled reciprocity Of commercial
intercourse Already this reciprocity exists between
England and the United States, and Sweden and
| Irrtu HoIIa - Al.
same liberal description. Sardinia is about to re-
lieve trade and navigation from every restriction,
and France and Portugal are making considerable
notifications in their laws upon these subjects.
| Another pleasant subject in the policy of England
and rather novelty in her history is the reduction
of her expenditure during the past year. The Times
states this reduction as follows:
In the interest on Exchequer bills. el5o, 900
Army expenditures. es..................... $4,000
Navy OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 100000
Ordnance. ............-......... 100000
misceiianeous ''... !. sOO.O OOO
f3,O3o,00O
The returns OF the Board OF Trade also show
that our exports for the first eleven months of l649
have increased 1897 over those for the same
period in l648. The several items, as we shall
show IN another place, are decisive as to the solid
nature of this increase. Then TO imports, there
is great increase of all articles of general home
tea, tobacco, and fruits. This fact, coupled with
the increased home consumption of our manufac-
tured goods, affords convincing and conclusive ev-
dence that our population is both better fed and
better clothed than great proportion of it was a
year ago-a most gratifying circumstance, and one
which stands nearer the real basis of England's
power, and peace, and happiness than any thing
else possibly do. Just now, when our ports
have been thrown open but few days to the ship
ping of all nations on free and equal TERMS it is in
erestng to inouire how we stood in the last years
comn,rson With tho former one Ths run,he- !,
sh;nr &C iii ,.t;o.. ,nh;oh an.a..a ;r....Js J; ~
month ending 9th December l84S was 2,462, their
tonnage oSo,oso m 'ne same mon'n OF lS4S, Oils
ana tonnage oSI,uiI ne statement LOT ine eieven
monsns oi 'he respective years exnDi.s correspond
ing results. Inc present state OF our commerce o.
II every description, and condiuon q every class and
interest oI our people, notwi!nstandlng tne COM
planls oi our iarmers-made an most instances a.
.Ile insuganon OF 'ne arlstocratca iand owners-ls
ohe which ougl' g M US WIN tnankiulness ano
gra'l'uue. anu when We add 70 ,nis Inc TACT tnai
'he revenue .or 'ne last quarter exhlo.s total IN
crease on Ordinary sources OF 947o,oos, we appear
70 nave loucned upon every element OF internal ma
'onal imPor. ana IN all OF mem nave reason 70 re-
garu se Pas' year as one Whlcn mas oeen produc,