Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-05-31
Our Mercantile Navy.

10000, of whom 200 900 belong to the mercantile
marine, and $4,000 to the navy the remainder being
i'll foreign service. The total number of vessels be-
longing to the merchant of the British En-
jre was, in 1913, no less than SO, G72 having ag
:,regate tonnage of 1852 160, and carrying coec-
lively $780, 69 men. The average rate of increase
in the merchant vessels for the last ten years has
been 600 per annum while the annual increase OF
burden amounts within fraction, to 100000 tons.
BY this means employment is found for 5000 fresh
hands every year The British empire possesses one
third more vessels than France, while the aggregate
tonnage of the British ships is upwards of four times
great as the French and e-third more than the
Collective burden of the American vessels An idea
of the extent of the trade carried by this
country may be formed from the number of British
and foreign vessels that annually enter the several
ports of the United Kingdom Those in the year 1913
amounted to 81, 600 vessels, $4,000 of which
.oregn,) having gross burden of 81 million tons,
and giving employment to nearly $4,000 men. The
'otal value of the exports and imports effected by
such means amounts to upwards of seventy-fve mil
lions sterling per annum. According to the estimate
of Mr.. G. F. Young, the ships engaged in the mer-
camille marine are worth G38. 600, 600. The sum
annually expended in building repairing, and outfit
ting and old ships amount to ElO, 800 OOO-and
hc cost Of the wages and provisions for the seamen
Engaged in navigating the merchant vessels to 99,
10000; while the amount annually received for
'rcight by the shipOwners is said to come to E29,
10000. The foreign trade, in connection with the
,ort of London, very nearly onefourth of the
ire maritime commerce of the United Kingdom
The number of vessels that entered the port of Lon
lon in l847 was upwards of 9OOO and the gross ton
,age nearly 100000; the rate of increase being
bout half million tons and $500 vessels in five
ears, or 100000 tons and 500 vessels per annum.
Liverpool Times
RUSSIA AND HER GovERNMENr-We question il
nc true state of the case as between the Russian:
md their Government is in general rightly cOmpre
ended. Mised by Western associations, anG
~ the tales of Russian instructions, too APP
suppose that the Russian Government is held dowI
oyer the Russian people by the pressure of some ex
rnal force, and that if this force were removed TIT
russians would exhibit constitutional tendencies ant
orange for themselves otherwise. We forget tina
':nstitutiOnalism is universal instinct among
civilized men, and also, that the Russians yet
cry rude nation. Were the whole social condition
f Russia revealed to in flash, should proba
bly, find that Czarism far from being a system helc
Down Russia by force, is system witnessed
with kind of religious fervOur and infatuatiOn By
I'll the real heart of the Russian people. During
lie Russian insurrectiOn of 1925, Schnitzler tells
;;crgius MOuravicf one of the leading consprators
;aprudently mentioned Republicanism to regimen
! grenaders, of which he colonel, and called
8 .tpon them to cry Republic for ever!" Puzzled
to the meaning of so and singular phrase
al suspectng something to be wrong, they hesita
lrd; and an old grenadier, leaning on the barrel o
] lis gum spoke out for the rest. q Vache blagoro
." said he, so please your grace, will shOu
I \ Republic foreverh or anything else you bid us
!,t after all who is to be Gar e. and the colone
/ hlving explained that in Republic there was n
/ Ear ':Ah, then, your grace said the grenadcr
It will not do in Russia" Even when shouting OF
lat occasion for the constitution, the soldiers it
/ we'll known were under the impression that this con
| etution was Constantine's celebrated Polish wife
whose name for purpose or other, their officer
II thought it proper to bring forward in that prom
{ III mt way
A The Australian colonies are rapidly rising int
. cat Importance the population has increased fror
5000 in 1928, to $4,000 in l849, and the export
4 from 9I8l, 900 in 1928 to E2187,633 in 1915; tn
!, Ia year the accounts have been exactly stated
tie present rate of increase the population will
Z 100000 in 1872; the number of convicts in 1874
) Is about 5000.
! TIE RorHsCHILDs is said that the fortune
II IT,, Rothschilds is not less than hundred an
lrty five millions of francs, or twenty-nne million