New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-09-10
The nonmsd Country.


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The Doomed Country.
Who can deny that Englsod, since the dste OF
the Act OF Navigation, has acquired the dominion
Of The seas and that her naval power, Warllze OK
merchant ia now the first in she world
Who deny that England in commerce. ana ;sl
manufacturing point Of view, has become anoeL us
former policy, the arst in the world, and the cnleI
moving power, the universal agent the sovereign
people Of credit, circulation and commerce
Who can deny that Britain agriculture on al
equal extent and quaiity OF SOIL gives
turn for the labor Of the husohnomeh, .nSa Ia 4
the most furrowed By the plow or favored ~ 'ue
sun .o,,i..
Who can deny that the British Ises-s"o mus mus.
erable little spots, when looked at on map OF Iee
world-heve for centuries taken their P ace among
the greatest empires, and obtained "a. az u.
place in the history OF the powers oil tns ear,u
You might as W ell deny the existence OF the aan
ga depv sny of these things. To over"he.m Guy
audacious comparisons, Eng and nag oniy " -
hbit it's fleets, its harbore. its domains, ls
its manufactured it's iron fo1ndrieS, Is ua "a
ito docks its argenas, its erdIe OF colonieH @ua
ooc;rcling tbs globe compoiag sn en-
nire larger than ever obeyed the laws OF horne.
m aneak only of its metropolis Wnat mafVels
,hose rcbea eccu ated between the two banks
OF the Thames, peopled by forest OF masss' ana
which almost superhumsn activity necessarily
nreases and soisates Here are 10 be seen deGP
and spacious docks, the ample bosom OF which no
breath of wind ever agitates, and in which every
yasseI If every nation, from the gigantic three
decker TO the Chinese junk, finds its allotted place
and where all the flags OF the earth lie side by
pide as in the common emporium Oh natlons'-
There the tribes of every nation OF the world are
arranged in perfect ORDER in gigantic magazines,
constituting of themselves an entire city
Here are dockyards dry docks forge and iron
works where, under the hammer and the natne
steel and iron are twisted into thousand fantastic
forms. Industry labors at everything ana yet an
This great as it is 10 as nothing compared with the
works at Birmingham, hancheeter, ohefneid'
Leeds, Merthyr tidvi, and LanarksdHe. in the
midst Of the din, the cang, the volumes OF smoke,
the oceana OF flame, which mark those astonishing
scenes, you would suppose that the fable OF the
Titans has come to pass, and that gianta OF rebel
race are preparing to scale The heavens
Farther on the eye is fatigued, the mind turns
around at the immenBity Of the circulation woich
ls perpetually going forward. From one OF the
bridges over the ThameG, you behold from the
midst Of an atmosphere OF smoke hundreds OF YES
sells which pass and reps6s under your teet, doche
and obedent to direction like 30 many human be-
iDeB; at one moment almost rivalsg the RAJ! way
train in speed, at another stopping at the hand OF
child racing with each other, aud yet steady 70
their object; approaching, but never touching
blowing through the waves with their wings OF
flame seemiDg to caress where slngle touch
would be death! In the city itself, thousands OF
ohariots and wagons, Of omnibuses drawn by
powerful horses, of carriages d&rtng AZ speed
through the throng, all passing and rePassng'
crosaing intermnglipg, and yet never coming lnto
oollsion-ao experienced and wary are the hands
which guide them. Meanwhile, on the foot pave
ments, countless multitude OF people, intent 90
business amusement, or pleasure, necessarily
poura along; and this is the same from the West
India docks to the West End parks, from Black.
wall to the splendid squares OF belsravla and
HYDE Parke which form the brilliant grdle OF that
scene Of toll and labor, as the Elysian fields do the
realms of Tartarus. Never has e. people in the
material world developed it's industry on such
| scale OF immeasurable grandeur. The pen canaot
describe the animation of Its lebors, the activity Of
| its commercial and manufacturing cities, the
tent Of ita rural industry. Figures alone can oon-
vey an idea Of it's immepsity.
Great B ritep which is only two hundredes guea
long, and the soil Of which 10 far from rivRllng in
riches the plains OF Lombardy or Aragon, yields
annually TO the labor of the husbandmsn revenue
OF above $40 900 600 sterng an Income, great
ms il s, which ia almost doubled by the value OF
similar productions in its dependencies aud colonies.
Its industry, commerce, and manufactures yleid
revenue superior to that magnificent land estate
thanks to its nexhaustbe mines, to Its natural
riches to its admirable system OF internal commu.
nicasions, conducted by eighty canals, and
seventy lines of railway, In all the general income
of the British Empire exceeds twelve thousand
millions of francs or nearly $500 600 900 sterling.
Its power among the nations is rendered nani-
fest by the number and greatness of It's facts and
dominions In Europe it possesses besde the
lesser islands which adjoin Great Britain and Ire
land Heligolsud Gibraltar, Malta, and the lonian
Islands; in Asia, Hindostan, with its tributary
States; Ceylop, and its forced allies in Sclnde and
the Puniaub-that Ia almost an entire world; 10
Africa. Sierra Leone with its dependencies; the
Iale of France, Fernando Po the Cape, aud 81
Helena in America, Upper and Lover Canada,
the VIZ est Indies, Bermuda, Newfoundland, and all
the lesser provinces off North America in ceanlcs
the whole of New Holland aud New Zealand Nor
folk Iaand and New Caledonia. These united
ssrritories contain hundred and fifty millions o
inhabitants, including tie twenty eight OF the
British sies
As to it's commercial marine, two facts are suih-
Client to make IFS immensely known. 1t has nsery
thirty thousand vessels, including those propelled
by steam, beside eight thousand in the colonies
and in linge year it exports more than t2S 00O,'
GOO cotton goods-an amount, for a single article,
creator than the whole export of the manufacturers
of France for everything put together.
ILedru Rollins Decsdsnce de / AuGeIene.