Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-09-14

which must then be attended TO. Oar financial
prospects are satisfactory. How much has been
accomplished since 1916, and during the peace
which we have since that year enjoyed! Then
the interest of the national debt was g32, 93S75I
in 1874 it was g27, $4,000. The failure of the
potato crop, the scarcity of 1916 and l647, and
the g2O,OOO,O0O spent in the redemption of the
West India slaves, have retarded its further reduc-
tion last year the interest Of the funded debt was
927,7Os, 500. If we are blessed with continu-
ance of peace, and of heathful and fruitful seasons
and commercial prosperity, we may now calculate
upon its rapid reduction, and proportional les
sened taxation Besides, there will be great re-.
duction OF the national debt during the next twenty
years, from the termination of various annuities.
This reduction will be, to the 9th January, 1860,
no less than 93,2O7 500, and on the 9th April,
1867, the dimnution will have reached g3,793, 200,
leaving the annual charge for interest, should we
not have been enabled further to reduce it by other
means, g23,9l5,409 Another favorable circum-
stance in our social condition is the great reduction
in the increase of our population by emigration.
The Registrar Generals return for the last three
months shows an increase of 62,727 in births over
deaths but the emigration during the same period
has been very nearly equal to this increase, being
GIFTS. The returns Of the new Population Act,
which will be made next year, will develop some
curious facts. The census throughout Great Bri-
tain will be taken on one day-Monday, March 81,
l65l-each householder returning all the persons
within his house on the preceding night. Means
will be taken to ascertain the number of house
less poor, of persons travelling and on ship
board.
The condition of IRELAND is always subject Of
great anxiety in England, and eager inquiries are
always made respecting the state of the potato crop,
as being the quarter from whence danger is most
to be apprehended, since that vegetable has hither
to been the staple article of food for the bulk of the
Irish people. Most contradictory accounts reach
almost daily respecting the state of this crop, but
we are inclined to think that no great amount of
disease has yet appeared. The present state of
Ireland, however, is very different from that in
which she had face the last terrible dearh and though the
potato still Of Importance far great for the happiness
Of her people, does exercise the overwhelming in
uence upon their existence did that time At the
period of the late deah in Ireland the immense majority Of
her teemng population entirely dependant for their
ence upon tho crop Of their small potato patches If this
failed they had refuge in their Distress Famine and dis
struck down the people by thousands The condition of
Ireland, and its liability these periodical infections, called
upon the Government devise preventive for the evil and
that has been supplied by the combined effects Of the
atng to incumbered esates..and the poor law. total
failure Of the potato crop could produce the suffering
which has hitherto DONE Two other circumstances deserve
especial notice. The first is that although very large
breadth Of land hiss been planted with the potato longer
looked upon the exclusive food of the people neither
does the land planted with it bear any thing like the proper
ton to the whole of the cultivated land in Ireland which it
formerly did, There increased dsrus Of the potato,
and greater dependence upon bread people living upon
potatoes must starve, if perchance that crop should fail
They living the lowest rate which human life be
sustained and if accident happen, they cannot have
course to lower description smaller quantity Of food
The other circumstance to which alluded, indicating
improved condition in the Irish people, their depending
upon wages for labor and employment which they
procure to extent unknown until lately, than upon their
potato CROP This they enabled do through the chang
ed condition Of the land which has been brought about
operation Of the for the sale of ncumbered We
hope the Irish potato crop SAFE but should be again dis
eased, trust that will have very mgated effect upon
the condition Of Ireland compared with that which such
lamity has previously produced
The London Industrial Exhibition of 1851 is
progressing favoraby, and the building progressing
rapidly as favorable; from Ceylon and Calcutta,
from Persia and Peru we hear of preparations for
the great assemblage of nations Mr. JOHN jar SMITH,
Philadelphia the protector Of the American Exhibition Of
1852, left England for the United States, in the Atlantic
steamship yesterday, having put matters in train both in this
country and the continent for the successful carrying
Of his great undertaking.
Our market is in very variable state. Every fine
day increases hope and every rainy raises alarm respect
ing the crop harvesting, and. the weather aternaes
between wet and dry and wind and CALM aernates the
market We sorry to have to add that reports respecting
the crops and unfavorable From the west
Of England we hear of much disease among the potatoes and
that the wheat crop from twenty to twenty-five per cent
below that Of last year. From the Of England, and the
fine wheatgrowing country from Huntington York. are
assured that the wheat and barley generally seriously If
fected with the mildew Scarcely field for many miles,
bright and golden, but all looks dull and dngy and
in many places af1cDgy discoored" The wheat straw
between Lincoln and Boston, says the Lincoln Times sis
bIanched with mdew, and the grain shriveed up Crops
which, short time ago, promised large yield, now
barely worth the expense of cutting On the Cliff Row and
the Wolds the mdew is bad but the grain very
small and the straw weak is feared, from present ap
pearances that the average yield for Lincolnshire will bare
ly reach hreequarters (wenyfour bushes) per acre."
The Economist confirms this account and gives many other
particulars The potatoes through all this district said
be very much injured. The accounts from Scotland h
vorab with the exception Of potatoes From the continent
of Europe the very contradictory. At Amsterdam
wheat rose during the week which ended the 18th from
8 to S Aorins.
The Theatrical world like the Parliamentary one, at the
end of its annual session. 1t has not been very brilliant
one but believe, profitable those engaged in it