The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1850-08-31
English Items.

English Items.
The n. York EceaiHg POahas some very able
correspondents in England, extracts from whose
Iucubrations would frequently be read with inter
est by our readers. We clip Il half column.
Col W, Ii, Maxwell writes under date Of July
"a:
The California fever RACES here to great cx-
tent. 4 company called the California Gold Nj
ning and Dredging Company, with capital Of
$4,000, has Just been formed. The company
has purchased u large tract of land at Santa We
ga, on he Rio Calares, and is establishing depots
ia that country for the purchase, exchange and
( saying of gold, to be sent to England.
| Other companies on the same plan are being
established IN other parts Of the kingdom, all to
20 into operation this year. If these companies
are successful the English will get too large n
share Of the gold dust-they get their full share
now, Ii is time to put some restriction on these
disncrestcd America loving" adventurers.
! A very general impression exists in the United
States, that the English national debt will some
day be repa1iatcd, and ruin all the nobility. There
never was greater mistake made On inquiry,
| | have asccrtaned that the mobility owna very
tritling portion of this debt their wealth being
chiefly in land. In the next Place seyeueights
of the debt Is held by the middle and working
classes The funds fall the savings banks in the
kingdoms are invested in the consois and every
dkpositor who has over so pounds in the savings
bank, is entered as being the owner Of so mUch
IN conso'S and receives a certificate to that effect
after which he is permitted to continue deposi,inc
small sums till a second fifty pounds is deposited
when second certificate is given. by this plaI
| can perceive n large portion OF the industrious
operative have become holders Of the national
debt, and consequently supporters of the systD
that upholds it. Nor is this the only way in Which
government has enlisted support for the national
; debt
The law here requires all trust money in the
hands Of executors, to be invested in three pei
cent consols. and the amount is over one hundred
Il and sixty millions sterling, and the number of per
sons interested in these trusts, is cnormous-al
Of whom necessarily and naturally become tn
staunchest advocates ofthe national debt, and lou,
declamatory supporters Of government. No par
ty be assured. can ever be- formed in this countr,
> that will ever dare to break down or attempt Il
destroy the national debt, whatever else they may
4 do.
From another correspondent. under date of Ju
ly, 90:
Mr. Lawrence, the American Minister attended
the dinner given ut Exeter last week by the Roy
al Agricultural Society, where he made long
speech, which has been rather severely criticised
for he declared in effect that the farmers Of Eng
land were the back bone Of England, and that they
had been sacrificed by free trade policy. Ihes,
were not Mr.. Lawrcnces words, out he impllet
as much and us the protectionist Herald remarks
"they reveal a meaning and suggest lnierencc'
more pregnant than the most unreServed declara
" q. Il 4
tions, and he is heartily thanked for that whlci
he left TO be inferred, though huneNpressed' Bu
Mr. Lawrence has called down the bolts ot "th'
taundcrer' upon his head and his position hence
forth will be anything but agreeable TO HIM.
The Times oI 22d, says that no Englishman q
banquet did SO much as to breathe a sigh for th'
corn laws.
Not word was said by British Agricultural
lists that could be so interpreted The onl!
speaker that did alludc to the subject OF protee
ton, we are happy 10 say, was not an English
man, but the American Minister, That gentle
man did make some illusions to the subject, ant
It is much to be regretted that he did, for, rs h
felt and said, very properly Il was not his plac
TO express any opinions on the internal policy o
THIS country, Yet, feeling ths wholesome dclica
cy, Mr., Lawrence was nevertheless equally una
bile to conceal that he inwardly but decidedl.
thought British agrlcuturnllsts utterly smashed b.
free trade aud thcErtlsh empire itself on the roa
TO ruin. Now man who lets ont stray opln
ION under circumstances which do not allow it
full expression anu ample Justification Is hkel
enough to do but little justice either to his op't
ions or 70 himself or If he should happen to be
foreign minister, to the country he represents"
AS the Americans have lately expressed thei
opinions pretty freely with the regard to the III
reference cf Sir Henry Bulwer in the domes,i