Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-10-26
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
FROM OUR LONDON coRREsPo oNDENE.
LONDON, OCTOBER 10, 1850.

IN quiet, enjoying toerably fine autumnal weather,
the country resting after the pleasant tolls Of har
vest, and the towns filling again by the return of
the soourners at watering places and pleasant rural
summer abodes. London is clean, noisy, and
busting, unusually healthy, and unusually free
from beggars. Questions of sanitary improve
ments are again being mooted; lodging and board
ing-house keepers are calculating the profits to be
derived from the great influx of vsiters next sum-
mer; children of all ages anticipating the
"glories" of the approaching Lord Mayors show;
and lovers of turtle and champagne have pleasant
dreams about the great annual feed at Gulldhall.
But better than all these ancipaons are the reali-
ties Of increasing commerce, an improved state OF
the revenue, fully employed population, abund-
ance of food at moderate prices, and diminished
number of debtors in our prisons. In proof OF the
latter NAV be adduced the fact that there were lever
prisoners in the Queens Bench Prison on Monday
last than had been known for the thirty years
previous the lowest previous number being lob,
and on Monday last there were only I52. Law
yers complain that their business is rapidly dimin
ishing owing to the extension of the county courts
jurisdictions the operation of the insovent debtors
law, &c. The legal harvest is not so productive
now as it was when Sir SAMUEL RoMLLY made
gl5,OoO year and Sir JAMES ScARLETT nearly
g3O 900; yet the profession has no great occasion
to complain, since Sir JOHN JERvIs states that at
the present time, fUe leading barrisers make
upwards Of 1000 a year each, eight above
$4,000 year each, and t0enty make each annually
shove $4,000 each. Truly must either be very law
loving and justice seeking people, else very culpaby
htigious
We have said that the improving assertion
may be questioned when state the fact that the quarter
which terminates this day will exhibit deficiency nearly
e5OO, 900 when compared with the corresponding of
TIL. A.
TOMS excise and stamps The diminished imports of brandy
alone will for the dmnuton the
1t will be remembered that immensely increased consump
ton of brandy took place last year its being
used incidentally during the prevalence of the cholera And
BESIDES owing improved condition. less grain has been
imported and there has been decrease in the duties upon
sugar, expected and intended. With these excep-
tons the foreign trade is active and prosperous The de-
In the excise than accounted for by the repeal
OF the duty bricks the amount received from that
last year being than the deficiency in the entire
else duties in this. The dmnuton in the stamps revenue
has been occasioned by the posponemen Of great amount
of business until the operation Of the new scale of reduced
duties commenced All other items continue much the same
and the income tax and the post Office have increased in
produce After ALL however, the state of the is
not to be deduced from the solitary fact Of its amount the
true criterion the son which that sustains when
compared with the expenditure, and fortunately reduced
revenue still greatly in Of reduced expenditure
the economsng regulations Of the Government making
themselves every day and felt and the
will be still further reduction of taxation and consequently
apoporionay diminished How differently Eng
land situated what she hundred and fifty years
ago. During the reign Of Queen Anne the total Of
customs, excise, land tax, and all other and receipts
amounted from March, l7O2, August l7l4-a period of
very nearly twelve years and half-to than
,s77, about 900 per The
arising from customs, excise and taxes for the year s49
nearly ESQ, ,00O 000-a tenfod increasewhs the popula-
tion has increased from about eight millions to nearly thirty
millions may also be noticed that during the abovemen
toned twelve years and half of Queen Annes reign the
expenditure exceeded the by less than sixty mil
Hons which provided for by loans. So that hum
dred and fifty years ago the Of the Kingdom
barely onehaf its expenditure. We think that have
night 10 be satisfied, particularly when it may be
proved by cts and figures" that neghbos in France
are all things considered bearing much greater amount of
individual taxation than And if we from
to commerce, still entitled to be satisfied for
although the declared value of the exports for the last month
fall short of that for September ls4s by e27s yet that
for the latter period originated peculiar circumstances and
less than Ell 900 in Of those Of ls4s
The decrease of this years amount entirely attributable
TO the dmnuton in cotton yarn amounting less than
E462 during the month"; compared with September,
is49, which has arisen from the high price Of the mate
rial In all the other great articles Of manufacture and pro-
duce, except fish, metals machinery salt refined sugar. wool,
.and wooen yarn, there has been increase whilst the in
for the first eight months of the year, compared with
the period Of ls49, less than ed 246, and
with that of 1913 9l2,2ls,354. There is nothing in the
imports Of the month calling for any particular remark The
of the shipping business of London may be gathered
from the fact that during the last ten days fewer than
$50 foreign vessels with cgoes Of merchandise have been
ported the custom house. Considerable stir has been max
ing in London, Liverpool and other places during the last
fortnight about proposition to establish in London tribunal
Of commerce. similar those which exist in Paris and other
Continental commercial cities. This tribunal would
from the cognzance of the courts Of law many subjects which
could be much better settled, according to the lac mercantile
by authorized board of merchants Our municipal nsitu
tons have kept pace with the increase Of
and nothing has been established supply the place of those
Guilds and Corporations which in the middle ages decided
doubtful questions of ade and perhaps in cases. rather
overeguated it, but yet in the main, productive Of
much good The parties stirring in the de-
sous Of having established cheap and expeditions mode Of
settling by arbitration otherwise, the disputes which may
arise between commercial men, without going into Of
law We regard this good movement in aid Of the Peace
Congress, for think that great step towards causing
nations be peaceabe will be to make individual man
less of awlovng ANIMAL That sagacous writer DANIEL
DEroT perceived the necessity for something approaching
design and oil ec these commercial tribunals more than one
hundred sDd fifty years ago, and in his very work. An