New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-06-11
CHANCES AT EUROPE. No. X.
Political Economy. as studied at the Worlds
Exhibition.

Political Economy, as studied AT the Woflu
Exhibition.
Editorial Correspondence Of The Tribune.
LONDON, Tuesday, Msy q, 1851.
To say, as some do, that the English hate the
Americans. is TO do the former injustice. Even If
we leave out of the account the British millions
who suhsst by rude manual toll, and who certain
lvregard our country so far they think OF It at
all, with an emotion very different from hatyed,
there is evinced by the more fortunate classes
a very general though not unqualified admlra-
ton OF the rapidity OF our progress, the vastness
of our resources, and the extraordinary physical
energy developed in our briei, impetuOus career.
Dense as Is tie ignorance which generally pre-
walls in Europe with regard to American history
and geography, 1t is still very generally under
stood that we were, only seventy years since,
but Three Millions Of widely scattered COlOnSts,
doubtlully contendng on a narrow belt OF par
italy cleared sea-cOast, with the mother country
on one side and the Savages on the other, for
Political existence, and that now we are a Ma
ton of Twenty-three Millions, stretching from
the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the cane
producing Topic to the shores OF Lake Superior
where snow lies half the year-lrom Nantucket
and the Chesapeake 10 the aiiluents OF HudsOns
Bay and the spacious harborS and Shelteredroad.
Steads OF NoOtka Sound And this vast extent
OF country, the Bnton remarks with pride,
we have not merely oyerrun, as the Spanish so
rapidly traversed South America, but have real
" appropriated and in good degree assimilated,
so that the far shores of the Pacific, which have
but for three or four years felt the tread of the
tvifb
and thriving marts OF Commerce, into whose
lap gold mines are pouring their lavish treasures,
while proluSion OF steamers, ships and smaller
watercrait link them closely with each other,
with the Atlantic States and the Old World,
while their numerous daily journals are aiding
to dlfiuse the English language through the isles
OF the immense Pacific, and their merchant
princes are cooly discussing the advantages of
establishing a direct communication by lines OF
steamships with China and opening the wealth
OF Japan to the commerce OF the civilized world.
All this Is marked with something of wonder but
more of pride by the ruling classes IN Great
Bntain-ihe pride OF a father whose son has
beaten HIM and run away, but who nevertheless
hears with interest and qualification that the
unflial reprobate is cOnquerng fame and fortune,
and who with beaming eye observes to a neigh
bor, a wild hoy that of mine, sir, but blood Will
tell II the United States were attacked 10y any
power or alliance strong enough to threaten
their subwgaion, the sympathy felt for them IN
these islands would be intense and all but uni
versal
And yet there Is another side TO the picture,
which in fairness must also be presented. The
favored classes IN Great Britain, while they
heartily admire the American energy and It's
fruits, DO and must nevertheless dread The c0afa-
gion Of our Example and this dread must increase
and be dfused the rapidly increasing power,
population and wealth OF our country commend
II more and more 10 the attention OF the world.
While we were some sixty days distant, and
heard of mainly in connection with Indian fights
or masSacres, fatal steamboat explosions OF IN
solvent banks, this contagion was not imminent
and did not seriously alarm but now that New
York Is but ten days from London and New-Or-
leans Coy telegraph scarcely more, the case is
bravely altered. and 1t becomes daily more and
more palpabie that the United States and Great
Britain cannot both remain as they are. Ii we
IN America Can have succession OF capable AMI
reputable Chief Magistrates for 5000 yeal. of
Chief Justices for q 900 and OF Cabinets Ct a
gross cost OF less than 10000, 1t Is manifest
thar John Bull. who. loyal as he Is. has strong
instinct OF Thrift and pride IN getting the worth
OF his money, viii no. long be c)nten, 10 paw q
hundred times As much for MS Chief Executive
and ten times as much for ms Judiciary and Mn
istV as we DO Il j. q question therefore al
the deepest practical interest 70 the British Va.
;iOn whether the Americans 10 really enjoy the
advantages OF peace. order and security for the
rights OF person and property through instru-
men,alites 50 cheap and 50 dependent on moral
force only, as those devised and established hv
Washington and MS com patriots. II we have
these with a Civil Lisl of less than Il 100000
sterling. az Army OF less than Ten Thousand.
and a Navy (why won't It die and get decentlv
buried , Of a dozen or two active vessels why
should John tax and sweat himself as he does 20
maintain Political establishment which co,.s
hm over tl50O00O00 wear beside the interest
on his enormous National Debt II W.. without
any Church endowed by law, have As ample and
widely dlfiused provision foT Divine worship and
Religious instruction as he has, why shouls he
pay tthes TO endow Lord Bishops with incon,es
Of fl00OO 10 $4,000 per snnum These and
similar questions are now beginning TO be wife
~ pondered here; they refuse to be longer
drowned by the flare Of trsmpets and the reso.
nani melody OF God save. the Queen - know
nobody who objects to that last quoted sentiment.
but there are many here. as;d the number Is n.