Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-10-11

well as the Irish. Very little American butter is
sent to the West Indies. Neither beef nor but
ter, at least for some time, are likely to become
articles of commerce, SO as to interfere with Ire
!. land The Southern States must continue to take
some butter, soap, and candles from Britain and
Ireland" His lordship has certainly very
strong saving clause in the unlimited phrase "some
time.'' We know not how far it may be overcome
by the facts that in ITO the American colonies
exported $345,0lO worth Of provisions to the Bri-
tish and Foreign West India Islands, and in 1914
$772 ,4Os to the British Islands alone, besides
$7s2 ,225 to the other British American colonies.
We should like to know the amount of butter
soap, and candles which the Southern States took
from Great Britain and Ireland in 1874!
Lord Sheffield thus consoles himself for the loss
of the American colonies:
Great Britain will lose few of the advantages
she possessed before these States became inde-
pendent and, with prudent management, she will
have as much of their trade as it will be her in
.erest to wish for, without any expense for civil
establishment or protection" So far we go with
his lordship, but we stop short when he adds: I:
" The States will suffer; they have lost much by
separation" He, however, adds in note: The
wish to be independent Of Parliament, at least as
to interior management, was founded in good
sense but the advantage will be found by no
means equal 10 the disadvantage Of separation.
The only other advantage gained by America is
freedom from having improper persons sent some
times from hence as governors, judges, commits
sioners, &c. This last is great admission.
Lord Sheffield states the population of the sepa-
rating colonies as being 100000; that the /" sea
vessels belonging to Philadelphia never amounted
to 2sO sail, their registered tonnage about 5000;
and that there were not, from the Cape of Flori-
da TO Philadelphia, inclusive, 400 American-born
sailors, exclusive of masters and mates" These
statements are instructive.
Again, says the British statesman:
!" The tonnage of shipping cleared outwards from
America for the British and Foreign West Indies
in the year 1859 was lOl, ,536 tons but this be-
ing the registered tonnage third should be added
to make the real tonnage" Of sugar it is said:
Z" The Southern provinces of the American States
never succeed in that article frosts and north
west winds will prevent. Attempts have been
made at New Orleans, and failed" Again: /" If
the American States should endeavor to pay their
debts, their commerce will be burdened with
duties andtaxes, and the lands and produce of
the farmers must for some time lie under very
heavy mpostions." The foreign debt of the
States was stated by Mr. Morris to be 81, 1856 Os5,
and the domestic debt $34, $500, on the LIST of
January, I763 or about nine millions sterling to-
gether; but there is reason to believe the total
amount is at least Ell 100000 sterling" Which
was right, Mr.. Morris or Lord SHEFFIELD!
We find some curious, but, upon the whole,
liberal and correct sentiments respecting Canada,
Nova Scotia, &C. "Nothing will preserve these
countries to US" says Lord SHEFFIELD, Gin a
future stage of settlement, but their own will and
consent; nor are they worth keeping on any other
terms" Again, upon this subject, we find L" In
competition with the American States, Canada and
Nova Scotia will have many exclusive advantages
We must reserve to our remaining colonies those
to which they are entitled. The inhabitants of
Nantucket and the fishing coast will migrate to
: Nova Scotia for the sake Of the superior advan-
tages of our fisheries, and from other parts of the
American States for different advantages, which
British subjects should exclusively have.'
Our author says: !" Our exports to the Baltic and
the countries north of Holland are equal to what
our exports to the American States were at any
time and more British shipping has been employ
ed to the north than had ever been employed to
the American States. Before the war very few
British ships went to the ports north of Philadel-
phia; they went principally TO the Southern
States.''
Whatever was then the amount of British ex-
ports to the north Of Europe, and 10 the United
States, they stood respectively, for ls49, as fol-
lows: to the nations on the Baltic and to Prussia
and the anseatic towns. e7,374,sll; and to the
United States g9,5O4,9O9. Of the former amount
more than g5,O0O,0O0 were exports to Prussia and
the Hanseatic towns, and full half Of that amount
should be deducted being really exported for the
use Of countries south of Holland. So that, taking
Lord Shefield's observation literally we should be
justified in saying that the British exports to the
United States are at this time least twice as much,
in proportion to those to the countries on the Baltic
and north Of Holland, as they were when Lord Shef:
field wrote.
Lord SHEFFIELD says, with some little bitterness,
America will have from US what she cannot get
: cheaper and better elsewhere, and what we want
from her she will sell to us as cheap as she will
TO Others But in other respects she will assume
tone of importance; she will partake of the ma
ture of netO men; she has indulged and will in
dulge herself in puerile insolence-in that, per-
haps, she will show herself not much unlike her
parent-bnt she has sense and Information all her
people, in some shape or other are commercial,
and in that line particularly they are knowing and
intelligent. The truth is, we want little of her
produce in Great Britain, coarse tobacco except
ed" How are the tables now turned 1t may
be said that England now depends upon the United