New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-18

ter Liverpool sId OlasSo", DeuIh S"u
Relfast. and other towns and cities, we
.hali find the town population greater aud
the country population less, by more 'han
half million, than it was al the previous
census. London thus Crews by the depop-
ulatnn Of Ireland, Scotland and India, as
Calcutta grows by the Capitalization Of the
wealth and power of lIindost4n, and as Rome
grew by the exhaustion and depopuiauon OF
Italy and Sicily, Greece, Egypt and Asia.
The monopoly of land grew with the
growth Of Rome, as it now grows with
the growth Of Calcutta and of LOndOn-and
the monopoly of land is the Capitalization
ofpower. Look wherever we may through
ont the British Empire, we find an increas-
ing tendency to Capitalization, the result
of a determination 10 tax the world for the
maintenance of British power over the
manufactures and trade of the world, and 1t
is to this system that Kossuth seems dis
posed to lend his aid, seduced thereto by the
magical CIV of free trade, issuing from the
throats Of men the adoption of whose policy
has produced state Of things that threat
ems to use the words of The London Times,
" general collapse" Of all British lnstitu-
tions. with the total destruction of the power
to aid Hungary or even to sustain herself.
The exports to the United States In the
past three years have averaged, as we are
told, ten shillings per head, while those to
Russia have been but six pence, and those
to Austria have been but four pence, and
thence it is inferred that an extension
Of British free trade would be attended
with increase of trade. That il would be
attended with increase of foreign trade, Is
not to be doubted but the great question Is,
would it be attended with increase in the
total quantity of trade That such would
not be necessarily the case, is proved by
the fact that notwithstanding the vast In
crease of population in America, we consume
far less iron and far less cotton and wooden
cloth than we did three years since, and that
of what we do consume, large portion Is
now bought on credit, where before we
paid for all we bought. That it would not
probably be the case, is proved by the fact,
that until the formation of the Zoilcerein,
| the consumption of cotton in Northern Ger
| many was very small, and tended very
slowly to increase, whereas, since the
adoption of protection, the increase has been
most rapid That it certainly would not be
the case, will, we think, be manifest TO any
one who studies the rapid growth of manu-
features in Russia, and the improvement in
the condition Of its people, and then COM
pares this with the exhaustion and depopu-
ton of Ireland, Portugal, and India and the
other countries subjected to the Manchester
system of free trade"
Throughout the world freedom has come
with the growth of wealth and population,and
it has diminished as wealth and population
have declined. The population and wealth of
| Britain have declined and are declining, and
hence it is that her municipal Institutions
are gradually disappearing and centraliza-
ton, or despOtism, is increasing. The pepu-
laton and wealth of Ireland have diminished
and are diminishing, and, therefore, it is that
we see all the land Of the kingdom chang
! ing hands under a law of Parliament that SUI
persedes the modes of proceeding under the
laws that have grown with the growth of
the people, and that should have strength
ened with their strength. The population
and wealth of India have diminished and are
diminishing, and hence it is that after ruin
ing the village prOprietors and the large
landed proprietors that succeeded them, the
courts are now" as Mr.. Macaulay in
forms us, inactive for want Of somebody
to ruin" Look where we may, h5e rty de-
clines under Manchester free trade, and it
does so because this whole tendency OF the
system is toward centralizaton-toward
the accumulation of power in the hands of
the few at the expense Of the many. Pro-
lection is an act OF resistance 10 the system,
and 1t is because the people of Northern
Germany have adopted protection against
the BRUSH system that liberty is now grad
ually making its way, ultimately to triumph
over espOtism-because BELGIUM has
adopted protection against the system that
it is now the freest and most tranquil pOr-
ton of Continental Rurope-and because
this country has adopted protection against
the system that its people are able to con-
sumo almost four times the quantity, per
head of cloth and iron that is consumed IN the
adjoining British Provinces, subject, as they
are, to the cenrahzing and destructive sys
TEN OF Manchester fee trade.
NorE-The above article has been Ia type and
deferred fer several weeks, which accounts for is
reference u an event SO remnie a. iha Manrhsster