Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-11-06


Miscellaneous payments 2,l5O, 726
Total expenditure e54,002, 295
Total income 56,834, I'll
Surplus of income over expenditure C., s31, ZIG
This must be allowed to be very fair statement of
years business. The civil list is stated as being
e37l 800 but from this must be deducted 1852 957 re-
ceyed from the Crown lands, leaving the absolute
pense Of the Royal Household only Els, 843. 1t also
ought to be stated that although part of the Ell 900
paid the various branches of the Royal family is the
grant of 900 per to the present King of the
Begians when consort Of the Princess Charlotte Of
Wales yet no part of this money has for many years
been received by King Leopold The trustees after dis
charging certain annutes and pensions the establish
ment of the late Princess Charlotte repay the balance of
the annuity to the exchequer The repaid in the
last year CSC 000 1t is also cheering to find that
these allowances to the Royal family, which in 1913
amounted to e2o4, 2s6 per annum, reduced to
e171OOO.
. The movement which we noticed some weeks ago as
having commenced in India at Poonah has since spread
throughout the presidency of Bengal where document
isnow in the of signature headed The humble petit
ton of the British India Association and other native nha
bants of the Bengal presidency and addressed to the
House of Commons. 1t in every respect credi-
dence of the desire OF the Hindu for responsible govern
ment and shows the deep interest which the people of
India are taking in the question pending in Parla-
mentthe renewal of the companys charter The petit
toners remind the House of Commons that the Queens
government exercised by the companys officers
by law absolute depotc but restricted within consti
tutional limits, and comfortable by Parliament They
show that these restrictions have been many instances
eyaded or violated and they respectfully demand their
reenactment in clear, definite and unmstakeable Ian
guage. "They aware" they say, g that when the
rights of the people of England have been endangered
decaratory stauesof which the petition of rights is
signal nstance-have and been had
to- and have been found be highly valuable for the
assertion and maintenance of those rights" 1t sounds
strange to hear these voares of Brahma and Buddha
speaking the language of the good old Roundheads of
hundred years ago, and making themselves
stronghold of the great traditions of the Puritan Com
monweath. delegation from the petitioners is now on
its way to these shores for the purpose of rendering evil
dence to the committee of Indian inquiry similar
movement is going forward among the natives of Bonn
bay In Madras the editor of the Athenaum is at the
head of plan for combining natives and Europeans in
the same movement The sensation at Calcutta occa-
stoned by these proceedings is Of establishment at its
holiness and the Government organs there reprove the
petitioners for not having submitted their complaints
local inquiry before laying them the table of Para-
ment. 1t is remarkable, however that counter
the part of any class of the inhabitants has
even been spoken Of
The Daily News makes the following paragraph the
preface to very copious and free remarks upon
late speech of Mr. BENTON and deduces thererom some
strange arguments and conclusions respecting slavery
We shall endeayor make this extract apply to another
but cognate subject, which wish we could induce
others to see in the same light that we do
month by month now almost day by day, the inter
est of Engishmen in American politics is visiby the
increase 1t may be supposed from this that ngshmen
beginning TO the connexon of American politics
with those of Europe. 1t may be hoped that we are
growing mannery enough towards the Americans at last
to take pains to understand their constitution as
well as their usages. Nearly all the benefit of Sydney
Smiths rebuke Of the about their bonds
lost from his having made two mistakes offensive to
the Americans which half hours study of their
sttuon would have precluded He pettioned Congress
about the debts Of Pennsylvania with whose debts Con-
gress had to do than with those Of Austria or
the Queen Of Madagascar and he charged Pennsylvania
with reputation, of which offence she not guilty.
she did not pay punctually she ought but she
yer 'repudiaed her debts The most honorable ct-
zens Of the United States were naturally indignant
and hurt that the who said such sharp things
should have taken trouble learn those facts of the
case which should be known TO every schoolboy All
their schoolboys understand the outlines Of the British
constitution and would be guarded against any mistake
so gross as that Of confoundng the responsibilities OF
sovereign State with those Of the Federal
We every day reminded Of the truth Of the
ton that all American schooboys understand the out
lines of the British constitution and would be guarded
against any mistake gross that Of confoundng the
responsibilities Of sovereign State with those Of the
Federal Government" We are also every day reminded
that not person in ten in England knows any thing
about the American constitution dreams Of any dis
tncton between perhaps does not know their existence
the States and Federal constitution We afraid hall
the editors Of the British newspapers do not know how
many States there in the Union and we are quite
half the members of the House Commons now
about have any distinct ideas about the ma
ture and construction Of the Senate Of the United States
or the duties of its members. And, what is worse
very large portion Of the British public Of all classe.
keep babbng in ignorance and neglect all means and
opportunity Of enlightenment. But many American
affairs, and much which relates to American interests
American character, both public and individual Ameri
can progress and American fame fairly be-
fore the British public for want Of disseminating me-