The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-10-20

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Scotland has eliminated most Of the business
and hum)-and yet there is multitude of peo-
pie and great deal Of momentous work re-
naming and doing, in this queer deserted vii
lage. The Queen at Balmoral, and her Min
irters no more in Cabinet but starting from
Highland shooting boxes, to make speeches
just to keep the game alive, do not loom on the
public with the potency of concentration at
tached to them in Town; and other agencies,
which would no doubt assert themselves we're
the entire Government in Town. assume a
predomnatiug magnitude as the index to the
complex present and portentous future.
Money-the sensitive plant, which, if you
touch leaf the whole shrinks and shrivels up,
as if the little branch could paralyze all above
and belOw-is the monitor Of the times The
funds have fallen mot regarding huctuations)
ten per cent. 4. c. the national credit repre-
senting fl00, can be bought for ego. There
are several things contributing to this result
such as jobbing in the smaller way, and, we
must not in our respect for enormous wealth
call it jobbng but specializing in the million
aires, which have nothing ado with real nation
al strength or ability to pay its obligations.
But, although heterogeneous they are not only
explicable but potent types Of a monetary con-
dit'on the reverse OF satisfactory. A deficient
harvest, and the necessity for purchasing grain
in foreign markets not over abundantly sup
piled by the crops of the corn countries and
checked by untoward circumstances is drain
ing the country of bullion and "a statisticians
will maintain the doctrine that gold is not only
the measure of value, but value itself it follows
that the inevitable reduction of the quantity,
in consequence of the existing state OF affairs,
is equivalent to certain pressure of poverty,
the contraction OF the circulating Medium,
the enervatiOn OF every species Of industry,
and the rise of prices upon diminished means
The funded panic and the advance in cost of
the chief necessares of life, are already the
outward and visible signs of this unenvable
condition, aggravated by the painful conviction
that 1t must be worse before IL is better And
another of the most unfavorable symptoms is
to be recognised in what are called the Strikes
and striking they are at the very foundations
OF the social system, as now const tuted
We have, through every organ and breath
OF public opinion, been 80 loud in trum peting
the vastness of our national prosperity, the re-
suit of Free Trade, that it is not TO be wonder
ed at when the producing classes 10y no means
slow OF low in their own estimation) should
stand up and say, I'VE do all this; let us have
a larger share in the emoluments of the pro-
digious Improvement hang your statistics and
poticO-ecOnomi it is we " no make the honey
as yet, we do not mind supporting Queen,
but let Us all be comfortable and happy; the
upper ranks can take care of Themselves
Such is the ranging spirit of England at this
moment, and though +" at this moment there
is little to evoke 1t farther to a perious extent
az sure as these letters are written from Eu.
rope to America, the condition we have indi-
Gated is most truly the beginning of the end"
Taylleyrand was not, on small scale more
prophetic than we are on more extensive
sphere; and, sooner than may be supposed, the
Era may boast of its vaticination.
la France matters are perhaps more imme-
diately threatening, though in the gagged voice.
lessness of the press nothing is heard of the
mining within. The Emperor and his despot-
ism are endured as lesser evils than anarchy
and bloodshed but hunger will listen to no
comparisons
A starving Frenchmsn conditions knows
But bid him go to h, to h he goes;
and the endeavor to furnish Paris with cheap
bread, below the market price, by an organi-
nation of modified pauperism, must recoii on
the inventors, if it succeed in warding off the
evil for a season.
it is some consolation to mark steps of progress
in other things which must result in benefits
to mankind. Your journals tell US of vessels
to cross the broad Atlantic in six days: We
have here, upon the tapis and not yet made
public, the claim to discovery which will ac-
complish the transit in half that time !! All
we can intimate ~ yet is, that the claimant is
Mr. SAINT, the celebrated house decorator, and
for nt To nd al
Iron roads and electric wires have made the
whole world KIN, and it only requires that the
said world should be enabled thus quickly and
pleasantly to interchange visits, in order tc
make it Happy Family, culavating mutua
enjoyments and detesting strifes 1t is ouriou
to contemplate the modern Iron Age welde,
on the ancient (now literally the Californian
and Australian) Golden Age, contributing t,
produce such blessed effects.
Our shipping has suffered considerably from
the equnoctial gales, and the cholera remains
though AZ yet nearly restricted to the localities
i'm Northumberland where it first broke out
Immense activity and all kinds Of exhortations
are now exerted against the fearful malady
For 30 big ruminant az John Bull, he is as.
suredly the most slngularly impulsve of NIL
Misunderstanding in nothing like grave, steady
bovine but by fts and starts, like Il water wag.
tail. And 30 the cholera, having found him
unprepsred, he is making a terrible fuss about
| the cholera.
You are aware that the inhabitants of Glas-
gov drink more whiskey than thrice their
number 10 any other quarter of this kingdom I;
but you will be surprised to be told, as the re-
suit Of this habtual drunkenness, that the
Spirit moves them 60 oppose every innocent
recreation on the Sabbath day. They mob
steam boats and try to stop locomotives and it
is with much difficulty that decent person
can get away from the intoxication of the
scene, for any purpose of relaxation, or work
OF necessity We IN ght look for cholera here
Ia Tu'cany, the arrest and Imprisonment Of
Miss Cunninghame, for distributing Protest
ant tracts among the peasantry, is creating a
fierce stir, little storm in slop-basin but
upon the same antagonism which animates the
millions of the Greek church aud the Ma
hometans. Truly Religion bears strong re-
semblance to the Czar--the Pacl6cator be-
coming the Disturber Of the world.
From India and China our news il scanty
The insurgents arc said to be marching to-
wards Pekin. The Governor General was on
his way To Burmah, to organize the c0nquests
there. The country IL suffering much from
famine, and both natives and invaders are per-
ishlng in numbers by disease.
In Spain, tho Sersundi Ministry has evapo.
rated, and another clique been appointed in
lieu thereof; about which fall and rise nobody
seems TO care the value Of Spanish chestnut.
REPORTED DECLARATION OF WAR BY TURKEY
AGAINST RUSSIA.
The American steamer Atlantic arrived at
New York yesterday, with London and Liver