Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-02-19


dreadful croakings and terrible forebodings spelling tn
appetite and running the digestion Of thousands, an
spreading gloom the otherwise happy family meal
For instance this very morning have long TRADE
about the certainty OF the next years clip Of wool ben
very short one, and an announcement that the mex
grain harvest will be very deficient The sheep in Aus
tras alive it is true and well aeeced but the
labor is immense and there to be hope that the
sale Of the wool will repay the grower for the cost attend
ing its production. Another ground of uncertainty il
respecting the amount the suHfcency of the home
growth Of wool There is vague supposition among
the manufacturers that they consuming beyond the
limits Of production but do all they cam they cannot
make out whether it is not: they know what they
consume but they cannot obtain the statistics of wool
growing In of the most important of the and
ends Of Government that Of furnishing the knowledge
home statistics as respects produce Great Britain is
cupably deficient No one knows theauantty either
Of wheat Of wool annually produced Nobody make
reliable estimate Of the number Of under tlage
for any particular cropal is guess random calculation
laundering speculation and often very unlookedfor and
unfortunate results The Daily News" in commenting
upon the subject, Says
"Why, in the ancient days. when the Romans set up
our first woolen manufacture at Winchester and when
they sent such specimens home Of primitive South
down short wool that their Emperors would dress in
thing less eminent than Winchester CLOTH there
to wool growing than there is When again.
res later the great Afreds godmother used to ence
her darling boy to bring his boke and read by her side
as she span when long wool, see by this di
vidng favor with the Winchester short it Of the
chief businesses Of the country TO know how the sheep
went how many died in hard winters and how much
wool was growing within the range of certain markets
When Edward ~ allowed his sister Margaret to make
money in her royal way by exporting two thousand
rams year Holland and Flanders, the brother and
sister knew very well how much sheepbreeding might be
allowed for expectation and above what wanted
for home use But we have no knowledge Of the sort
We are ignorant Of the statistics Of sheep
than our own fathers and grandfathers were"
There is not in England as in foreign Govern
mens Minister of Commerce but the functions of such
Minister discharged by the Board of Trade, and
though very far from complete effect
Since the creation of the statistical department in 1882
the business of that department is to obtain and prepare
statistical information to be laid before Parliament In
spite Of great errors such might perhaps be expected
occur the institution has been of inesmable value
and the thing must be done for agriculture
this department is doing for trade AS respects wool,
the interests not only Of the agculturs but also of the
manufacturer at stake. II Prince ALBERT to
promote plan for procuring agricultural statistics he
would do far greater good farming and farmers than
he will effect by breeding any number Of prize pigs
poultry,
Again we beginning to deal in very gloomy prog
noscatons respecting the next grain harvest Tens Of
thousands Of people in England would be glad to know
what has been the effect Of the rains of the last v months
the agriculture of these islands. There is doubt
great mischief has been done, but the question is how
much The uncertainty produces much uneasiness, and
must mischevous speculations We doubt whether
any knows how much autumn wing was prevented
by the rains Some persons say one-thrd others
half others two-thirds Is this ignorance wonderful?
1t is not ridiculous; it is cupable-culpabe in Gov
eminent not to remedy it, culpable people to submit
to it. Eitwere question bearing upon trade
features, 1t would in degree, be remedied But
are always cropping in vain and in the dark respects
agricultural facts Here it is where the agricultural
terest needs relief and here it is where free trade"
Government truly grant protection" the great
body Of land cutvators, and merely the few hun
bred thousands Of landowners; and, at the time
promote the best interests of free trade by spreading
knowledge Of the real condition Of the country in regard
TO production The Daily Necs says:
"We cannot 20 in this way. 1t is hazardous US
all and il is hard upon the farmers who have right
70 every facility that be afforded them for the wise
and prosperous management Of their affairs. The best
thing that Home Secretary could do for his own
fame and for the interests Of the kingdom would be
tablish plan for obtaining complete periodical return
Of agricultural statistics The thing must be done and
soon That was virtually settled when the laws
were repealed"
Nearly all the London Journals contain audatory
ces respecting the pursued by the United States
Government in relation to the Cuban treaty proposed
by Lord MALxEsBURY and NJ TURdoT. The Times says
To ask the United States to buy receive
never accept this island is simply folly All can do
or expect hope, is that their Government will not
abandon those great landmarks Of public law arising out
Of the immutable principles Of morality and justice
disregard the lighter but useful rules Of international
equity to acquire such prize All foes Of slavery
in America too win hope that Cuba may not be annexed.
Mr.. FILLMORE and Mr. EVERETT have not lost sight OF
the laws Of nations in this 1t remains TO be
whether Gen PIERCE and his Cabinet viii follow their
excellent and admirable example"
The Inquirer says:
Mr.. EVERETT used his opportunity to the uttermo.t
He was clearly in the right Looking merely to the
treaty proposed TO him, he perfectly entitled to
say very little about the prstcal expeditions and argue
the question general principles, whether America
ought for all time and under all circumstances to be de-
barred from holding Cuba, and whether the precious
equivalent offered by France England was worth her
having His letter to NJ SARrIGEs is not in the style
which accustomed to hear diplomatic personages
use in Europe Eloquent argumentstve and historical
il Isl sometimes running into dsquiston always OPEN
like every thing American to the charge Of being turgd
But the quality which makes il striking in eyes IS
the distinctness, the frsnkness and the bodness with
which asserts American claims enunciaes the rules Of
American policy, and vindcates American principles.
After striking Of the progress Of the power OF
the United States the gradual elimination Of the French
and Spanish rule from the American continent and the
annexation Of Texas of which Mr. Everetts opinion il
that there extension OF territory
urally or justihably made, the writer continues.
"No doubt this is oil admirably reasoned. But why
occasion given Mr.. Everett to read such lee
The Executive Of the States had already giver