New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-02-07
Pence Movement In ENGLAND.

From the last London Herald Of Peace we
learn thai. s grand Peace demonstration to come
of At Manchester near the close OF January The call
for the Conference signed BY some two hundred
prominent names, like Bright Golden and Hume,
Joseph Surge and Edward Mall together with such
Christian Ministers as John Angel James John Harris
and James Campbell The address issued by the
Manchester Committee from which we copy the prin.
cipal part indicates the drt othe movement aimed
more especially against the financial results Of Eng
lands wsrpolcy and the statistics it gives ought to be
pondered well by the men at Washington who 80
ready to squander millions on millions for warpurposes
Young Amecais in this respect treading fast in the
footsteps of Old Europe aud the OF Increase in
our war expenses since the time of Washingtons
omy when they were little more than million snl q
quarter agar, we shall soon overtske and enout
strip European dcsposms this species prodgali,y
It = now more than hiTyseyen years since the last
great European War disersced common civibza
ton end brought the conflicting nstOns TO the verge OF
q general bankruptcy 10 20 have been expected,
that escaping from the horrors and spoaton OF that
nurderous and useless strife they would have employ
ed the blessings Of returning peace IN repairing the
mischief ef war; and that nrs grateful duty, they
would with settled purpose and without delay have
proceeded 90 tighten the burdens of grooming industry
by essening the huge ornaments that created All the
suffering and loss.
world In 1882 What after these thirty years Of
profound peace with certain distant and tishonorabe
exceptions during which golden opportunities for 70
turn 10 wiser safer, sounder policy have succeeded
e8ch other rapid succession through more than one
entire gcneraiionwhat we ask, are the existing a-t',
but thar standing 0rmaments ruOus taxation, ami NH
itsry oppression have fearuy increased, until the
whole Industrial market of the world labOrs beneath
pressure beyond any former parael-a pressure such
individual economy can lessen and irom which no
ingenuity can escape
The United Kingdom forms exception TO this mel
nncholy statement bu; confirms it in every particular
for while it. national debt has not been mat rally dmn
ished it, war establishment has been eartuy increased
In the space of seventeen years, namely from 1872 TO
1852 IT, armed men have been multiplied from 1850,
in the one period 272 ISL in the other being adj
dton in those comparatively few years. OF no less than
l26 36j men In srms.' And, a. liza blind fatality had
our leading statesmen with whom the lessons
from the past appear void as water poured upon
rock they have during the present year increased this
vast number by $4,000 men In the form OF militia, at
cost Of 1850 600 the country and more recently stu,
they have demanded and obtained for increased navy
another sum OF 100000 making together nearly one
million sterling taken from the income Of the Empire Ia
ls52 in addition to the large annual expenditure for sim
liar purposes
The above is, however, but one out of an Immense
number Of facts that might be addaced proof OF the
reckless extravaganza that chaTacterzes present
national poicy. In 1885 the whole cost Of the army,
navy, and ordnance OF Great Britain was 1867 4s7
sterling; in 1852 the charge tor the departments,
ncuding the kailre war, &c has risen to the startling
OF lbbUUfD, Dcing an increase OF no less IN
5l3 sterling, and this does include the e60O
coo recently added to the navy
The injury which this immense drain national
resources must infct cOmmerce 10 lncaculablc.
Take Manchester and Stafford al an instance their
united population Of about 10000 inhabtants accord
ing to the eSistng average OF taxation pay annually
for past present and future wars no ess than the
thing of SS75OCO; and no this rate such pOpu.
laiion, during the last thirty years Of peace will have
lest from their united for purposes alone
the almost overwhelming sum Of no less than twenty
has fpNa Of
two great boroughs could have accomplished with this
vast amount defes ell descriptions but IL is undeniable
that solid improvements, and on scale OF the most
nding magnitude In all the social, sanitary and
intellectual departments Of activity might have been
carried ont 10 their la completion by those resources
which through q system Of warlike extrsyagance ara
now for ever lost In the period, and for similar
purposes, the Industrious people OF Lancashire VIII
have rendered from their lawful earnings the still
more astonishing sum OF one hundred and htty nil
Ions sterling And the Inhabitants of the United King
dom al large viii have contributed 10 this extrayagant
outlay during the thirty years OF peace the perfectly
bewilderrg amount OF more than one thousand, two
hundred and my millions OF money ts6, go OJOOOJ)
Nor does the agricultural market suffer less In pro
portion than the manufacturing, Of which the following
statement j. a convincing ami melancholy proof IT,
60OOO0 lshOreTs, who with their families, amount %
nearly two millions and half o. the entire population,
viii receive wages Tor their whole years tod more
than fifteen millions sterling; while, for armed men alone,
the country will pay stated above, upward Of sxte
millions q money Tor the same space Of time. Thus the
ers OF the coil whose hard and honest labor provides
the substance Of cur daily bread, viii for that
labor two millions lees than in arns, who, Of ne
cessity must be ider IN the State except when
engaged IN tie work OF mutual destruction
The COMMITTEE therefore, put II b their enlightened
countTymen, ia the name Of humanity and common
sense whether they prepared % ST st and 10 Wit
ness with folded the frghtul increase under such
circumstance, OF system that must sooner or later
zap the very foundations OF society Whether tney
viii lock silently while tax upon tax, impOst upon
imI OFT sha be accumulated upon them un,1 the pent
I'd discomfort OF the masses % whose labor the Land
owes ell is wealth viii md escape bu' IN terrible
cCnyuoD that with ado force, shall lay PROSTATE
whatever : precious in the state Or whether By
Timely and determined effort in favor Of systematic nbi
traitor N lieu Of war they will preserve lasting pros
pery to the country, and undisturbed peace % the
world
PsIlsmsray PIssf or 1854! Zoe o. go fii 40 also
Tor 1875 81. %. s.
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tn P.riamenary "Blig--s' fos TIE ab.ys yrars