Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-09-23
NATIONAL fNTELLIGENCER.
FROM CURL oND ON CORRESPONDENT.
LONDON, AUGUST 81, 1854.

ing Engllshman has started on MS annual tour.
Neither Regent street nor Belgravia know of his
whereabouts his friends at the club or the coffee
house cannot form an idea where he may turn up"
Capel Court is comparatively silent and the Royal
Exchange is deserted. Some of the wanderers,
with long purse and long vacation, are vending
their way to Niagara or the Prairies of the West,
or to Mont Blanc or the Himalayas, or the Noun
tains of the Moon in the East Wherever civilized
man has trod, and in places where civilization
is yet stranger, may the wandering Englishman
now be sound. Even the avowed cockney puts his
Murray in his pocket and few neccssaries into car
pet-bag and starts continental to@r." The i'm
pulse for adventure, which seldom allows the Anglo
Saxon blood to agnate has caused thousands Of English
abroad to roam," with the feelings Of SO many
Chde Harolds, and the spirit Of romance as ac-
tuated their ancestors thousand years ago. or course
there is such scope for the energies Of the traveller as
existed before the world mapped out as il is at pre-
sent The Anglo Saxon has laid its hands on the
greater and best part of entire contnent the West
John Bull has appropriated the lions share Of the riches
Of the East he has found out continent Aus
traa, and has taken possession Of it and its gold; in
short he has home in almost every land, and at this
time is to be found in almost every place except his ma
tive home and his accustomed domicl Let strive to
catch few gmpses Of the Rowing Englishman" hit
tie home Ramsgate and Margate, and Dover and
Hastings and Cromer and Scarborough have their hotels
crowded with visiters and their beaches lined with
bathers. The mountains Of Wales are no longer ga
mountain solitude and the lakes Of Cumberland have no
tslack of company" Engishmen are in full feather in
Scotland, and the never more attractive The
flash of Mr. DIsnAELs fowlingpiece is more successful
than the fash of his w.t. Lord DERBr trumphs in
the field than the Senate and Lord JOHN RUSSELL seeks
the revving breezss of the NORTH to fan cheek pald
the fatigues of business.
Who viii say this is not the age Of progress? Even
grim vsaged war; seems to have smoothed its wrn-
killed. 'front.'" and to have become in degree soften
ed by the amenities Of life the facilities Of intercourse
and more correct appreciation by one nation of an
others worth. War conducted upon the principle
that it is better to sacrifice time and matere than human
life and that the value of victory not to be measured
by the amount of what the Duke Of WELLINGTON called
"the butchers BILL" Mr.. GLADSTONE has also intro
duced the busnessike mode Of conducting the war
that each year shall pay its own expenses Too great
Importance cannot be attached to the admirable principle
of raising within the year the expenditure Of the year.
1t is evident if had been had loans in the first
year. that mischieyous consequences would have arisen
Impeding future operations. The abstraction of capital
from trade and other purposes would have been great
hindrance to business weakening its and d.
minshiHg its profits. The money being distracted and
spent the would have been lost and could only
have been recovered by repeated distractions seriously
weakening the money market and the tone and character
of business by every successive operation In the place
of oan to be repeated for each successive expenditure
the House of Commons gave hearty support to Mr..
GLADsToNEs proposal for increased taxes The state of
the expenditure and of the to are
in round numbers, as follows:
Additional property tax and malt and spirit
duty ,OOO,O0O
Old expenditure army, navy, and ordnance. lS500000
Permanent peace surplus, now and during
war, expended 5000
GSO,00O,OOO
This sso, 900 may now be considered as the re-
sources provided to meet the war; being the ordinary
votes during peace, and the peace surplus to be
pended 200, and additional taxes imposed ex
pressly war taxes E1O,000,000 Further to provide
the in the interim whilst these reaiz
ing Ministers have 000 900 of Exchequer bills voted
them by Parliament, ready money supply for present
purposes be repaid Of the proceeds of the year.
Thus instead of draining the country of money per-
manenty njuring the of the country and
atng debt to be paid, with its annual interest by pos
teriy the people of the present day have been taxed
about 7s each per whilst the lasts in order
to be free from oil additional debt taxation at its close
The younger PITT, with oil his talent for raising money
W
Quoted financially upon this principle, peace when it
comes, brings all the blessings Of peace. In place Of
exhausted country increased debt and increased taxation
to pay the interest the country will be instantly relieved
when peace is secured by the repeal of the
annual taxes which paid for the We believe that
Mr.. GLADsToNE's system Of finance will achieve this
triumph.
So far respects politics think the plot is thicken
ing. The great scheme Of European policy which
framed complacently by the csnquerors in the last
great war is melting away in the first heat of
fct No rejecting person can, think, be surprised
There probably number of persons and those among
the best Of their respective nations who entirely dis
Interested the distribution Of power and of territory
and who contemplate the struggle with such emotions
,nly arise from sympathy with the right and faith in
Che progressive improvement Of mankind These men
probably desire that great questions should be set
ded at once considering they would only be injured by
delay. The Daily News says:
eve, the people of Great Britain being blessed
70 be in cordial union with Sovereign and in posses
sion Of representative institutions the true posi-
tion for contemplating the movements abroad and fore
casting the future Living in peace and satisfaction ut
home, having restless territorial ambition to crafty,
and noble duty and privilege being to aid the right
shSe-securty from retrogression-we can calmly and
imparay survey the great field Of political action where
Preparations going for the central questions which
will follow the opening of the Eastern conflict"
Let take brief survey of Europe and endeavor to