The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-09-19

4 Lord Monteagle took advantage OF the com
/ mittee upon the .exchequer bills to discuss tn
financial position Of the country, the enormou
Ecost at which war was conducted, and the mod
/ in which the cost was betrayed He objecte
to the expenditure upon military establish
i ments at home, the issue of exchequcr bills a
a means of raising money, the waste OF pre-
ductiye source of revenue by the repeal of th
newspaper stamp act, and the liabilities assume
/ in contracting the Turkish loan, which, as h
urged, would give France the opportunity o
escaping from her share Of the burden ant
leaving us to pay the whole interest alone. Il
the course Of the debate earl Grey made re
markable speech He said that no mar in hi
senses believed that Turkey would be in exist
ence forty years hence, that England was get
ting ruinously involved, and that the result o
excessive taxation would be to force an artif
cial emigration to the United States and else
where to escape their burdens.
The following extract will be read with in
terest: @
Your 1ordships know the present state of that
most corrupt Of all governments the Turkish
government, and that it is notorious that, OF
the money which oughtto go into the Turkish
treasury for public purposes, no small proportion
goes into the hands of corrupt pashas and girl
ping moneyleaders. Your lordships will re-
number the distressed state of the Turkish
army in Asia last winter. By the concurrent
testimony of all the newspapers, the state to
which the army was reduced was, not because
Turkey had not sufficient sum of money
wherewith to pay the men, but because the
funds had been the subjectof unbounded pecu-
lation. In all countries there is disposition
to extravaganza in the expenditure of the gov
eminent money, but, in a country like Turkey,
that extravaganza and peculation it is impossi-
BILE to check. did not intend to advert to this
subject, but it has been incidentally raised by
my noble friend
Before sit down, as the bill before the house
provides another loan of f7,0O0, 900, it is i'm
possible for me to forbear expressing the alarm
and regret with which have received this pro-
posal for an additional loan. My lords, we
have already sanctioned a loan of f16,ooo, 600,
then there is the guarantee of the Turkish loan
which, in the most favorable view, is equal to
another loan of half the nominal amount,
f2, 500, 900, then the f7,00O,O0O, which the
government are now authorized to raise, making
/ total of f25, 200, 900, of borrowing, which
parliament has sanctioned in a single session.
My lords, | for one look with the utmost dismaY
IN such draughts upon the resources of the
country. My noble friend has already called
attention to the enormous amount of our pres
mt expenditure, for in addition to these loans
md our largely increased taxation, the expen-
ilture IS going on at rate that is truly fright
ul.- Cries ofhear.
BRAvERY.-A Michigan paper records an
lct of courage and devotion, that should rank
is hero among the demi-gods, that Kossuth
alked about. On the 25th of July last, a Mr.. |
7. u. Coons, with his son about II years old
md his brotherin-law, VIM. Dobbs and Mr.. |
Atwood, went to Austin's lake to fish. The
our took a boat and proceeded out into deep /
Eater, where they had not long been when
)odds (who was subject to epileptic fts) was
eIzed with paroxism. Coons Immediately
prang to his relief. In his efforts to control
he man, the boat was upset, and the four were
into the water. Neither could swim
ycept Atwood. All the rest went down. The
rst care of Atwood was to rescue the bow, L
nd get him to shore, which he did. He then t
turned to where Coons and Dobbs were living
the bottom clenched together some eight or
n feet below the surface. Diving down i'm s
edlately he laid hold of Coons, and tried to '
parate him from his companion. 1t was in r
lin, they were locked together with grasp of
owning men. Finding he could not Separate =
EN- he tried to reach the surface, hoping he '
uld get both into the boat, which had be- c
me righted, but bis strength was not sufficient q
ID he sank down again, when he Immediately i
dragging them along the bottom to o
shore, which he reached. Both were dead. P
We could not believe what subjoined (says e
writer IN Charleston Courier) if it were not Y
uched for by official returns A London pa
I OF some months back, gave synopsis of q
portion OF the returns, from which we learn a,
at one half of the population of England and
ales are unable to write their names. Dur 81
: the years of 1889, 1910, and 1841, out of a;
2, 1888 married, 304, $50 affixed their marks ne
the marriage registry, by way of signature.
Monmouthshire and Wales 46 males in 100 fir
d ia females in 100, were unable to write tL
'lr names, while in Chesire, 40 per cent. of tn
les and IS per cent. of females were SINH tn
~ disqualified. AT the Jail in Preston, Lam =
hlre, OF 1920 persons committed during the n,
ar 1854, 40 per cent. were unable to name su
months OF the year; 80 were ignorant of an
ielgnlng sovereign, AZ per cent knew not e.,
import of the words "virtue," .syice," and l 1p
ghteousness. ETC.; while Is per cent were wa
'ble to count one hundred. Incredible as me
nay appear, among the opinions as to her '0t
]esty's name, seven were favor of prince has
pert, while thirteen supposed it to be Eliza Tn
h. Their religious Ignorance is still more -:
'orab1e, 80 per cent never heard the name o't ~
The Saviour. ma
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SATIoNAL DEBT OF THE WoRLD--A new edi. P.
of "Fenn on English and foreign funds" ray
recently issued, gives statement of the co..; eoa
sting national debts of the principal coun- ''I !
OF the world This is interesting at this aga
2, when the contraction of additional debt is aud
likely to be forced upon all the leading r1of
ons of Europe at least. The aggregate Sion s,,
'unt OF European debts stated to amount to gat
644 841 900 of which the debt of England I
t775,923,O oO France f233, 400 600 aer
land, f1o2, 45l 900; Prussia, f5, 500 oee avn
sla' t68,ooo,0o0; Spain, 100000, 600; hou
gum, f26,o0o,0oo; Austria, fe11, 900: tlet
various countries of Central and South n niad
erica, Mexico and Cuba, have an aggre- are are
debt of f59 1888 28O The dobt of t IT