Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-10-26

How LoNG.-It is something of an element to be
taken into account in connection with the duration of
the present European war, how long it will be, at
the present rate before the burdens of debt imposed
on the Governments of England and France will be
beyon the power of the people TO stand up under
at all England has already added some thirty mil
lions OF pounds to her national debt of some
eight hundred millions, funded and unfunded France
has added sxty-six millions, and the current year
threatens TO add as much more and as the war pro-
crosses and lis theatre widens, it is reasonable to
suppose that its expenses will rather increase than
decrease. Indeed, the of the allies by enabling
them to advance farther into the heart of Russia
would take them farther from the sea, which is the
base of their operations, and consequently increase
the expense of transporting supplies and munitions
of war, for We may be sure that they draw none
from the country they may occupy; the desolatlng
policy Of the Russians is too we'll known for that. If
they have to retreat they will leave behind them
only barren waste The British taxation during
the present fiscal year amounts TO three hundred
and sixty millions of dollars, Whereabouts. How
great the amount in France is we hardly say
Taxation in France has not been as largely increased
by the war, for several reasons, the main one being
that under every change and revolution she has uni
formly adhered to the rule of in peace preparing for
war. Her military organization equipments, drill
arms, commssariat, ETC., really meant something and
were fit for service, unlike the British, which was
system of anstocratc shams. France drew the
resources she had prudently prepared cheaply and
we'll during a series of years. England went in un-
prepared, rather impeded than benefited by her
miserable system-going into a pushed market and
l. l.1F l.
atere, through the imbecility of worn-out routine
France also gets men cheaper. She drafts them by
means of the CONSUMPTION. England goes about the
world begging them, at any price, and can't get them
then. The national debt of France is comparatively
SMALL and she has no such dread of Increasing it al
presses on her awfully -burdened neighbor and
therefore, has depended more loans than on in
creased taxation.
But the question returns-how long can Englant
keep adding annually five millions of dollars TO thu
yearly taxes, raised from her already over burdeneC
subjects, for to that this progressive increase of he
Indebtedness amounts, while in the case of Franc,
1t Is nearer fifteen than five millions? The poin
must soon be reached at which lies BANKRUPT
cy, revolution, OR peace. Five, nay three years vii
bring things 10 pass tending to drive capital TO thu
United States, and capitalists and manufacturers anC
Workmen. This war cannot exist ten years as
great war. 1t is financially impossible 1t mus
cease or degenerate into mere blockade
We have taken less account OF the financial condi
ton OF Russia. That, too, must be bad The wa
must be terribly exhausdng. The mere absrac
ton OF labor from the fields is exhausting in tn
extreme and this exhaustion is not to be measures
simply by the number of men and horses actuall
counted as being in the military service This is nc
half nor third OF it. So scattered is the empire thu
of every force dispatched to the seat of war, on
third, on average fails to reach it, Without an
thing worth being called roads, with territory s
sParsely settled, the conveyance of supplies and mil
tary stores abserbes the labor of men and oxen
whole provinces, while the passage of an armv ca,
up the supplies upon which the peasantrv depenf
This state of things combined with the rigorous BLOCH
ade must tell fearfully upon Russia. In fact,
though there is sort OF truth in the remark tn;
Russia is inexhaustible in men and labor and II
Allies in money, still, this must be taken wit
many grains of allowance. The present tension cal
not be kept up many years by either partv witho
ruin. The War must either languish or come IN o
end, or ruin or revolution will be the consequence
Christopher Robbins was tried at the late Wix
Superior Court, Judge Baily presiding, for the mu
der of his slave Jim, and convicted and sentenced
death. He has appealed to the Supreme Court.
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