New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-08
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
From Our spssid Correspondent.

reverse-and spropcs Of that, let me glance AT the
last important news on that head from F,.n.s
Ny long residence in France makes me familiar
with the inner political feeling Of French states
men ard publicsts on the question Of Free trade.
They are clever fellows, tnese Frenchmsn They
have Free. trade headquarters in the Rue vivi
enne, where they publish tho Journal des Eeono.
miats and lots Of French Frss-trade books, and
Michel Chevsllier about the cleverest Of the get,
enunciatcs Free trade in every form, and, on the
strength of his reputation gained thereby one Of
the rigbt-hand nen of Louis Bonsparts, and in
the Cabinet of that person. OF course, the
Governments Free-trade linen Is primari-
~ washed by n Chevallier; and what is
the result Just what anybody but an American
Free. trade lunatic would expect-an increase, as
We just learn, of duties. 30 that is the way they
do in France-their free-trsders in Office raise the
tariff In fact, the French manage these things
better than we. II lis so cheap to have magnif-
cent set of theories on the subject of Free trade for
the foreign public eye, and then practice for the
national interests dlrecly the reverse. In Austria
they are not 80 wise. They have just gone into
Free trade, snd, according to THE TRIBUNE's
European Correspondent, A P. c., with such disas-
t,ous results that the new policy will eventually have
to be reversed. But A. P. C. is wrong in calling
(Britisb) Free trade, Adam Smiths theory.
Read him attentvely, and it will be found that he
denounces that swndle. Blessed is the country
that has iron, and coal intermeshed with it, and
blessed is the United States; but against this
radical interest, aid especially against Pennsyl
yania-WhO has eaten so much Southern drt-has
Southern British Free trade policy been directed.
l am quite of opinion that recital of the private
ruination of this quarter, arising from the insane
political butchery of Pennsylvania interests, would
as we'll merit place in history rs the best red
tape chapter; but it is buried in the reservoir of
the unrecOrded lost. This much, however, re-
naming of fact, that the domestic, and hence
national, interests of this region being MANFRED
with the decayed fortunes of those sacrificed by
crazy legislation at Washington, the present iron
men simply desire to be let alone, and beg for no
more tnkerng, as they have touched bottom.
Are we in New. York fully aware of the resources
of this State, and the money to be made by look
ing into her mountains There would be less
FIee.trad stuff ard nonsense in Wall and Pearl
streets were the full treasures of Pennsylvania bet
ter known, ard the same effort made for develop
ing them that there has been for mining them.
But this much is certain that owing to intrinsic
resources enabling her to bear up against what
would have crushed England in the time of William
Ill, Pennsylvania is now getting out OF the
woods. She is cow unquestiOnably richer than the
oc nd xvil a. fha VT
show herself far ahead. But, why should it be
otherwise? The Over-devOtion to nero commerce
In the City Of New-YOrk has lessened the indus
trial resources Of the State; has left her mines I'M
touched, shut up all her wooden factories, lowered
the ratio of bushels to the acre, and Injured her
agricultural intere.ts to aid those Of Canada.
paid visit the other day to Friend Hallowel's
six establishment which is local, or rather ma
tional, curiosity, being the largest shop in the
world. 1t is a jobbing- five stories high,
over 800 feet long, and propOrtionally wide Ev-
erything is ordained with Quaker neatness, and
sold with Quaker fairness. The arrangements for
the sgOnes and OutgOngs OF the goods are perfect,
as well as various departments. Among other
conyeniences which struck me, are rooms for the
customers to read and write in, where some fifty
newspapers are taken, including six copies of The
TRIBUNE. In the basement is dining-haD where
meals are served. In a word, the establishment is
curiously complete and when any one speaks of
Philadelphia as provincial because she has no
Broadway advise them to visit Friend HalOwels
and other shops approximating it in size. The
term, public buildings, has ceased to have any sig
nifcsnce as indicative Of size or grandeur, when
we here nave q shop covering more squsre feet
than the Exchange or the Custom. House Of New
York.
The terrible disaster-the giving way of Reed
street " harf-by which so many lives were lost is
before the CorOner's Jury, but the cause why the
wharf gave way is as nebulous thus far as that of
most American accidents. In Europe the Govern.
ment reserves the right Of putting people to death,
az the wars from 1890 (not going further back to
1856 will show. But that apart, Governments
there protect life. Government Engineers aud
Architects prevent nearly every accident which
makes our journals drip with blood every day.
Wharyes in HAVE, Bremen, st. Petersburg.
and Southampton do not give way. Reason why;
they are inspected by Government officers, educa-
ted in Government schools. Neither do houses
burn down, for the same reason. Take, too, tae
last Report of the Prussian Government on Bail
ways for the year 1855. Here is nation nearly
as pepulous as eur own country, and in
the whole course of the year there are three
accidents from railrcads-one of them death, and
two of them occurring in the st.siOnhouse and due
entirely to the esrelessness Of the sufferers them
selves. What commentary ca the death seeking