New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-01-06

That France is rapidly taking the leadership of
Europe and that the star of England pales before
that of her ambitious neighbOr, is now generally
admitted. The one gained position in the recent
war, while the other almost wholly lost it; and yet
the events of the war itself scarcely so sgnlh
cant as are those OF the peace that since has fol-
lowed The Conferences of Paris are now reOpened,
and at whose dictstiOn That of France. Englsnd
has yielded all assent at last, and while doing it
most uDgraciOusly, her journalists seek to amuse
the world with assurances of the continuance Of an
entente cOrdiOle wholly repudated by those of
France. Forty years since the litter was hOorei
at Waterloo and England reigned almost s9preme
in Paris Now, The course Of things is altered
the law being given by France aud received by En-
gland. The change is great but not as we think,
greater than is to be accounted for BY the following
facts.
In lS2l, the official valuation of the real property
of France was 39, "a, 100000 francs, or nearly
~, 600 900, 000. la 1850 the Legislative Assembly
ordered new valuation, which was made in 1851
and the results of which are now, as we believe,
'or the fret time given 10 the world. These re-
suits are found in the wonderful fact that in the
short period of 30 years the money value OF real
estate has more than doubled-its present amount
being no less than So 744, O0O 900 francs or above
sic, coo, 0C0OG0. Power having grown in every
country with the increase in the value of land We ale
led TO find in this extraordinary growth key to the
changes thai are now taking pace. But forty years
inCe, thetoal annual value Of the land OF Great Brit
ain aud Ireland was $40, sjO00 Thirty yearslater,
England showed slight increase, but SO recently as
1851 the total change effected amounted to only
G300sa SEQ. ireland, in the mean time had greatly
fallen and the total value was probably even less in
ISL than il had been in 1913.
1t will however be said that the French returns
include hOutes in cities Sc well az land, while these
of Engsnd are confined 10 land alone and that some
compensation may thus be found for the ex raordi-
nNy difference above established. Such however.
is lot the case The increase of the population Of
the Unttd Kingdom in the thirty years was little
more than 323 per cent, and the number of houses
grew in nearly the same proportion. Great Britain,
however, is certainly richer than she was in s?l.
She has mere ,hps, steam. engines, railroad and
other stocks She has these; but how httls they
can he relied up n for bringing her movements up
TO level with those OF France will be seen BY the
following statements. The totil annual value of
lands houses, facUIes, canals, railroad, ard other
fixed property in England in 1915 was ity.txo
millions. Twentytight ye'D later in lS45,
The amount was eighty-sye millions OF pounds
In the same period there had been so
great decline in Ireland as to warrant Us
in assuming the increase not TO have exceeded
80 per cent ina period of rearly the same dura-
ii,n that gave in France above 100 per cent.
Again, the total amount Of capital that passed BY
vii, subject to legacy and probate duty, in ISL
and lsls was E6S 80 zee; giving an spnusl aver
sge Of E%l CCoec0. lalSl7 sni l>i@ the aver |
see was ga, EO 90; g.sIg 81 ajysn:e Of ibou: !
Ter cent. T-A;ag The d!a;5euee OF tae.e :so |
qualities, AZ s!oSag IA, pr'gc-! 2iss' y |