The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-12-03

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Northern contemporary rsmarks that the ms
terisl progress d The untted stsses ~ always
been % great thaf q h dsul. rsaiise that Any
other country, evsa Great Britain, hss advsseed
also. our new seetlsments extend - rapidly rasi.
roads multiply; cotton, wheat and corn crops In
crease at such = rate; population swflls ana
wealth accumaiates 90 rapidly IN our cities, that
ws fancy there 10 no countxy under the sun 20
compare 10 cur own. "Yet Great Britain has
thriyen In sorne respects even faster. Her com.
m.rc,.I mar,.e within the last four years, has
bsen more prosperous than ours. Hsr manufac-
tures have enriched her more rapidly. In bat few
things indeed does she fall behind Us: and her In
seriortty I'm these she owes probably to her dense
population and her aristocratic form Of govern
ment. Liverpool grows nearly a. fast 40 New
York; London accumulates wealth even faster
In word. successful ~ we are on this aide of tbs
Atlantic the British people are hardly less 20, In
spits Of many disadvantages.
Nor does this prosperity show any sign Of dini.
mutton, unless the present monetary troubles
shall put check 70 IL suddenly. On the contrary,
trade exhibits steady increase, pauperism de-
creascs, the accumulations Of the people in wealth
move on In an arithmetical ratio.
tsThe first nine months Of the present year ex-
hibit an increase in exports over the FIRST nine
months of 1855, Of fftyve millions Of dollars and
one hundred and thirty millions of dollars over
the corresponding months of 1885, The increase In
fact, 1885, 10 nearly 5opsr cent. The shipping,
entered inwsrds and outwsrds displays an even more
favorable result. In the frst nine months OF 1855
ii was eleven thousand four hundred tons; in the
Fret nine months OF 1855, thirteen thousand two
hundred and eixty tons; to the first nine months
1851, fifteen thousand three hundred tons
Transports, with government stores, are not inclu-
ded in this estimate, so that portion of this in
crease has arisen from the The United States,
prosperous they have been, cannot show q better
balance sheet than this.
"The welfare of the people at large has advanced
in proportionate ratio. On the aret of July 1857
the population of England and Wales, according
the Registrar General, two hundred and fifty
nine thousand more than the first Of July, 1856.
The number of paupers during the Statistical year
which ended in the middle Of 1857, had diminished
! by more than twolve thousand, decrease Of over
one per cent. In abe-boded paurers, the falling
| OF was even greater, nearly three per cent,
showing row much easier employment WAS TO be
had than formerly. 1t would be well for us 10 pom
der over these facts. They show that the thor
ouehHess with which everything is done in Great
Britain does not resrd her prosperity but that she
grows, ia most material affairs, almost rapidly
new country like this. whore nothing hardly
is thoroughly dons. Perhaps we might learn a
lesson, If we chose, from this very progress. Tho
time has come, probably, when 1t wsuid pay Us to
initiate England in more than one mater connec-
ted with material advance"