The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-06-30

JUNE 30, 1859,
them, and it became so indispensable to increase
their number, and especially to augment the
force of inspectors, laborers in the public stores.
and private watchmen, that in 1854 the expendi-
ture for collecting the revenue had increased to
Sl,1S6, Jas, and upon the earnest circumstances
OF our federal officers and merchants q still fur
Their number of employees were engaged 10
1878. Yet in 1853 the value of exports from
New York was only $s5 ,669,S65, while for the
six months closing today of 1859 they have
reached the sum of over $6O,OOO,OOO. The value
1859 they have been for only half year
l27,776,44S; and the revenue collected here
for 1858 was but $26,476,73l, while up to the
LIST of July, 1859, 1t will have amounted to
$l9,500,0Oo. Yet, in the face of this prodigious
and unprecedented increase of business, aud
with the experience of past years calling for
| an increase rather than diminution
| Of clerical force in the New York Gus
tom House, Mr.. Cobb proposes to discharge
tomorrow two hundred employ s of the govern
ment, including clerks, measurers, gaugers
weighers, laborers, foremen, &C., who ore absO
lutely necessary to provide for the daily require
ments Of the public service.
The cost of collecting the revenue in New
York has by no means increased, within the past
decade, in proportion to the increase of trade.
| In 1s4S the imports into New York were valued
at $50, 3l5 1863, and the exports at S45,S63,9l6.
In 1857 the imports were $22s, III, 1914, and the
exports between s115,OOO,O0O and s12OOoO,OoO.
The imports and exports this year, up to the
present time, exceed any sum ever before known
during any six months in the history of the
commerce Of the country and we feel safe in
prognosticating that If the step which the Secre-
tary of the Treasury proposes taking is persisted
in, an outburst of discomfort among our mer-
chants will be the first consequence, and angry
accsmations on the subject during the early part
o. the next Congress the second.
The New British Cabines-Tt Bearing on the
War In Italy.
The new British Cabinet presents remarka-
BILE combination of representative men in the
liberal party of England, who have for a long
time had their differences with each other on
matters of domestic policy, and have now come
to act together at a time when the higher ques-
ton Of external security takes precedence Of
that of local reform.
Though 1t cannot be called, in the strict sense
of the term, Cabinet of all the talents, it
combines men of great talent from every
section Of the party, under the leadership of a
man whose liberalism is that of the lip rather
than of the heart, but whose protean politics
evince wonderful facility of play whenever
the question of retaining Office comes up. Lord
Palmerston represents himself alone. Lord John
Russell brings to the government the support of
the aristocratic Grey Mimic clique. Mr.. Golden
brings that of the solid men of Manchester and
the radical reformers. Lord Granville repre-
sents the moderate section of the old federated
aristocratic class interests Lord Elgin may be
said to represent the honest, practical, common
sense of England. Mr.. Gladstone belongs to the
Peelites, and Mr.. Miner Gibson comes from the
| liberal side of the aristocracy.
Thus it will be seen that the aristocratic ele-
ment is strongly represented, but from those Sec
lions of it that see the necessity of accepting
liberal principles, and bound together by the
true liberals, who find the best axioms of politi-
cal science in the merchants ledger, and its true
aim in the greatest good Of the greatest num-
Der. In questions of domestic character, of
reforming abuses at home, extending the fran
| chise, and the internal policy Of the country
| generally it is not probable that these men
will agree. 1t is far more likely that there
will be continual chickering's among them, which
| will, however, be passed over or patched up as
long the question of its foreign policy is the pa
ramount one for the consideration of the English
| government. The course of events, too, will
naturally tend for time to bring about this re-
suit. AS long as the danger of general war in
Europe exists, the public mind Of England cannot
be brought to any excited divisions on purely
local questions. This Cabinet, therefore, having
been constructed purely with reference to the
foreign policy Of England, it is in that light
and the bearing it may have on the affairs Of
Europe generally, that it must be considered.
The whole Continent is contemplating at the
present moment the contest between two of its
greatest military monarchies, one Of them SYM
pathiGng with, and fighting the battle of the
nationalities and the other defending the cause
of the sovereigns and the existing order of
things, political and territorial The last British
Cabinet was overthrow because its sympathies
carried it too far in favor Of the cause opposed
to the growing rights Of the people. So far as
this goes, it is great victory to the policy Of
Louis Napoleon, and taking his Milan manifesto
as the honest expression Of his intentions, it is
for him complete victory. He declares that
the sole object Of the war is to free Italy, and he
wishes to carry it no farther. The position in
which England is placed by the advent of the
new Cabinet throws all her influence on the side
of combining the war to the italian peninsula,