The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-10-02
THE INTIMATE RELATIONS OF ENGLAND
AND THE UNITED STATES


The London Chronicle of the 9th September,
contains interesting article on the relations of
Young America and Old England, the principal
points of which will be found below:
The government and people of the United States
are at the present time occupied with completing
the census of the country, and it is expected from
returns which have been already received from
some parts of the Union, that the population will
De 1ound to be equal to what we must still continue
TO call "the mother country Whatever may
have been the conduct of the parent towards the
chid or the child towards the parent and although
the Americans live no longer under the parental
root their natural relation towards each other still
stahus out broadly, distinctly and unaterably-
\ oung America is the sturdy, noble and freedom
loving son of Old England; and Englishmen regard
the progress of America with an interest which
they do not feel in other nations and are proud of
progress and prosperity of the youthful country
The history of no other nation in the world exhb.
Its such marvellous rapidity of growth as that of
Young America.
II is but little more than two centuries since the
oldest OF the States which make up the great
confederation received its first permanent colony
from England, and Americans have not vet cele-
prated the first centenary of their national exist
ence. The commerce of America now extends to
every country, and it possesses a commercial ma
rne which falls short only of that of the Old Coun
try, and far exceeds that of any other nation Like
the country from which it sprang, America offers
sale refuge for the political exile and an ASYLUM for
the oppressed of every nation and the ample shield
OF It's protecuon extends over the humblest citizen
IN the most distant region of the earth. The re-
dundant labor and capital of the Old World find
profitable employment with this young and prosper
ous community, and adventurous spirits from all
countries, impelled by the desire for wealth and
crowds flying from the poverty and tyranny of their
native lands merge their political and natural diff
terences in the proud title of citizen of the United
States The dense forests which in the time of our
grandfathers were unbroken solitudes, and the
tl,ah
savages are now waving fields. the capitals of
tourishng States, and the crowded seats Of native
manufactures, or the busy marts of trade.
The foreign commerce of the United States is
now SO extensive that it required in l85Sthe last
year for which we have the complete returns-not
less than II, ,759 ships, with aggregate tonnage
OF 660504 tons, native and foreign, which carried
to the various ports cargoes from foreign countries
And there sailed from those ports with cargoes of
American or foreign produce and manufactures,
which were exchanged for those received from
other countries, 81 ,279 ships, with an aggregate
burden of 1902, 1872 tons. The crews EMPLOYED in
the American vessels thus engaged numbered l42-
234, and in the foreign ships l03 556 making total
of nearly quarter of million men deriving their
subsistence from the conveyance to and from the
United States and other countries of the articles
which enter into its foreign trade. With one ex-
ception there is no country in the world which
affords so much occupation to mercantile shipping
as this Young America That exception is, Of
course, "0d England"
During the same year, 1858, there were 97,543
British and foreign ships which entered and cleared
the ports of the British empire, and these had an
aggregate tonnage of %, 3O9, ,9s1 tons If we look
little closer into the figures representing the
shipping in the trade of both countries we shall
find that America employs very nearly an equal
proportion of native and foreign ships, the native
being II, $50, and the foreign IL, ,l79; and in the
trade of the United Kingdom tho British ships
number 81, $40, and the foreign but 49, 573 In the
possession on of ships America is almost rich the
United Kingdom. The vessels that carry the stars
and stripes have an aggregate tonnage of 5O49 8O7
while those bearing the colors of the Old Country
amount to 5,6O9,623 TONS OF the American YES
sells, the tonnage of which is given above, not less
than 2,36l ,595 tons are engaged in the coasting
trade. of steam vessels the United States is ahead
of the United Kingdom, and possesses 800 tons,
as against ass 4l5 tons.
vi the enormous trade carried on by America,
the United Kingdom and its various possessions
engross more than one-half, as will be seen by the
following figures: