Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-02-08
Thc comlne oIoud over England.

Ak lHlt ulOulCMbn y NtttutAl ONa0ANtA NAA"I
think that England ought to be a happy
Kingdom. Al home, there is no disafect-
ton, for the new Repeal movement in Ire
land seems 10 have rufiled the waters Of
Agitation only fora moment, and, as Paddy
himself would say, "left nothing stirring but
stagnation." In China, the war has ended
for the present. The Caffres in South
Africa are quiet. The New leland insur-
rection has been put down. In India there
may be discomfort, but it rests with the
powers that be to convert this into loyalty,
or let it run into seed, ere long, as Insurrect-
ion. On the whole, reviewing British re-
lations at home aud abroad, they may be
described as undeniably pacific. No dis
affection in England-but a good deal Of
discomfort, Wages are low.
In the agricultural districts, where man
with family is rarely so fortunate as 10 have
from ten TO twelve shillings week az the
year round ($2 so to 9oO), there is discCp-
tent at the high price of food. In the man
ufacturing districts wages are higher, but
the recipients live up to them, and starve
whenever cessation of work takes place.
Only the other day, in Liverpool, when the
bakers (who had been selling at a loss)
raised the price of bread, there was tu-
multi, which "he authorities" fortunately
put down without bloodshed. Let the supply
of cotton, from the United States, once be
checked, so that the Lancashire mi[owners
will have to stop work, and there may be
social war in the districts around Man
chester
The China war is over, and England is
to receive about 81, 100000, in installments
spread over considerable time, for the ex-
peuses. This is mere per centage on the
outlay, for up to the beiuning Of October,
as much as $50, 100000 had been expended
on the Chinese war, and John Bull may
reckon himself fortunate il, by the time the
last ship, soldier, and Armstrong gun have
been brought back to him, the additional
be not less than 100000. We are ex-
tremely simply minded, las our readers we'll
know,) but an outlay of 100000, to be
made good by promised indemnity Of
81, 100000, does not pay" Ten per cent.
return on any outlay has decided tenden1
cy to bankruptcy.
When William Beckford, during great
, storm at Fonthill, which he watched from
an adjacent hill, saw the first great tower
on his Abby topple 10 the ground, in an
: awful crash of ruins, he made the philosoph-
ical remark, as he gazed atthe main ediice,
uninjured by the ruin: SIT must have been
strong jaw to stand the wrenching out of
such tooth as that" We may apply this
anecdote to the condition Of England, and
say that it must be great tax-productive
country which can stand such waste of
money-to say nothing of human life-as
t the Chinese war, so entirely unprovoked,
has caused. But there is a limit to nation
al as to human forebearance, and Mr. Glad
stone will certainly experience this fact Gre
; he be three months older, when he will
have to propose renewal of the Income
t and Property tax. Last session that i'm
: post was re-imposed, and doubled, for only
another year.
f The whole net revenue of England, for
t, tho year ending December 3lst, 1860,
n amounted to Ell, ,967, ,495-about equal in
81 round numbers, to $3.50, 100000. This
is but the net amount. The cost of col
e, lection, estimated an average of per cent,
: would make the gross amount of English
taxation Ell, 100000 for the year just en-
J. ded. Surely and immense sum $9ss, $780,
e 900 to be paid by population smaller
than our own-apopulation, too, the great
,r majority of which is much poorer than our
h own.
Al 1t is raised thus: by customs, % millions
sterling; by excise, 10 millions; by stamps,
q 24 millions; by taxes, 8 millions; by the
s. Post Office, 81 millions; by Grown lands,
n quarter million; by miscellaneous pay
'r ments, nearly 2 millions; and by property
- and income tax, close upon 8 million pounds
: sterling. Yet, immense as is this amount
5. it is inadequate, by nearly millions ster-
t. ling, to meet the years expenditure.
i Out of the years revenue the interest or
the funded and unfuuded debt of the conu
IN try has to be payed. 1t amounts to 928,
c. 100000 per annum. That is, the mere in
to ol terest Of the National debt of England i
ut Sl40,0OO,OOo a year. The present rapi,
ed rate of borrowing by our Treasury show
es an approximation to British extravaganza.
Mr. Gladstone's trouble will be to humbu
in Parliament without minding the popula
lte discomfort, into renewing the income {
lc- property tax, yielding some $l3,000,00o
'te te year; he having solemnly pledged himse
,ot to the country that this oppressive tax, whic
cir falls heaviest on the middle classes, shoul
m finally cease in 1861. lie may do this
for the British Parliament has no real il
70 dependence--but we predict that terribl
of excited times will follow. John Bull cannC
af- always be led by the nose and have b
si- pocket picked without at last turning re
III tive.-Pha. Press.