Show an english opinion of the yankees In interesting testing article from the london news treats the subject in a fair and candid manner A pleasant and most profitable lesson may be gleaned from some official facts just brought fresh from the shores of brother jonathan these facts are to I 1 be found in the reports of af the commissioners ners to the crystal palace exhibition in new york they give no encouragement to the vainglorious conviction that england has nothing more to do and make it plain that the true busi was of patriotism now next after the momentary urgent demands on it for purposes of war it ss is to promote the intelligence of the multitude and increase the national skill in all the wealth ere creating ti arts ts U from the special reports of sere whitworth tv i 0 rah and wallis the truth gleams on no almost like a revelation that the pre preeminence eminence of our country is only to be maintained by increasing freedom I 1 the growing superiority of the americans on many points can neither be concealed nor denied bev they surpass england and therefore far surpass all the afie world in the length in the success of their railways they have nearly thousand miles of railroads all the rest of the world including england has only a trifle oyer over eggli eighteen teen thousand miles to these railway lines which make inake the communication with the interior of america more easy than communication with the interior ot spain europe is at this moment indebted for the large supplies of food which have saved the people from hunger tho the americans surpass us only in the fen lengst t of then telegraphs and in the use which the they ma make e of them there are eleven different telegraph telegram companies in new york quebec and new orleans r are an connected by the wire and a network net work of lines extend to the west as far as missouri about towns and villages being provided with stations when the contemplated lines connecting california with the atlantic and newfoundland with the mala are completed san francisco will be in communication with S johns newfoundland distant from galway but five days passage it is therefore estimated that intelligence way may be conveyed from the pacific t to 0 zuro europe 1 a and vice versa in about six eix days in america the electric telegraph is used by all classe see of society as an ordinary method of transmitting intelligence commercial men use th the electric telegraph in their transactions to a very great reat extent about two columns of mutter a day is transmitted by telegraph to new york papers so under brider the gui guidance oance of good senise sense the miles of telegraph in the united states are hit an unprofitable commercial speculation the Ameri americans caris who are still in the gristle almost equal the English who have been ages in the bo bone net in the tonnage of their merchant shipping while they completely equal if they do not surpass us in constructing and managing ships in ocean an steam navigation nava gation they are only competitors and even in that they are not behind us the application of laborsaving labor saving machinery to working wood is very extensive in america an aban abundance dance of material and a scarcity of hands have led to inventions which people in england ar ejust now beginning to import chesaw the sawmills saw mills are wonderful self acting machinery makes doors and window frames and cases builders are supplied with such articles cheaper than they can be made by hand portable sawing machines driven by horsepower horse power are used f for or sawing up logs 1098 of wood for fuel ploughing sloughing hing machines in common mile e and the flooring of every house is pla ined s ton tongued gued and grooved b by machinery at about one hany eighth the cost of hand labor stone dressing too to fe done by machinery at about the same reduction from the usual cost in the united states one winner inner by bachim machinery ry does more than times ae work of a spinner iu in hindostan hindustan Hind lasts are made by pa machinery chinery and have been for 25 years so 0 o we nrc plows every man in in america being perfectly free to kap kaep his bis wagon the use of wagons is almost universal what an advance for england if every man could keep his bis wagon the manufacture of wagons supports a great number of wheelwrights wheel wrights and artisans of that class our taxes on vehicles drawn by horses borses suppresses them entirely among the w arking population and among all men of limited means in america wherever he rever machinery can ba introduced as a substitute for manual labor it is universally ver sally and will willingly angly resorted fo 0 o the workmen hall hail with satisfaction all mec mechanical haidea ini improvements now this is the reverse of the disposition of the people Is of europe the workmen here cannot understand tand that laborsaving labor saving machinery beneat benefits ever every r human being in the community where it is used A combination of industry intelligence stid and freedom is effecting affecting wonders I 1 in n america the resources of the cc country autry which are great are n not 0 t denied the influx of immigrants and the rapid increase acreage of people cannot be doubted and both will help to improve and extend the intelligence of all but bat the general freedom and untrammeled po altion of trades and manufactures is the g grand rand cretos ecret of the rapid march of inventions and laborsaving machinery every man is free to use his I 1 own orn senses as lie he pleases and unimpeded by others there is no apprenticeship system so reach much prized by certain trades in england the american working boy develops rapidly into the skilled artisan and having once mastered one lie to is content until he part t of his business never C has maste redall redal the restless activity of mind the anxiety to improve his own department of industry dush y the facts constantly before him of ingenious on men man who have solved economic and bechani coil their own pro profit fit and elevation are and it be said am all and encouraging may that th there ere is not a working boy of average ability lp ix the new england states at least who has not mechanical invention or improvement ali d idea of some in manufactures by which in good times tili pro ha be hopes to better his condition or rise to social distinction for other and older wu fortune ne or nations which dread without darlng the progress of Amer america leat the fearful phenomenon is tile the rapid development of man there as well as the increase f his hi numbers the who will probably live on the continent of north america before fore the close of the present century io remise mise to be all intelligent men full of biet activity vity and abd knowl knowledge edip of the mateL material rial world anxious to improve and powerful lit in the compound ratio of I 1 their inah intelligence 90 rice and numbers |