Accord In addition to these, the Danubian Principalities, with a population of 1,750,000, maintain an army of 6,800 men, and pay an annual tribute of 3,000,000 piastres to Turkey. Servia, with a population of 1,000,000, maintains an army of 3,000, and pays an annual tribute of 2,000,000 piastres to Turkey. The debts of the various nations are expressed in Prussian dollars, whose current value is 38. English. ing to the above table, the national debt of Europe, divided among the inhabitants makes each person indebted $42.5, or £6 7s. 6d., or each head of a family about £30 in debt; while the standing armies of Europe make one out of every twenty of the adult and able male population a soldier. There are, besides, the seamen requisite to man 2,763 vessels of war. There is another very important view to be taken of this subject, and that is the amount which the labor and industry of the people, and the resources of the countries of Europe, are taxed, in consequence of the system which has been carried on, either through the ambition or the tyranny of their rulers, or the turbulence and irregularities of the people. The following brief table, comprehending some of the principal countries in Europe, will, in some degree, present this view: Countries. Proportion Propor'n paid raised per head. by each family. Great Britain.. France.... Austria... Revenue. £8 1 8 8 Prussia... 60,000,000 2 12 11 Russia. 110,000,000 0 4 1 8 4 Holland 40,000,000 Belgium 81,000,000 4 12 11 Spain... 80,000,000 Portugal. 18,000,000 015 5 Denmark 12,000,000 0 13 7 Sweden.. 10,500,000 0 6 8 Papal States. 15,000,000 0 14 1 Naples.... 31,000,000 0 10 11 2 12 Tuscany 18,000,000 Sardinia 22,000,000 1 11 9 7 18 6 317 Turkey.. 17,000,000 4 Switzerland San Marino.. 400,000 1 0 5 We have no means of calculating what proportion of the revenue raised in each country is expended in paying the interest of the national debt, or how much is employed in paying the expenses of the government, how much for domestic purposes, or in improvement of the country; but when we are furnished with, as the tables given do furnish, the amount of national debt, that of annual revenue, the number of the people, and that of the standing army, with the entire amount of revenue raised from each person, and each head of a family, we may form a pretty good idea of the state of a country, particularly when we add to these materials the knowledge we possess of the internal resources, and the Commerce, manufactures, and position of the various countries, as constituting their ability to bear taxation. Thus, for instance, we are told by our political economists that the total annual income of Great Britain, arising from property and employment and industry of every kind, is £550,000,000; the amount of taxation is, in round numbers, about £50,000,000, or one-eleventh part of the income; therefore, the average amount of taxation in Great Britain is one-eleventh of a person's income. Again in France the annual amount arising from incomes and employments of all kinds is estimated as being £320,000,000. The annual amount of taxation or of revenue raised for the purposes of government we have taken at £67,000,000, but it is estimated as being £70,000,000. At the lesser amount, however, it is more than onefifth of the entire income of the country. The Frenchman, therefore, pays one-fifth of his income and earnings to support the government, the Englishman only one-eleventh. If we knew the entire annual income of all the countries in one table, we The subject is could make a similar comparison, and we should find in some of them a much higher proportion paid for the support of government than is in France. highly suggestive, but we will not pursue it further at present. PROPERTY, TAXES, ETC., OF NORTH CAROLINA. CONTROLLER'S OFFICE, N. C., July 9th, 1852. FREEMAN HUNT, Editor of the Merchants' Magazine, etc. SIR-I send to you for publication the annexed statement, which, in reply to numerous inquiries, I have prepared with great care from the reports of the clerks of the county courts, and the statement of the Literary Board, filed in this office, and the only table of the census of the State, which I have been able to procure. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, WM. J. CLARKE, Controller. TABLE SHOWING THE NUMBER OF ACRES OF LAND, THEIR VALUATION, VALUATION OF TOWN PROPERTY, NUMBER OF TAXABLE POLLS, ETC., DISTRIBUTION OF COMMON SCHOOL FUND, TABLE SHOWING THE NUMBER OF ACRES OF LAND, THEIR VALUATION, ETC.,--CONTINUED. The cents in the above table are omitted for the sake of convenience, which will make a slight difference. The population of North Carolina, according to the census of 1850, is as follows:Whites... Slaves 553,775 | Free colored SPECIE IN NEW YORK CITY BANKS AND SUB-TREASURY. 27,567 The amount of specie held by the banks was counted on the 13th of December, 1852, and found to $9,800,000, which is exclusive of the $2,500,000 received by the There have been some large payments by the banks for California drafts, which will be returned to them out of the mint deposits; but these do not alter the position of the banks, or limit their disposition to grant such facilities to borrowers as they otherwise feel authorized to do, as mint certificates are always considered and counted as specie. UNITED STATES TREASURER'S STATEMENT, NOVEMBER 22, 1852. TREASURER'S STATEMENT, SHOWING THE AMOUNT AT HIS CREDIT IN THE TREASURY, WITH ASSISTANT TREASURERS AND DESIGNATED DEPOSITARIES, AND IN THE MINT AND BRANCHES, BY RETURNS RECEIVED TO MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1852; THE AMOUNT FOR WHICH DRAFTS HAVE BEEN ISSUED, BUT WERE THEN UNPAID, AND THE AMOUNT THEN REMAINING SUBJECT TO DRAFT. SHOWING, ALSO, THE AMOUNT OF FUTURE TRANSFERS TO AND FROM DEPOSITARIES, AS ORDERED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. Transfers ordered to treasury of the U. S., Washington, D. C.. Total...... Transfers ordered from Assistant Treasurer, New York, N. Y.......... Total..... 2,386 66 $15.418,174 87 1,617,500 00 $17,035,674 87 $700,000 00 300,000 00 500,000 00 180,000 00 $1,680,000 00 $60,000 00 2,500 00 $62,500 00 UNITED STATES TREASURY NOTES OUTSTANDING, DECEMBER 1, 1852. Amount outstanding of the several issues prior to 22d July, 1846, as per records at this office ... Amount outstanding of the issue of 22d of July, 1846, as per records of this office..... Amount outstanding of the issue of 28th January, 1847, a- per records of this office... $107,111 64 11,600 00 2,750 00 $121,461 64 Deduct canceled notes in the hands of accounting officers, all under acts prior to 22d July, 1846 ... Total... DEBT OF CALIFORNIA, 150 00 $121,311 64 A writer in the San Francisco Herald makes the indebtedness of that State to be as follows: Civil indebtedness.... War loan according to limitation. Total civil and war indebtedness.... $2,192,506 66 800,000 00 $2,992,506 66 DEBT, FINANCE, AND PROPERTY OF ARKANSAS. The debt of the State of Arkansas in October, 1852, was as follows: Bank of State Bonds outstanding. Payable. Interest arrears. Jan., 1868-87 $605,620 Total. $1,558,620 2,381,750 46 due James Holford on 500 bonds pledged..... 211,000 $4,151,370 Total...... In regard to the prospects of the State creditors, the Auditor remarks: "The State is not now prepared to meet either the principal or the interest on these bonds; but from an intimate acquaintance with the citizens, and some knowledge of the resources of the State, the Auditor hazards nothing in saying that both the principal and interest of these bonds will be eventually paid." The receipts and expenditures of the State for the last two years have been as follows: |