PROBABLE EFFECTS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION UPON OUR COMMERCE.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 243, 27 September 1848, Page 2

PROBABLE EFFECTS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION UPON OUR COMMERCE.

Notwithstanding the disturbance of commerce, and the deterioration of the value of the property which at present iirises in England, from a sympathy with the affairs of the Continent, there can be but little doubt that, in a short time, we shall begin to reap the substantial benefit of the steadiness we have displayed* amid the European storm. For instance, though the American E»voy at Paris may be one of the first to hug the lcpublicaii leaders who have upset every thing in France, Brother Jonathan, when he makes his consignments from the other side of the Atlantic, will not bethink him of the country which is the most rcpub* lican, but that which is the safest as a depot of goods. Havre will suffer because Fiance has abandoned itself to political commotion, and has relinquished the security of merchants, in order to satisfy the frantic requirements of the populace, But Brother Jonathan must carry on his business, so he will send his cotton, to Liverpool instead of sending it to Havre. The merchants who are bringing coin from the Black Sea, and who generally store it up at Genoa or Marseille!, awaiting an European market, will find it better to send it on to an English port than to run the lisk of keeping it whero the working classes and tbeir dcsiics rule everything. E\en Antwerp and Trieste will be rcgauled as unsafe compared with English ports, and so necessary are political tranquility and security to tlio carrying on of businehs, that, if the continent will play unh pranks as it has cf late heen playing, and we remain steady to our institutions and our laws, as we have been hitherto, we shall become the emporium of «In> nmvunrm'in* transactions, of the WQlldi They who>

want to buy or to sell upon a large scale, will have to come to Great Britain as the country where such business may be most safely transacted — where propeily will be most surely respected, and engagements be most faithfully and scrupulously fulfilled. Wo should bo sorry to say anything to flatter the mercantile cupidity of our country, but it is light we should point attention to the advantages likely to be derived from pracelul and steady conduct — conduct winch is quite as consistent with lationnl liberty, as the outrages upon common sense which other countries have Mistaken ior advances inthcgrc.it and sacred cause of hecdoin. — Morn 7ig Post.