Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-10-09

the metropolis. Lord MoRPETH will not be Induced,
it is hoped to exempt London from his next sani-
tary measure.
Emigration from Liverpool has been going on at
great rate during the present year. From LIST
January to lst September there have shipped from
that port
For the United States m1a sos
To Canada Observation-Disclosures. 1906
To other Nerth American colonies. ...... 1854
To all other places INSTRUMENTATION. 3ll
In all ..----............ lob44
The average of former gears has not been more
than 10000. Here we have 200 in eight
months The emigrations of the present year have
been two-hirds Irish, four-ffteenths Scotch and
English; and one-fifteenth German.
Among other on dts of the day is one respect
ing company, with large capital, TO raise cotton
in Australia by free labor. The climate is said TO
be favorable 10 its cultivation and the proet is very
well spoken of.
The believers in that mysterious matter, mes
meriSm, have had their faith much strengthened by
the following curious but exceeding y well anthem
ticated circumstance:
cit appears that Mr. Braid an eminent surgeon at Man
CHESTER who has devoted TO the subject OF a
cia Sleep and employed most successfully in the Of
disease invited Miss Lind to witness of his experiments
Two young of the working class thrown into
trance, when Mr. Braid declared to his fair sr and her
friends that they would sing song any language The
audience ncreduous and doubt readers share in
the skeptcism; let them however read the following extract
from the Manchester Guardian;
sMademoisee Lind who has such aures for herself
in impersonatng somnambust, down to test the
powers of this verabe somnambulist All GREATNESS at
tenon catch the Swedish nghngaes notes, and weigh
her rival In this novel duetto Jenny sang most dviney
slow air like HYMN tune, with, believe, Swedish words,
every and word of which correctly given by the
somnambuls just if they had been accustomed to sing
together Next followed long and difficult singing
les in nj he
cultes her fertile fancy could dictate and with all the varied
infections of force and ahos which the human voice seemed
capable of expressing but to the asonshmen OF all present.
the somnambuls not to he outdone for perfectly did
their accord that throughout great part of this per
Torrance impossible to detect that there voices
saw lady who skeptica the point that she
could believe that both singing till she stood up
well hear that both actively engaged in this
harmonious strife Miss Lind tested her With Cata Dipa
and La Bella RtOrH in both of which my knowledge
of Italian enables say the imitation perfect After
further testing with foreign words only and extreme difficult
ties puzzng combinations of sound the somnambulst
aroused quite Of the extraordinary feas she had
accomplished and quite afraid to try to initiate what she
had done with such pomPness and precision IN her Sleep
Have your savans attended this year to the phe-
nomenon of the falling stars which has been observ-
ed in the United States for several years past! 1t
appears that they observed on the evenings Of
the 9th and tn August at Bruges in considerable
numbers, particularly on the latter evening. SINH
lar observations were made at Dorpat and other
places in Belgium.
SEPTEMBER ls-More very bad commercial
news-two immense failures during the three last
days. Sanderson g. Co., large discount house,
second only in London in point of extent of bust
ness; and Reid, hrmg g. Co., ranking among
the first houses in the city, We are, indeed,
living in frightful times confidence, the soul of
trade, has disappeared. Every man suspects his
neighbor. Prudence is safeguard. No fore
sight could have anticipated the calamities which
surround the commercial world, nor have we yeti
seen the worst. The funds are rapidly falling
and, strange 10 say, in the face of the fine harvest
wheat is rapidly rising. The wheat which in my
last letter mentioned as having been sold at 90 IS
would now sell for % IS. the quarter. This is
owing 10 two circumstances, viz the dampness of
the weather, which keeps the neW wheat in state
unfit for the millers without mixture of consider
able portion of old wheat, and thereby creates an
undue demand for the latter, and the great quantity
of old wheat which, being the property of suspend
ed houses, is for time kept from the market |
There is, therefore, an increased demand and d.
minished supply. This state Of things cannot last
long, and holders will therefore do well to get rid
of their stocks during the present good prices. Blu
siness is, however, very bad in the manufacturing
districts; low prices have not brought, at present
plenty Of work and good wages. The manufactu-
rers complain of the high price of ra,c cotton and
the tor price of goods. The manufacture OF plate
glass is, however, fourishng. In 1896 the manu-
faciure in Great Britain was about 1000 feet per
week the sales are now 10000 feet per week, ex-
elusive of foreign, and the demand is increasing be-
yond all precedent. From 1927 to Is47 the reduc-
ton in price has been from u.s. to S. per foot or
60 per cent, and the increase in consumption has
been from 5000 TO 10000 feet per week, or 400
per cent
Let me state as fact in railway statistics that
the total number of passengers by railways in 1916
was 43,7909s3, and the receipts for their convey
ance g4,725,2l5. The amount received for goods
cattle &c. was g2,74I, 200. Total e7,466,4I6.
1t is thought that the great fall of breadsuhs and
the reduced value of all descriptions of agricultural
produce will stimulate the opponents to free trade
IN corn to great exertons during the next session of
Parliament for a restoration OF the corn laws, in
4 some shape or other.
I The navigation laws of England will most likely
be abolished, or at least materially altered. 1t is
understood that the late official news from the Br-
fish Minister at Washington is, that the American
\ Government wishes to meet that of Great Britain
fully and cordially in every step that may be taken
4 IN this business. Another instance OF the growing
cordially between nations, through mercantile rela-
tons, is furnished by the fact that highly interest
ing correspondence has taken place between the
Free Trade Association Of Bordeaux and certain
\ eminent parties in England relative to the reduction