Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-02-05

and take into consideration her extent population the nature
Of her social condon the she has played conspicu-
part in and the public works she has completed
Her public funded debt is 3I5 Os4 200 silver roube
Bills of credit in circulation 226 l67, $50 do.
Assgnats of the empire ...... ILL, l22, 220 do.
i Total. 65s, ,3740O9,
Or reckoning the silver roube IS. Cd sterng about
ei05 Poor old England with her small surface
and half the number Of people bear debt more
than eight hines large There nothing relative
/ the state of the in the Caucasus.
OfPortuga there nothing of Importance least nothing
! that can be confidently reported
From Spain fresh rumors Of the Queens failing health
much depends upon her life; ho,o much foree.
EsrAaTERo has arrived and been treated by the people
hero and patriot should be treated by his counymen; and
the impeachment of the Ex-mnister has been
agreed upon
There is any thing of Importance from India China.
Australia represented going WELL and another Anglo
Saxon nation fast growing at the anpodes Of the mother
| county. I
The literary world has been busy lately. AIraED TEs-
has given the public poem, under the title Of
"The Princess which praised by the reviewers and very
pleasing extracts have been given from it. An interesting
book called "Leers from the Danube, gives very strong
proof Of the intense hatred which the Hungaans of all classes
bear towards the Austans, and supports the opinions which
have already expressed in this communication The euds
OF CeI and Saxon mild and peaceabe and aternal in
comparison of these feelings between Hungarian and Austrian
This state Of things in curious contrast with the respect and
admiration which the Hungarans express towards England
and Engshmen. Our political institutions perfectly well
understood by the upper classes English fashions and
uactures are in great request
Shakespeare has been translated into the Hungarian Ian
guage and commands the stage The plays of the English
bard said to be well played Peth they in LON
don but this with two exceptions in the case Of our
metropolitan stage, is not saying much. Domestic life IN
Hungary appears have much about which very envia
BILE article in the January number of tire Ars Union
Journal speaks highly of the climate the SOIL the poduc-
on and the people of Bohemia, that poor smokeded and
fogsoaked denzen London would sigh after Bohemia and
Hungary the promised land if he did not shrink from the
touch Of Austria and the surveillance of Metternich.
Does the "irs Union Journal reach your city if does,
let its monthly numbers your eyes, feed your imagi
naton and (msy add inform your taste. ought to be-
imported largely the United States. There is journal
which Europe produces worthy your attention. which
would furnish many elevatng and truly valuable sugges-
tons to almost every portion of your citizens
Mr. McCULLocH has lately published treatise son the
property The great object of the work is to
defend the propety and importance of the law of primogen
He Of has much say the subject and he
says well but argument prove the propriety OF
principle which dsnheri, far property all the
Young England school OF politicians could not wish for
powerful advocate and assistant than Mr. McCulloch
and his law Of prmogenure. His system would inevitably
lead the division Of society into classes the very poor
the very rch The former be left quite desoate,
IN order that they may be extremely industrious and frugal
their very wits ends provide food, and at last to get
wealthy On the other hand the rich to be Dy rch IN
order that they be quite above such sordd habits those
OF ugaly prudence This rich class is to be very limit
al tn
or class And when Of this limited class dies is
to be taken that only of his offspring succeeds to his pr
veged positions the remainder being consigned to poveyin
sharpen their ideas and establish that desirable dv
Of mankind into nineteen beggas and nabob That
political economist Of our day." says the Daily News,
should thus ignore the existence of middle casis certain
!. ly very strange. That he should find moral value in
small fortunes and admit social political virtue to
which they specially contribute is stranger stills and that
he should be utterly blind the Of human events,
and the results of everyday experience and philosophy,
run counter to all, and up the creed Of the
fourteenth century the rule Of the nineteenth, is stranges
/ : OF ALL"
have dwe upon this publication because is curious
instance Of the direction which English mind is taking to-
wards the opinions Of idgpai ages. Dr. Poser and his
friends refer back the religion Of that period Lord
JoHS MASsERs and his Young ERgandTs recommend It's
politics ands social and domestic institutions and now mere
Is Of most experienced political economists
ing the Gothic practice Of when Poca economy was
unknown by name, and when the "a" o. meano was
a. best only adapted to the eIgenc Of scm-barbarous
people.
The theatres have produced nothing new except The appear
ance of Mr. G. " BRooKE provincial actor OF consderaoie
reputation He has made very successful deouf IN The cha
ractcr Of Oihco at the Olympic
J,suAnr l5.-Nothng new this morning, excepting
stormy debates the Legislature at Madrid relative to the
,il of s,nSc, The serious indispositon Of the Queen
no longer matter Of dodb The affairs Of Switzerland will
most probably be inteercd with The continental Pow
era do not aay Of them inclined to join Austria that
busues and she will likely think il prudent be quiet
There was great activity in the money market yesterday,
and three per cent consos advanced 49, Exchequer bills
sold a, 2ss premium and bank stock at l07 per Mo-
nev i plentiful but the bank has wisely forborne reducing
the rate OF interest.
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