Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-11-16

coming RISE Our lawmakers have kindly taken of all
upon nearly all descriptions Of food but they continue to
drink those things which render paatabe
most numerically. Witness the following statement:
Malt and hops, and beersellng licences pay
an annual duty OF. f..................f6 .f6, 600. 600
spurious liquors. s.................... 5000, 900
Wine. ne.............. ................ l,750.000
lea. -.......... .................,. So O,00O
Coneo' .... ........ ...........-.-.... TOO,O0O
Sugar used with tea and coffee ....... 8, 800, 900
ln all. .............-.......... 25, 600, 900
Taking the whole of taxation at fifty millions it
will thus be that amount levied upon drinks
what goes directly into the composition Of drink Of which
about one-hd may be said to be nutrve restoring,
another one-thrd may be described exciting and the
naming oDe-thd must be deemed intoxicating. FRAscE
produces annually about forty millions hectores Of wine for
thirty millions Of people, England produces eight millions Of
barrels Of beer (abou twelve millions of hectotres for
enteen millions Of people in England and Wales.
The produce market continues actve sugar has again ad
vanced coffee is also shade dearer quite brisk
but there is absolute reduction in price. There
is no speculative demand for rice, but the market is steady
respects price firm. There is little demand
for cotton without quolabIe increase Of price, Wool
sluggish Bradford, Leeds, and Huddesfe, but rather
velier Liverpool prices firm, but without alteration.
Hemp and fax stationary Of price, with slightly ncreas
ed demand No change in metals of any kind. This
growth hops understood to have been unusually large
New and prime hops in brisk demand. Old and
inferior almost without SALE The markets in the
manufacturing districts for cotton and wooen goods firm
and rather active.
There is nothing new from FRANCE a GOODNESS,
or rather suppressed warmth, exists between the
President and the Committee of Propagation.
Neither the President nor the Secretary of War APP
pear to care for the seedlings and the resolutions Of
the latter, and it is supposed that the committee
would $ eat their own words if they could by SO
doing eradicate their effect. All parties will pro-
baby now remain without any very striking de-
monsration Of any kind until the meeting Of the
Assembly, when at least war of words may be
expected. 1t is said that NM. THEIRS, GUIzoT,
MOLE, and BERRYER are agreed upon the policy Of
granting Louis NAPOLEON an extension of power
for four years, but many persons doubt whether q
majority of the Assembly will dare to vote SO di-
recly in the face of the plain words of the coHs-
tuition. In the mean time the Legitimist party ap-
pears to be very active the friends Of the Count
DE CHAMBoRD seem to be reconcing their differ
ences. M. DE SALvANDY has had an interview with
him, and M. DE LARocHEJAoUELIN has, at the
Counts earnest request, paid him visit.
In connexion with FRANCE, as one of the termini
of the great work which is alluded to, we give the
following extract from the Vienna .Austria on the
PROPOSED JUNCTION OF THE SEINE AND THE RHINE !:
The protector is NJ DE LAvELErE, Belgian evidently
enteprng but judicious The plan itself is very
feasbe and Of importance the continental trade
The article in the Auia deals with it in DETAIL and shows
that similar design entertained BY Charlemagne, but
that its execution frustrated by bis death and the dssou
ton of his empire. II needs prove the inn
porance Of such undertaking. The Seine connected by
with the other rivers Of France and the whole internal
navigation of that country, the Rhine and the Danube by
their numerous branches, connect the whole navigation of
Germany ohe boderso the Black Sea- Toconnec the Seine
with the hhne then unite the river and canal nav
cation OF France, Germany, and Austria. Such union
produce results trade beyond all calculation M de
Laveleye with justice calls this road the axis of
European river navigation Every thing nsti6es the
would be FIVE hundred and fifty German miles in length,
400 length equaed by other river naviga
ton in the Old World The Importance of ts teni, too,
unequaled the side the Atlantic Ocean and the
North Sea, aud on the other the Black Sea- and finally the
numbeess which into would render above all
comparison. The idea of Charemagne (says the ausia
has survived thousand years, and it will only be doing jus
tice if grasp it, and carry it out with the and
strength Of the present century The expense of the canal is
specified by the protector 600 900 sncs 600 000)
The competition Of railways need be feared, canals
always in the long rum carry heavier and larger articles
cheaper than railways The article contains aluson to
the engineering difficulties to be encountered The whole OF
the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg most difficult terrain for
any engineering operation, and if mistake not between
Trier and Sedan the difficulties greater than elsewhere
Setting aside however the calculations Of the protector
expense the advantages which from
such canal must render the making Of matter Of
time"
Neither SPAIN nor PORTUGAL furnishes single
item of news. The great foreign incident of the
week reaches us from ROME. We mentioned in
our last that his Holiness had appointed Cardinal
WIsEMAN to be Archbishop Of Westminster, and
that the Prince Cardinal was on his way to Eng
land to take possession Of his see. This act has
been followed by the issue of Papal Bull, in which
is clearly developed the scheme of recovering the
British Empire to the Roman Catholic faith. The
Roman journals (or rather the only two that are
allowed to appear) are filled with accounts Of whole
sale proselytsm among all ranks of British Subjects
especially among aristocratic families. These ac-
counts are in great measure fictitious, but the effect
in Rome is very great, and lead the faithful there to
anticipate the announcement that Queen Victoria
and all her Cabinet and both Houses Of Parliament
have peniteny renounced their errors, and returned
to the bosom of the true church. 1t is even affirm
ed and believed at Rome that the British Govern
ment have consented to the preliminaries of the
measures announced in the Bull to which we have
alluded; by which the Pope has mapped out Eng
land as if it were his own, and divided it into
twelve bishopricks, designating the boundaries of
each very coolly and exactly. The Cardinal Pri-
mate is, Immediately on his reaching London. to
hold synod, and consecrate the new prela'es
The Holy Father entities this Bull, "Apostolic
Letter of our most Holy Lord, by Divine Provi-
dence, Pope Plus TX, by which the Episcopaliaa
Hierarchy in England is restored" II states that