Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-09-21

| 1S47 -m 45194O
| I84S 49605O
1S49 sos 800
That of 1850 is estimated to be 4Os,367
The average consumption of 1850 will be- il is sup
posed, about $4,000 bales per week; that Of l849
was 30,500 teN 7
In connexion with this subject we may add, that a
good deal OF attention is now paying to CEYLoN, as
new cotton field more than half that island is said
to be, both by soil and climate, well adapted to
ton cultivation, and much more than either Hin
dostan, Southeastern Africa or Australia The whole
surface of Ceyon is "a 700 square miles So here is
field room enough if all the other materials necessary
| TO success can be met with. g
! Late returns made by the General Post Office state
the following striking facts. The entire force of the
office in ST. Northumberland consists of 1903 per-
sons. About 22sS,O00 letters and 100000 newspa-
pers pass through that Office weekly. The entire
number of letters mailed throughout the kingdom in
| 1888, before cheap postage was introduced, was
76OOO,OO0; last year 1t was 100000. The gross
receipts of 1888 amounted to f2 239,708; those of
/ 1S49, to f2,165350. So that the cheap postage of
1S49 produces, within ETA, $685. much the dear
postage of 1888 did The whole revenue Of the Uni
| ted Kingdom, on the accession of William ILL.,, was
about f2,000000, f165000 less than the receipts
of the post Office were last year The receipts Of the
London and Northwestern Railway were, last year,
f2227,242 being upwards of 100000 more than the
| entire British revenue was in 1889! The number of
provincial post Offices in Great Britain is about 5000
The Sabbatarians have been defeated in their attempt
Sunday delivery will recommence the LIST of Sep
TENDER and be attended with less dissertation of the
Sabbath than the indirect modes which yesorted
to, when direct ones were prohibited occasioned In
every town of any size where post Office exists.
The Industrial Exhibition of 1851 is progressing
very satisfactorily. The Royal Commissioners have
given notice to the local committees in Great Britain,
that all applications for space in the building to
be made before the 31st of October. The Curriers'
and Leather Dressers Company is preparing to take
active part in the Exhibition by preparing ade
quate representation of all the various preparations
and uses of leather, the processes of tanning, &c.
Other corporate trades will follow this example No
fewer than 500 exhibitors have made returns to the
City Committee No less than 27774 feet of floor or
counter and 24243 feet of wall hanging space, will
be required by the London exhibitors. The Metrop-
oils will play its part well, do think that any
part Of the British dominons, or any department of
| Art, Science, or Manufacture will be deficient. A
local committee has been appointed at Hone KoNG,
to receive and forward articles for exhibition The
American Exhibition of 1852, is rapidly growing in
favor and the only fear entertain about it is that
more articles will be offered than can possibly be
transported.
/ Mr.. MAcAULAY has become candidate for the
representation of the University of Cambridge, and
there is to think that he will be returned with
| out opposition.
! The state and prospects of the Gram Harvest are
subjects of very great anxiety and some apprehen-
sion. Too large proportion Isl however still in the
fields to allow any to speak with certainty as to
the result There is, however, very decided opn-
ion expressed that the produce prospects both guam
y and quality will fall far short of last years crop
The Standard, evening paper, has, Internationally
we hope, saddled the American Congress with the
disgraceful which marked the close Of the Ca
madam Legislature, and we suppose it will run the
rounds of all the Tory papers, proof of the ten
dency of Republicanism to disorder, and be cited by
future DIcKINs's and TRoLLoPEs, as proof of the
low state Of society in the United States The Peace
i Congress has just closed its annual meeting at
Inn c, halI
the Paulskirche-the same building in which the
German Congress held its sittings in lS4S and 1S49.
Comparatively few Germans attended, not more, one
account says than 40. The number Of Americans
and English exceeded $50. We do not know that the
great object of the association was much forwarded,
but many civil things were said, many good sSnti-
ments expressed and friendly temper and good feel
/ ing strengthened among men of different nations
habits, and creeds, which cannot fail to produce
i good effect.
The great event of the week is the death of Louis
PHILIPPE at the advanced age of II. He died on the
26th instant. at Claremont. He had been evidently
sinking for some time; in fact, his nervous system
seems have recovered the shock 1t received
in February, lS4S. The papers are full OF sketches
of his e opinions respecting his character and con-
illusions as to the effect his death may have upon the
destnies of France. The Morning Chronicle calls
him. athe soldier of one revolution, the conqueror of
second, and the victim of third;" and adds The
closing of the life of Louis PHILIPPEofthe Prince
who seemed control the desnes of France and the policy
of Europe at the very moment when umu the streets
of Paris and mob of madcaps hurled him from the throne
adds but brief line to most eventfu history The
great epoch of his ended with the oath of February
1S4s Thenceforward England has afforded to him the
last services of hosptalty-an asylum and grave"
The Times, in paragraph Of more pretence
says:
Great histories like great events, have measure of
their own and periods often nsensiby reckoned less by
years than by the transactions they comprise. The natu
raj term Of life has not than elapsed since the birth
of LOUIS PHLIPPE of Orleans yet if reflect that the
Prince whose peaceful decease at Claremon yesterday
recorded General before NAPOLEON had been heard
of and colonel of regiment before ARTHUR WELLESLEY
received his first commission that he had pratted with
VoLTAIRE in the Palas Royal and figured in the ancient
Court of the Tuees that he attended the sgs of the
first National Assembly, and discharged the duties of
doorkeeper in the real Jacobn Club that he witnessed the
birth and progress Of that original revolution which
seems thrust back to remote antiquity by the multi
tude Of its that he conspicuous actor in
the earliest by which the modern history of Europe
ntroduced and that besides such representations of
character he the Duke of ORLEANS of the present
tury and the KISs for IL years. of constitutional France
we shall be led resistby admit that such adventures
readily comprehensive the of single
but that they rather embody the experience of many
generations together"
The death of LOUIS Philippe has, undoubtedly
strengthened the cause of the Oreansts The Duchess
of Orleans is woman of strong powers of mind
great observation, and high moral courage What
Napoleon said of the Duchess d'ANGoULEME, that
she was the only man in the family" may be equal
| y affirmed of the present Duchess of ORLEANS.
lion hafxr En-