Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-10-05
Total declared value Of British produce and manu-
features exported to the colonies in l849 ,594 087


It will be observed that Australia stands third upon the
list regards amounts and that although she is yet
vored with steam communications she takes from more
than is taken by the West Indies, and nearly much
taken by the whole of possessions in North America.
The preparations for the great exhibition of 1851
60 on very satisfactorily. The castings are be-
ginning to be delivered on the building ground.
The sashes are making in London, and several
hundred hands are engaged on the works. The
various committees attending sedulously to their
several departments, and we hear of great prepare
tons in the various continental nations. Among
other spirited proposals may be mentioned that of Mess.
Nico & Son. the clohiers Regent street. who offer pre-
MUM Of e5Oo for the best specimen Of woollen CLOTH
hbed in 1851 be decided by committee Of six
facturers
A great Sho,De Of FdNing Stars observed at ROME
the evenings Of the 9th, 10TH and 18th Of August by
Sgnor Angelo Secch, Of the Observatory of the Colego
Romano The published by Sgnor Secch is very
full and curious with respect this phenomenon and it annual
in August and November, that venture to
close it for spare column in the Intelgencer, should
again. These falling stars appear be noticed in
an old manuscript preserved Oxford they there called
The Tears of ST. Laurence" the 10Th of August being the
anniversary Of that holy parsonage.
The circulation Of the Bank Of England keeps increasing
notwithstanding the increase of public deposes The crcu-
aton including bank post bills, is e2O 9s7 759; the
bullion hand el6, 1859, 573 last year the former was
el9,5Os 49l the latter ZOO This year the public
deposes fs, 26l, 2s last year they &c. O9O
The money Market in consequence of the advances made by
the bank very easy The best bills discounted at "a
"a. The business in the stock market is unimpoant,
and prices have undergone very little alteration Railway
shares are brsker.
FRANCE offers nothing new, except unimportant
details about the tour of the PRESIDENT, and new
combinations of parties, or, at least, rumors about
them. The naval review at Cherbourg was one of
the most splendid affairs Of late years, and fur
nshes our papers with many long details, not only
of the review ITSELF but of the strength and capa-
bilities Of the French feet. Nothing short of the
terrible glories of actual warfare could have ex-
ceeded the mimic fight The correspondent of the
Daily Nescs says: Without being an alarmist,
may safely say that the effect made on the mind
of an Englishman by such display of force and
power on the part of an ally who has been our
biterest foe in times gone by, in port almost i'm
pregnable, and within few hours sail of the
shores of Great Britain, was not calculated to put
= him at his ease.'
The last of his day and generation seems to have
departed with Louis PHILIPPE he was one of the
race of men who saw the commencement of that
dynasty in Europe shook society to its foundation
unsettled the minds of men to their Utmost depths
and opened the way for those new political ideas
and arrangements which are still operating and
fomenting; and the final issue, the "perfect issue y
of which our children's children may not live to
see: Louis PHILIPPE had been intimate with the
many great men and the few good men of his time !;
with Washington and Lafayette, with Dumourier
and Talleyrand; he had seen revolution succeed
revolution; he had been the sport of them one
had called him to throne, another had driven him
from kingly power into obscurity. LOUIS Philippe
was, probably, no hero in any sense of the word !;
but he was man Of courage, vigor, and determi-
nation in all the ordinary circumstances of life.
Strange to say, all these qualities seemed to fail
him in the last eventfu circumstances of his event
full fe-the revolution Of February, ls46 But at
that period his nerves were eneebed by age and the
crisis was fearful, sudden, and supreme. Peace
TO his ashes He met his death with quiet firm
ness and dignifed composure; he leaves excel
lent character as man, if not very time-endurng
fame as monarch His death will probably the ADAM
donmen for the present. Of al attempts to fuse the two
branches Of the Boubons into MN. GuIzor and SAL
MANDY still favorable to this fusion, but M THEIRS Is
against il, and his policy present prevails There are
plenty Of pans however, aoat for the adjustment Of all
dynastc difficulties the Repubiqe thus enumeates eight
Of them
ls there is the principal in other words, M. de Cham
bord heir to the monarchy Of fourteen centuries 2dy the
Count dc Paris heir Of the monarchy Of expedients. M.
Louis Bonapae serves the basis two solutions. 3dy,