Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-12

in of arrangement by native assistants Many sl
gards" reported among British exhibitors. Man
articles for exhibition still being displayed in their
localities Should the coming week prove fine, it will
of great hustle and interest FRANCE moving
pidy. She will the immense space allotted
her with the rich products Of her industry and skill
Der of carriages of elegant construction have arrives
from Belgium and great quantity ofagrcuura machinery
from Holland. Some immense machines erecting b.
Messs Boulton AWAIT and Messrs. Bellhouse & Co., in
cudrg agricultural locomotive machines, and mills of every
kind this department Of English skill will be very full.
list Of twenty articles selected by the commission ap
pointed by his Holiness the PoPE has been eported-it in
cludes many specimens of fine stauay cameos mosaics
and works in marble and alabaste well specimens
manufacture in paper, asphalum, silk hemp, glass; suphu
&c. The Designs act extension bill" for the protection
of inventions exhibited by foreigners has passed the House
of Lords and second Eeadng in the Commons. 1t is
judged TO be fully adequate to its purposes Among other
significant of the approaching great gathering,
observe that baker in Bshopsgae has that
"Amercans in London may be supplied with Indian
bread ncomparably superior any before made in
England by applying at his establishment"
Steamboat navigation Companies and electric elegraphs
among the principal objects which present attract the
tention of speculative moneyed Among the for
me the old Ocean companies increasing their operations
and capital the Eastern Steam Navigation Companies
quire millions, and the General Screw Steam Company
have authority to employ increased capital Of million
The number Of boats the Thames is largely increasing
and large boat Building contain 200 sleeping berhs and
make quick passages between London and Bouogne Add
ona steam ports being yearly established for purposes Of
trade with Denmark and the North Sea- The good dividends
paid by existing companies stimulate the projection ofnew
The General Steam Navigation Company pays 10 per cant
per the Royal Mail Steam pays 81, the Peninsula
and Oriental per cent, and the General Screw Steam
Company per cent. The Electric Telegraph Companies
do not excite much attention, because they
paravely, and well understood by The public That
there will be vast extension Of teegraphs is evident be-
this country is far behind the United States, Austria,
and Prussia. The moneyed people in England yet
convinced that they will pay good dividends is however,
known that the telegraph the Southeastern Railway makes
good return, and the Electric Telegraph Company have
received pstentrght alone el22 besides making
acknowledged profit of f4s,O4s. Rhe Submarine Compa-
ny and the British Electric Telegraph Company are yet
in full working. It is calculated that capital Of e5OoO0o
would supply India with O,OOO miles Of telegraph.
minor and rather singular trade has ley sprung
tween London and Southampton Oysters are preserved
and fed the latter place for the market of the former.
teIegraphc message is from London to Souhamp
ton and any quantity of oysters opened in Southampton
and dispatched London packed in cans immersed in their
liquor, almost Immediately The trade will be in ope
ration all the year round, and will very shortly employ be-
thirty and forty vessels great number of persons
find good wages the various branches Of this trade Our
omnibus and cabkeepers brushing up and preparing for
the great exhibition An omnibus Of construction has
commenced running between Bayswaer and Charing Cross
1t arranged that every passenger has seat door, and
widow to himself with gutta percha tube through which
to convey orders the conductor IS spoken of being
a very convenient and comfortable conveyance.
The city of London again presents unavorabe bill Of
health 42 deaths occurred last week, being eleven
than those Of the preceding and 324 above the
of the last ten years. calculating for the increase Of popua
ton Four hundred and twenty deaths occasoned
by Influenza pneumonia bronchitis and whoopng cough the
average being 2l5 $50 births registered the average
being l,43l.
The returns of the Bank of England exhibit little variation,
and only afford indication of the duness of trade. Bul
lion increasing very rapidly the Bank of France where
there is held e2l, 673 Of gold and silver against
7lO of circulation The progressive decrease of the
bills discounted shows that the trade of Paris remains very
active The London money market easy and the little de-
mand for money proves the sackness of trade. The
changes without variation, and very little business doing
There is little speculation in the stock exchange, and
of course scarcely any ucuaon in prices The public funds
safe for investments and great reservoir whence when
money wanted it may readily be drawn, by those who pos
the Political appear to have little ef
upon them Railway shares and mining specuatons and
foreign stocks appear to be- at present. the Of
bers the money market because their value always
eced and always fucuang through the operation Of many
varying causes ...
The rains, being considered unavorabe to
the spring operations for sowing wheat have had the effect Of
/ ka,
Of wheat both in England and France Higher prices are
also quoted Dantzc Setn Hamburg, and the Baltic and
Dutch ports and the may be said Of Marseles and
Leghorn The produce and colonial markets are all dull
coffee percepdby lower Coffee which last year sold for 10
shllings. would not reach So shings This depecia
ton has not arisen from superabundance Of produce
diminucn Of consumption Of the mixture which is sold
Coffee but from diminished quantity Of coffee used in making
that mixture This aduleraop of coffee having succeeded
so WELL people asking themselves may not sugar. tea Co
coa and pepper be subjected the tampering with
considerable fear is felt that they really are and our scien
c asked to instruct the public how detect th
imposition.
The greatest novelty in the Literary world Mr. HEPwoRTl
DIxos's " William Penn, Historical Biography.'
This work is said make such undeniable exposure
blunders committed by Mr. MAcAULAr in reference to it
hero will far compromise that authors character as
historian. This is unpleasant result BECAUSE whateve
may be the charms of Mr.. MAcAULATs narration, much
the credit which due his Of facts and of
lance his examination Of authorities destroyed by Mr.