Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-05-10
f229, ,747,779 Is 8

or this amount f29, STA 720 l5s 3d. raised in s4s
The Corn market has been heavy and stationary wheat
now As per quarter dearer than last year at this time
The Colonial produce market exhibits change; il con
tnues firm for most articles Tea dull in sale, and cotton
perceptiby cheaper There is little nothing doing in the
wool trade China silk is rather dearer other silks without
alteration Metals of all kinds without variation in price,
Business Manchester Leeds Bradford, Huddersed, and
Macclesfeld is pronounced dull The intercourse between
England and the Continent Of Europe appears be rapidly
increasing The number of from England land
ed at seven ports on the western of France and
coast Of Holland and Belgium was in ls47, l5s, in
ls4s owing to the French revoluton l23 $50 1850 it
to 1885, IT, OF this intercourse 46 per
to Bouogne 20 per cent to Calais IA to Osend, per
cent to Havre, p Antwerp per cent to Deppe, and
| Of per cent. to Dunkirk. ..&
Never was period of more universal peace than
the present so that in TRUTH it is most auspicious
| period for the holding of the " Exhibition in Lon
don. And it is the better timed from the too evi-
! dent symptoms that the present state of European
tranquility does not promise to be durable Great
wars, however, between nation and nation is not
what we anticipate. The last three years have
shown how reluctant both monarchs and people
are to 90 to war with their neighbors, and how fully
they measure the danger, the expenses, and the
inconvenience of such policy. Europe is, pro-
4
with cua ,Cars, and civil wars Of nature 10 pre-
clude the possibility Of international ones. The
Daily Negs has powerfully written article upon
this subject, from which we extract the following
passage:
SIT impossible be blind to the fact that Of the
great countries Of the continent has succeeded founding any
thing like durable, equitable satisfactory Government
The people tried in ls4S, each after their fashion, TO effect
reforms and found Governments They failed mise-
ably and public writer's have secuted them the most worth
for not having been able togovern The military,
and the leaders Of the military, succeeded to the absolute
which the people enjoyed power more absolute than
their sovereigns chiefs possessed in lsi7 But Of this
power although based upon irresistible army, they have
been unable to make any than temporary Sove
regus and statesmen, and noabs have shown themselves
lust as incapable the mob that started up
the streets Of Lepzc Look Germany contemplate
separate Kingdoms Take Austria. 1t is there admitted by
the military powers that the empire can only exist as mill
,ay despotsn and that then despotsm is safe
home excep, il extend its influence and domination
abroad In other works. desposm is not safe at Vienna
unless equally prevails Italy and Germany
The eagle ssSs aaa % Ss 8 as
wings and yet know that in its bosom, at Vienn
ITSELF the state of feeling, not merely with the mob, but will
the educated classes Is more intensely, and abdy, and fear
e fully revolutionary than Paris in 1884, Throughout oil
Germany kindred feelings pedomnae Never in the anna
Of the world the feelings Of forty millions Of 10 suci
fearful state Of silent and ominous unanmity On th
smooth surface and around the dormant Of this volcano
the penpotenaes of German soveregns have been hodns
solemn council And Of that council all who proposed 10 af
ford the least satisfaction, the smales guaranty bits German
people, have been secuted and senced Autocacy Russian
autocracy, with Croa bsyonets, that is the primum o6
with schwazenbeg, his and only principle Of Govern
ment In cowardy consciousness that this s wrong Pus
has shrugged its shoulders and submitted Not d,rng
Austria in the field, because feared It's excited
people, than Austria the Prussian court has still
found consolation in its submission in perceiving that
has linked It's future fortunes and It's hold Of Germany with
the pershabe principle Of absoutsm and military dcaton
Prussia submits and demands the old status quo 1s47 the
Frankfort Diet with all its nuty its eaducy, its ricue
II we examine these opinions Of the Daily News
little in detail, and begin with FRANCE, we shall
$ find the more enlightened of the people of that
IS country impressed with fearful dread Of coming
e change. They begin to despair Of legal and ami
o cable settlement of the plain question, T" how to
e carry on the Government! The Times states
. she case truly and clearly enough-either the Con-
! sh'uton must be sacrificed to the Government, or
. 1he government to the Constitution" If the
4 Constitution be changed, LOUIS NAPoLEoN can be
) continued in Office, and tranquility probably pre-
} served. Hit be not changed. then LOUIS NApoLEoN
must retire from the Presidency, and either Ca