Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-04-03

Rich men. ..................... 100000
In easy circumstances $4,000
In moderate circumstances. 900
Gaining decent but uncertain subsistence 100000
r----.-'- s"hsi.tancA g. 100000
Gaining scanty ana unc-, ..... ,...
Living in extreme indulgence. 100000
Paupers, thieves, and prostitutes. 100000
36,OO0,0 600
Whether these figures or not is of com
parativey little Importance but there is no question as
to the indulgence and restless discomfort Of at
least half of the population AS long this state Of
things continues Government however strong anc mer
CHESS put down Socialism Alas for la Belle Nance
Must she forever be the prey of either anarchy spot
ism? The latter is in the ascendant but terrible
alienation may be near at hand.
There is from either SPAIN or PORTUGAL and
very little from ITALY. Three new Cardinals are shout
being created at ROME. The Jesuits have established
college at yellere The news from PIEDMONT u.s. thai Tu
and the passages of the Pc about being fortified
SARDINIA is busiy employed constructing railways and
establishing liberal commercial system. She has now
treaties of reciprocity with nearly all the commercial ma
tons of the world Troubles and bad appear
to have deprived the bulk of the people of AUSTRIA and
Germany generally of all heart energy. They have left
their fields uncutvated for miles, fearing tat the rude
hands of either domestic foreign soldiery seize
destroy the fruits of their labor The result of this is
something like famine.
/ The accounts from POLAND most distressing. In
the Carpatheans people literally starving here is no
bread at all Similar accounts arrive from Posn West
phalia Greis the Tyrol Casse Neiderlaustz &c. With
misery, crime and frghtfuly increaed and
something very nearly approaching to anarchy raging
in the districts most affected by the famine.
/ The only news from VIENNA is that the Emperor has
returned to that city The Government denies tina it
couraged France to occupy Switzerland The Austrian
Lloyd which is supposed to express the sentiments Of the
Government, has the following upon the late Ministerial
changes in England:
"From point of view Tory Cabinet is better than
Wing but wishes must not be COMPOUNDED with
our opinions Lord Derby will fall The Conservatveparty
in Englandis now taking up position which Conierva
tive party in any land hold with honor When theprivi
legged classes of State illadvsed make laws
which only their interests the prejudice Of
the rest of the people, they lost Only the poor and
their representatives have the to be selfish the rich
ought make laws for filling their own pockets
While the Tories have for their raying cries. The
stitution it stands No changes they may conquer
but when they write upon their banners the words Dear
while %e P o and The psa e result of the
struggle ceases doubtful The Tories assert indeed
that the cheap bread Of the brings want and
hunger the agculturist and declare that the Wings
have built the prosperity of the towns the ruin OF the
agricultural population To this argument Of the land
lords there is however, answer sufficiently obvious:
Lower the of your FARMS and agriculture viii
per also. The of protection is one between the mil
lions of cities and-not the millions of the rural popula-
ton, but couple Of thousand Tory landlords
The time of the Prussian Chamber is now much taken
up with debates subject only too familiar to English
in connexion with Ireland, petitions for money
relief the institution of public works means of
averng famine East Prussia and parts Of Sesia
The harvest and potato crop have both failed the
former partially, the latter almost entirely.
There is very little in the politics Of PRUSSIA
The first Chamber has ratified resolution in favor Of
voting the supplies for the ordinary budget of the State
for period Of three years, instead Of annually as at
present Another resolution enables the Chamber to dis
cuss the items Of the budget which only be ac
cepted rejected whole This last resolution is
doubtedly improvement, whatever the first may be-
The Prince Of PRUSSIA is showing his onness for retro
gressye measures he congratulated deputation from
the first Chamber upon their recent reaconay votes and
impressed them the necessity of increasing the army
M PIERRE, deputy in the BELGIAN Chamber, stated
in that assembly on the 9Th instant the miserable cond
ton Of the people Of LUXEMBOURG, where he sad pau
persm and desolaton existed to degree previously
known The total loss of the potato crops the high price
Of grain and the want Of employment had concurred in
producing this miserable state Of things The Govern
men is doing what IT alleviate the distress of the
people The citizens of Client have been amusing them
selves with masquerade in which LOUIS NAPOLEON and
his Parliament were carcatured by puppets The French
Minister at Brussels required apology from the Gov
eminent f0r THIS Wnlcn not made the appi
cation Of the French Minister is said by Belgian paper
to have been o6icious not official.
The people Of Bale, in SWITZERLAND, have also been
INDUCING themselves during their carnival frocs with
shocking irreverence for the French President The
whole affair appears to have been arranged week before
hand and the police carefully absained from interfering
Application has been made by the French Government to
the authorities Bale for apology Independent Of
this trAng business the last accounts from Switzerland
are of the most satisfactory nature.
We have further from India relative to the ex-
pected hostilities with the Burmese. The intelligence
from the Cape of Good Hope is of much more hopeful
character and there is believe that the next
arrival from that colony will bring Of the complete
submission Of the Cafres
!, MARCH 29.--Lord EoLINToN held his first levee
at the Castle of Dublin on the 18th. The vsiters
exceeded LOO; but it was remarked that not q
single bishop minor dignitary of the Roman Ca
tholic Church was present.
late letter from Berlin says "The royal family have
received invitations from the Emperor Of Russia to
present at the soemnes to be observed Moscow this
wear in honor Of the thousandh anniversary Of the ou
daton Of the Russian empire II Is confidently expect
ed that the King and Queen will visit the Industrial Ex
hibton to be opened at Breslau next May in crysta
palace on reduced scale The visits Of 20 many en-
ghtened Prussans to London last summer have brough