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

good deal Of Dissatisfaction, however as TO the manage
ment Of ne funds Of these savings banks IL known
nat if the stocks which these funds have been invested
were now sold out they would not realize within million
and half sterling the amount invested and any further
depreciation in the price Of stocks would increase TINS de-
feiency The management Of these institutions being In
,b bonas Of Government it is liable, of course, to make
good this deficiency which would have 70 DC the
public good deal of dissatisfaction IL expressed az TINS
state Of things and improved system OF
loudly called for.
The weekly returns Of the Bank of England show de-
crease Of circulation amounting to f26ss99, and an in
crease Of bullion 146 consequently increase Of
1 CABS l45 in the reserves the entire amount of
poyed funds being Gl3, IT, 75O. The public de-
posites are now 929 in preparation for the pay
of the dividends, the circulation 920 320 and
the bullion 94l0070 the private deposites amount to
el2 056 having increased nearly half million ster
ling during last week Money is, of course, plentiful and
cheap The consol market extremely firm. Hopes are
beginning to be entertained that the Government will
shrink from parayzng the Of the country by
4 any attempt at a reversal of the free-trade policy
The aspect Of French affairs is also considered more sa
tsactory the engagement of the French people in public
works of magnitude and Of industrial ameora
ton being regarded security against the indulgence
of any policy anagonistic friendly state Of internal
tiona relations.
The accounts from the Continental stock markets. STATE
that the of the French five per cent rentes in
to four and half per cent stock had produced favora
BILE effect upon prices All descriptions had advanced,
and speculation was decidedly in favor of purchasing
--~-lAt is dull. and there is decline Of, one
shilling per quarter in wheat since last week The pro-
duce market is very dull cotton alone steady The
quantity received into Great Britain from the United
States this year exceeds of last year. and the total
oha &c 10
tnues active the manufacturing districts and the de-
mand is large.
There is little novelty in Literature. Bleak House
has had the largest sale of any of Mr. DIcKENs serials so
far The first impression Of twenty-five thousand copies
swept up by the trade once twenty thousand were
put to press Immediately after, which have been nearly
disposed Of Take the whole issue forty thousand and
say half is clear profit Ia moderate cacuation) there is
FL 900 mouth from this alone saying nothing of
the value of the copyright Memoirs of the Wing Party
during my Time by HENRY RICHARD LORD HOLLAND,
edited by HENRY EDWARD LORD HOLLAND is the name Of
poshumous volume of personal tletattle just issued
The volume contains note to the that the late Lord
HOLLAND beoueathas Lord JOHN RUSSELL ample mate
rails for Life Of Fox" with injunction that he
would set to work upon them. The sale of the library of
the late King; LOUIS PHILIPPE is going in Paris
it expected last for about month 1t is particularly
rich in manuscripts and poems of the thirteenth and four
teenth centuries amongst which the most precious the
famous of Percres the only copy existing and
which is expected to sell for upwards of ten thousand
francs The fourth annual report of the London Asylum
for Idiots shows the encouraging state of that
cellent institution There hundred and forty
one patients in 1851.
q In the system Of treatment pursued physical training
occupies the first place; bathing, shampoong and gym
nastc exercises being carefully attended Reading
writing figures, natural and scripture history singing,
and encouraging fact is recorded that in each these
branches of education progress discernibe There
also classes gardeners carpenters shoemakers basket
knitters and METERS and the examples which
exhibited in these departments extremely interesting
and full Of promise The results realized thus record
ed in the report of last year. Among those placed under
the Of the board the there were
twenty-five unable to walk hundred and fourteen
able to feed dress take Of their twenty
epileptc seventytwo paralyzed sixtyeight dumb and
under nine years of age OF these six have
been taught to walk, and fourteen much improved wen-
tyseven who dumb made strange and unmeaning
noises mastering arcuate sounds and beginning
speak orty-eght had been taught to feed and dress
themselves and TO observe cleany habits tweny-three
had been enabled to read twenty WRITE eleven
70 CIPHER and sixteen 20 draw Some were taughtmu
able with propriety to attend domestic and about fifty
public worship"
The report which very remarkable document states
order has been secured that good habits prevail that
the health of the inmates has undergone sensible i'm
suits thus recorded have naturally been received by the
friends of the charity of further success and
stimulus to greater exertions. Their efforts now,
therefore, directed the formation Of building fund.- and
to those facilities for classification which the effective
treatment Of idocy renders essentially necessary
The promoters of the charity seek to raise 10000; up
wards Of 900 subscribed at the anniversary din
ner and the entire win be readily raised Much
may be done to better the condition of the unOrt
nate class who the objects Of this charity than has
hitherto been imagined and this institution viii doubt
be enabled to successfully carry this interesting
and benevolent experiment.
There is very little news from the Continent. The
|, decree for the conversion Of the French FIVE per
cents has caused much surprise and great activity
, in the money market The total amount to be con-
verified from per cent. to Al is equal to be about
f145 100000; of course the annual saving will be
about G720,00 The policy of the measure has
not been disputed since it is which should have
been taken years ago by Louis PHILIPPE; but the
mode in which it has been concocted and announced
has met with nothing but condemnation. This con-
tinuedus of the power is beginning to be very
much reprehended If the national obligations Of France
be sweepngy and suddenly dealt with by arbitrary
decrees II is that the future position Of her creditors
depend greatly not only on the conscenousness Of
the individual whom these DEGREES proceed but also
upon his financial Judgment Hence, SO far from the
measure having created the confidence that would other