Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-08-21

accident and arrangement will be very small, and when
they do occur they be easily and promptly remeded
This project viii unite every point in North America with
every point in Europe which is at present reached by the
electric telegraph and eastern of the projected
submarine telegraph viii bring the nations Of Norway
Sweden Denmark and Russia into connection with all the
lines of teegraphc dispatch by their respective capitals
Bergen Stockholm, Copenhagen, and st. Petersburgh
This eastern is of course to be constructed by
separate and additional capital The British Government
approve of the PLAN and many scientific and practical
men, to whom it has been submitted, entertain doubt
of its We hope in the course Of week two
to send you chart Of its intended route with particulars
of plans estimates, &c. Should this idea be carried out
and we perceive why it should not, there will
be an almost instantaneous communication established
between nearly every principal place in North America
and Europe What will the science and perseverance of
the age attempt next?
Another wonder Of the times will be the new Crystal
Palace the first column Of which will be erected this day
Upwards of thousand hands at work prepar
ing the ground. The most important preliminary has
been effected in very satisfactory mannerthe whole of
the subscribed capital paid up in few hours Sea
is to be brought from Brighton along the gradients
and slopes of the railway through ncoodibe pipes
great marine reservoir at Sydenham and plunging and
swimming baths of natural salt water will be established
there, in connection with the Crystal Palace. Among
other acquisitions, the vast botanical collection of
Messrs. LoDDIGE of Hackney including the magnificent
palms, has been secured for the Crystal Palace The
building in the Park is skeleton in its appearance
nearly the whole of the transept has been removed
The circulation Of the Bank of England the last
turns was e23, 332, 4l0
The coin and bullion on hand.......... % 065, 3a9
The private depostes. 10, 464 26S
And the unemployed fund. ...........> IL, S32 939
Money is abundant ever and frs-rate bills have
been discounted at per cent The funds are firm
Consols merely fuctuatng between 100 and 1901 Rail-
way and mining shares are rather depressed.
of blight in the wheat crop, occasionei by the
premature rpening produced by the intense hest and
generally prevailing opinion that the crop will be fair but
large one together with rather short stock of old
wheat hand viii probably prevent any material de-
cline in present prices. Advces from the Continent
represent the crop of wheat likely be at least an
average one Barley is very heavy crop, and cats pro-
mise to yield we'll Beans and peas will be very short in
produce Potatoes exhibit very suspicious appearance
from the blackness of the stalk both in Great BRIAN and
Ireland and accounts unfavorable from the Rhine
provinces The harvest for barley and in the north
and tog wheat in the SOUTH has very generally
menced. Samples of new wheat were in Mark lane on
last Friday An apprehension of scarcity of harvest
workmen exists in some parts of the country.
/ We thought the dearth in books had some weeks
SINCE become extreme. But, Dryden said of Durfey
there nobody knew how far his dulness could ex
tend " of the world of books it may truly be aid
1t impossible TO say when has reached its depth of
duness. We know of nothing but the magazines
and some half dozen hird-rate novels little publca
ton Of some interest is Mr. HUNTERS Robin Hool has
period real character, &c., inasmuch as fixes the his
tory Of this great hero of the ancient mnstrelsey Eng
land Robin Hood will longer be known as the out
had Eor u,
tingdon in the reign of Henry H. (crca 1907 but IS an
ouawed adheren of the Earl of Lancaster in the reign of
Edward H. (crca 1929 He was afterwards pardoned by
the King and employed of the porters Wallets Of
his chamber and Mr. Hunter finds in document in the
Exchequer, charge for the very wages Robin Hood
paid-ree pence per day. this appointment he held for
about year. when the love for the uncontraned life he
mad led and for the charms of the country returned and
he left the court and took himself again the green
wood shade " he continued this mode Of life until he
died, when he buried in Kirklees Prory. The court
rolls of the Manor of Wakefield clearly prove that the
famous " Maid Marian the veritable wife-of the
hero. Her real Matilta which she exchanged
for Marian when she joined her husbandi in his woodland
life So much for the plain matter-ofact history Of
bold Robin Hood" whose adventures, related in the
LyteR Gests Of Robin H0d" delighted us in our early
ife and it is fortunate that romantic regard for his
character is not by any essened by the discovery
of his individual personality.
The Royal Academy closed last week. and has thus
rbued deepen the dulness that threatens to settle
upon London till the commencement of the autumnal
Parliamentary session. The Academy Exhibition was
generally considered poor one below the average
of the not very exalted standard of late years but ndf
ferent as it was, we could ill afford to lose it.
The chief news from France is the change in
some of the leading members of the Cabinet. NJ.
AcHILLE FOULD has become Minister of State in
the place of NJ CAsABIANCA. NJ FoULD also
holds the portfolio of finance. This change APP
pears to have inspired considerable confidence, not
only in the political, but in the moneyed and mer-
camille world of France 1t was Casabianca who
proposed and composed the confscation DEGREES by
which the Orleans princes were despoiled of their
inheritance The per cents rose at the Bourse more
per cent in two days. and the Al per cents
than per cent The French Exchequer is also now so
rich that 1t was able to repay to the bank of the two
millions sterling which the Provisional Government bor
rowed in 1848. NJ. DRourN DE L'HUYs succeeds NJ
TURGoT as Foreign Minister This is also considered
good appointment NJ BARocHE will also have q seat in
the Cabinet The marriage Of LOUIS NAPOLEON seems
now to be decided He will marry Princess Of
Wasa and this alliance is considered be an act of hos
ty against Sweden The President preserves the feel
ngs Of his uncle against the family Of Bernadotte The
Morning Chronicle published days ago-how IL was
obtained has not been statedan analysis Of treaty be-
tween Russia Austria and Prussia dated Goth of May
1882 which had been duly signed ratified and exchang