Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-06-19


Thus eighty per cent of all the foreign shipping which
enters your ports belongs this country Some of the
opponents to the repeal Of the navigation laws grumbe
finding American vessels entering British ports with
goes from other foreign countries but they ought to
joce in their repeal when they find from your annual
report of and navigation that by your conces
Of corresponding privileges fewer than 535 British
vessels with aggregate tonnage Of 107 459 found
ployment between foreign countries and the United States
from which trade they before excluded Another
that under existing arrangements the American
ships employed in the British home trade represent egh
teen per of British shipping employed, and Bri-
fish shipping employed in the trades Of the United States
represent less than fifty per cent Of the American
| shipping so employed.
The of the of trade in the provinces dur
ing the past week in general very favorable At
Manchester business is somewhat checked by the excite
in the Liverpool cotton market, but every thing
gives evidence of an demand Business is brisk
at Birmingham There also large trapsactions at an
advanced price in the iron trade An average business
is doing in the wooen districts and the Irish linen
market is also well maintained Cotton is steady and
the prices of all the leading articles Of colonial produce
well maintained.
The only Theatrical is that the performance Of
the German plays has commenced at the st. James thea
tre Her MAJESTY and Prince ALBERT attended on the
first night, and the success was complete.
There is good deal which is in subjects connected
with literature and science but not many noticeable new
books DR.. KNOX has INDUCED somewhat eccentric
for biographical comparison by publishing trea-
tise called Great artists and Great Anaomis in which
such names and such those of Rafaele and
Culver are made to side by side. Mr.. PETER CuH-
NISGHAM has published an interesting volume entitled
Turner and his Works. comprising memoir of the great
artist specimens of his works strikingly engraved in
mezzotnt and critical remarks upon his principles OF
painting Mr. LEoNI LEVI has completed his Important
treatise Commercial Law Principles and 4dminsra-
ton and Mr. 0LIpHANT has published Journey TO Kat
mandu, with a history Of juno BAHADooR who visited
England in 1885, which proves the Npaulese Chiefain to
be the greatest assassin and probably the most unprn
ciped ruan now living and this is the who visited
England and France clothed with Asiac spendor, and
glitterng with jewels who ed by royalty, and the
lion of the season The Gentlemans Magazine for this
MONTH in noticing the Life and Letters Of Judge SroRY,
edited by his son, says:
1--WE really long for the time (may it come soon when
life of the good and great Judge STORY will be publish
ed in readable and reasonable form as those OF
POWELL Buxton Of Francis Homer 1t is the worlds
business to know such men, and it should be the book
sellers business let them be known We have no OBJ
lection to the legal details which lawyers may deem need
full to their comprehension Of Judge SroHYs news on any
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omitted for ordinary readers and the character would
stand STILL it ought, the model of sound, wise
lawyer Judge SToRY's professional career was indeed
something morally grand There can be no doubt that ne
loved the law he in 1t the principle of divine
order. Wrong doing, disorders of all Sorts were evils
which he felt il his duty to repress and set right as man
and a member Of the community Of men, and also as
amenable himself the rules of justice and truth and SO
he went on keeping his noble conscience free from
phisticaon, and thus WAS that his hest was SO per-
petuay cheerful gay, and childlke. He sems to have
grown old in his profession without acquiring the least
tncture Of hardness severity tolerant mercifu and
when most firm still never forgetting the duties Of Chris
tan charity Such necessarily the OBJECT OF
almost unbounded regard and reance and i is no won
der that he is dear to England as to America
The late disputes between the publishers and the retail
booksellers has led to good deal Of bookseing Stats
tics being published. Among other items We find that
there thousand booksellers Of all classes In Lon
don and two thousand six hundred and hfty-one IN all
Germany Of whom thousand two hundred are retail
and four hundred and fifty publishers and wholesale
dealers There thirtysK booksellers in Frankfort
ffy-six in stutgardt 6ty-two in Vienna, hundred
and twenty nine in Berlin and hundred and forty
five in Leipsic Connected with book selling is book read
ing The returns Of the British Museum for 1851 show
that seventy thousand four hundred and nineteen
persons hundred and sixtynne for each Of the
two hundred and nnetytwo days which the reading
rooms open during the year. visited the Museum,
and that four hundred and twentyfour thousand eight
hundred and fyone books consulted, one thou
sand four hundred and fyfve daily According to these
figures each Of the visitors every day consulted at least
FIVE books This high calculation but it may be cor
rect Bibliomania still RACES occasionally very strongly
in London proved during last month at the sale Of
the library Of Mr. UTTERsos member Of the Roxburghe
Club Scots Discoverie Of Wchcraft sold for $500
collection Of old ballads for E104 10s Cations History
Of Troy, wantg fifty leaves, sold for f55; the original
manuscript Of SCOTS Peveri Of the Peak sold for G44
Shakespeare Sonnets first edition, imperfect sold for
E8o 5s Valentine and Orson, printed by ". Asplande
and supposed to be unique, sold for cas-; Spenccr's
Amorett 1885, sold for Ell los, &c. &c. Money is in
deed plentiful in England, and it is better spent in the
purchase Of and choice books than horserscng
gambling.
The submarine telegraph has been successfully opened
between Hoyhead and Dublin the wire is seventy miles
long, and put down in eighteen hours Three othe,
lines in progress between England and Ireland Th'
next submarine telegraph which win be completed is thu
one between England and Belgium, 0stend An cleo
trio telegraph is about being constructed from the Aus
trian States the Spugen into Switzerland Thu
the Alps to be barrier to the flasher.
While upon the subject Of internal communication may
mention that there two thousand miles Of rail
ways in operation in France and much more to be
pleted in four years Portugal is also beginning to thnl
Of ralwaysand IL is high time she did So for by then
LISBON which is without the circle Of quick
nication might be brought within sixteen hours of Mn
drd fortythrec Of Paris, ffyhrce Of Brussels and IF
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