Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-07-31

for the last half year Of 1861 we're esq 937; in Il
last half year Of 1850 they 97,l47, 397.
The returns of the Board of Trade show the exports
the first five months Of 1850 1861 and 1852 to have be,
92662 94s s27 se5, 49, and Ell 7SO 1885, respective
One Of the most important items in these is ii
statement Of the importation of wool in 1852 compare
with that of 1851:
Colonial woo ,348 465 lbs, IL All $3.50 Id.
From all other places ,.....10 229,725 68S1,l74 :"
Il would be extremely unfortunate should the supply
wool from other countries fail just the time when tn
supplies from the colonies are threatened with grea
reduction.
We have already given the returns Of the Bank Eng
land for last week The monthly statement just ssuet
by the Bank Of France is favorable than the las
previously published and shows considerably increased
activity in the general trade Of the country The stocl
of bullion is 924 O3O O00 being decrease of nearly
e820000 since last The discounts have increas
ed 81, 100000; the circulation has increased $50 600
ones diminished 81, 100000
The Money market in London is plentifuly supplied
and the terms the last week Exchanges are
unaered and the prices of public stocks firm and rather
increasing The Corn market is dull and wheat one shi
ling quarter cheaper The market for Cotton at Lv-
erpoo is dull and inactive The prices obtained for wool
at the public sales which commenced last Friday
quite equal to those of the previous sales Very little
business is doing in the colonial and foreign produce
ket Every body who get out Of town during this
hot weather has done So and little business done as
possible.
The Theatrical is drawing to a close The TIA
han opera Covent Garden is said have done good
business her Maestys Theatre very much the reverse
Mr. LUMLEY will not again open the latter house his
cessor is not known.
Il
prospectus of edition of Shakespeare in twenty
lumes folio price e42. Only one hundred and fifty CO.
pies will be printed and the plates and woodcuts used
be destroyed the requisite number of i'm
pressions have been taken Mr. HALLrwELL says there
upwards of two thousand obsolete words and phrases
in Shakespeare which have been hitherto left without
cdation, to which he has paid great attention. The
British Parliament in addition to its other and
important functions is great national book manufacto
ry Every season the House of Commons issues whole
library OF important works The session of 1851 gave
birth to fewer than sixty folio volumes of Parliamen
tary papers, reports, &C. Of these sixty Volumes six
contain public bills, fifteen consist of reports from commit
tees and nine of reports from commissioners The other
thirty volumes consist of accounts and papers, and very
valuable account of the statistics which they contain
These and all other papers issued by Parliament may be
obtained through any bookseller fixed and reason
able price Some public libraries take the whole of these
papers, do nearly all the London journals and some of
the provincial ones The cost of complete set for year
ranges from f12 Ella according the number volumes
issued Two publications by American authors have late
ly excited good deal of attention Among other an
nouncements of works in preparation the Memoir
Journal and Correspondence of Thomas Moore" edited
by Lord John RUSSELL. in about ten volumes; new
translation of the Comedies of Pautus into English
prose- by Mr. RILEY, in vols 8vo Interior of Africa
laid open and the communication traced between the
East and West Coasts" by W. ID. Cooley Lives of
the friends and contemporaries Of Lord Chancellor Ca
rendon" by Lady THERESA LEWIS, vols. Svo.; ''The
Commercial Tariffs of all Countries" collected and
ranged by 0Tro HUBSER of the Prussan Board of Trade
translated into English and edited by c. n NEwpEGATE
M. p, VOL 4to; the g Handbook to Chronology al
phabetcay arranged to facilitate reference SOLITARY
Rambes and Adventures of Hunter in the Prairies by
JOHN PALLIsER, Esq.
Our summary of foreign affairs will be very brief;
for very little news appears to come to hand, and
our English journals pack and compress that little
into the least possible space in order that they may
print electioneerng speeches and election proceed
ings at full length and of these latter we have CO.
lumn after column, uSque al nausedm France
seems to be as quiet and calm as if she had had
yoution, coup deat emeute for century LOUIS
A'AFohhoH, "hiie uNISlohs muupy among the Leglu
mists and fusion seems to be further off than ever
ertng himself to draw about him and mould into docie
instruments of his will the somewhat hayward members
of his house. and if possible to consolidate them into
dynastc body Prince JEROME is dispatched on voyages
to the coast of Branny and Normandy and even to the
shores of Spain His son, NAPOLEON JEROME the clever
est Of the family is reforming from Montagnard
and demagogue into demure equenter Of bureaux and
is put in training for undertaking important post
Again, the Prince Of GAMING has long been Of bad odor
through his ultra democratic tendencies his scientific
qualities therefore turned to useful purposes emit
tie him to senatorial dotation and he is appointed Di-
rector of the Jardn des Pantes and Inspector General Of
the Museums and Geological Cabinets. There has been
succession Of reports Of something being wrong at ST.
Omer Nobody knows what is the matter there but it
seems to be clear that something of the common way
is going on in that town. All the police agents have been
suspended by order Of the Mayor and their duties are
Professionally performed by the gardes of the faubourgs
and other persons appointed by the Mayor The
Of coup dedt revived at Madrid in Consequence Of
an article in the Orden which says "The President of
the Council expects his colleagues La Grana and every
thing induces belief that the journey that royal resi-
dence will be fruitful in incidents"
ITALY seems to be asleep and has vitality enough
even for rumor. GREECE is amusing herself with an
instruction which may, however, give trouble to the
Government if not to Europe from the religious spirit
which it involves tits headed by priests who excite the
Greeks against king Ohio, declaring that he is Roman
Catholic and therefore an enemy the Greek church
and its doctrines The followers of these priests amount
to more than 2oOO who have hitherto defed the power
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