Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-06-25
FOREIGN ITEMS

INCREASE OF EXPORTS IRON GElAr BRIrAIs.-The
Board Of Trade returns for the month ending the fifth Of
May present remarkable results than any former
occasion AS compared with the corresponding month Of
last year they show increase in the declared vae Of
British exports Of e. 800 $685. about forty five per
cent while during the first four months Of the pre-
sent year the aggregate increase has been &C.
full confirmation is thus afforded Of the various state
ments lately made with regard to the unprecedented
tvy Of every branch of English manufactures and the
general employment of the people
British IsDIA.--The position of the British army in
Burmah was the occasion of rather important
saton in the House of Lords the evening Of June 9Th
Lord Peterborough recommended that the troops which
were now much dispersed in garrsons should be
trated that the Government should give up all illusions
as TO an easy conquest and prepare itself for arduous
and costly At the present rate of proceeding he
believed that the expenses Of the army were not less than
those of the expedition which conquered China and he
could not estimate them at less than from g 600 600 To-
Ell 100000 year. Lord Granville regretted that the
Government had received further information and
Lord Abemae strongly urged the propriety Of disavow
ing the annexation of Pegu.
LONDON, JUNE Under the combined influence of n
easy money market, and the prospect of settle
men of all political differences between Russia and Turkey
without war; the panic of the London Stock
Exchange had completely passed away and reaction in
the price Of consos railway and mining shares and for
eign bonds had set in the market appearing to be sus
ceptible of further Improvement.
FREE-TRADE CoRN-A letter from Berlin dated the
Sd June says Among the earliest subjects that will en-
gage the attention of the ZoVeren conferences will be
the reduction of the duty iron (Which the South Ger
States, particularly Wurtemberg are preparing to
oppose energecally, and, urgently than this
the fertilization of the internal traffic in grain SO as If
possible to obtain internal free trade in corn The
excessive emigration that is taking place from the
south of Germany 1--WE may with propriey call it leu
tonic exodus is mainly attributable the dearness Of
provisions though there of other troubles of
political and social nature, which contribute to fill up
their cup Of bitterness to OVERLOOKING From Bohemia
and Morava hear of hundreds of families constrained
to subsist grass and roots In the Palatinate and
Rhenhessen, formerly remarkable for cheap living the
complaints of dear provisions have become general Po-
tatoes cost six times hay five times much they did
thirty ago. Even in Prussia the price Of rye)
has risen in parts to sixty thaers e9) the wispe
GA bushes.o
SEVERITY WEATHER NORTH WALEs.-The
weather in parts of North Wales during the month
of May has exceeded any severity for the last
fifty years In Montgomeryshire sleet and snow had
fallen for hours until the hills had been covered
great DEPTH and animals have been unable to extrcate
themselves In Merioneth too the had been bit
terly cold and the loss to the farmers arising from the
deaths among the lambs had been very great An i'm
number of these poor creatures had been sent
the hills in April and persisted in the drifts and by the
colu mus enang serious loss TO their owners Deaths
have also happened to those who have been overaken in
the storms, and the Berwin range poor fellow was
found with sheep lying him. both frozen to DEATH
SwITzERLAND-The Federal Council has declared that
the courtmartal established at Frburg after the nsur
rection is opposed the constitution and that the sem
tencos pronounced by that tribunal null and void
The persons who had been tried and condemned be
handed over to the ordinary tribunals in the Grand
Council does not grant them amnesty. The report
that diplomatic relations had been re-estabished by
Switzerland and Austria is confirmed.