Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-07-16

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those who have struggled for and obtained them We
have strong hopes of encouraging and crejitable
issue.
The last of the Bank Of England show the foe-
lowing results
Circulation g23, OsS $50, decrease g340 355
Public depostes.... 3,7S7,044 do.......... $685. 40
Private do ... 1908 7Ol increase ......I go 664
Coin and bullion. l8,479,515, do........ 225,5Sn
Reserve 9,396,435, do........ 555,ss5
The money market and the funds and securities Of ALI
kinds have osclated during the week, according the
rumors Of the hour pacific warke and many OF
those had fear other object than to pro-
duce such oscillations.
The agricultural reports of the last eight days respect
ing the growing crops generally Of favorable de-
scrpton The potato crop is said to be very promis-
ing one
There has not been single book produced during
the week which will be heard Of known in the year
1900; we fear might say 1876 The venerable Baron
HUMBOLDT has written the following letter Dr. cuI~
LEN, the protector of the Darien ship canal;
PoTsDAM JUNE e. 1853.
Sir: am very much to blame for having long de-
ayed to the agreeable and interesting despatch
that you have been kind enough forward by the
hands of Mr. Augustus Peterman SO estimable by his
character as well as by the sody Of his Biographies
labors. DR.. Cullen cannot doubt the high Importance
that would attach the merit of his courageous and
useful Investigations in the part of the Ithmus
Of Panama knowing my position and my anteduyian
age, he will receive with indulgence late the
preston Of my lively gratitude After having labored
valn during half century, to prove the possibility of
oceanic canal, and point the Gulf of San Miguel
and Cupica the points worthy attention after
having regretted almost with bitterness in the last e
ton of my ASPECTS of Nature that the employment OF
the means which the present state Of knowledge a
fords for obtaining precise measurements has
long delayed ought than any else to be
sfed to see at last hopes for noble enterprise
revived By your publications, sir, and by that of Mr.
Osborne will be originated the great work of changing
an important part of the commerce Of nations and or
rendering accessible the rich countries of Eastern
Asia and the Indian Archipelago The undertaking by
no means above the intellectual and material power which
civilized nations have attained to. The work should be-
to last forever; it should with canal
with locks like the magnificent Caedonian canal it
be really oceanic canal without lock- free passage
from sea TO sea- across which the of the naygR
ton will be modified, but not interrupted, by the differ
ence in height and non-coincidence Of the tides.
Receive, pray you, sir, the expression of my great
consideration Yours, &C.
ALEXANDER Won HUMBOLDT
EDWARD CULLEN, Strand, London
The United States strongly and well represented
at the Queens State Ball Thursday In the lis
Of the company observe the of Mr.. IngersolE
and Miss Wlcocks and the attaches the embassy Mr.
Van Buren, and his son. Mr. Bancroft Davis Mr. and Mrs
Glpin Hon. T. Butler King, Mr.. Kembe, Gen. Cooper,
Hon. H. and Mrs. Johnston Miss Thompson, sc.
The Queen held her last drawingroom for the
yesterday. There is quite blaze of Kings, Queens,
Princes, &C. in London at present, viz the King and
Queen Of Hanover the Duke Of Genoa Prince Louis In
Glen Bonapare the Duke and Duchess of SAKE Cobourg
the Grand Duchess of Meckenburg Princess Adelaide OF
Hohenlohe, &c. and the Prince and Princess Of Prussia
expected tomorrow. We glad that these al
pleasure seekers, and not political mischief makers
Among tho lions Of the day and regarded chef
duUre Of the art well the largest specimen Of Il
which has yet been exhibited is immense cut-glass
chandelier which has been executed by Messr Hancock
Rixon Co.. of Charing Cross, for the Grand Sultan Of
Turkey. This splendid and mammoth production is
tweny-seven feet high and foryfve feet in diameter il
contains 45 gas burners and weighs between six and
seven tons
There is no European to communicate which lie
mixed up with the Russian and Turkish business, and
which has not been already alluded to-
The last news from India is that, Notwithstanding
fighting in Burmah the native commissioners haye
proered terms Should favorable be received
previous to the lapse of the thirty days which a.
lowed, the British troops viii advance upon Ava.
The from CHINA is varied and important The
rebels captured Nankn the 2lst Of March, were
forced eyacuae il after short occupations and On
the 9th Of April they defeated about thirty miles
south Of Nankn. The rebels said to have lost two
thousand in this engagement and to have been put
down several other places The foreign residents nj
Shanghai have formed volunteer corps for mutual pro-
lection
London Stock Exchange oc1ock-The English funds
have been steady throughout both yesterday to-day
and the markets exhibit improved tone Consos for
cash, 9s4 9Ss Bank stock 228I to 229 Very lttle
business doing in any foreign funds
Paris Bose latest prices yesterday advancing
Three percents, 76f 75c; Four-anda half per cents
l0lf 40c.