Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-09-24
e24,547,s54 G26, 254, ,Os4

On private securities.... l0,756,634 13,226,701
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! 924, 47,S54 926, ,034
Difference e1 FOG $50 In other words the Bank with
capacity to lend Ss6 less this year than had last
year, had loaned $3.50 more Last year its dis
posabe capital was in relation its loans 929
to 547 354 this year, e2S G2G 254 o34
There was in the former surplus 1884, 575
In the latter surplus of............. 2,463, ,029
Difference ,sOI, $40
and against the present year 1t is well known that since
the date of these returns the Bank has made further
vances and reasonably inferred from these circum
Stances coupled with the relative smalness of its depo-
sites and the large amount Of its securities, that the
Bank would demand higher rate Of interest before
made further advances
Take the following facts also in connexion with the
comparative condition of the Bank the periods
Last year the Government securities which held
at 93 los TO e3 15s premium; they at from par
to per ceet discount Last year the interest of money
in the mad per cent; nov it is 81 to 81 Last
far the Bank had of G12 49, 45 the reserve
only a, "a 7G5. Last year hed speo{y .ad bul
Hon amounting to f2l, ,47s,640 now it hslls eaIy
$780, dhd it dimnishes every week Every Item
q this statement indicates very clearly great demand
money and all ofthem Bank in advancing
the rate of interest We do believe that any
institution in the world is in better condition. and its
cautious and wereguated mode of doing business will
always ensure to it the proud position which it occupies
Another subject Of great Importance to the commercial
world and othe world at large, is the state and prospects
Of the harvest As respects neghbor FRANCE, it a-
pears from the reports made bya great number of pre-
ecs to the councils gneraua that the fears which existed
respecting the harvest altogether groundess. The
quantity of grain said be average and the quality
excellent The price of wheat, Notwithstanding has
risen at Mark Lane at least 5 per quarter during the
week mainly, told from the unfavorabe weather.
and the fully recognised deficiency of the English
growth Barley viii be, it is sad large crop; oats,
says the Economist viii be average; beans and peas,
says the high authority, promise we but the po-
atoes decaying very rapidly There has been better
weather in Ireland the potatoes satisfactory and the
grain harvest has made very good progress; wheat
sold yesterday in Mark Lane at COS. per quarter
The price Of all kinds of stock continues high and has
given stimulus TO the imports of foreign stock The
week before last there 900 head of live stock i'm
ported into the port of London of which $4,000
sheep This is the lorgest supply received in the
period The principal part from Holland, the
remainder from the Hanseatic Towns, excepting small
quantity from Belgium. The reapng machine has been
good deal used this season, especially in Scotland
News Of riots at LEIGE has raised prices Mark
and deprecated those the Stock Exchange where
the unfavorable weather. and the apprehension that the
Bank will certainly raise the of interest this week.
well fall Of prices at the Paris Bourse, have had
very material effect and the market very heavy both
for English and foreign stocks Of all descriptions.
The Literary world is almost much nonentity at the
present the Theatrical one The former is almost en-
trely confined far respects books magazines
and periodicals and the latter the repetition OF old
farces and melodramas the minor houses Lord PAL-
NERsT0S has been laying founda ton of Athengum
at Melbourne in Derbyshire, and made excellent
speech upon the motto, knowledge is power which
was displayed in the He said
/" If there is any axiom which is true Than
ther that axiom is the which see before for it
by knowledge that is enabled to his
vice the elements of nature it is by knowledge that he is
able to make the wild winds Of heaven conducive 70 the
purposes of il is by knowledge that he is
abled reduce the almost ndescrbabe power Of steam
to obey him like slave it is by knowledge that have
lately been enabled to bring the destructive element OF
lightning service, and to make il subserve the
most ordinary and daily purposes Of human existence.
But there is power which knowledge gives which
perhaps for each individual is still valuable than
what have alluded to for knowledge gives to man
over himself II by knowledge that are enabled
to control their passions to regulate their conduct
devote their energies and exerons to the welfare Of them
selves Of their families Of their neghborhood and their
country and therefore, of all the powers which know
ledge coners upon there is which, perhaps, is
more valuable, none which comes more home TO men 5
business and bosoms than the power which confers
upon man to govern and regulate himself"
Two three weeks ago, at the great poultry show in
London, Cochin China chickens sold for el00 couple;
and last week. at the sale of the late Earl Of DUo's
stock, celebrated COW, the Duchess sold for e735
Other fetched 400 350 $40 and 300 guineas The
Duke Of Gloucester bull sold for E6s0 and other bulls
for 500, 500, $780, and 100 guneas Truly these prices
give encouraging view of the grazing operations We,
however scarcely think possible that any animals
Of the species ntrinsicaly be worth such enormous
prices.
OF the six aged General officers who stood around the
closing grave Of the Duke Of WELLSGros two have
already followed their iustrious commander :" to that
bourne whence traveller returns" Lord SALrouS
died about fortnight ago. the age Of sxty-eght and
General Sir CHARLES JAMES NAPIER the hero Of Scnde,
died. full Of years and honors Monday last.
| We have little continental news to communicate The
EMPEROR and EMPRESS Of the FRENCH passing their
time very nationally and quietly in tour on the sen
coast and appear to be every where well received They
we're expected to spend yesterday at BouOgne Mer
The public mind appears to be good deal excited in
BELGyN the price Of bread and the threatened scarcity
Of grain
The Trieste Gazette states the authority Of letter
from Schuma that u 900 Albanese and Greeks had
ceiyed permission from 0NER PAcHA to the adj
vanced guard Of the army of the Danube thus showing
the devoedness Of the Christians to the Of the
SULTAN.
The Patrie says the news from SrRvIA is most re-
assuring The most perfect order regus throughout the
The sf Austriana enca m md pater