Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-02-19

Ing explosion Of the French financial system are noticed
Paris paper of yesterday says:
g Business affairs in France are generally reported
duh, and little improvement is anticipated before
MONTH when extensive orders looked for from Amer
The prevailing inactivity is attributed chiefly to tn
extraordinary decline in the public funds which has
sibly affected every branch OF commerce The grain
et has been rather depressed during the week. but to
day there is shade OF improvement both here and a
Bordeanx. In the silk trade however, exception mus
be made as to the general depression fair average bust
ness being reported at the full rates which have atter
ruled the market" s
Prices have however rallied during these days
on the Bourse, and confidence is somewhat restored
There seems to be great doubt whether the Empire
likely to be "peace. Twenty ships Of the line, all to be
furnished with propellers eighteen frsclass fri
gates and fifteen other vessels of being built
The French Government appears to continue to " ad-
vance backwards with respect to literature After all
but exnguishg the literary talent of the present day
it has commenced attack upon the past and the
great MoLIERE is its first victim. His marvellous come
dy 7artu8 has been prohibited at the Theatre Francas
at the request of the ultra church party
SPAIN furnishes nothing promising consoatory, and
PORTUGAL is equally discouragng All that hear from
ITALY is that the PORE has decided the question go
not to co. to Paris consecrate the Coronation of ma
PoLEoS the affirmative. This resolution has thrown
the Sacred College into CONSERVATION and every argu
men has been tried in vain with Pho Mono to induce him
to change his purpose 1t is said that his Holiness had
written to the Emperor announcing his willingness to
dertake the journey. Austrian and Russian influence
will it is said be put in requston but it is thought the
Holy Father will not change his mind
The little Republic of MosTEsEaRo, the eastern
shore of the Adriatc is bringing itself into notice by
terng into with TURKEY. The connexion which has
long been known to exist between the Chief Of the Monte
negrns and Russia and the Importance of Montenegro
relation to the commerce. sc. Of the Adratc coupled
with the rumored designs of Russia upon the East have
invested this little war with fictitious interest and the
European journals discussing the subject at great
length half be true that hear about this business
it is of very pregnant nature.
GERMANY is blank and furnishes nothing but accounts
Of Dr. GERvINUs his book and his prosecution for in
citing high treason and endangerng the public peace"
In the time the doctor has wisely escaped from his
prosecutors the trial is to (29th
at Heidelberg, when if he does present himself he
will be judged guilty, and future defence permitted
him. However, although the police seized nearly the
whole of the first edition of the book second edition has
in spite Of the police somehow other got into crcula
ton, and has been very widely distributed.
The general of the from the seat of
the Cape Of Good Hope is not Satisfactory previou,
advices seemed to indicate.
There has been fighting in Burmah, but can
scarcely make out with what result Lord DALHoUsIE
will quit the Governorship of India in July next The
Duke of NEWCASTLE is mentioned as his successor.
The last intelligence from Australia is very late
date and contains several events any of which would
in ordinary times be considered striking and remark
able. For instance, the passage of the gigantic
packet the Great Britain, with her living freight, from
London to Melbourne in eighty days the voyage
IF tha lin IN
Ceyon vast and inhospabe ocean; the discov
cry of gold in New Zealand the preparation Of const
tuition for its by the colony Of New South Wales
and the opening of the first university of the Southern
Hemisphere The accounts upon the whole appear to
satisfactory although there is much which could wish
otherwise. The wealth lightly won is as lightly spent
Reckessness and ntempeance have themselves
of the aboring classes and the Governments which
have established prove utterly unequal to the sudden
strain their energies and The Sydney gold
fields continue steady profitable YIELD but the greater
attractions of the Port Phillip diggngs give them such
immense population that the Sydney nine ten thou
sand ounces week until latterly lost sight Of
change has taken place. and the stream of labor is
from Melbourne to Sydney
JANUARY 28.-There is not an atom Of domestic news
this morning, and very little foreign PARIS represent
ed being very gay great many English vsiters have
arrived during the last two days. and the hotels are all
crowded Several brilliant fees announced for next
week in honor Of the Emperors marriage Politics ap
pear be postponed by general consent until after next
week The Cardinals at Rome cannot yet make up their
minds approve the Popgs visit to Pars but Pho NoSo
not only holds his resolution but talks Of comprising
Vienna in his "trip, thus wardng off the jealousy Of the
"chvarous" young Emperor Of AUSTRIA, by GROWING
him well as his mature imperial brother NAPo-
Ill singular musical novelty has, in some de-
gree, relieved the languor and monotony Of Rome In
VERDIs new OPERA the TrOubadour anI chorus with
accompaniment of sledge-hammers, is introduced!
Paris Bouss, latest prices last nights per cts s0f Co.,;
Al per cts. l05f. 30c
London Stock Exchange 2o'eloekConsols both for
ney and account, 993 to 99s; Bank stock 2275.
very good business continues to be done in American
stocks and all that is aAost in the market will very
be absorbed The inquiry also extends to the leading
descriptions Of railway bonds. ~
FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT.