Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-04-16

although the weather now intensely cold with severe
frost every night and snow every day
The last returns of the Bank Of England show
The circulation to be s2l7l8,I70 decrease e562 zoo
Bulnon coin. lS,97s,8l0 increase 63,99S
Pnohc deposites...!..... 1907 9l4 " 295, 1913
Private depostes....,..,. l3,051 1876 426, 835
Discounts and advances l5,396,827 decrease 4,393
The public funds and the shares market and the state of
the money market generally all pretty nearly they
were before the temporary depression caused by the late
threatening news, rather rumors from Constantine
PIE There has been little doing in the produce market
owing to its being Passion week.
We are glad to learn that the sale of the properties
OF her MAJEsTYs THEATRE has been suspended lessee
having been found for that establishment
One Of the popular books Of the present season
has been The Successful Merchant or Sketches of the
Life Of Mr. Samuel Budge late of Bristol The Brit
ISL Quarterly calls it Commercial Biography for Com
mercia People" and almost every Journal and Review
joins in its praise Mr. COLLIER has published the Plays
Of Shakespeare in one volume Syo with the text regu-
lated from the recently discovered folio of 1892 with
manuscript corrections This is very acceptable pre-
sent TO the lovers of Shakespeare and who is included
under that tte II uquestonably the best attempt
Stewards making the great bard universally understood
and appreciated which has been placed before the public
We regret to lind that Mr. MAcAULAY has lately written
to friend saying, the state Of my health is such that
shall probably be under the necessity of passing next
winter in mder climate" The Free Trade principle is
being carried out far in England have led to
proposal to allow the transmission of letters be thrown
open to the public and be equally free competition
as the carriage of parcels passengers To take the
postage business entirely out of the hands Of Government
and to throw it open to the public would, fear be
very derangng and mischievous STEP We do not think
it is likely be done present but the very starting
he tho in ind
running.
very singular discovery has lately been made in
France w NJ. FABRE, gardener of Ayde The herb
ogiops heretofore considered than useless,
grows abandantly on the shores of the Mediterranean 1t
producesa species of grain resembling wheat in form,
but much smaller. In the year 1889 NJ Fabre sowed
quantity II this grain, and he found the produce bore
close affinity to wheat that produce he sowed the next
year, andthe yield still more like wheat. He went
sowing produce of each year the succeeding year.
until he has succeeded in getting fine crop of
wheat and of good quality be wished for Thus
he has proIed that wild and mscheyous weed can be
educated into excellent wheat. We find this in foreign
agricultural journal Your readers must exercise their
judgment rs to the credit due to the statement.
An Austrian artillery officer is said to have made such
improvements in the manufacture of gun cotton that it
now be made available for all descriptions of firearms
The Fnch exhibition of the manufactures of all nations
is opei the 1s of May, 1885, and to close the
lst of September following. Crystal Palace is now
buildingin the Champs Elysees
Our foreign budget this week is almost meagre as
our domestic There sort of political demon
sratona few days ago in Paris the funeral of Madame
RAsPAu which excited attention. NJ. RAspAIL was
condemned in 1S4S to five years Imprisonment for having
taken prt in the invasion of the Assembly the 18th
May in company with Banqui, Barbes, Louis Blanc &C.
No less than from four to five thousand persons attended
his wife's funeral, marching in regular order. They
marched twice round the column of July, all wearing
naort uncoyering their heads when they reached the
Place de la Baselle No speeches Of any kind de-
vered over the grave This is the first time since the
I'd Of December 1851 that the Socialists have attempted
to show themselves The circumstance has excited
siderable observation for it proves that the party is by
extinct that is organized and ready to take
advantage any favorable opportunity for showing it
self and for action General CASRoBERT has been offered
the portfolio left by Marshal ST. AnSAUp but he
has twice refused it unless the condition which he pro-
poses be granted which is that his former comrades
erals Changarnier Leho Lamorciere, and Bedeau are
permitted to return to France.
The news from ROME is that his Holiness has been de-
scanng upon the pastoral virtues Of the Archbishop Of
Tours who has been lately promoted to the dignity of
Cardinal His Holiness says this promotion will give,
he is convinced great satisfaction to his wellbeoved
son in Christ Napoleon, Emperor of the French" GUER
RAzz RoMAyELL and other reyoutonsts who have been
tried at Florence have been found guilty of high treason
and condemned to various periods of mprisonment-Gu
errazz for ise letter from MILAN states that the
horties are gradually diminishing the severity of the
police measures and it is stated upon the authority of the
Debats that Imperial decree has been proclaimed at
MASruA ordering the abandonment of all the impending
prosecutions for high treason. And, again. told
that the confscatons in Lombardy have been postponed
until inquiries can be made into the true position of the
parties and that forfeiture Of property will not be insist
ed upon only in cases where the absolute disoyay of
the present owner can be proved
Letters from PALERMO dated I'd instant state that
wide conspiracy exists throughout the island The
parrson Of Palermo Messina and Catania are kept on
siege duty All students have been ordered to leave Ma
Plies within twenty-four hours and the city has been
placed under military duty There is not any from
GERMANY or the north Of Europe.
March 25.-This is Good Friday; holyday at the
Bank Stock Exchange and all the public Offices but the
press has been work. and the morning papers in
the hands of hundreds Of thousands of readers the
breakfast tables Of this hive of nearly 2500000 human
beings Those papers bring foreign news Of import
ance and the home is limited to Of dread
full election riots at Blackburn in Lancashire and Of
terrific coal-pt explosion Wigan in the county
By the latter accident nearly forty people have been killed
London Stock Exchange al The close yesterddy-
cash. 99 to 99s Consols account 18th April 99S to 99i
Quiet business has been done in the market for Ame
he Ne ~ a.. L. Etti