Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-11-05

castle alone were nearly as many.
As respects scarcity Of food believe all fears upon
that head have subsidized The market has been very
quiet throughout the week; prices have not advanced,
but there is general opinion that wheat will be dearer
during the winter; at present appear to be
limiting their purchases to their immediate wants
We have before the returns of the Board of Trade
for the month and the eight months which ended the
9th Of September last The total declared value Of the
exports Of British and Irish produce and manufactures is
as follows
Forthe month For eight months.
185S..."... ,297 ,086 e5S,l58I29
1S52........ ............... 6,870,856 47,009,li6
1851 ......... 6,645,92S 4I,l5i,9o4
The returns for the month ending the 9Th of Septem-
Der exhibit again extraordinary increase in the de-
cared value Of expectations compared with the
corresponding month of last year, the difference being
Ct 500 The chief augmentation is still in metals,
Gotten manufactures, haberdashery Gncluding all de-
scrptons of readymade cothing) hardware, eartLen-
ware, and beer and ale
The revenue returns for the year, and the quarter
which ended the 10th instant are also very satisac
tory They continue to indicate increasing revenue
in the face of all additions reduction of taxes Under
all the heads of ordinary revenue there is increase
for the year. except under the petty supplementary
entitled " miscellaneous customs, excise, stamps
taxes property-tax, post office, and lands all
have yielded more in the present year than they did in
the last the aggregate increase for the twelve months
being less than $50 864 ordinary There
is also increase of e751 1888 the extra of
revenue, making total increase of e. 81, 752. The
nett increase for the quarter is e417727 1t is appre
hended that the present state of public affairs may have
the effect of making the next quarters returns not
favorable; but the year 1858 must under all crcum-
stances, be considered triumphant proof of the sound
e4I-s. na1 ,aolsa.
discovery has lately been made at the Bank of Eng
land that by of photography, tac-sines can be
obtained by skfu operator with the greatest facility
and that fraudulent copies of the bank thus OBJ
tanned would pass muster with Of the most
experienced judges. Indeed Of these fraudulent
notes has been exchanged for gold Over the counter
its spurious character having escaped the generally
closely scrutinizng eyes of the cashiers in that depart
ment Under the impression, from certain indications
which manifested themselves the note that it had been
fabricated by Photographic agency experiments were
made by of the most eminent and experienced photo
graphers in the metropolis, Whose aid called into
requsition by the bank authortes when it clearly
proved by the results Of those experiments that the pu
ous note had been manufactured by the suspect
ID, viz. photography SO close the resemblance be-
ween the spurious note thus experimentally obtained
md the genuine whence the copy taken by the
alluded to- that not only the sigma
and the private marks 1.-THE latter known only to the
ank ocials initiated with the closest accuracy, but the
ery watermar ITSELF in all its integrity clearly
md closely defined the other prominent charac-
erstics of the genuine document The process adopted
produce these effects is well known to al photograph
rs the paper process" The Photographic thin
negative paper after having been prepared with wax and
hen rendered sensitive by the usual metho which need
lot be described here is then in fit state to receive
he impression from the genuine note the printing
Signature and the watermark, and in fact every mark
minute which appears the face of the note
being clearly and distinctly traced and defined This is
ermed the negative" and from this negative" OBJ
tanned by such extremely simple method when adopt
ed by skilfu manipulation, positives (exact facsmi
les of the note itsef might be multiplied by means of
sun-printing to any extent
The position the glad On The l.. IF this
month is shown by the following returns
1885 Increase e887, $50
Pubic deposites.. g. 738, 1855 400
Private. DOLL, 1886 .....Do...1 046 $50
Disc Is and loans 10 124 799 49,. 9Sl $40
Coin and bullion To- 6l2 562 Decrease POI
The most striking and dsqueting feature in this state
nent is the increase Of nearly millions sterling in the
discounts and private securities In view Of this extra
ordinary increase wonder that the directors
aised their rate Of interest to five per cent The discount
Houses said to have had advances upon bills to the
mount of three quarters of million. This great in
in advances upon private securities and the press
ne demands for further loans which to increase
ather than diminish is calculated to excite great
ety. and certainly argues in favor Of further rise in the
ate upon which the bank will consent to make ad-
ances.
The Northwest Passage is OF last fat accompi Lieut.
MCCLURE, in her Majesty's ship Investigator has COM
etcd the passage between the two oceans having pass
ID into the Arctic by Behring's straits and returned
ome by Dayis's straits True the Northwestern Passage
5, for all practical purposes, dream, deuson; it will
barren ofresults it is merely the interesting solution
# geographical question which has called forth
much speculation and hardy enterprise. But men seem
need something visionary to tempt them into the dry
,aths Of practical discovery. From the time Of CABOT
he progress of oceanic discovery has been entirely
Interrupted in England. Among the Of her sklful
md gallant who have aided in the of scientific
md commercial discovery those Of Arson, Dampier
marlborough, Wallis, Byron, Cook, Vancouver, and
heir innumersbe successors and worthy rivals since the
beginning Of the present century Adventures the
and have also been found worthy to rank beside them
md all the aids modern science have been pressed into
he service Of the bold brotherhood We fully agree with
he following passage from the Morning Chronicle:
GAN honor to Germanys HUMBOLDT all honor to the
gallant geographical explorers Of France The United
States which have fairly entered upon the race,
Welcome worthy competitors, (Span and Holland
IF the past rather than the presently but hitherto the
richest harvests Of geographical discovery and Of the
Important array of facts in natural history and natural
science which cluster around them have reaped by
Englishmen Long may this continue to be the case
older hearts accurate observers truthful
porters than the Engshmen who have been employed in
this task could not be wished for