Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-02-05

allowing for this, the amount in the bank will be still very
nearly 420 100000 with the certainty Of fresh supply
in week two the Australians cargo Of
million be melted down. 1t is also known that the
increase in the private securities will again be very great
consequent upon the specnlations in grain and iron
French paper to great amount is also stated to be aoa
in this market 1t is known that the bank directors
determined to keep the cautious sdc whatever may
be the opinions entertained by the general commerca
public. Generally, the prospects Of the money market
regarded less favorable and it wants but the fu
ther threatened action Of the Bank of England rector
to convert the present feeling Of anxiety species o
panic, at the very time when the general propec
Of trade are admitted to be favorable and when
markets supported by production Of gold htherb
unequalled The stock market shares In the fsag ard
consols have fallen from 1901 TO 99J for money HAik
stvA a. ar1n Farsn stocks are fat but not maAsray
affected All mining railway and miscellaneous shares
dull Australian agricultural closed from 265
of the Stock Exchange in order mask
their opinion of the conduct of the Portuguese Govern
towards its British creditors have stopped e ad
mission into the house of any bonds of the Govern
ment any Portuguese railway shares any dealings
whatever any securities issued by the Portuguese
Government
year which ended 9th of April 152, 49, 997
That for the year which will end the 9th Of
April, 1853 is estimated $780, GOO
The exports for the month ending the 9th of
December, 165O ,o6Z, 3l9
The exports for the month ending the 9th of
December IO2, 694
Those for the eleven months ending the 9th Of
December 1850. .6O, 4OO, 525
Those for the eleven months ending the 9th of
December 1867. 349, 79S
The tonnage for 1852 is than half million above
that of 1885, although the number Of ships less There
is no quotabe variation in the produce market
Theatricals do not furnish single paragraph In Lite
nature have curious book by Lady EMMELINE STUART
WoRTLEY, called &c." Get Ceter@) which is colec
ton of amusing but certainly very light and trfng mat
ter. The Aheneum, reviewing with much ability the
literary character of the past year. remarks that France
is for the moment blotted out from the list of literary
nations. "All the muses. are silent her soil. Her
poets exies her wits and orators silent Her hsto
rans with bold and noble exception abashed and
idle" What is true of literary France is true in its de-
gree of almost every other country the continent of
Europe. In Prussia the Muses. have been gagged,
Fregrath would tell u.s. did we need his word for such
fact; in Austria they have been sent to Jail; in Italy
they have been shot in almost every marketpace" Per-
haps the by far most noticeable book of the is
volume published by Mr.. ]. PAYNE COLLIER entitled
"Notes and Emendatons to the Text of Shakspeare's
Plays" The history of this book is very curious:
"Mr. Collier some time since bought for thirty shil-
ngs edition Of the second folio 1892 to make
book out of two but unluckily the duplicate deec
tive in the place his first copy he concluded
that the bbopole had better bargain than the bbKo
apher On looking fsEher. howevsr, he found hss the
Sps @sSy - ~ s1sss -sss 49, 3 Is% saa
dss1ag krgsy vif &c 6G1nsss q Tie stage. n ca.
her reasonably nfers that the volume had belonged to
person connected with the theatres, possibly nasagr
The greater portion Of the emendaons refer to the texts
varying from the correction of to the insertion
Of whole lines and being reckoned by thousands in point
of number evidently showing that the annotaor whoever
he was possessed unwearied industry and the editorial
faculty. OF his emendaons, in the absence OF
all knowledge to the and his time, must stand for
what they worth indeed of them had been long
since suggested by critical sagacty Mr. Collier how
ever would like to take, though he does to
claim, somewhat higher ground for his unknown. He
considers that he have made his corrections from the
mouths Of actors who directly from tradition spoke
ducton he enters into elaborate arguments the
subject, which show both knowledge and ingenuity"
The editor of the Literary Gazette says:
"The corrections which Mr. Collier has here given tc
the world made to oil appearance either by actor
by some other person connected with the stage long
after the publication of the second folio, 1632 are
to think Of value than the abors of nearly
all the critics Shakspeares put together. Their
happest emendatons coafrmed by him. and passages
which they have expended paragraphs Of learning
and argument, and suggestion, only to make OBJ
scure what already sufficiently dark, are by
little alteration Of this patient unknown pen made
So far acquaintance with some forty or fifty Of
these emcndatons CO. mhesitatngly say that just
many hitherto obscure passages in the writings Of Shaks
peare have TO been cleared of all difficulties and II
the great bulk Of these corrections are as effective
think that the best future edition Of the immortal bard
viii be with the text corrected by this volume and
without any further note or comment whatever. We
would rather possess II for than Mr.. Hali
wells proposed edition In twenty volumes folio, all con-
siderations Of cost out Of the question.
Two manuscripts Of the celebrated JEAN JACQUES Rous
have been lately purchased by MFR. VAN DE- wErEn,
the Belgian Minister, with view to publication. The
mania for autographs Is again raging We yesterday met
with gentleman, neighbor Of ours, who had offered
hundred guines In the Of the day for letter
written BY Lord NrLsos TO his daughter just before the
battle s Trafalgar The grcat wonder Of the affair is,
ths o6u vas refused. Prrxas's Monthly Magazine is
hailed eheered and approved Of by nearly the whole Of
the critics and reviewers.
Oar Continental ncwsbag is very slendcrly fur
nished. Louis NAPOLEON appears to be busy pro-
vding comfortable residences for his relatives The
hviion Msrscn Is fitting up for the Princess Ma
ruilpx, the Palais Royal for Prince jerome, and
the Elys<c Cor Prince MuRAr. In the list Of the
thirsycght new Senators we look in vain for any Of
tAoss names which we might reasonably expect TO
Ind there, such great proprictors, eminent mag-
strs'ss sssnclers dipomaasss, Sc But, H. on the one
hard the eiv nos1e. absent there are the list
sssa generals snd samirals Most of these officers
sss said 10 their dirny and the comfortable adj
sian q soeof 70 their Incomes, not TO their military
ssrvser hats the fact of shef being compromised in the
aaeee.~ AZ t~ ~xlnv rsg- The fovna recoonition Of