Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-04-29
Ior tAe aonla eaaing slA Of Mareh.

The chief feature of this statement is the large de-
in the quantity of tea entered for consumption,
which, however, is fully accounted for by the fact that
during the present month further remission of duty
to take place.
We see also announced that the revenue returns for
the financial year highly satisfactory, showing In
crease compared with last year of 81 485 056 This
increase is spread through every head of the ordinary
except the item of odds and ends called mis-
eellaneous."
The Parliamentary proceedings of the week have, with
the exception Of the discussion in relation to the address
to the Crown respecting the war; been very unmporsnt
There Is bill before Parliament for the suppress
sion of gambling houses in the metropolis We wish this
bill could be made to reach the great gambling house Of
ALL the stock exchange We have often alluded this SUBJ
ec and we to it at this time because to the pecu
lave contrivances of its members may be attributed
nearly all the political rumors which agitate the public
mind from day to day. There spread abroad
few days ago by leading article in leading morning
paper that the Emperor of Russia was desrous nego
tiate for peace. This rumor very effective the
stock exchange the price Of consos advanced certain
parties sold out largely and the writer of the article
ceved E50o for his reward. No doubt those who paid
this douew abundantly reaped their advantages. This
is excessively dsgraceful but examples Of o minor de-
scrpion are known to every day during periods
Of excitement like the present There persons in
Vienna, Berlin, and Paris well other places, who
kept well informed about matters in London, and
who employ the telegraph-wires to convey messages
suitable to the views and interests of those by whom
they employed Cannot Government reach this wick
edness and suppress itf
Another fabrication Of the week hss been that the
English feet detained in the Bosphorus for want Of
COAL The first Lord Of the Admiralty has nailed this lie
to the mast by stating that there in fact 5000 tons
of coal Malta and 900 tons at Constantnope and
the best proof possible of its ncorrectness is that the
combined fleets have arrived at Varna. Again. the Ma
val and Military Gazette has o dismal account Of an
Internal instrument of warfare in the possession Of the
Gar We have had Of before but it never re-
ceived any specific embodiment until it was thus an
nounced. A letter from Paris says:
"The inventor Of the internal submarine machines,
stated to be in the possession Of the Emperor of Russia
blowing ships out of the water by the agency of an
electric wire, is Frenchman and when he communicat-
ed his invention to the Russian Government for consi
deraton he expressly stipulated that in Of war be.
France and Russia he should be at liberty to give
his country the benefit Of his discovery. II is fur
ther reported that Friday last this gentleman was re-
ceived the Ministry Of Marine and in the presence OF
M. Ducos and board Of naval officers explained the
fearful means of destruction which he claims to have
originated. The board, increduous frst closely
amned the matter and in the end were very much struck