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Our budget of foreign news this week is unusually small.

With the exception, indeed, of what relates to Spanish affairs, we scarcely recollect a period so barren of interesting Continental Intelligence. It should console us, however, for the lack* of exciting news, that a time of tranquillity is almost invariably one of prosperity; and notwithstanding the recent losses of stock.; jobbers, (to counterbalance which, there must have been correL sponding gains), we think that there is evidence that the Continental nations are generally thriving. The numerous projects for roads; canals, railways, and other internal iniprove- ments which are never heard of when people are dispirited and commerce stagnant, seem to give countenance to this supposition.

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