Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-10-18
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
rpov orr EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT
RANDOM NOTES,

evenings cooler than with you in October. The
cranes were three weeks behindhand in maturation
This weather may render the delay harmless. thus
the celebrated vineyards which are declared to be
part of French glory" historical and territorial,
will not be impaired in their just renown. The
Constitutional tells us OF some nhabant OF the
United States" who offers TO the French Depart
ment of the Navy as much oak as can be needed
for naval purposes; the said inhabtant having at
his disposal more than enough for the wants of all
the maritime powers of the world. The public yes
sci sent by this Government to the western coast of
Africa, to survey the portion between the Cape of
Good Hope and the port of Benguela, has reported
the discovery of number of new and abundant
beds of guano, which are particularly described.
Several of the Paris Journals second the Constitu
fionnel in proclaming the EXCLUSIVE right Of France
to the whole island of Madagascar, rights which
the Minister of the Marine, in lS43, in the Cham
Der of Deputies, solemnly pronounced ndisputable.
In the year ls43 the Nantes Chamber of Com
merce memorialized the Government on the wis
dom of turning those rights to immediate account
by French colonization in the interior. That SEN
sible paper, the Courier du Havre, ridicules the
pretensions and the scheme. /" In matters of terri
Tory" observes the Courier, {" the best of titles,
the only eficacious one is possession: il is vain
for as to cry that Madagascar belongs to France,
that rights are established and unquestionable
hundred and fifty leagues Of coast the French flag
is not so planted as to be able TO protect French
men or any foreigners" Some time ago the Mi
mister of Commerce invited, by circular, the Cham
bers of Commerce throughout France to inform him
Of the goods and products which might be sent
most advantageously to Mayofte, where he wished
TO form depot of specimens for the natives of that
meridian. Mayotte, of the Comore Islands, is
situated between Madagascar and the west coast OF
Africa, at the northern entry of the Mozambique
Channel. Monsieur DE FRoBERvMLE has prepared
a copious memoir on the importance Of Mayotte as
commercial station and the seat of colony He
dates the trade of Zanzibar, and the large Ame-
rcan share in it, and the mutual benefits of the
treaty between the United States and the Imaum of
Muscat
Mr.. CARBoNNEL submitted lately to the AGA
deny of Sciences memoir respecting the oysters
on the coast of France-he means of improving the
system of feeding them, and the absolute practical
bility Of creating at will artificial banks-bancs
flfcieis. 1t appears that the oyster-beds diminish
on the French coast and the coasts of England and
Holland, while the demand for the article constant
ly increases. The English and Dutch beds have
nearly vanished, and the Spanish and Portuguese
have not been explored. Mr.. Carbonnel doubts
whether laws, akin to the game code, for oysters,
would be sufficient to arrest the evil which he sig
nalizes. His scheme of inexhaustible artificial
banks is plausible, and recommended by the success
Of his experiments on small scale. Oysters live
ten years, and it is the age of three only that they
cease to be good between April and September.
Paris is all alive to the oyster question, GAY-LUs
SAC, of the highest authorities in agricultural
chemistry maintains before the Institute that SAIL is
not manure that it does not contribute to the
improvement Of soil and PouILLET, the eminent
natural philosopher, who commissioned to In
veshgats the late destructive visitation in the valley
OF Knoxville, near Rouen, reports against the first
belief that electricity the destructive agent: he
affirms that the ruin was the mere impulsion of
wind" This opinion is deemed highly serious,
and committee of the Institute for further investi-
CATION is demanded, because the insurance Offices
liable not for the havoc of property according
to the nature Of the cause or agency. The Coun-
ellis General of the Departments call for the reduc-
ton OF the tax on salt, and prove it 10 be manifold
hardship and evil for the immense majority of the
people, almost beyond further endurance. In some
provinces, Brittany for example, it amounts to twenty
francs per annum for poor family of five persons
and twenty francs represent the wages of twenty
days-a fifteenth of the years income. 1t now
yields seventy millions of francs to the treasury
supply is required for the ifty-one millions of
domestic animals In France. In most of the Ger
States the article is sold at fifty and even a
hundred per cent. lower than the cost The debate
on this subject last session, in the Chambers was
akin to that in the British House of Commons re-
speeding butter and cheese; these royal treasures,
said the League, afford nothing cheap to the
people. Bread, butter, and cheese, on one side of
the channel, and salt and meat tea sugar and cof-
fee on the other, must be MORALLY dear Hence,
fraud, aduteration, disease, death, the sowest in
crease OF numbers, the gradual physical degenera-
ton of races.
royal ordinance establishes al Paris under the
auspices OF the Minister of War, an .4igerisn Nu-
ssum, by the side Of the Egyptian Museum, which
may be deemed as worthy of close and frequent
contemplation as any other Of the sights of this
capital. The new edihce for the Department Of
Foreign Affairs, near the Chamber of Deputies, has
been adludged in contracts amounting altogether to
three millions hundred and ninety thousand
francs. Montbard, in Burgundy, the native city Of
Buton, Is about to erect a monument to the cele-
brated naturalist. Whatever errors or defects are
now acknowledged in his work. these will be ever
read and admired, like Hume's History Of England
Tor the composition, beyond those of any other au
thor IN the same branch Fresh appeals orc pub
hshed 70 the humane and provident for the founda-
non OF Houses Of Refuge for youth. "There are"
says the Constitufionnei "a multitude Of families
IN fars so destitute that it is impossible for them
70 provide their children with sufficient food, or
he least intellectual culture. Their wretched off
SPRING nai-clad, half-fed, objects Of no care or
Proecnon' consigned, too often at the earliest age
10 excessive Toll, having the worst examples of con-
DUCT al nome, become first street-vaprants and
then TALL into every vice and crime" A widow.
without fortune, In the Department of the Soane
and Loire. has inst heep Il 4 ~,