Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-07-26
PROM our EURopEAN coRREspoNDENr
PARIS, JUNE 80, 1916.

PARIS, JUNE 80, ls45.
MEMORANDA. -
| The Royal Library in this capital now consists
OF nine hundred thousand printed volumes and sew
enty thousand considerable manuscripts, besides
numberless maps, medals, engravings, and antiqu
ties ofevery description. The vast edifce in which
il is distributed becomes daily insufficient bu
the immense expense OF removal and the construc-
ton Of suitable receptacle arrests the Government
in what, ere long, must be DONE The practice oil
allowing volumes TO be taken home" has occa.
stoned the loss of very many thousands, twenty OF
more,) most Of these precious. The collection is
far too large for easy reference to works in any par
ticuar department.
| The strong Governments throughout Europe
beyond Belgium in the North, keep all their do.
minons in state of comparative quiet and security
favorable to superior internal improvement. Great
advances are made there; while the precariousness
of political and social order, constantly recurring
disorder, render progress impractcabe or tardy in
France, Spain, Switzerland, and the greater part Of
Italy. More is accomplished in the Republican
United States, by selfgovemment and unlimited
freedom of useful action, than in any monarchy Of
the world.
Lord CAMPBELL's Lives cf the Lord ChanceL
Tors OF England 10 1888, will be bonnie bouche
for the American reading bar. MIeNET, the elo-
quent perpetual Secretary Of the French Academy
OF Moral and Political Sciences, and author of the
weli-known Compendium of the History of the
French Revolution, is preparing a History Of the
Reformation, the League, and the reign Of Henry
~, IN France, in ten octavos, to be issued in the
same way as the Consulate and Empire Of Mr..
THEIRS. MIGNETs position in the Academy and
as head OF the Bureau Of Archives in the Ministry
OF Foreign Affairs, his industry and literary fac-
ties, and his habitual terseness of diction promise
an original, accurate, and elegant performance
The text Of the new Spanish Constitution, in
which the liberty OF the press is guaranteed was
published officially at Madrid on the very day that
NARyAEz caused several obnoxious editors to be
seized in their dwellings by his soldiery and spirit
ed away to Cadiz, where they remain in close pri-
son--carcere darO. government circular to the
military chiefs of the provinces directs that all per-
sons whatever detected in the act or design Of rails
ing the Carlist standard shall be Instantly exter-
minated Yet the Carlists standard may prevail
few months hence. 1t is proposed by some of
the party that the vote of every Spaniard above
twenty years shall be taken the question of the
marriage Of the new King Of Spain, the son of Don
CARLOS, with his cousin ISABEL: we can scarcely
doubt that there would be large majority for the
match. The present rulers Of the country might
carry 1t through, if they pleased. Diplomatic Dig
nifty seems to me TO have suffered not little in the
recent bu-fght at Madrid, in which eminent men,
sgnalzed their prowess and skill in the brutal sport
for the braUos of the beau monde and the populace
The sfeeple-chGse for gentlemen mot barbarians) is
bad enough but bull-fghting in the Spanish fash
ion, worse.
Among the scenes which have witnessed within
the two months past, the one that moved me chiefly
for the instant was the temperance in the Cham
Der OF Peers of VMLEMAIN, the late Minister of
Public Instruction, and the acknowledged head of
ness and arrangement of mind had afforded pre-
text or opportunity for giving him successor in
the Ministry whom il desired to secure for the
Soult- Guizot Cabinet. The indemnity or douceur
OF pension he Indignantly rejected when he re-
covered his faculties. He calmly took a seat on
the Opposition side in the Chamber; his amiable
character caused him to be warmly greeted from all
quarters; literature is his true vocation.
Great rejoicing in the menagerie Of the Garden
OF Plants arrival of new species of the monkey
tribe wanted for a century the large colony of
monkeys in the garden is decidedly the public en-
terainment, by daylight which the people most en-
joy. Every gazer must be more or less amused
with the antics of next of kin. In making a |
purchase OF some books at the Office of the United
Printers, on the Quai Malachais / refused the duo
iecmo volume Of ARAGois Cours a. .4sfrononiie, on |
The ground of its having been formally disavowed
BY ARAoo himself at recent sitting of the Acade-
my OF sciences; tlat Is true, said the salesman,
" but this is the fourth edition, and we have dspos-
ed of twenty thousand copies altogether the as
tronomer has not yet published book himself
we resolved TO do il for him. Ma conscience!
The British press always threatens the foreign
tariff countries with the smuggier, knowing from
abundant experience his efficiency at home. The
British contraband trade, pursued under protection
from Gibraltar, is nearly demoralizing as any
slave-trade; it is organized robbery of the Spanish
exchequer, making cheats, defrauders, and bandtti
of half the population Of extensive coasts. The
debate in the British House of Commons, on the
Oath instant, on Mr.. HuTT's motion respecting the
ineficacy Of the English system for the suppression
OF the slave-trade, furnishes instructive matter on
the whole subject, and curious passages about
national pharisaism. Mr. Hurt contended that
while the British rulers had nearer and higher du-
ties" cupably neglected, there no obligation to
assume the task of putting down the save-trade
among other people, or "patrolling the world TO put
IT down." He thought that foreign nations did not
like to be told by England we are more yirtuous
than you'-to be magisterially admonished and
lectured on morality. He said:
"There have been times when from the reduction Of es
tabhments naval force has hardly been adequate the
duty of protecting maritime and commercial interests
when than fourth Of the naval power voted by Paa
ment has been employed protecting the African population
hear, hear bot call mind any proposal having
been made TO reconsider that policy But what
maTkabe have been conscious Of great mseres home
have had proved us only by personal observation,
but by the and reliable investigation Of royal
commissioners that millions of countrymenI speak
state Of moral and physical destuon little superior that Of
and ,vh have dnne or