Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-09-13


u queen VICTORIA on the continent, and Of the
so'enh'nes and Festivities al Bonn on the occasion
II y me inauguration of the statue Of BRETHovrN
~ az uis you VIII have enough for your edifica-
uoh - ine extracts from the London papers. In
our era music ana musicians rank with the noblest
sciences and heroes. Royalty emulonsIv navs
\ them something beyond homage i; : lind ~ r..
ship or idolatry. BEETHOVEN has been de.d s,sr,-
teen years; ne was born in ITO grew ds.r ], ~
age OF wenty-six retired to village near =.
suffered much from dropsy read chiefly Ho,q..,
and WALTER ScorT; passionately admired ~
LEON until the Imperial Grown was assumed theu
ne dedicated composition to the memory OF he
great man BoNAPARTE, The statue is Of bronze
twelve feet high erect he holds in his right hand
pencil, and in his left album, as If about TO note
down some rich musical idea. The expression.
draPery-ihe details in general--are represented as
admirable. The four bas-reliefs i'm bronze on the
pedestal OF fifteen feet in height, are alegorical
ngures OF Symphony, Tragical or Serious music.
religious music, and fanfaisie, or the lighter Of
every description. HAcHNEL is the statuary. Three
years ago te statue of MOZART was erected triumph
anly at Saltzburg A dinner-speech Of M Gm-
cot, delivered last week to a number Of his cons-
tuenis occupies the pens Of his adversaries and his
yotaries Their structures and their encomiums are
alike extravagant He boosted Of the creation &c
Belgium, Spain, and Greece as Constitutional mon
arches, which. in founding or modifying their n.
situations, study to resemble the French = he boas,.
ed likewise OF the .merited ascendencyr which
| France and her Government exercised abroad-an
ascendency Of which Sir ROBERT PEEL wished
France all joy. To know how the institutions OF
Greece are founded or managed you may refer 10
/ Lord PALMERsToN's late elaborate speech respect
| ing that constitutional monarchy and to Sir Re-
BERT's reply. Our advices Of this day are that a
military conspiracy has just been detected in Greece
and new plot at Madrid Ferocous alterations
occurred in the Greek Chambers on the 22d, 23d,
and Oath July. The well-informed correspondents
in Switzerland Of the Journal des Debafs and the
Constitutional predict general civil war between
the Cantons. Half the population on foot for
| battle. The Cantons calling for the expulsion of
the Jesults by Federal law, comprise two-thirds
/ OF the whole number-nearly two millions Not
long since cut from some English sheet this lust
and impressive paragraph:
religious agitation is serious matter II is move
ment OF the very deepest feelings of human It may
be employed for party purpose, but its efforts will not cease
when has served party convenience: is possible for
knaves by skul appeals to excite the religious passions Of
people, but those who respond the appeals do SO in good
faith They not knaves but men, and desperately
earnest In nothing whatever men more in earnest
than in religious agaiions and therefore that popular
movement in which the religious mnges is more for
midable than any other The Irish Repeal Agitation would
be farce but for the religious passions and powers which are
enlisted in its support"
| The journals of this morning tell us that Marshal
BUGEAUD will soon return to France from Algeria
probably on leave of final absence So dreadful a
character has been given of late years TO the war on
the Arabs, that commander of his erfresne energy
seems indispensable. He took the responsibility
OF the horrible suocation Of the seven or eight hun
dred at Dahra, which Marshal SoULT found himself
obliged to excuse, or adopt in the Chamber of
Peers. It is, observed SoULT, the war itself. Such
is the work we must carry through. A warfare Of
SO much cruelty, devastation, havoc, for so long
term, was before unknown in the annals of modern
Europe. The Journal des Debats of this day pre-
sens us with crcumstantia narrative Of the omen
ing OF the Russian campaign in the Caucasus, and
adds: Every reader must remark the similitude
Of the war of the Caucasus with that of Algeria.
| The Russians have, like us, to do with Moslems;
and, like us, they have their ABD-EL-KADER to
fight in the person Of the celebrated ScHAMII"
Another affinity might be signazed; for the fifteen
years past the Russians have sacrificed some twelve
thousand troops per annum, with correspondent
cost of money. The number of the mountaneers
of the Caucasus is stated at two millions the abo-
riginal tribes of Algeria may be set down at four
millions.
The Government has asceriained the loss of navy
timber by the fire at Toulon to be twenty-five thou
sand stores, cubic metres--a metre is more than
the English yard. The Paris ConsfifufionneL, in
reply to Lord PALMERsToN's exaggerated estimate
of the seamwar force of France, on the 3Oth ulti-
mo, offers calculations from official documents es
ablishing that the French total is sxy-seven steam
ers, amounting TO thirteen thousand horsepower
while the British is hundred and thirty five steam
ers, amounting to forty thousand horsepower. Sir
ROBERT PEEL well remarked that steam-war or in
vasion was game at which fDo could play and,
certainly, if steam-power facilitates attack across
the British channel, it must also facilitate defence
especially by greatly superior force or quannm.
The London Morning Herald of the day before
yesterday has article on the rate of exchange
between the United States and England, and at
tempts to explain why it has not fallen below the
regulated par" According to the Herald, not
single person in Europe has yet confidence in even
the first securities Of the United States and il is
good for them that they should be thus thrown on
their resources and have hope of aid if they
involve themselves again at home. II is good for
England, moreover, to be able to carry out her do
nestle undertakings on larger scale without in
convenience The Mediterranean steamer, which
touched last at Leghorn, reports great agitation in
the Roman States, which caused additions to be
made TO the garrisons. The number of La Revue
dos Deux Mondes, issued yesterday, contains no
article of direct political interest for an Ameri-
can. In the portion entitled the Chronicle Of the
Fortnight, Mr.. GUzoT is again roughly handled
for his complasance to the British Cabinet in the
case of Texas. The most novel and curious mat
ter of the Review is long exposition of the CON-
position, spirit tendencies, and proceedings of the
Diets Of Eastern Europe, meaning those Of Hun
gary, lllyra, Greece, Bohemia. and Polish Prussia.