Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-09-13
FROM OUR EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT.
PARIS, AUGUST is, ls45.

PARIS, AUGUST 10, lS4o.
We are still subject to what is called by our sa
wants meteorological disturbance. The weather con
tinues TO be very cool. blustry and wet. Fruit il
abundant, but lacks flavor. Vegetables of every
kind are " Distinguished in quantity and quality
Complaints or fears about the harvests come from
the northern departments in general, however
there will not be deficiency. You will see that in
Great Britain extreme and wel-grounded fears pre-
vailed The Morning Chronicle says
s'At this moment the fate Of muldtudes depends upon
weeks rain sunshine. The vast investments in railways
manufacturing interests the national
all endangered and the prosperity of all hangs upon thu
uncertainties Of a weeks fair or foul weather"
Since that paragraph was printed, (" the skyey in
fiuences' have been exceedingly adverse. We pre-
sumo that the vsiters at the watering paces-parti
cularly the sea-shore--must be sadly disappoint
ed. Even at Versailles fire and woollens are neces
sary. The summer has not yet opened. My daily
ride thence TO this capital, in the gOadole or dill
gence, is the pleasant from the absence of hea
and dust. That the climate is salubrious, what
ever the temperature, may be inferred from such
circumstances as these Sixteen coachmen are EN-
ployed in the establishment of the g0ndoles. Fol
the six years past, j have journeyed to and fro
in them frequently, in the summer; they run every
half-hour, from seven in the morning until nine al
night. The faces of the coachmen are as familiar
to me as those of my family; no substitution has
occurred in the sixteen not one of them has ever
been absent from his task through indispostion
most of them are from thirty-fve to sixty years oil
age; ali are vigorous men, OF the healthiest aspect
j can perceive no change in their frames for the
worse. | have not known one to be ever in the
least affected by liquor, or out OF temper. In three
seasons of the year. at least, they exposed for
several hours every day, to inclement weather.
The line is deemed safe, and the route so popu-
ht,cI he,
BILE or sustanable, notwithstanding the two adjacent
railroads. Prices of passage are the same differ
ence Of time half three-quarters Of an hour in IA
vor of the railways.
You have printed article of recent official re-
turns in regard to the population and general condi
ton of the British West Indies. Jamaica has
377 433 inhabitants, Of whom 293, 1913 are negroes
$3.50 mixed blood and color. Touching improve
ments OF climate and increase Of numbers, the re-
ports satisfactory. Not SO in respect to negro
labor. Our anti-abolition journals quote emphati-
cally this language Of the London Times
Throughout considerable proportion these dependen-
cies the frame of society is cankered to the very from
which have been brought into active operation by
res of political chaaanry, by transferring the presumpuous
cudes Of Exeterha to the Senate, and legislatng
sionary fancies rather than on stern realities
" The results of rash attempts TO perform the work of
age perhaps of several ages by three of Par
lament threatening with fearful reco After hav-
been active agents transferring the capital Of the British
planter into the hands of the negro, and pressing the
snted of the abong classes in England support
the African comparative ideness and luxury, al
ready suffering from mpractcabe state of society," which,
having been created by impotence and osered by
creduy now threatens with the of portion of these
colonies, and the further degradation Of those who the
objects of our laundering injustice"
II is predicted that, by the end of the century, the
white race in all the West Indes-certainly in the
British and French-will have disappeared, and
that the British experiment of re-peopng them, or
replenshing them with laborers, such as the raw
barbarian blacks taken from captured slave-ship,
or enlisted in Africa, must prove in the end seri
GUS danger for the parts of the American con-
tinent, and terrible nuisance for the whole West
ern hemisphere.
A journal of Bayonne has been sentenced to pay
fine of thirty thousand francs for defamation of
some acting magistrates. The Mayor Of Elbeuf
has obtained five thousand francs damages in a
libel-sut against the Censor of that town. The
structures related to official acts. new gallery is
opened at Versailles for portraits of all reigning
Sovereigns and the Presidents of Republics. There
is no genuine republcanism except in the United
States. Your Governors Of States must sit TO Mr.
HEALY in order to fill the republican compartment
of the gallery. The Paris Constitutional has set
aside Chinese novel to give immediate place to a
translation of Mr.. CooPER's Safa,sfoe, of which
an edition in the English has just issued from the
press of Baudry. The same paper relates that
fears are entertained for the famous cupola of ST.
Peters at Rome. AT different periods it has I'M
dergone serious shocks and changes, owing, OBJ
serves the correspondent, to the nature of the
ground, so often agitated by earthquakes. He as
signs an almost incredible circumference to each
of the pillars by which it is supported.-The most
extensive and considerable of all the branches Of
industry in Paris is that of the metals. Three
months ago tribunal, for the settlement of differ
ences between masters and workmen, and between
the operatives, was established, and composed of
manufacturers and foremen. It's title is the old
one-ConseH des rudhonmes-and it has been
found highly efficient and useful. Four hundred
and ten of dispute, to contracts wages,
and treatment have been satisfactorily determined
by this legal arbitraton-much less troublesome
and expensive than process before the courts.
Three other principal branches will soon be en-
dowed in the same way.-'The announced occupa-
ton, by the British, Of the Isle of Ldbonaa, al the
entrance of the port of Borneo gives umbrage to
some of the French editors. They charge their
neighbors with designs on the whole island, the
largest of our globe. "The movements Of France
about the SouLon Archipelago" they remark, are
to be watched from the English establishment at
Sarawack, on the Bornean coast"
The Constitutional, 10Th instantly in a long and
able article on the poly and condition of unforu-
nate Switzerland, holds the following language !:
/" Switzerland shows us the defects Of the federal
system in all their extent and she cruelty expiates
/. them. Let us, TO Judge of the case, consult the
. experience Of the United States. There all cir
: cumstances arc the most propitous no neigh