Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-11-15
FROM OUR EUROPEAN coRREsP ONDENT.

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FROM OUR EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT.
i PARIS, OCTOBER l6, 1S45.
/ Autumnal weather, cool and bright, has prevailed
for week. Our soi-disaat summer lent color To
DIR. FusTERs very curious volume on the climate
of France, in which he seeks TO prove that it has
been in constant deterioration since the sixteenth
century. The volume has wholesome moral in
the evidence he has collected of the influence of wars
and bad human agency in the worse and worse. y
4 By the mail of this morning we get nothing to be
! termed news besides the series of newspaper para
/ graphs which | suboin. The manifesto of the
British and French Ministers, dated at Montevideo,
could be easily refuted by RosAs from public docu-
ments and the debates Of the French and British
Legislatures. How commercial nations submit
ftamely TO blockades without declaration Of war or
any real provocation? Our Paris journals go back
to 1889 to remind the world that the provinces of
La Plata excited and supported in hostlities by
French subsidies arms, and intermeddling policy
| The Noniteur Parisien, of yesterday evening,
has copious sem-ofcial reply to the wild theories
of the journals for the administration of Algeria.
g No one, says the article, :" can foresee for how
long time the army will be necessary to protect
civil interests in that quarter
i At Vincennes experiments have just been made
with rifles that throw balls more than quarter OF
a league. M. BOURGEOIS, French naval officer,
propeliers the Loire, and transmitted memoir
to the Academy Of Sciences, that body appointed
! commitee-Arago, Dupin, and Poncelet-to ex-
anime and exhibit the whole subject. At the sitting
of the 18th instant PoNcELET brought up an able
report-historical, scientific, and technical-on the
4 application Of the to navigation. He claims
it as French invention, but France allowed her.
self to be anticipated in the and improvement
as in other instances of her discovering genius"
Ericsson's propeller and the employment of il in
the United States have an adequate share Of the
disquisition.
ROCKET D HERcoURT, who has just returned from
his second scientific exploration of Abyssinia, has
brought with him important products for natural
history, and precious documents for science in
general. He has begun the publication OF his me-
moranda.
TALLEYRANDs two testamentary letters to the
Pope, processing Catholic faith and loyalty cause
the Catholic and Legitimist party to exut. The
!, Archbishop of Paris proclaims them authentic
: Talleyrand announces that he had long finished
memoirs of his life but had, by his will, desired
that they should not be published till thirty years
after his death. The .4ni de la Religion follows
: this publication with these reflections:
Numerous witnesses of nconestabe veracy, can depos
that the Prince in full possession of his and firm
of mind when he signed his etractaon and his letter
the Holy Father Disease, which had undermined his body
had shaken his understanding He who abou
render God of life troubled and ecund
still all that he had hitherto been. II would be strang
after having been much praised for his nesse his pene
raton and promptude in worldly affairs he should be denie
all judgment in question which predomnaes the rest
Let be said that these inspired by the sugges
tons influence Of others All who approached the Primo
know his nicxibly, and had sufficient asccndenc,
over him TO induce him to do any thing that not in
| cordance with his own judgment and opinions"
a From Spain-arrests Of officers, arbitrary sup
preston of Journals removal of Judges in spite o
the Constitution, garrison Of Madrid increased Il
: sixteen thousand. You may be struck like myself
! with the following editorial sentence of the Londor
+ Times of the day before yesterday "The United
States may boast of series of statesmen from thu
I Declaration Of Independence TO a very recent pc
! Rod, who were emnenhy qualified TO develop thu
natural and the political destiny of thei
! country
d Marshal BUoEAUD sailed for Algiers in the even
ing of the l 9th instant. Success of a striking ma
ture is indispensable for his political fortunes
I The vituperaion of the Republican paper, the Ma
fionai in reference 10 his character and career,
unpardonably coarse and violent II calls him
calumniaior--an uncouth soldier, whose outrageou
" and unmerted elevation intoxicated him TO mad
y ness it laments the fate Of Algeria, delivered up
G his eccentricties and brutalites His letter is
IF chef d9uUre Of ridiculous impertinence and odou
vanity" Copious dispatches from Algeria wer
inserted in all the papers of yesterday. They cor
" tain some consolation in an engagement of aFrenc
division with body of Arab cavalry, who are re
!, ported to have lost hundred and fifty men, kiec
\ besides hundred horses captured. In anothe
= quarter, after succession Of conflicts, ninety Ara
= corpses were found about the French camp and
razzid yielded hundred and forty sheep, thirty
five bullocks, and some women and children Of a
G. Arab encampment.
be La ReUue DIES Deur loades of the 9Th ultim
q. IS valuable number. The article, Of forty pages
- by Mde. LOUIS CoLLET, lady eminent for bot
= verse and prose- on Madame du Chateet, the br,
y zen mistress and learned companion Of Voltair