Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-09-27

ty-five thousand three hundred and ity-seven were
decided In the same period there were seven hun
dred and thirty three of insolvency for sixty
thousand licensed dealers-debs in the aggregate
nearly thirty-two and half millions of francs
average of dividends nine per cent. seventy Of the
insolvents were imprisoned upwards Of forty Sc
verey sentenced as bankr,ipts. Eight hundred and
sixty -four partnerships of different kinds are re-
corded for the last year. Rehabilitation is ex-
tremey difficult for traders judicialy declared bank
rupt All debts must have been previously paid
principal, interest and costs. The laws Of France
on bankruptcy are too severe perhaps in some
points and what may be best in an old country
does not in many cases answer in new ; but those
laws deserve to be studied in the United States for
imitation in some particulars. A speculator named
lBRIGUIBoUL, who contrived to establish an extern
sive credit, has just disappeared, after having pro-
cured goods on trust at Amiens to the amount of
two millions of francs the merchants and manu-
facturers hurry to Paris to snatch what may remain
unsod. If the delinquent should be caught he will
spend ten or twenty years at the galleys.
son OF Jerome Bonaparte, bearing the same
title, Count DE MoNFoRT, who was one of our lions
last month, has received an intmation from the
Minister OF the Interior that he should think of de-
parture. You know that no member of the BONA
PARTE family can enter France without special
permission. He is described as a young man of
herents of NAPOLEON paid him abundant honor.
They brought him to kneel and weep at the re-
mains OF his uncle in the Hotel des Inyalides. His
connexion with them possibly seemed too close and
iond. The Bonaparte cause is irrevocably de-
funct here.
The Courier du Haure ranks among the most
intelligent and instructive French journals. Both
its political and commercial articles are generally
excellent. On the 23d instant the editor says:
" Professor MICHEL CHEvALIER talks Of Colonial
monopoly, when in fact there is none in France,
owing to the rivalry of beetroot sugar, while
the mother country indeed monopolizes the colonial
market. But let the Professor tell, If he can,
aolich Of the domestic products Of France has mol,
by The operation Of The tariff, real monopoly Of
the home market
Nine new peers are created by royal ordinance
Of the 18th instant. Three of them are Lieutenant
Generals, who have seen arduous service; one is
Monsieur FuLcHIRoN, the opulent Deputy from
Lyons stanch Conservative, and man ofletters.
His four volumes of Travels in Italy, in de four
last years, comprise more substantial fact md au-
thentc statistics than any other recent work of the
kind on that peninsula. The Opposition Trints-
especially the MISUNDERSTANDING or otherwise dis
parage the whole batch of peers All the nine were
Deputies; the vacancies will be early filled by the
electoral colleges the Ministry get sure accession
of strength in the Chamber of Peers, and are not
likely to fail in the new elections. So many in
fuences relating to local interests and feelings are
exercised, that scarcely any choice of Deputy can
be deemed positive expression or indication of
common prevailing political sentiment. 1t resem-
bled pleasant sarcasm, when Mr.. GuIzoT, in his late
dinner-speech to his constituents, asked them: g Do
you feel yourselves corrupted, because by my
agency your roads have beenmended, your churches
repaired and embellished, your schools endowed,
your ingenious youth advanced?' and so forth.
The Paris Constitutional of the 18th instant
contains notice of the work of Mr.. DuFLoT DE
MoFRAs on Oregon and California, especially in re-
ference to the question between the United States
and Great Britain. In conclusion, the writer thinks
that the British would allow the annexation of
California, If the upper American claims on Oregon
were renounced. In number of your Inteligencer
for July remarked quotation from Mr.. DE Mo-
FRAs, expressing his wish for the incorporation of
Oregon with the American Union, but, at the same
time, his final conviction, after full investigation of
titles, that the British claim of right well founded
This antithesis triumphantly cited in the British
Parliament and press. The author is an accom-
plished amiable gentleman, whom value as an ac-
quaintance he cannot, however, be deemed indie
pendent and impartial he was in the service Of the
French Department of Foreign Affairs, when he
wrote and published has work at the expense and
under the immediate auspices of the Ministry Of
claims, and in the breath hope they might not
succeed suited the views Of the French Cabinet and
best aided the British cause.
LIsFRANc, the celebrated Surgeon, is publishing
an important work entitled Compendium Of Opera
fiUe Medicine.
| The grand Paris ceremonial of this month was
the solemn proclamation of the prizes after the Uni
versity examinations. The many thousand pupils
of the several colleges were assembled at the Sor-
bonnie dgnitaries and parents crowded the higher
benches and reserved seats, and the Minister Of
Public Instruction delivered his annual harangue
Nothing struck me- not heretofore reported to you,
except the universal acclaim of the pupils at slight
ausion of the Minister TO the strife between the
University and the Church and the absence of all
the ancient and great of France from the lists
of the victors in the College competitions. The
first circumstance shows what the clergy have to
expect from that large part Of the new generation
who are likely TO possess the ascendant in French
ton Of the old noblesse and gentry by the citizen
race. The success of the bourgeois students in the
higher scholastic exercises-Latn, Greek, history,
all liberal earning-atracts the industrial classes to
the University. The noble families place their
children in the institutions governed by the priest
hood, or educate them at home the University
system opens the road TO pupc trusts, honors, and
rule, may say, almost exclusively, TO its graduates
thus, the borgeoisie must finally engross place and
power.
The 9Th session of the Scientific Congress Of
France will be opened at Rheims on the LIST proximo.
The erudite Archbishop of that ancient and interest
inc city il nj the head Of the Conyocation hut