Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-08-09

uo MISUNDERSTANDING anu III Sdtfioohs VI
military stations abroad, and laments g the fearful
I. predominance of the trading and manufacturing
: population His depression TO census o.
$40 is marked by ignorance, prejudice, and stu,
died disparagement He had not read, presume
Professor TUcKER's volume. His wonderful ac
quaintance with American situation and affairs il
exemp6ed in the allegations that g the explosive
tendency is greater in the American Union than il
any nation of Europe' that " the habits, interests
and feelings of the Southwestern and Northeastern
States are totally opposite" DC. OF the eight mil
lions of Ireland five are stated TO be principally de
pendant for nuriment on the potato, and two and
half on oats. In his cogent tract entitled Tests o
la Thriving Population, Mr.. TwIss concludes, from
his extensive inquiry, that the mass of the British
laborers are much more wreched now than in days
of yore. The third article of the London Quarter
lily, on the Enurians, is erudite investigation, bu
the writer does not appear TO be conyersant with
the contributions on the Sepuchral Monuments to
the Journal DIES Savants. RAoUL- RocHETTE has
treated the recent discoveries with signal learning
and acumen. The Quarterly inclines to the theory
of the Lydian origin of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
from the western shore Of the Asatic peninsula.
am hugely pleased with the sound casngatlon IN
ficed, in the 4th article, on Lord BRoUGHAMs Lives
of Voltare and Rousseau; his own sins, as blogra-
pher, of mpiety and obscenity properly de-
ignorance, happily and politely and demonstrates
a superior knowledge and intelligence of VoLrAIRE's
character career, and works. 1t is not easy for an
i American to pardon Lord BRoUGHAM's gratutous
and very invidious and unjust structures on WASH
INeToN IRvING's composition, p. 1872, Life of Ro-
bertson,) in our Paris edition. The Life and Voy-
ages of Columbus will survive all the lives which
the critic has consigned or may consign to pos
terity. The Quarterly overrates the sketches Of
Hume and Robertson; they are, however, skilful,
impressive, engaging performances. BRoUGHAM,
stating that Robertson was warm friend of Ameri-
can independence, adds: I" But WASHINGTON cha
racter was far more to his mind than FRANKLIN's,
of whose violence and contempt of revealed reli-
Z glon he had formed very unfavorable opinion
Where, when, did the historian discover the vio-
ience and the contempt? The warfare, the eighth
article, on ALIsoNs presumption dishonesty shall
lowness, verbosity, and self-satsfaction," in his
cumbrous history, gratfes me in an equal degree.
have seen no more dexterous and comprehensive
vindication of Sir ROBERT PEELs measures and
aims in the Irish case, than the final article of the
number constitutes altogether. The pracficabiity
as well wisdom of State provision for the Irish
clergy is strenuously urged. We may doubt there.
The copious article headed Lady Travellers is su-
perlative. Every woman may read it with pride
and benefit. The British sex are, however, extoll-
ed inordinaey, and unkndy for the rest of the fe-
male world Perhaps the reviewer is acquainted
with none other. In his laudatory notice of Ma
dame CALDERoN's book, he might well have spared
this national side-blow: "There is an occasional
trait of Scottish shrewdness, and we must say, Of
Yankee vulgarity." The seventh article passes con-
dign sentence on name-that of BLanc0 Uhite-
which never deserved the consideration yielded to
it, for long period, in Great Britain and the Uni
ted States. He was, on the whole, a wretched
halfcrazy being he changed his religion-as has
been the case with many so-called concerts
TO get bread and consequence. Aposaces enlist
sects, large small support of the recruits they
are expedients of livelihood and notoriety--eyen
fame and fortune. The doctrines of the reviewer
concerning knociedge, faith, conviction in religious
matters, are not unworthy of close heed. >IThe
Journal des Debats of this morning has Just come
into my hands, with Its editorial ambitious essay of
more than four broad columns on General JAoK-
SON. Professor MICHEL CHEvALIER has subscribed
his initials to this manifesto against American de-
mocracy. 1t is in the same vein in which he wrote
OF the General in his Letters from the United States
II abounds with erroneous and mistaken judgments.
The biographical sketch embraces dreadful pic
ture of Western habits. The memory of JACKSON
is arragned on all scores He is charged with hav-
ing changed the United States considerably for the
worse; the American people being no longer sus-
ceptibe Of rational control or direction, but subject
TO democratic passions alone. The annexation Of
Texas is ascribed to the Jackson spirit and policy
"that policy of encroachment (enUdhissemen) which
looks to unity under the same law and head for
the whole. continent Of North America, from the
: Isthmus of Panama to the, frozen regions of the
Pole on both oceans The project may sue
coed, says the Professor; he trembes, however,
for the American Union and liberty he apprehends
the indefinite extension of negro slavery and the for
nation of three or four rival empires. He ends
with the remark that JAcKsoNs memory is big with
glory and evil but WAsHINGToN's is all lustre and
good So blows the ministerial wind in Paris.
PARIS, July l6, 1s45.
The month has been wet and stormy; the wea-
Their is now that of October the middle and west
ern departments continue to suffer by tempests of
wind and hail. Our journals are still engaged with
the dispute between the master-builders and the
journeymen carpenters. Able or plausible nantes
tos are issued from each side the strike is obsti-
nate In riding hither from Versailles Yesterday,
had as my next neighbor in the coach mddIe-aged
man of decent appearance and sensible speech, who
told me that he one of the strikers, he having
found it impossible to support himself, wife, and
two children, on the wages received, although meat
of every kind was excluded from their fare The
Chamber of Peers voting the bills sent from the
Deputies, at pace which will enable them to adj
| journ few days hence. | enclose an abstract of
the explanations which M GUIzoT gave to the
Chamber yesterday afternoon of the affairs of Sy-
ra and the successful negotiations at Rome for the
dissolution of the congregations of Jesus in France
This result excites lively sensation among all the
religious and political parties. Doubtless the pope