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


series of essays has appeared in the Presse,
on public opinion in Denmark, from writer evi-
IDENTIFY we-informed, by which it appears that Rbe-
| raiism pervades that absolute monarchy, and will
ere long extort constitutional securities. Out
rage by hooting pursuing, reviling, on Royal
brother and heir presumptiye, such as that which
was committed at Leipsic, and which the King Of
Saxony SO Indignantly reproved, could not fail to
excite strong sensation in all the Royalties of the
North, and of Germany. II was seen to have
other impulses than religious fanatcism; all the
monarchical and arisocratic interests Protestant
well as Catholic, are awakened to common strug-
gle and danger; the Governments will fully sym
pathize and adopt kindred measures of repression.
They view in the same light the connections in
Switzerland, which, in fact, have the same double
character You will note that DR.. STEIGER, who
headed the Eruption of the Free Corps or Radicals
into the Canton of Lucerne, and escaped from Jail
under sentence of death, is now treated at Zurich
as hero, martyr, an object of honor and pro-
lection to all extremity. The Swiss Diet has end
ed its session without determining any point eff
GENTLY without obvatng any of the portentous
peris for the whole Confederation without afford
ing proof of any thing except mutual animosity,
and what may be termed organic impotence A
correspondent at Berne observes that Switzerland
seems to have refrigerated to the sixteenth and sew
enteenth centuries, in the natures and tendencies and
rancor of her internal dissensions.
Fresh and sanguinary disturbances at Madrid
were always to be expected. While the young
Queen and her Court revelled in the Basque pro-
yinces, her subjects in her capital butchered each
other in the prescriptive Style. The Minister Of
Finance, Senior Mon, had undertaken financial
reform. lmmunities and privileges, to taxes,
existed, nveteraely, for provinces, towns, classes,
corporations. He wished to render all squeezable
alike taxation was to be rendered equable and uni
versal. A property impost, broadcast, seemed to
admit of the most specious defence, and to promise
the largest product. This enterprise was difficult
and critical in every direction 1t affected seriously
the merchants and shopmen Of every description,
and they petitioned on plausible grounds of hard
ship connected with the prohibtory tariffs, and the
smuggling system, which is the established order
OF things, lawful foreign commerce and domestic
traffic being the exceptions. AS soon as they were
repealed by the Minister they closed their shops !;
the people took alarm and became unruly in regard
to the necessary supplies of food. The military in
terfered; charges of cavalry followed, and the mob
stabbed officers and men, as the sabres and muskets
brought down victims promiscuously. Political
plotters and bravoes mixed in the affray. Victory
for the authorities obliged most of the refractory
traders to reopen their shops but they have re-
sorted, we told, to singular expedent-that OF
asking such prices for their merchandise as the
poorer classes cannot and the richer will not give
court martial orders tailors and cobblers to imme-
diate execution for kaiUing the military and they
die bravely. In another city, Captain-G General
of Seville had ordered citizen to be scourged for
crying in the streets, Live Liberty; the man ex-
pired few days after in hospital of the lacera-
tion Senior Mons experiment may be patriotic,
just, and salutary in ITSELF but what description OF
Spaniards can believe this Of any fiscal plan, with
cuc rla7 oil I.al
no friends are made. Government which owes
its existence unconstitutional violence has to fear
perpetual plots it can try measure, even of real
reform, without creating new and setting in motion
old elements of disaffecton and CONFUSION. The
Madrid journals relate that Madrid presented the
spectacle OF an enemy 8 camp. One Of the printed
extracts which send you is striking disclosure OF
the enormites of the secret police of Narvaez
Journals are expunged at Madrid as you would rub
out an inconvenient figure on a slate. For Paris
there happens to lie before me, in the Commerce
this little paragraph: /" Yesterday, Mr. Felix Pyat
editor ~ La Reforne constituted himself prisoner
in pursuance Of his sentence of six months impri-
/. sonment for article inserted in that paper
The official perqusition at Toulon has failed as to
any clue to the origin Of the destructive fire in the
arsenal. Matches are discovered, manifestly meant
to burn the navy timber which escaped confia-
grafton at Bordeaux has cost several valuable lives
the loss of property is estimated at seven hundred
thousand francs.
On the 10th instant GRAvIER counted, at the
Paris Observatory, four hundred and thirty-two
shooting stars, between nine o'clock at night and
three in the morning. The number increased
each hour, from thirty, the first, to- one hun
dred and eight, the last AT late sitting of the
Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, DIR.
HowE's report of Laura Bridgman's cuse (deaf.
dumb, and blind) submitted in a translation by
Mr.. DURAN, and drew the closest attention. The
atmospheric railway at st. German is in rapid pro-
gress. | visited it few days ago, and remarked
the lively interest with which it is inspected by
crowds from the neighborhood and Paris The expe-
riments on the atmospheric principle on the London
and Croydon road, would seem toremove all doubt OF
its perfect applicability to the most extensive lines
Our savants and engineers are fully confident.
When the French northern road is completed the
journey from Paris to London will be from ten to
twelve hours. The British will spend in France
money beyond calculation more than the French in
Great Britain The Irish, of Kerry, petitioned Sir
ROBERT PEEL to the fine harbors on that coast
TO be examined $50 to determine whether one
or other of them may not be the most suitable Of
any in the United Kingdom as packet-station for
intercourse with North America Sir ROBERT
transmitted civil but evasive reply. Doubtless
ere very long, station the west coast some
where will be chosen, and the passage across the
Atlantic accomplished in week. Two or three
Of our editors rather chucke at those recent riots in
Scotland which required the despatch of troops
from Edinburgh TO Berwickshire and Dumferline-
different directions. The riots originated in 90 the
ever-recurring contention between the employers
and the employed.v the Caledonian Mercury de-