Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-06-07
From OUR EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT,

Paris, MAYA I645.
Hitherto this month has, in general, been cold
and wet. We still make fires and wear greatcoats
Strawberries sold al twenty-five cents the dozel
or fifteen. The high price Of new vegetables dis
tresses the classes not rich. Living in this capita
seems TO grow dearer from month tomonth. Wha
would you think Of seventeen eighteen cents pc,
pound for mutton. and two or three more for veal
from twenly-four TO forty for hams far inferior "a
the ordinary Virginiani The Royal family and
court have removed to the Chateau Of Neuilly--the
chief festivities OF the year being at end LOUIS
PHILIPPE bears perfectly his labor Of every kind
not so two of his Ministers, GUIzoT and SALvANDy.
who remain hors de combat. The Opposition de-
scribe the Cabinet as dsmasted assuredly ii is not
from the fire of the assailants in the Chamber the
Ministry survive masters Of The scene and purposes
Of action For the present session the main politi-
cal questions are settled on that Of the legal exist
ence of the Jesuits many speeches were delivered
through two afternoons they consisted for the most
part, OF vague defamation. II would be difficult for
any mere reader to to any conclusion respecting
the law the.upshOt was vote expressing confidence
that the Ministers would execute the law, leaving
them to find or exponnd it al pleasure. The ceno-
bites will not be arshly disturbed With regard to
the armament Of the Notifications OF Paris, restric-
ton was finally imposed which does not exclude a
discretionary power sufficient for the ends of the
Government. The appropriation Of three millions
Of dollars was the desideratum, In The matter Of
the railroads, now under discussion by the Depu-.
lies, the Executive Government will equally gain
its point. The Opposition are about 70 make a
vigorous effort TO reduce the misshieyous excise on
salt and may prevail against the treasury with the
aid of the Central Agricultural Convention, whose
annual session is Just opened here. This important
and influential assembly consists Of four hundred
and thirty delegates, from more than seventy Of the
departments-large propretors, devoted amateurs,
and scientific teachers. They have already passed
resolution in favor Of the highest duties on foreign
oleaginous seeds---the sesame so much dreaded by
the home interest. The. poet LAMARTINE pronounc-
ed, in the debate on the bill for arming the FORTH
cations, set harangue, Of which the design was to
prove that LOUIS PnILIPPE had systematically be-
trayed and nufed the Revolution Of July, the for
tifcation Of Paris being the coup de grace to the
charter and national Liberties. The Minister Of
Foreign Affairs ad interim answered the orator with
considerable skill and effect THEIRS defended the
Notifications, which he, when Minister, began with
out authority from the Chambers he declared his
contempt for the calumnies uttered by I.AMART1NE
The poet rejoined that such an insult must be dealt
with IN another place and mode the President of
the Deputies summoned the angry gentlemen to his
private room after the sitting. Each was accompa-
MED by two friends from the Chamber expana-
tons followed of course, personality was disclaim-
ed on both sides the President read the merit after
noon, at the opening Of the sitting satisfactory pro-
cess uerba. Such orators and leaders could not be
spared for duel, On the armament bill number
OF the Opposition broke with 1'HIERs; his deport-
ment in this case and that Of the Jesuits argues his
expectation Of place in the Cabinet should Count
MOLE be called to form new one--by no means
an improbable event. The adherents Of M. FILTERS
say that he would consent to be Minister Of the In
terror, with the Count or the Duke DE BRouLIE as
President Of the Council. The King has the game,
and safe one, in his own hands. L,AMARTINE has
Withdrawn for the rest Of the session. Switzerland
and Spain are quiet
PARIS, MAY Is, 1916.
MEMoRANDA.-On Monday week flie Academy
of Sciences was entertained with kind of music
DEspRKTz, eminent in natural philosophy, had an
array of diapdsoas suitably mounted, OF which one
was more than half yard high in itself, the largest
ever made. He formed harmonic scale, and
sounded it like Pagann for the purpose Of deter
piniDg the limits within which are confined the
grave and sharp notes perceplible the human ear
He indicated various medical as well as musical APP
plcations Of his scale. An astronomer read a pa
per on the result of his nightly observation Of shoot
ing stars (efoiies flnafes) since 1899. He and a
scientific friend employed altogether teirhundred
and fiy-four hours in steadfas gaze on the heavens
and counted, in the whole, five thousand three hum
ired and two shooting stars. He regards them as
d great meteorological importance, and surer than
The barometer in relation TO rain and storms. Apro-
pos OF these, am indebted 10 Professor EsPy for
two copies his First Report on A1efeorolsgy-- |
exceedingly curious and laborious production. One
oil the copies is In the hands Of Mr.. JoMARD of the
Royal library and the Institute and the other shall
be also SO placed to receive the attention which
wonderful theory SO extensively illustrated de- |
serves in the scientific world. Eight months of |
cold and wet weather in the south Of France have
excited apprehension respecting the next vintage.
There have been heavy falls Of snow this month in
The mountainous parts. Travellers from the ex- 1
IRENE north Of Europe relate that the winter there
was comparatively mild-even in the Feroe slands /
Two funerals have marked the week in the obit-
nary calendar; one Of republican writer and mar
tyr, CAvAIGNAc, whose father was a prominent |
zeaot in the convention for the sentence of death
On LOUIS XVI; the other of an eminent and |
learned Doctor, GILBERT BREscHET, to whom
France was indebted for the first general descrip-
lion Of the inflammation of the veiis---a mala- |
1y since earnestly studied in both theory and
practice. Radical gathering took place at the in
erment OF Cavaignac political discourses were
delivered near his grave little fve-sous pamphlet,
in the nature of a manifesto, is issued. ! doubt
hat any impression be made on the country: to /
me, the special Radical revolutionary cause APP
pears much in the wane, although France is mainly
democratic in condition and spirit. Several Of the
heads Of the French Faculty rected, according to |