Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-09-26

music IN the open air ~ mere chimera he thinks
that five hundred instruments in close Hall would
have produced more completely musical effect.
The receipts of the evening amounted to twenty five
thousand francs.
| The experiments made in Algeria for raising the
cocheniHe insect, and for the subsequent process
have been quite successful. Dt YER ~
/ LUCRATIVE BUsINEss.-Returns to the House of
Commons 18th March, l845, of sale of prizes in
the slave trade: 92O2, s05 rs. Cd. prize money for
the cruisers from lst January, 1899, TO 30th De-
cember, 1914. - n. .saaf a, n.a si ,sa-.4 gB
Mr.. WARBUKroN, author Of the popular book en-
titled the " Crescent and the Cross" has just put
forth another woax called {" Hochelaga, or England
IN The Ne,o World." The London Alhenaum
says of it, II is piece of fresh, lively, and in
structive midsummer reading;'' and the Spectator
quotes the following sentences from it touching our
country " In no part of the United States do the
people seem to arrive at the average length of life
of the Old World" The Americans never
laugh cheerlnlly and heartily; they have no idea
: of the sports of the feld.'' And the Spectator
adds from itself: America is deprived of the use
Of the services and examples of her best citizens,
and has recourse to those of her worst" These
three allegations are about equally true.
| A young French swinder who wasarrested about
a fortnight ago in Paris represented himself to his
various victims as the son of Lord Maxwell an
american Senator; and very earnest inquiries
were made by the shopkeepers and officers of JUS
tice to know if his assertion was true.
M. DE SAINT CHERoN has just issued, in two oc-
tavo Volumes the History of the Pontifcate Of Pope
| Leo the Great and his Age--an able work, on the
whole. 1t includes all the fifth century. The au-
thor has used the German life by Arandt. The
time end its characters curious and important
| in the history of the See and the Church. Leo
was the irst Pope from whom we have what the
French call corps douurage, or body of writings.
Extracts from these and from his sermons are given
in the biography.
| The Moniteur Of 2Sth July contains report of
several sittngs of the Academy of Moral and Po-
litcal Sciences, composed of very interesting mat
ter. Much stress was laid on the work entitled
/" Caicm DIES Probabilities" by M. QUETELEr, of
/ Brussels. pregnant memoir on the Ancient Cor
ties of Spain was read by M. RossEU DE SAINT
HMAIRE. Monsieur QUETELET is one Of the most
distinguished savants of the era, and his work has
the widest scope.
The London Spectator of the 18th ultmo has an
article worth reading under the title ssThe anti
Slavery that might succeed The number for the
lst instant has another, alike sensible and candid
with the caption Slavery and Time.
/ The Moniteur of Sd August has a remarkable
discussion in the Academy of Moral Sciences, con-
corning the progressive subdivision Of the soil-the
minute subdivision of property-in France, and its
important effects: 1t would appear that the same
process is going on in various States of Germany
and in Sweden. The proportion of children in
town and country to families was one of the topics
of the Academy and the statistics Of this subject
are not little singular. The Republican journals
rely on the democratic tendencies of the multiplica
ton of small propretors, and sure of every
countryin which tcannot be arrested. /" France"
quoth the National, sis grand Democracy, which
cannot be very long prevented from taking the pro-
/ per form of organization
The Travels, in foreign countries, by French en-
gineers of mines, in lS45, delegated by the Gov
ernment constitute very instructive and attractive
volume for all mineralogists.
Some time ago, Paris bookseller undertook a
semi-official History Of His Majesty Louis Phi
lippe to be issued in Huraisons, or parts The en-
terprse failed in the first hands, and was set up at
auction for almost nothing; it sold at two hun
dred francs, with the condition that it should be
continued and concluded on the original plan.
We may hope that M. THEIRS may be kept out
of the Cabinet until he has finished his History of
The Consulate and the Empire, however less just
and veracious than captivating and skilful it may
prove on the whole.
In the London Examiner of the 22d August, Mr.
WARBURToN's England IN the New World is
highly extoed. What Americans had to expect
from the book may be seen by the Examiners ac-
count of its purposes as follows: I" The authors
OuJcCt, ds we are leo 10 INFER from MS own pref
face, and more decidedly from that of his friendly
and fraternal editor, is to convey to English read
ers more correct notions and more adequate es-
innate than have hitherto prevailed of the mpor-
lance of Canada to England as an integral part of
the empire. What he has attempted to do is a
bold and useful undertaking. To contrast the
social condition that may be attained under the
modified and mixed institutions Of England with
that which can be attained under the democratical
institutions OF the United States to show that the
former tend 70 produce more elevated moral
Character IN the individual and more desirable
state IN the community, than the latter, working
upon kindred and strongly resembling races and
10 prove the Importance of unfolding free mo-
narchical government in Canada, as counterpoise
to the democracy Of the States, and as means of
eleyating and ennobling that English population,
which is destined, apparently, to occupy the whole
| Western continent" t-.l rt
1t is mentioned in letter from the French SQUAD
ron on the west coast of Africa that steam vesses
Will soon be adopted by the sIavers, which will re-
qulre an increase of the number Of cruisers. The
squadron has been decimated by fever.
recent proclamation Of the Commander-in-
chiei OF the Russian forces of the Caucasus de |
nounces the mountain chief SHAMIL in these terms
lie breaches equality of rights and the destruc-
tlon OF all hereditary power" These are heinous
doctrines in the mind of a Russian leader. The
proclamation continues thus u" Whatever villages
and tribes shall make common cause with SHAMrL
and resist our legitimate sovereign, shall undergo
The most terrible penalties you shall be torn in
pieces by the alons of the terrible Russian eagle
mat appears at the same moment where the sun