The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-09-13

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and the sub-prefects governors of communes,
but the mayors and every inferior funcnonary
down to the parish constable and the laborers
that break stones on the public road, the inn
mediate nominees Of the government. There is
here nothing analogous to the British and Amer-
can townships and municipalities, the admins
traitors OF which are elected by the people. The
consequence is that government exercises patron
age on most colossal scale, appointing function
aries of every rank and class to the number of
many hundred thousand. Now all these function
aries who are voters, the sons or daughters, or
grandsons or granddaughter, nephews, nieces, or
cousins Of voters, are all the humble servants of
the minister, and deliver their votes in subservi-
ency to his will, Out of thirty millions of people
there not three hundred thousand electors.
The wonder then is not that the cabinet should
have a majority, but that it does not nominate the
entire chamber. The case must be extreme in
deed ia which it is thrown into minority.
The main stay of the French administration is,
after all, Louis Philippe, whose personal skill and
sagacity cannot be too highly estimated. He gives
stability to the administration of the country, and
secures for 1t the respect of foreign courts His
death, whenever it occurs, Will certainly be sig
nal for much confusion and diftculty.
The maniac who fired at the king on the occa-
sion of the fetes Of July, has just been removed
from the conciergerie to the prison oil the Luxem-
burg, attached to, and under the authority OF the
Court of Peers, by which he viii be tried. No
thing would more conduce to the discontinuance
of this odlous practice, than to infilct some de-
grading secondary punishment ON this wretched
man, such as public whipping, and to sentence
him to hard labor for life. There are many
Frenchmen who have no fear OF the guillotine,
but none who would not look With horror to such
a degradation as fl ,gging.
The free trade and protectionist excitement in
England has subsidized, and parliament is hurry
ing to a close, members being much more anx-
ious about the moors than about politics. Nothing
more worth noticing will be done this year. The
news OF the American tariff bill which has Just
arrived by the Cambria has given great satisiac-
ton.
One of the great facts of the day is the actual
and real existence of radical Pope. This is
something new What may we not next expect.
We have Just learned here that Prince Metternich
has sent strong remonstrance to Rome against
the amnesty, and the entire course OF measures
which the cabinet OF the Vatican is pursuia1
We shall see how far Austria has power to put .
drag on the march of intellect and the progress
OF enlightenment which has already made its
inroads into st. Peters.
We have suffered here most awfully from the
heat-such SUMNER has not been witnessed for
a century in France. There will be vintage
equal to that of 1911. The English here are
stirred up into little excitement at the change
of the ambassador. Lord Normandy will imme-
diately replace Lord Cowley.
Miscellaneous.
The Journal dss Debats and the newspapers generally
very article which appesred little while
Louis Philippe relative to his interference in favor Of
of the princes OF the house of Naples as candidate
for the hand Of the Queen Of Spain he article s;
speakngso much indeed as TO cause great surprise
in this capital The Debas replies to IN measured
terms condemnng its violence and the unirendly fee
ing it manfests towards France II that 1t cannot
been dictated by Lord Palmerson who is we'll dis
posed towards this country and nsnuates that it was
inspired by Lord Clarendon In ITSELF the matter is
considerable importance for supposng that the Times
has spoken in the name Of the English Cabinet it will
nd in cd hnst tn
ton of great difficulty and delcacy Already are some
of the newspapers jumping to the conclusion OF split
between the two but that evidently Is going
too far and too fast France wants TO clap Bourbon OF
Naples ON the throne of spain England Coburg but
and might KEEN quiet and let Spain act for
herself she IL the party most interested AS TO the
Importance which France and England attaches to the
business, confess il seems to me much exaggerated
Neither Coburg Bourbon to my thinking would be
able to increase lessen by single ota, the in
fuence of either country in the Peninsula.
The New PLArEr.--when Calico had laid down the
principle of mechanics and traced by his admira
BILE abors the method Of Observation that ought to
IN pr Of to ns IN
path opened to the human mind Huygens and New
ton engaged themselves in it, and the development
which mechanics received in the discovery of the laws
ofuniversa attraction still bear tsstn,env 10 the power
their genius Then the world earned new the boun
of observation and experience NAV be
how, without their aid the certain knowledge Of
| veral series Of yeD unperceived phenomena may be
acquired The example Of Huygens and Newton did
remain unruitfu and every side less importance
was attached the seeking new phenomena than the
laws OF the phenomena formerly known. Scientific men
their way they were led to them by rigorous analo
gies nvountarily, and as were, in spite of them
selves, the more we mediate NJ; Leverrers work OF
to that in the annals science
and civilization Now, as then analysis transports
the regions OF the unknown, and Ia certain guide)
brings back laden with the splendid disco
On the 18th May 1881, Hersche wss examining the lit
tie stars in the vicinity of H. Gemin one Of these
ared TO him to have he
made it out comet Scarcely the discovery Of M
Herschel made known; when the Swans fastened to
compare the position Of the star with that Of the
fixed stars surrounding it. They sought thus to deter
mine the curve according to which its displacement wal
the star moved slowly they succeeded in repre-
sentng the ensemble of its positions. The observation
Of Sns month upset from top to bottom those Of the pre-
lar orbit would sufficiently satisfy all the observation
recorded The most difficult step then passed,
Pected by the astronomers were not to stop here and
in spite Of the psrsevering researches Of M Bouvard
Uranus every day strays and from the
traced out for him in the ephemerides Instead Of stop
ping on approaching this problem, at the hypothesis
gested to explain these singular anomalies, M Lever
er perceived that there was no chance Of attaining
STA solution except by Iespmn tie theory
termned the perturbatons exercised upon it by
Jupiter and Saturn carrying the approximation faI
duced nearly 800 meridian observations Of Uranus
was only after this labor as repusve from the length
the calculations as was dimcult from the invention Of
the methods that NJ Leverrier able tell the AGA
DENY, The Irregularities of Uranus due to the &C
ton Of planet as yet unknown, which, in January
947 will pass by the 325th degree Of ongi
tude" No will, fancy entertain the idea of wish
ing to reduce solar system to narrow limits and
thence to draw conclusion against the existence Of the
new star. /" In this case however, adds M Leverrier
will reply, that the might have been al
legged for affirming. in 1881, that Saturn the last
the planets safe to be contradcted the next day by the
discovery Of Uranus The hypothesis that there exists
planets remote from the than those we already
know, is not In 1885, the illustrons
Clairaut declared at the public sitting of the Academy
Sciences the subject Of the perturbaons of HALEY
comet. that body which traverses such remote
regions might be subject to forces totally unknown
such the action Of planets too distant be
ceived" Let hope that the stars Of which Claraut
speaks will not all remain invisible, and that il chance
discovered Uranus, shall soon succeed in seeing the
planet whose position has been aceraned by NJ Lever
rier -ConsfifufionnsL
FRENcH ACADEMY or ScIErcEs.-At the first sitting
Benjamin Delessert laid before his colleagues plan for
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