Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-10-10
FROM THE LATEST EUROPEAN PAPERS,
nEcElyEn EaoM DUN coaREsrospENr.

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worked in France 407 covering asuace 450
the extraction of the coal and the draining oil Of water ac
comphed by the aid Of 5l2 pieces of machinery of which
39l are worked by seam with power Of 10 SOC horses
The number Of workmen empoyed during the year amount
ed TO 49, 54 The produce OF coal for the year has been
81 s21, 395 metrical quntals, (the quin lbs
being 90l 999 more than in the preceding The con-
sumption OF coal IN France has during the fifteen
increased in rapid proportion than the production be-
during that interval foreign coal taken consider
able part in the supply of French manufactures and naval
arsenal, well private houses The coal mines of Bel
gum Great Britain, and the Rhensh provinces annexed to
Prussia and Bavaria have furnished supply amounting
SIS, $50 qunt The quantity of exported from
France to Belgium Switzerland Algeria, Spain Sardinia
the German States Sicily, and the French colonies
to 1853 met quin The total consumption of coal in
France during the past year amounted to 81 $685. sol
quintals.
The General Protestant Synod of Prussia which opened
June 2, closed the Both uiuo after having held fy
six sings Out of thirtyive subjects which have come
under its consideration only have been decided on II
has declared the sancy Of the oath has expressed
wish that pastors and ecclesiastical superintendent should be
relieved from part of the administrative functions imposed
them has declared that there necessity to submit
young who aspire to become ecclessastcs prepa-
atory studies different from those followed by the stu
dents of other faculties has decided forming to
provide pensions for ecceascs has determined that the
ordination of preachers there shall be required Of them an
oath maintain the unity and purity of their dogmas the
maintenance OF the union between the Lutherans and the
other Reomers and fine the extension of the eccesas-
teal constitution of the provinces OF the kingdom.
The thea last questions alone occupied thirty eight sngs
The Synod will be again convoed by the King in the
OF the next year
letter from Rome of the 25th ultimo says: "To-day
being the feast of St Louis the cardinals according
nua CUSTOM attended the Church of ST. Louis of
the French Mgr acrista chanted the grand mass. The
cardinals twenty three in numher ranged each side
of the choir and the bottom front OF the altar Count
Ross the French Ambassador, placed in stall, covered
with carpet richly worked with feur-deis. After the be-
nedcon the ambassador went up to the sub-dean of the
Sacred College, and profoundly sautcd him i'll token of his
acknowledgment of the honor of his presence Count Rossi
afterwards paid the tribute of respect the Of the
cardinals In the evening, after vespes the Pope accord
ing to custom, St Louis When he arrived at the
door of the church Count Ros opened the door of the
age and received his Holiness. After remaining time
prayer before the altar the Holy Father the
crsty and permitted several persons kiss bis foot Count
Ross standing the left side of the Popes chair"
The journal des Debais the organ of the Government
formally that the marriage OF the Duke de Mont
peser with the nianta Donna Louisa is decided and
that the marriages of the Queen of Spain and Of her sister
take place Madrid in the last days Of October.
Queen Isabella born Madrid October 10, 1880, and
consequently nearly sixteen years Of age. Don Francisco
Assses born May 3D. 1922, and is consequently
twenty four years and nearly four months. The Duke de
Monpensier born Neuiy July 81 1924, being
present little than twenty -two years of age Donna
Maria Louisa Fernanda nianta of Spain, born Janua
80 1882, and therefore aged fourteen years and
months.
The Minister of War (says the ConstutonneD antici-
patcs the necessity applying credit Oh
00O 000 provide for the subsistence Of the army in
Africa In Algeria and the south of France the harvest
confidently expected to be below the average and that the
barley and potato crops will be very deficient This will
tainy dearth but will, in the apprehension
of the Government require considerably increased expend
providing food for the army Considerable reinforce
Says thesame ourna about be Oceaa
The number of troops to be embarked is stated at 600
The first battalion of the first regiment Of marnes garsned
Cherbourg, designed for this service and will the
18th be put board the coettes e Soname and Loire
which being fitted BEST for conveying the troops
and The Gdatee is being armed remain at the
station.
The cholera had disappeared from the camp Kuachee,
in Scinde but raging Hyderabad where the deaths
eight hundred daily. Among those who died in the
camp Lieut.. Napier, nephew Of the Governor. The
whole number of deaths from the 18th to the 30th Of June
was l0, 900, Of whom 500 Europeans.
The Governor General and Lord Cough still Simla
and council Of officers had been summoned. Renewed hos
es with the Sikhs spoken Of Ghoolaub Singh had
refused pay the subsidies he had guaranteed, and
said preparing his independence. The capital
Of the Punjaub and the army were in ferment
LospoS, SEPT IA royal ordonnance appears in the
Monieur ordering augmentation in the number Of officers
of the royal navy Captains of ships OF the line be
increased from 100 l0 captains Of from 200
$50 leuienans from 600 $50 and cnSegnes from 500
to $50 The funds necessary for this increase of naval Off
have been already provided for in the supplementary
dts Of the budget The of the officers promoted in
consequences of the above decision given in the Monieu
ELEcrRo-PHoSErrc TELEs Hume, Of the
Academy of CharIesown has brought this final
ISSUE by the construction Of model although something
similar has been previously discovered both in St Peersburgh
and in Cincinnati the former city had been laid before
the Imperial Academy of Sciences The Russian telegraph
produce tones by ten different that Of Charles
has hitherto merely wires, which produce tones,
but capable Of producing all the letters Of the alphabet by
adequate number Of wires But this superuous, pro-
vided that sufficient number Of be make the
speech of the telegraph ineligible The difference between
this of electric communication and that Of others or in
stance, that of Mr. Morse) that tones supply signs
and figures. The machinery, however, very simple and
the sound be clearly heard any, large DR..
Hume the point of publishing the details of the phonetic
telegraph, and putting it into practice.
We learn from Bresau the Able Ronge has been
fenced four months imprisonment for preaching the
small of Lachn without having obtained the permission
Of the authorities.
The screw-propele applied 10 the British stean-fgae the
Amphion, whose satisfactory trial trip noticed in the
Messenger Of the 10Th instant understand, the
plan of Mr. Smith, but that Of Mr. Ericsson which has
long been adopted with great America particularly
board the United States gae the Princeton, and
recently in France board the John Ericsson packet
running regularly with goods and passengers between
La Tese and Bboa
coNPESnIUM FROM OVERLAND BOMBAY TIMES.
Scude supplies almost the only topic Of for the
month. The seaport OF Kunachec, the heathcst and the
avorte military station has since il became known
to US, brcn visited triennay by cholera In 1889 and
again in 1912 the Of suffering occasioned by
terrible yet slight compared that which has just endur
Between the 18th and 23d June above 5000 human bel
were cut oil by itincudng s95 Europeans, Of whom )
were fighting besides this sos sepoys, and is bel
about 900 natives, campfolowers, and inhabitants of
towns have died The peslcnce had quilted Kurachee 4