Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-07-11
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The Quotidenne CLegitimist) has good notice
of LyELL's Travels in North America. II.
| The Debas Of yesterday has translation of al
opprobrious and silly article of the London Morn
ing Herald, entitled Exposition of the Weakness o
the American Government. There needs only {
general and cordial support from the people to KEEP
it the strongest or safest in the world. 1t is too
true that it, by possibility, you should be worsted
by the Mexicans, an ncaculabe loss of considera-
ton III Europe must be the consequence. My anx-
iety for the advices by the steamer exceeds eX-
preston.
The national subscription, under Royal patron
age, for equestrian statue of JOAN OF ARC at Or
leans is likely TO be exuberant. RossINIs statue
has been inaugurated g with grand and imposing
ceremony" at the Royal Academy of Music. The
glory of Spain, the supreme MatadOr Monies, was
| dangerously gored, on the I'd instant, in tair0
machy. RANKE, the Professor of Berlin, historic
grapher Of the King, and author of the Lives of the
Popes, is writing history of the second half of the
eighteenth century, with Frederick the Great as his
hero-stmuated, it is said, by the work of THEIRS,
of which two additional volumes promised for
the next autumn.
French dignitary of the new school replied
lately to Prince METTERNIcH-who had said to
him, "The world is quite sick" No, Prince,
only the absolute Governments" We cannot,
perhaps decide what the Governments OF Spain,
Portugal, Switzerland, or even those of France,
Great Britain, Belgium but, in these, the vaetudl-
nary symptoms are stronger, methinks, than IN the
monarchies of Germany and the North. You will
see to what straits the miserable royalty and aris-
tocracy of Portugal driven by universal revolt
and anarchy. A grand Liberal League is forming
in Belgium to put down the ultra Catholic
Ministry; ere long, the worthy Leopold will expe-
rience nearly as much trouble in jumbling Cabi-
net as the Queen of Portugal her sister of Spain.
The approaching Swiss Cabinet is to be vexed and
perpleXed and nullifed again, with the questions Of
the Argau Converts, the Jesuts of Lucerne, and
the revision of the Federal Compact. Queen CHRIS
TINA, by her Secretary, has answered in the official
Journal at Madrid the imputatons of Mr.. THEIRS,
in his speech of hatred to her sisters progeny and
of the project of the Trapani match for her daugh-
ter ISABEL. She tells Mr.. Theirs that " the saga
cious historian Of the Times should have been bet
ter informed than to look TO such distance for The
origin of the Neapolitan canddateship, giving it to
he understood that it belongs to the French Court
and Cabinet. Mr.. Theirs rejoined, yesterday, by
the editor of the Constituionnel to prove his init
mate knowledge Of the whole match-manGuvring
and the upshot. CHRISTINA at first preferred Louis
Philippes son, the Duke of Montpensier. The
known repugnance Of Great Britain and the Cont
mental Powers, and the fear of the necessity Of an
armed French Intervention in Spain, in the sequel,
deferred the French rulers; then Mr.. GUIzoT
brought forward the Count de TRAPANI. This
move has failed from various difficulties. The
Spanish nation will not tolerate him; the nation
would have Don HENRY, the cousin of ISABEL
but there are antipathies mpediments, apprehen-
sions at the two Courts, which to render him
equally impossible; there remain CoBoURG and
the Duke OF MoNTPENsIER as the only alternative.
The details are curious. CHRISTINA declares the
National of yesterday has been seduced from
LOUIS PHILRpE and Mr.. GUEoT by English blan-
dishments, and has persuaded her daughter to
imagine herself in love with the German sutton.
We may rely on the Constitutional No contra
diction by the Ministerial organs of this day.
The National sharply rebukes the Dpbats for
parading the ant-American article of the London
Herald, adding that the charge Of pecunary cor
ruptons might be heavily retorted on France, from
the very text Of the recent debates of the Chambers
Late lidings of the revolution and excuses at
Montevideo, and the obsfinacy of Buenos Ayres,
have damped the zeal or lowered the countenance of
the old brawlers for armed Intervention. Yester-
day. in the Chamber of Peers, the Marquis de
Gabriac aumadvered again on the Ministerial
policy and management in the La Plata affair; the
Intervention was as il-executed as ill-advised He
affirmed that many considerable mercantile houses
of Hare, Bordeaux, Nantz, and Marsees were
ruined by it. No reply from any Minister. Lord
Aberdeen and Mr. Guizot must patch up their en-
terprise, which some Of the French commentators
ascribe to jealousy Of each others aims of prepon-
derance in the region more than to any purpose
I, favorable TO commerce and peace.