Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-10-02


taken the bridge, which remarkably steady This
was followed by the destruction Of sunken battery of five
guns, by mines containing two of sixty pounds of powder
each and of eighty pounds, the firing being under the
direction OF Lieutenant Wknsou and done in the sumo
would be adopted by the defenders of place in
destroying the preaching batteries of the beege The
oslons followed each other in succession and the effect
most magnificent giving the greatest satisfaction to all pre-
sent Sir Harry Smith particularly expressed delight the
operation The last operation that Of preaching stock
ade Of great strength party of men, With large sapol
es advanced to the sockade with charge OF POWDER which
they deposited, by OF handtruck against the build
ing, when the first charge of sixty pounds of gunpowde
pressed down with the bags of sand fred the effect of
which the destruction Of several pieces Of timber At
the other end of the sockade charge of hundred pounds
was placed without being pressed with bags OF sand, which,
by Bckord's fuse, timed for minute two, when
explosion took place, effectively clearing opening by blow
ing down and breaking two of the baks of TIMBER dis
lodging others, and scattering large spntes of wood in all
directions The operations being concluded General Sir
Harry Smith paid high compliment TO Colonel Sir Frede
rick Smith and the engineer officers and under his
mand He had been highly pleased with the operations Of
the day. The gallant General, riding off the ground at
tended by his brother, Major Thomas Smith, loudly
cheered by the assembled troops During the afternoon, Sir
Harry recognised several of his old campaigners the wound
ed soldiers of the Sute and entered amiary into
ton with them In the evening General Sir Harry Smith
dned with the commandant of the garrison, Colonel Simp-
son, his residence at the Govenmenhouse Sir Harry
Smith intends leaving Chatham tomorrow.
The journals from which we are .abrdging offer
long, animated, and, of course, very loyal accounts
Of the royal receptions at Glasgow and those other
points of Scotland which the Queen and her Consort
are visiting, during their present soourn of health
and recreation in Scotland. We must, however,
forbear to commemorate, in any detail, these dutful
festivities they demand zeal which official en-
Payments can alone supply. To attempt their
celebration would be an encroachment upon the
province and even slur uron the talents of courty
hstoriographers, with whose enthusiasm, stimulated
by equivalents, we dare enter into competition.
Nay, the public about US, so recently saated with
the glories and the gladness of Presidential pro-
gress, may not yet have recovered its tastes for such
banquets of description or, instead of calling up
the feelings which should be desired we might
only revive the image Of that weary sequel to such
triumphs, that exhaustion of the emotions which
they are apt to leave behind.
Equally must we pretermit the effort to render
any exact idea of what seem to share with these
Civilizations the present attention of the general Br-
fish sensorum. the Ducal MURDER we mean, in
Paris; the Ministerial Manifestations lately brought
to light there and the egregious state of public
morals secretly prevailing there in the midst of all
that virtue which men ought surely to possess who
are all the while making such rout about what
cannot exist among the luxurious and the corrupt,
Public Liberty. Our British friends, who indeed
are somewhat entitled to-gve themselves airs when
measured by the chief part Of the Governments of
the Old World, do not fail, Of course, to be greatly
shocked at the depravities of which Paris is thus
rendered the open theatre. How should they re-
sst the glorious occasion of indirectly exalting their
own righteousness by lifting up their hands at their
neighbours transgressons. Accordingly, the Par-
sian Observation-Disclosures, Radicals and all-are
profting by the opportunity, are putting on all the
signs of virtuous indignation, and are Mortified at
their own amazed question Of " What is the world
coming tor The following London paragraph
may serve to give notion of the style in which the
matter is handled both there and in Paris. The
terms in which the Chronicle adyerts to the subject
are amusingy impressive of the mutual good will
between the two nations
owe have received the Paris papers of Tuesday by
press For whole days the Paris papers appeared with
any charge of corruption against the Government
but such Of affairs could be expected to last long,
and accordingly the Rme Of Tuesday out with the
following
"There was talk days ago of an adjudication for
the supply Of lint the military hospitals and different
81 ms were given of the affair." The facts they really
Cured follows The firm which obtained the adjudica
ton has become bankrupt In examining the books the
sgnee found the entry of of 000f given to the
Ministry of the War pot de rim. The noise Of this
rupon having been spread about General Tze wrote TO the
If the division TO examine into the fact After
having done the commanddnt replied that the l50O0
placed in the hands OF superior unctonary But in
going the documents letter found addressed by the
secretary Of person not less powerful doctor Of the place.
who had acted intermediary in this affair paragraph of
this letter conceived nearly in these terms My dear
friend have received the 500E They lint which
very OPPORTUNITY the relief Of my wounds The secretary
was examined and he denied that this had any thing
do with adjudication Of the lint Nevertheless he appeared
no more the Ministry and the Of the examination
made by the Procureur General waited for to decide his
CASE"
Possibly il was this very bonus of the $4,000
francs, extracted apparently by the Minister which
brought the beneficiary to bankruptcy. Such was,
the consequence in the similar case Of
the transaction between the Democratic Legislature
of Pennsylvania and the late United States Bank.
In this latter instance, however, the price exaced
for rechartering that institution was vastly more
nous STILL But, indeed the Democracy looked on
the bank as a monster so dangerous--so inexpedi-
ent, as well as unconstitutional-so wicked itself
and so sure to make equally wicked all who dealt
with it, /" touched, handled, or tasted " of its ac-
curscdness, that, in the first place, very large