Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-10-23

good tempered rubs upon men and things with you.
But upon the whole there is little if any thing to
be complained of in it, and it may be welcomed as
harbinger of literary peace and good fellowship.
Tbs October number Of " Dombey y Son" is much
OF 1t in Dickens's very worst style of writing-af
fected, constrained, bombasc, pedantic, and unna-
tural-although unquestionably there two. or
three passages of great power and pathos, worthy
OF Pick,cick in his best days which show what the
writer can do when he is complimentary enough to
his readers to exert himself, which he now very
seldom condescends to do
There is literally no political news to commune
cate; for, although we have the mammoth I" Times"
with It's supplement closely printed every morning,
and many other morning and evening papers full OF
"neps," there is scarcely any thing which has the
stamp OF certainty upon it, In France there is GER
tainly nothing new, excepting the boldness of some
Partisan calculators in contrasting the Bank of France
with that of England. The latter has nothing to
dread in the comparison, and although much of its
course has been of very dubious proprety, still its
present condition is very superior to that of its Par
sian brother Still the comments of the French pa
pers upon the subject afford much material for pro-
htable reflection among English commercial men at
the present momentous crisis in their affairs. France
is more favoraby disposed to the Pope and the pro-
gress OF Italian reform than she was supposed to
be- evidence of is that the Archbishop Of Paris
has ordered form of prayer to he used in the
French churches for the Pope and for the success
of his projects for reform. There is also little
doubt but that pacific assurances from Austria to-
wards Italy had reached Paris. Louis Philippe is
most afraid that Lord Mnto's offer of friendship
and support to his Holiness should win from him
papal sanction of the young Queen of Span's d.
vorce. He, therefore, will not wish to rank him
self among the opponents of Italian emancipation.
In Spain the cause OF truth and right appears to be
advancing, although there is little in the papers of
this morning which can absolutely be depended
upon. One thing, however, does appear TO be GER
tain, and that is, England is no party 10 any mea-
sures which may be in agitation respecting the
Queens divorce the restoration of the Salique law
in Spain, &c. There is nothing new about Portugal.
Austria is said to be marching troops to the from
tiers of Piedmont avowedly as /" Gordon of obser-
vation." The King of Prussia does not appear in
clned to extend more liberal institutions to his peo-
pie, or more protection to their manufactures de-
putation of this latter class had lately an interview
with his Majesty, praying him to revise the tariff
and afford native industry more protection. The
King replied that the tariff was arranged for the
benefit of the entire community and not Of class,
and that it was impossible to grant their request.
There seems sort of quescence in Northern
Italy, the result, it is stated by wel-iniormed par
ties, of thorough conviction on the part of the
struggled for by the Pope and those who have fol-
lowed in his wake are most laudabe, and have been
bloodlessly commended for. Such things har-
blngers of success, and inspire confidence in the
people. The news from Naples is favorable to the
insurgents. The Pope has been applied to by the
Government of Naples to publish an apostocal
letter, inviting the people of the Kingdom of the
Two Sicilies to obey their sovereign. The Holy
Father replied that he was willing to do so, on
dition that the Neapolitan Government would grant
an unconditional amnesty, and franklin enter the
career Of reform! What glorious answer for
the head of the Catholic Church to make, and what
satisfactory proof it is that the right diUine of
X ngs TO govern Wrong" is olonger recognised at
Rome.
The Duke OF Lucca, after an act of the basest
treachery to his subjects, made precpitate retreat
to the ncighboring princpality Of Modena, from the
shelter of which he sent another proclamation re-
voking all his former acts, perfdiousy breaking his
soemnly sworn pledges, and annulling the DEGREES
for the institution of the National Guard the liberty
of the Press, and other constitutional guarantees,
which few days before he had formally proclaimed.
He alleges that he gave way to liberal measures
upon compusion.
The news from China is more pacific, and that
from India very unimportant
The death OF CoLLETTI the Prime Minister in
Greece, will not have much effect it is thought,
upon the position of affairs in that country, beyond
what the removal of of his talent and expe-
rence must necessarily produce in country where
neither talentnor experience is superabundant JEAN
CoLLETTI was an illIterae man, bred up in the ig-
norance Of Ali Pachas court but he had gathered
together much information and knowledge of that
kind which fitted him for the position which he
held at Athens. He had resided long in Paris, and
was, in reality, political scholar of NJ. Guizots,
and of course, irrcvocably confirmed in the French
way of thinking, Throughout all the maze of quar-
relling between the Greek deputies and the Capo
D'Istrias, Colletti played most spirited consist
ent, intelligent and liberal part; thereby laying
legitimate foundation for that influence which he
has since welded for more questionable ends Al
though not one of the greater lights of Europe,
CoLLETTI undoubtedly stood forward among those
Of secondary class. -
HERMITAGE INSTITUTE,