The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-11-21

have read the manuscript pronounce to be the literary
chefdDuv OF the luxurious author Lamartne vampt
his old manuscripts, and plies his pen still for money
Enormous prices are paid Tor the copy rights After hav
ing delivered His brilliant haangue on the mode of elect
ing the president Of the republic he asked of the Assembly
on the plea OF health, congo of Ten days He is among
his constituents OF Macon. Jerome Paurot in Search OF
Republic, continues the most popular of the new books
The recent number OF the London Quarterly Review ex-
hlolis lis merits, and turns 1t to political account Inc
History OF Madame de Mantenon and The principal events
of the Reign of Louis XIV, by the Duke de Noaes,
begins 10 attract what il certainly deserves the attention
OF The literary critics and amateurs II contains negiied
details OF the Revocation of the Edct OF Nantz Wac,
kenaers additional volume Madame de Sevlgne and
her times, is likewise in request Lord Broughan
tract the French Revolution reached us early Much
truh-much error His personal history and character
derogate from his illusions. The London Times scarcely
deals too harshy with him in the following paragraph
Lord Brougham's whole life Is struggle against that
law existence which makes every member OF the
amusing and perhaps very useful 10 be dozen people al
But that cannot be- Every man drags his own past
always trying his old slough, and gisten-
ing and gay in novel exerior Harry Broughan is the
once that friend of people Even this correspond
he calls himself Lord Bropgham on Friday, and on
know whether he is Englishman or a Frenchman and
If the people of the frontier had not committed fatal
Albert by this time would have owned part his allie.
glance. We do think have seen the last OF his
let If they will only be patient they win have him before
long and shall hear of Lord Broueham being closetled
whoever may happen to be- Just as he used TO drop n
upon his friend Louis Philippe at the Tuileries
Mcheet has just issued the first part of the third vol
ume of his history of the French revolution. Il is a
tribute to the red republic. J. Amperes duodecimo
Greece, Rome, and ID in,e Literary Studies from Ma
ure, will not impair his reputation a savant and wri-
ter The tenth volume of the Scientific Exploration of
Algeria-a work published by order of the govern
ment-is on sac. Ii bears the title Historical and
cannot say enriched-with wild and immoral DRAMA
by Leon Gosan it bears the palm, for the moment al
The Porte Saint Martin; and with distorted compost
ton by Alexander Dumas, Cati,ne piece in five acts
and tdbieaur 1t has political drift throughout
Cicero figures the great conservative rSetonnare
on the whole, serves TO excite the anarchists than
TO strengthen the OF ORDER which Dumas proessed
10 advocate before he failed as candidate for the Ma
tional Assembly. Mademoiselle Rachel has Withdrawn
from the Theatre de Ia Repubgue, the ground of dis
con,eat with the eternal economy and the advice OF her
physicians Her absence will be the felt as she has
stronger admiration than in her recent per-
the part Of Agrppina in Raeines
be prescribed to her. to afford you chance of witness
ing her superiority tragic over her con,em-
poraes The theatres are reganing prosperty the cap
al seems to in my extensive walks, to be crowded
AS it was at this season last year.
On the 9th nst at the Academy of Sciences bureau de
la Male read the sequel to his interesting memoir the
general concu sion is follows 81 terminate by affirming
that the epochs at least the limits OF the different agri-
cultural abors and the several phases of vegetation are
for the same localities and the same attitudes identical
in ancient and modern Italy, and finally, that since the
age of Augustus to the present the climate of Italy
has not undergone any sensible notifications in its
temperature, its annual or even monthly" new sys-
tenn of steam engines submitted by Boutgny, eminent in
natural philosophy engages the attention OF the Acade.
N.Y. and all persons directly concerned in locomotives
Boutigny asserts, from numerous experiments the
stence, before unknown, of fourth physical state of
bodies, different from the solid liquid and gaseous and to
which he attaches the ephet sphsroda He attempts TO
sumes in over heated boilers "those Illuminating explo-
sions of which the occult unknown illustrates all
the precautions iaken to prevent those formidable phe-
nomena." He conceived that water in the spheroidal
state, could be employed at precious auxiliary
board and that by its agency in this
way, the power OF machines might be doubled mo-
mentally and this without any change in the present
form of the engines. He thinks he had invented a new
and precious oteur and he averts all danger of explosion
skful engineer has constructed for him, on the princi
pie of his discovery engine of horse power of
which the size of the boiler not larger than may be
ly put in the pocket two other engines. OF two
horse power and another of four being built in Paris;
third of four hundred horse power about be con
sructed in England The quantity of coal used in given
time for given purpose will be less than in the old
gines The will occupy less space in vessels, leav-
ing for passengers and merchandise and they may
be adapted perfectly to vehicles running on ordinary
roads Boutigny adds that the experiments with the
gnes, far, entirely satisfactory and conclusive
FIandin, chemist of the first ORDER has found means
of depving the flour and fecua of the horse chestnut of
its bitter 10 render them excellent food 1t comes
nearest to wheat IN the quantity and quality of the
tive principle. The method is simple and cheap The
pulp of the chestnut is reduced to flour. the ecula
extracted then carbonate OF soda added the proper
ton of to the 100. Thus hundred and twenty
hundred and eighty pounds of flour, with the add-
ton of pounds of carbonate of soIa becomes ter
being washed with cold water, perfectly good alment
The carbonate costs only few the pound. The
-four is rich ecula 1t believed that the process for
the publication of the horse chestnut may be applied
many other vegetable tissues and the other hand the
bitter extracted will furnish of interest
ing research scientific authority holds this language
alt would be superfiuous to dwell on the economical
value of such discovery. The horse chestnut
abundant product easy to gather mpervious for insects,
and capable OF being preserved long time The crops
OF many years may be accumulated in very dry urrow,
and forms precious and exuberan supply in years of
bad harvest such the last Mr. Fandn observes that
horse chestnut tree planted at the door of peasant
resents for him the value of field of potatoes" A
French professor of gasronoics remarks that he who
invents new dish does more for the veal of mankind
than he who discovers star Fandin's achievement is
superior he has converted into wholesome food COM
and abundant substance, hitherto aside; he re-
pairs the evil of the potato rot with which France is still
constantly threatened The French agricuirsts have
often tried in vain cultivate and employ the bearded
wheat of Italy known there by the name of MarzoIo
gentleman has, however at length completely succeed
ed in Normandy the straw Italy Tor the fabric
of fine bonnets and hats The specimens of the Nor
mandy found by the Paris manufacturers of the
finest quality the processes to be described
Patent once.