Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-03-18
NATIONAL INTELLIGENGER.
JoURNALIANA:
Or Collections out ofthe last Foreign Newspapers.

thing Of the fortunate young astronomer whose
daring calculations (as they may be well entitled)
found such singular realization in the discovery Of
planet away on the edge of our system--a planet
found by mere computation, and with the eyes of
others, not his own. The discoverer Of NEPTUNE,
however, reappears in the following brief notice:
M. LIE VERRIER on CoMETs.-A letter from M. lie YER
appears in the Journal des D6b1ts the subject Of
comets contains many curious speculaions relative to the
of their singular orbits He says The periods Of
revolution of the of FAYE yIco, LExELI, do not
ceed than years remarked that two
of these passed when they first observed very close to
Jupiter and that their orbits completely altered thereby
The question arises, them whether these like the rest came
among planets from distances and intro
dnced regular periodical planets into our own system by
the action Of the planets themselves and another question
Immediately follows, whether they amongst us pena-
nently or not and whether similar to that which in
oduced them might not again cast them out into the iim
able spaces from whence they came have already exam
ined the Planets Of LExgLL and FAYE respecting several
points, proved that they have been inhabitants Of
our planetary system for least century, and that they
have into the neghbohood OF the earth dozen times
without having been observed and, 10 judge from
this probably many other comets have also within seh
without having been recorded" NJ LIZ VgRRIER Identifies
the of 1914 with that observed by La HIKE in 1878
He says The carelessness with which the observations
made respecting the of 1878 is extraordinary
La HIRE does not give the exact time OF his observa
ons and only calculated the longitude in degrees From
such observations would have been impossible to calculate
the orbit and perihcIion with any accuracy, and did not
therefore, attempt to do but calculated backwards the
positions that supposed the of 1914 have occupied
in 67S and they correspond to within half degree with
La HIREs observation cannot conceive that this conci
dence be the result Of chance and canno therefore,
Think be doubted that the of lS44 the
the OF 1873 The past history Of the comet doubtless
this 1t into this system centuries ago from the depths
infinite space, and became fixed among the planets by the
potent influence of Jupiter Since then has doubtless
frequently into the neghborhood of the earth, but only
observed l66 years before its last appearance in 1914
All speculaons concerning its future destiny be better
made after its next visit in S49 and therefore defer them
till them"
The following certainly offers no very triumphant
proof of the verify of good Lord BRoUaHAM's boast
in behalf of this Age, that the "Schoolmaster is
abroad" One would really say that when Mineral
ogy and Geology have become such practical and
such familiar things, those " swart gen of the
mine,'' the workmen, ought to be in condition not
to mistake decent trio Of broad-clothed phoso-
pliers for dealers in the Black Art and friends of the
devil. Besides, why. if they were serving Satan,
should he have destroyed their tools!
:. TnE THREE CoSJUarns.-At the bottom of the Dol
coah mine Gone Of the deepest known) Professors Airy
Whewe, and Sedgwick desrous to try expert
ments, where they could swing tie pendulum great depth
and also considerable elevation and had their apparatus
lowered TO the bottom of the shaft and after spending por
ton of two three days there, packed up in
bucket kibbe, with shavngs into which spark from
miners candle must have fallen, ior when midway up the
shaft the shavings took fire. the rope was burnt the bucket
fell to the bottom, and the apparatus was destroyed The
miners declared that nothing could have burnt the rope but
devil and that the three professors be magciuns. The
day after there violent storm, and these miners
overheard saying they quite must be owing those
men that had been underground and said must be the
little un professor Airy because he seed him standing with
his back against the churchyard i--Mning Journal"
The Preston Chronicle mentions vesmental
invention which looks greatly as if meant for the
special benefit of politicians of certain order. We
commend it to their attention:
.tNovELTr DREss-Messrs. Goudy and Garth, taors
and daper Of this town, have made and wastcoat
to the purposes of and waistcoats
side of each is black with coorej buttons of the same color
The garments quite novelty Neither of the garments
heavier than ordinary single one and whichever side out
presents the appearance of an elegant dress.
When, alas shall our Government receive or,
by its skilful and wise patronage of art, merit a
gift OF one hundred and sixty fine pictures, inclu-
ding the best works Of such as Reynolds, Wilkie,
and Landseer?
THE VERNON GALLERr.-The trustees Of the National
Gallery have made their selection from the gallery of Robert
Vernon, Esq and have accepted for the nation hundred
and sixty pictures. The deed conerng this magnificent gift
upon tho British people has been executed and it only
remains for the nation to erect structure fitted to receive the
collection Until this is done believe the pictures will
be removed from the house of the donor Pail mall Among
the hundred and sixty pictures four the finest works
OF Turner; OF examples of Ety. there Of Eastake
VI Niacube, lWOj OIL three; Twins,
OF Landseer, six; OF Briggs, two Of Saneld four; Of
Collins three OF Chaon, of Leslie, three of Web
ster, two of Cacott Of Wilkc three of Jones,
two of Lance, three of Z. M. Ward three of Sydney
Cooper, two; of +. Gooda, of Sir Joshua, one; OF
Gainsborough, two. is unnecessary that these
not only examples OF the best Of school; they
arc with scarcely exception, the best productions Of the
several artists the works Of their best time selected with the
incest judgment and the keenes appreciation of excellence
The trustees were empowered by Mr.. Vernon take the
whole collection, or to reject such they pleased Tn
Jected but few, and these chiefly small and subordinate
works or sketches.-Art- Union Journal
Talking of art, however, here follows something
far more interesting still, if one could but believe
single word Of il:
DiscovERr OF GREcIAS PAISTrSGs.--The Literary Ca
zse contains the following singular communication from
correspondent wealthy Italian lately arrived at Paris
having IN his possession ,nal pictures of the
celebrated painters Of Greece Zeuxs and Apees One
them, representing virgin, he had purchased for Caacc
On examining carefully, he observed that the naked foot
was OF extraordinary beauty but Of totally different STYLE
and more highly finished than the Of the picture He
He accordingly commenced cleaning the oil painting Of the
Italian master gradually Disappeared and, the operation
proceeded the entire form Of female into view. The
painting proved to be part Of religious scene and repre-
sened Trah Il recognised Of the cee
braed pictures Of the school Of Athens The fortunate disco
verer observed that painted Ia upon foe daoc
which, It is well KNOWN customary among the Greek
artists Hoppy in the possession OF this first treasure be
medately determined search ia the galleries Italy, and
among the Italian merchants, for fo 0Les He