Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-10-26

badly. believe the musket is the only arbise
whose decisions will be abided by. lQ asa
i Negotiations are still progressing to effect the f.
sion of the Oreanist and Legiimist interests, q
which your correspondent demonstrated, as he be
ieves, the hopeessness in one Of his late letters TIL
report prevailed that the Duchess of, Orleans wa
aboutyelding her opposition. and the report seeme
confirmed by the sudden departure for Claremon
of NM. Thiers and Casimir Perier. Those gen
tlemen did, in fact, four days since pay a hast,
visit to England. The telegraphic despatch b,
which they notified the Princess of their intended
visit found her with the rest of the ex-royA family
on the eve of departure for Ostend, where The
Queen of Belgium, the daughter of Louis Philippe
is lying extremely i'll. The Duchess and the
Duke of Nemours delayed their departure to re-
ceive M. Theirs. The result of the conference
has not transpired. nj. Thiers has returned to
Paris, and the Duchess and Duke have Joined the
rest of the family at the sick bed of her sister, The
medical attendants of opinion that the Queen Of
Belgium will very speedily follow her father to the
grave.
The reviews which the President is passing, and
some Of the incidents which have marked them, in
duced the commission of twenty-five, which the
Assembly left in charge ofits interests at the capital,
request the attendance at the sitting last Monday OF
Il
had taken place in public and private touching the
countermandng by the President of an order for
the removal from Paris of one Of the regiments Of
the line forming part of its garrison. The order
had been given previous to the review at Versailles
During the defle before the President this reg-
ment was remarked for its enthusiasm. Shouts of
"Vive FEmpereuri T" arose from its ranks. The
next day, 10 the regiment in question was ordered
to its preparations for departure and the post
of honor at Paris was assigned to it. In the order
of removal the number of another regiment was in
serted. But it unfortunately so happened (acci-
dent, no doubD that it was exactly this second
regimen. which of all present at the review was
most noted for its tOant of enthusiasm at the dele
The Minister and the Prefect Of Police attended as
requested. The sitting was with closed doors, and
nothing is known of what occurred-only it is
said that General Changarnier has given express
instructions that during the grand cavalry review
which is taking place to-day, and at which the evo-
lutions to be ordered after the plan of the battle
of Eylan, the army shall abstain from all shouts
whatever. The preparations for the review of to-
day are upon more magnificent scale than any of
the preceding. 1t is announced as the last of the
season, and the President is determined that if
good cheer can effect it the army shall retain
grateful recollection of the review and of him. If
this were not mail day / should certainly be at
Versailles. Apart from the interest and excite
ment produced by grand military displays, espe.
cally of cavalry, would much like to witness the
attitude Of the people toward the President They
will be drawn out to-day in great numbers, and the
Tenth Decembrists promise to make up increased
enthusiasm for the silence which the severe disci-
plinarian, General Changarnier, has imposed upon
the army.
Your faithful European correspondent posted at
London keeps you well advised of all continental
news, or should, in the dearth which prevails in
France, be tempted again to cross the Rhine for
the purpose of indulging in speculation upon the
latest interesting intelligence from Hesse Cassel.
But abstain.
We are to have the third of next month the first
practical evidence of the extent to which the lately
amended electoral law affects universal suffrage.
Wrts have Just been issued for one election to sup
ply the place OF a resigning member from the
department Of the North. This days papers an
nounce that the Republican party mean to run Du-
pont, (de PEure,) one of the founders Of the Re-
public, the purest and I'M. Bouay's opinion Of M.
Bonaparte to the contrary, Notwithstanding the !
most honest man in France. But his day is past |
he is in his dotage. M. Dupont was without any
practical influence as member of the Provisional
Government. He is now mere dupe and instru-
ment in the hands Of intriguing and less honest
men. 1t requires all the charity am master Of, !
and ever present consideration of his long, honest
and consistent public life, to hold to my good
opinion, of him in view of his conduct during the
last eighteen months. ] trust he will not suffer
himself 10 be again brought forward. He will be !
without influence in the Assembly; he can do the |
Republican party no good, and would do irrepa- |
rable harm to his own reputation.
In the Academy of Sciences on the 7th instant
an interesting communication was made touching a |
series Of measurements which have lately been made
in order to fix satisfactorily the difference OF level
between the Mediterranean and Red seas. The
result of the labors of the French engineers who
accompanied the famous expedition in 1893 has
never been taken as conclusive. Their surveys
were executed too hastily, with defective instru-
ments, and under variety of circumstances which
unavorable to the arrival at exact results. M
Bourdalone undertook and completed the survey
in 1S47, under circumstances reported to be in all
respects advantageous, and with instruments most
carefully made and of the last degree of perfection.
The result, laboriously arrived at, and vigorously
proved at every stage of the survey, differs materi
ally from that of 1899, as the following compare
tive table will show. The difference of level be-
tween the two seas was asserted to be $50 metres
equal to 32a feet. 1t is ascerained to be in fact
only 2.27 metres-equal to feet inches. The
following table is given:
Low water at the fort of Tineh a4
(Kasz Tineh) .-........... 600 600
High water at Suez. ......... $50 2.27
Low waters of the Nile at Nc
Kias Of Roudah. .......... sac 1928
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