Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-08-23
QUICK PASSAGE FROM EUROPE.

QUICK PASSAGE FROM EUROPE.
| The United States mail steamer BALrrc, of the
Collins line, arrived at New York on Saturday
morning in nine days and thirteen hours from Liv-
erpoo being the shortest passage ever made across
the Atlantic. She brought l4s passengers and a
valuable cargo.
London papers to the 9Th instant and Liverpool
to the 9th contain but little else of interest than ac-
counts Of the fete given in Paris to the Managers
of the Worlds Fair. Nor is there any thing re-
markably new from the Continent of Europe.
The Great Exhibition was still thronged The
number of season tickets disposed of on the 4th
instant realized the sum of g22. The money ia
ken at the doors from the other visiters amounted
to 5000 1885,, making total receipt of g3,O
lSs. The police return made the number of visit
ers 62,63l.
The London Globe Of the 5th says that there is
truth in the assertion contained in a late number
of the Assemble Nationale respecting instructions
supposed to have been addressed by Count Nessel-
rode, after the meeting of the Emperors at Olmutz,
to the Russian representatives at Naples. Rome,
and Austria-hat they had agreed to afford assist
TO those States for the suppression of revou-
tionary movements.
The Irish news is not important The crops
were looking well, and good season anticipated.
Advices from Paris are to the evening of the 4th.
The chief subject of remark at Paris is the visit of
the Lord Mayor Of London and the Commissioners
Of the Exhibition, accompanied by many hundreds
of LOndoners and Englishmen of note. The open
ing banquet, the I'd instant, is described gor-
geous and tasteful in the extreme. Five hundred
persons sat down to dinner, and many hundreds
more assembled in the evening. The next day the
vrrcsfo toL 90 Gor hcv,
visited the chateau and park and other interesting
features of Versailles, the Lord Mayor returned to
Paris, where he and the aldermen partook of pri
vate dinner with the Prefect of the Seine. In the
afternoon the Mayor was admitted to private au-
dience by the President at ST. Cloud before the
public entertainment On the 5th a splendid de-
jeuner was to be given at the English embassy
in honor of the visiters, and in the evening a
grand ball at the Hotel de Vile. On We'd
nesday, after superb review and sham fight, the
Mayor would dine with the Minister Of Foreign At
fairs, and in the evening choice selection of pieces
sbe performed at the opera. On Thursday the
partywas to be entertained at grand dinner given
by the Minister of Commerce. This was the
closing day of the fetes, and on Friday the vsiters
returned to London.
The city Of Paris has already sent ninety fore
men and workmen to London to visit the Exhibi-
ton, and about thirty Chambers of Commerce Of
the chief manufacturing towns Of France, and twen-
ty Chambers Consultatives have acceded to the
wishes of the Government, and presented lists Of
rst-rate workmen of all trades, amounting collec-
lively to about one hundred and forty, who are
also to be sent to London. To them are to be add
ed twelve foremen Of the national manufactures of
Beauvais, Sevres, and the Gobelins and of the pro-
fessional schools of Chalons, AK, and Anglers.
The village of Poignoles, in the Eure ct Loire,
containing thirty houses, nearly all destroyed
by incendiary fire the night Of the 2sth ulti-
mo. The authors Of the fire, who have not yet
been discovered, attempted to burn in their beds
the inhabitants of the first house fired, having bar
ricaded the door outside to prevent their escape.
The National Assembly, on the lst Of August,
elected the following committee to serve during the
recess Of that body:
Uloer, Changarner, Dufougerais, Sauvae barneemy,
de Mongny, Berger, Vilet, Pououat de Melun, (Nord)
DOlivie Passy, Drue Desvaux, Goun, Bernardo de Mon
tebeo, Bocher de Ia Tourette, Cecle, Ruiere Herbert
deIse Bonvlers de Kermarec de Bar Grouchy, de Nor
temart.
The persons who had the highest number of
votes after these Dufaure, Cavaignac, Grevy,
Vesin, ]. de Lasteyrie, Remusat Bixio, Charras,
Labrousse, de Mornay, Delessert, de Saint-Priest,
Lamoricere, and Baune.
1t will be seen that not single republican or
friend of Napoleon has been placed upon the CON-
mittee, the Mountain itself not having uniformly
voted for its own candidate.