Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-09-27

for Blackuood The Times disposed be compliments
u "Evsry practical Of the season., says this jour
nal belongs to the Americans Their respng machines,
their evovers and their yachts great facts and every
one who is truly Engsh. truly frank and generous, will
admire the skill and enterprise which produced them.
To crown the achievements of cousins" says the In
quirer ssthe Baltic one Of Collins line Of steamers has
Just made the fastest passage yet known the Atlantic
The defeat Of all yachts by clipper from New York.
says the Economist, has excited great sensation. They
are the very best of all cra-he best built the best
gged the best mannedand they all beat by the 6rst
American vessel that sails with them which may be the
fastest Of New York boats This event is calculated in
spire US with wholesome suspicion that We have yet
thing to learn. The America, says the Economist
superior TO our vessels in her FORM and the mode of rig
sng and handling her. Her sails stood better, they
like boards They lost none Of the force Of the breeze She
sailed whole point nearer the wind than her competitor
We are behind the Yankees somewhat seamanshp and
sa-makng we'll as 10 shp-buding. Our mariners and
ssmakers must learn Of them well our shipbuiders
It only in building and mansgng ships that the Ams
rcsns surpa they have picked patent unpckable
locks have taught how clothes and reap by
machinery, and by their revolver to project destroy e
For all this manifestation Of superiority indebted
the Exhibition. The superiority there BEFORE but
late intimate communication with America has made
it known" "I. impossible that the nations who
have come together in Hyde Park, and made
for the promotion Of industrial knowledge should again
be the enemies of each oher that the Scotch and the
English, tha. the Cornish and Lancashire men, should
again go war" It truly grat6es to transcrbe such
liberal and just sentiments and earresy do hope they
will all be fully realized. , n
Our Continental news is very meager and unim-
portant In France, out Of eighty-four Councils
general which have expressed themselves upon the
subject seventy have declared in favor Of the
revision of the Constitution. The knowledge,
however, that the term revision" has been used
by the Councils-general in many different ways,
and in various conflicting and underlined senses weaken very
much the force Of the demonstration. Paris journal says
ssThe Legimss are at the present moment quarrellng
among themselves extent that would appear endanger
the existence Of the party MN Berger, de Noaies, and
de Faoux, with the majority Of the party have united with
MN. Guizo, Duchate and Montebello, and seemed deter
mined join the party Of Louis Napoleon rather than submit
to the Prince de Jonvle President of the Republic On
the other hand Gen. de ST. Priest and his friends fully
determined not to support the reelection Of the Predent
and seemed disposed bring forward Gen Changarner
the candidate Of their party appears that M Berger is
about take trip TO Fohsdorf for the purpose possible,
Of inducing the Count de Chambod 10 interfere; but il is
doubtful if the authority of the king is sufficiently great
to effect reconciliation"
i
note to The English Government demonstrating against the
great indulgence with which the refugees who are conspr
ing against all established Governments, treated in Lon
dom The article in the Times last week. relating to the in
terview Of the leading Oeanss with the members Of tie
eYiled family CIsremon is said have been written BY
NJ GuIzor There is considerable difference Of opinion in
France whether the Prince JoISvILLr is candidate
the Presidency even among the leaders Of his party
SPAIN furnishes little except the important fact that the in
FAINT daughter Of the Duchess MoSrrssssR has been bap
tised receiving that ceremony fewer than twenty
names Gen. NARvAEz is about to Spain, and his
presence there, whatever may be his object will be to
encourage his political parsans, and some persons think that
an effort will be made the Ministry before the Queens
confinement takes place. At present. however, the admins
traon appears pretty PoRTUGAL furnishes nothing
but unmportant rumors.
From ITALY there no news, except that the imperial,
royal and duca aors Of that glorious but horribly prince
and pest-dden country about be gathered together
" in old Veronas marble halls to consult and confer-lo
for the good Of their people, how they may best train and pre-
pare them for liberty, how they may best extend to them
commercial civil and religious freedom but to form Aus
tro-Italian custom seague or in other words, to mature
scheme for the establishment Of monopoes throughout the
greater portion Of the peninsula. at the expense OF the
muniy at large; to form wholesale project for brbng the
chief capitalists and Of business in Italy desert the
cause Of the people and the interests Of the country
Another object Of this gathering Of the princes Of Italy will be
the composition and publication Of joint defence Of their
dictionary proceedings since s49 We know upon
plea these can justify their conduct imagine
the ground they will have the harhood in attempt
ing it. gratifying, however, to fnd that they have the
grace perceive that show ustyng il is necessary
The Tounaise (French newspaper) says " the situation
the peninsula, and that Of Naples in particular, appears to
inspire very great uneasiness at this moment"
GERMANY has yet opened the book Of its coming his
tory bu, the contents Of the volume may, in some degree be
anticipated Until the AUSTRIAN Ministers were sup
posed be responsible to the nation to some imaginary
States Hopes Of constitutional system, at least for the u
tu, end The fiction Of Ministerial respon
sbity did the least deact from the absolute power Of
the Government But the young Emperor would not tole
rate the decorous fiction be has, by this last STEP put fear
fu plea in the mouth Of democracy, and has armed with
letha weapon. He has proclaimed himself above the law
Republicans will not be slow publish the undenabe deduc
ton he who is aboue the lay ot of the Iac. He who
dscads all law in his dealings with bis subjects, deprvao
himself Of the right to appeal to it in his behalf He
who beyond the control also beyond the protection Of the
law. To law to appeal to force to renouRce
law is to become oudo. The Emperor Of Austria has
forged weapon which, later will be turned with
terrible effect against himself AUSTRIA has also commenced
absoutsm in matters Of conscience; she has violently sup
pressed the Fee Congregations established by RossE
and that popular reomer has published mastery
letters upon the subject calling the people Of England to
give the aid OF their sympathy to the liberal thinkers of Ger