Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-02-01

list of the principal ilustrious men of the Old
World, in science, literature art, war, and politics
whose deceass has marked the year which has just
drawn to its close men living and fourishing
twelve months ago, but whose lives are now his.
tory Louis Philippe, King Of the French. Jean
Pierre Boyer, ex-Presdent Of Hayii, Blainville,
Guy Lassac, Blot, Bartolini, sculptor of Florence,
Fouquier, Marjoin, Prus Honore de Balzac, w ords-
worth, Bowles, Jeffrey, William Neander, the Ger
man theologian. Adam Ochleuschlsger, the Danish
poet, Sauvo. ex-edi,eur en- chef Of the Moniteur,
Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Palmela, Jane Por-
ter, Wyatt, the sculptor, Mde. Grassini, of the
opera, Fraser Tyler the historian, the elder Bru-
mel, Mde. d'Eillcaux-D Desomeaux, Charlotte de
Sor,) Frederic Bostat, political economist, Baron,
Blandin.
have lately been collecting statistics relative to
the newspaper press of Europe, and will give you
some of the results. Switzerland, with popua-
Gon Of about 2,400,O ,O0O possesses 204 journals, or
one journal to ll,764 souls. Of these 2O4 journals,
l52 are printed in the German language, 46 in the
French, in Italian, and one in the peculiar Ian
guage of the Grsons, called the Romanish, COM
pound Of the Latin and of the dialects of the an
cient Rhaetians, from whom the inhabitants of the
Grsons are descended. The newspapers are d.
vided among the cantons as follows: OF the Cath
olic cantons, Schweitz has 8, Ur l, Unterwalden
0, Lucerne 7, Zug Q, Fribourg 4, Soulere 8, Vaais
2, Tesino 5-Total 80. The Protestant cantons
contain, Berne 40 journals, Zurich %, Basle 81,
Vaud Ia, Schafhausen 10, Geneva 8, Neufchatel
8, Thurgau 6, Glarus 2-Total 1874. The cantons
of mixed religion possess, ST. Gall Is journals,
Appenzel 2, Aargau 10, Grisons ll-Total 80.
The Catholic population is about 40 and the
Protestant about 6-lO of the whole.
In Prussia, counting all the territories compos-
ing the kingdom, there existed prior to the royal
decree respecting the press dated 9th June, 1850,
grand total Of journals amounting to 500. Of
these, 2S2 were devoted to literature, science, and
the arts. The rest were political, and Of these
$50 were Ministerial or Conservative POI of the
Opposition, and l67 of undecided political COM
plexion. These figures give as average one jour
nal for 20,1S6 inhabitants. In the capital of the
monarchy, Berlin, there were n journals, of which
81 were POLITICAL and SO scientific and literary.
Since 5th June, $50 Of the political journals have
ceased to exist.
There are at present published in Brussels twen-
ty three daily papers, greater number than the
whole kingdom possessed q few years ago. 1t is
exactly two centuries since the first journal was
established in Brussels, the first number of the first
gazette appearing on the 5th of January, 1851; it
was published in French, and was gotten up upon
the model of that established in Paris by Theophile
printed in Antwerp since 1910. In 1857 one Bas-
tide published the Journal Of Brussels, or the.
Thinker, dedicated to His Royal Highness the
Duke Charles Of Lorraine and Bar. 1t was
pamphlet of ninety-si1 pages 4to, and appeared
every two weeks. The celebrated linguist became
afterwards newspape- editor at Brussels. The
number Of periodcals-dai weekly and month.
ly-now published in the Kingdom Of Belgium is
$50. This number assigns one to every $4,000
inhabitants.