Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-05-24

| hundred windows, collected in four or FIVE buoe
masses, and consumed by fire. after which he
| cellars were broken into and wine circulated free
as water for day in the vicinity of the Palais
Royal. Twenty-seven carriages of the King were
burnt three of his horses killed. and three stolen Az
TO paintings and works of art several chefs d9upres.
OF which the price can hardly be set, were des,roy
ed. Dumouriez, by Houdon; The Regent, by
Foyatier; The Invention of the Lyre, by Duret |;
Gustavus Vasa, by Hersent and IAN irreparable
loss TO the Fine Arts) The Reapers, by Leopold
Robert, were quite destroyed. Among the few
winch escaped destruction in the gallery of the
Ialais Royal were the two famous pictures by Ge-
Icaul'' OF which have lately noticed the purchase
Dy government, to be placed in the Louvre Thew
were al the moment of the revolution fortunately
ioaned out Tor exhibition. Among the remnants
were remarked the half of one volume of Audu-
Don great work on birds The rest were consume
ed. rive volumes Of aquareles worth more than
.weive hundred dollars per volume, were burnt.
!! Is .he remains OF these magnificent collections
Una, @ 'ne executors OF Louis Philippe have lately
Our indefatigable friend the philanthronist " At.
TEMARE, is devoting body, mind, and had almost
said soul too, to the prosecution of his great work
OF international exchange. He is daily receiving
from authors and publishers hundreds of valuable
works for American distribution. He saws that
unless he soon makes shipment to New York he
Will be at loss to find room for the presents that
are coming in. His favorte idea, which he is fol.
lowing up with persistence that merits, if il does
not receive, success is the collection, in special
City Of Paris American Library, of copies of all the
works obtained in the United States. His Ame-
rican friends can hardly conceive, and yet in ius
tce to hm they must try to do so of the difficulties
n nonC Ounfor - he. ~fl L
They are caused partially by the indifference of
subordinate functionaries, but men whose sym-
pathy and cooperation is almost necessary for his
success His chief embarrassment, however, lies
in the unsettled state Of French politics. and in the
changes perpetually taking place in the superior
public officers. No sooner has he, by dint Of argu-
ment and importantly, which it annoys him to
employ, but which he submits to for the sake Of
his cause, enlisted the interest and won over to his
support some important public functionary, when
10 /! ne disappears from Office, and M. Vattemare
has to commence again ab ouo for the conquest of
his successor Politics, the unsatisfying present,
the very doubtful and perilols future, occupy too
exclusively mems minds to admit Of their giving
TO N; Vattemares plan the attention he claims for
It. lie has insisted till recently that large room
in the Hotel de TiNe should be specially fitted up
for the reception of the american L,braru But
It has been represented to him that the appropria-
ton OF separate room for this purpose within the
Hotel de Vile would be inconvenient and, more
over, that, owing to the remote location of the Ho.
tel de Vile, the American library would not be by
any means so frequently resored to and SO practi-
cally useful as if it were made to occupy more
central situation in Paris. These struck him, and
Justly, as important considerations. It is now con-
templaed to fit up the American library, in the style
proposed by M. Vattemare, in a large building,
OF which the city is about to make the acquisition,
on the Place de la Bourse. II is the Hotel now
used as the furniture public sale warehouse. The
assurance has been given that this project will be
carried into execution with all reasonable dispatch
II it should not be, it will not be owing to any
failure on the part of NJ. Vattemare but to crcum-
stances OF the nature above intimated, and beyond
his control. have been recently much grati6ed
by visit with him to the several collections in
Paris OF books and objects from America. NJ.
M6kIN, the Director of tho Con.e.va.oire or Arts
and Trades, exhibited, with many compliments, the
collection, received through M. Vattemare, Of our
weights and measures. The American balance he
spoke of in very high terms. M. Vattemare has
received the assurance that there will be deli
vered to him, for the United States, full set of
French weights and measures. This, he says, is
favor which has never been accorded to any other
nation. AT the Hotel de Vile saw, by the polite
attention of the assistant Librarian several thousand
volumes from the United States, already arranged,
catalogued, and ready for use. Among these re-
marked many volumes, believe complete set, of
the National LnteMgencer of Washington. Here
the American books are kept distinct, forming
little library to themselves while in the library of
the Louvre, which l also visited, several hundred
American volumes are mixed, and almost lost amid
thousands of books on similar subjects which form
this large and valuable public library.