Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-04-10

scripts Of distinguished persongeH earned on TO large
extent in that city; indeed nuch regular branch
Of business the manufp Of pictures by the great
is in Italy There is, are assured, not sale
of manuscripts in the French captaland nowhere are
such sales n.merousin which forgerie1 are not
audaciousy paine off on the public by Wholesale and
there is IT, suspect that gentlemen OF position
who have gained celebrity manuscript collectors do
not hesitate for consideration 70 fiew false docu-
ments be slipped among the real ones and TO be offer
ed in their by public auction In Germany many
similar rauds practised with much success. Only
little while ago gentleman letters pur
porting to be written by Luther every Of which it
now appears forgery, In Italy, TOO, the nefa-
rcts system carried We are assured for example,
t great many of the papers SAID to have belonged TO
forouato Tasso, and for selling which Count Albert
was tried short time back at Rome undoubed
forgeries though of the most experienced men in
such matters declared chem authentic. The sl of the
forgers whether French, Italian, German, and may
now add English, m concoctng papers, inks seals, and
writing is truly remarkable. !"
The public were Monday admitted without charge
into the Glsss Palace During the day net less than
thirty thousand awaited themselves of the priv
lege Afforded by Messrs. Fox, Henderson Co. They
belongeao from the peer to the costermonger
and all were delighted with the grandeur of the scene
wiiss grand srgan and the immense mirrors of the
Thames Plate Company the sole remaining
vestises Of the exhibition The organ played by Mr.
Best on the preceding Saturday, and the performances
drew together than four thousand people Tn
less great exertion Us made this wonderful building
win In the Of q few weeks, disappear still more
rapidly thar 1t rose and be remembered only as splen-
did vision structure which has cost 9I6o,O00 win be
wancny destroyed and portion Of If not all the surplus
funds In tine hands Of the royal commissioners be quietly
invested I'm bricks and mortar The contractors have
within telast few days. had two applications from Paris
the purchase of the building and its removal to the
Ghanp-de- Mars Of these, we believe, on behalf Of
the French Government. The commissioners, who
appointed report respecting the ultimate fate Of the
buildng-Lo Seymour, Sir W. Cubitt, and Dr. Lndley
have reported decidedly adverse to the purchase of the
building by the royal commissioners This report is in
opposition to the evidence of Mr. Cole and Mr. Fke and
misconeeption of the testimony of Sir joseph Paxton
and the opinion of Fox Henderson Co. Rather warm
discussion upon the subject is carrying in the daily
papers
The large docks which have been for several years in
the of construction at Grmsby in Lincolnshire
nearly completed that they will be opend by
the LIST of May The following is interesting account
of the great undertaking thus successfully completed,
On Thursday large party, consisting of the Drec-
tors of the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Rail-
way Company and their friends including several o. the
directors and of the other companies were Invited
by the contractors, Messrs. Hutchngs Co., to view the
works Of the Grimsby Docks, which Sc far
completed that it is expected they will be ready for the
reception of vessels by the LIST of May next The lew
docks show in striking manner, the advantage derived
from union Of railways docks, and warehouses execu
ted under complete plan, and worked under
nagement They lie eighteen miles the tan
any other port the Humber, at the mouth q
river which is well lighted and buoyed that in dear
weather strange vessel might in after the loss
of her anchors Coastng steamers enter them atany
time Of the tide while the largest steamers will find u
cient water the dock sill for at least twelve hours
of the twentyfour The Earl Of Marlborough stated at
the banquet Thursday that the DOCKS &C. covered
hundred and forty acres which had be enclosed that
six years had elapsed since the FIRST pile driver in
that sixty thousand had been required to complete
the woodwork and that those trees If placed at natural
distances apart would make forest of 1000 in
extent Some of the largest oaks that could be found
amongst them and many of them not being procur
able in England brought from the Black Forest in
Germany Sheds close to the quays, $50 feet in
length and SO feet in BREADTH aordng Of
1000 feet and vaued warehouse $50 feet square for
free and bonded goods"
fund collected for the relief Of the sufferers the
loss of the to e12 500has been dis
trbuted among them Nineteen widows receive various
annuities, from El2 to f25 per annum ffty-nine or
phans receive various sums from els to EOS each
apprentice fee OF the surviving passengers Miss Smith
receiye7 g200 and the Rev. Mr.. Blood e1e0 Twenty Of
the children have been received into orphan asylums
| We have again plentiful lack of news" from
the Continent The Paris correspondent of the
Times alludes to an intention entertained by the
President of France to seriously modify, if not en-
tirely ABOLISH the present system of consumption in
France. Another rumor is that the French army is
about 10 experience reduction 10 the extent OF
l25, 900 men. Such reduction would be an an
nual saving to the State of 125, 5000 francs
The Moniteur de pArmte denies the correctness of
this latter rumor. The grand review on the Champ
de Mars has been abandoned for the present, the
army probably not being in proper state of enthu
siasm for demonstration. The great fact" of
the day in France appears to be the amalgamation
Of the Orleans and Bordeaux and the Paris and Orleans
Railway Companies then Centre of France and the Tours
and Nantes railways also amalgamated with the trunk
line of the Paris and Orleans This union is regarded
most important step in the promotion of internal
muncaton. The widow Of Marshal Soult died on the
18th instant at the late residence of the Marshal in the
S1st year Of her age. Another opposition candidate
making the seventy has been elected to the Corps
Legslatf in the person Of n. HEsoS, returned from
Lyons. The first sitting of the Senate and Legsla-
tive body win take place the 29th instant the Sale
DIES Mdreehaur in the Tuieries
We have no news from SPAIN PORTUGAL Among the
various projects which LOUIS NAPOLEON is said to have
view there is which, if carried out would seriously
affect the commercial interests Of all Europe being
thing less than plan to enter into s-league with
the greater part Of Italy, and balance the commercial
well political domination of Austria by the estab
lshment Of sort Of rival French Zol-veren Austria
has, however, too much influence both at Rome and in
Tuscany to allow Of this project being adopted by either
Of those portions Of Italy; and without them the plan
not practicable.
While all Is mirth and merrment within that narrow
circle called Court M VIrxxa all; cloo, 81