Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-03-27

the adedespising waters of the Seine painted and
decorated anew and look almost picturesque These
tranquil waters by the way Ia be disturbed but
ennSened the coming by line Of steam pleasure
boats constructed like those which traverse the Thames
and which are to run regularly for as regularly as any
thing runs in France) between Bercy and Grenelle
ought TO have mentioned before that the Place du Carrou
sci which, ncumbered with old houses and sheds and
devoid OF decent pavement has long been perfect eye
sore is to be entirely renewed The north gallery Of the
Louvre win be completed at the same time and Ia order
to remedy architectural defect in the rapport Of the
Louvre with the Tuileries two edfces are to be
erected which, by their position and STYLE viii tend to
make the palaces better harmonic These edfces IL il
said, to be occupied by Of the Ministers tits
unnecessary to add that all these public works employ
great many hands and in that way do something toward
remedying the general stagnation Of trade.
What othernews have to send, independent Of poll
tics, Is not much.
CAROLINE DE WEBER, widow of the composer died at
Dresden on the Goth ultmo
announced that Madame SoSrA0 proposes visit
ing the United States next summer in company with the
famous pianist, THALBERe. This distinguished lady has
just completed brilliant engagement In Leipsc, respng
therefrom most worthy harvest Of glory and goldof
the latter at the rate of FIVE hundred dollars per night
She has declined the most tempting offers Of Prussan
managers visit Berlin and appear other stages Of
that country Sontag She declines upon the ground
that member Of the Prussian nobility she cannot
with due regard to the Of her rank appear
upon the boards in Prussia. She is married Italian
nobleman Count Ross and she is known in the grand
monde as Comptesss DE Ross It is not this title, how
ever, but that Of Mademoisee LAUESsrE that con-
stitutes the ncompatby Of her appearance upon the
stage within Prussian dominions. The child of humble
itnerant factors, she ennobled by the King Of
Prussia under the title in 1928 Her royal master
thus kindly used his kngy prerogatve less reward the
already usrous Sontag than to smooth the way her
marriage with the young Italian nobleman who after
wards became her husband The Comte himself dis
posed in the aor of youthful love- summary dispose
of the difficulty and violate decorum by marrying
ste plebean by BIRTH and noble only by character and
talent but the Counts family and the Counts royal
master, the King Of Sardinia not coincidng with these
views nteposed objections to the happiness Of the youth
full pair which the King of Prussia removed by patent
of nobility in favor of Mademoselle de Lauensein You
will be pleased with her in the United States and pre-
dict for her. should her visit actually take place. de-
servedly successful and triumphant career.
LAMARrNE has already completed eight Of popular
biographies which to appear in his forthcoming jour
NAL THE Civzer among which enumerated those of
Columbus Joan of Arc Homer Gutenberg and Bernard
Palsy the potter
and twenty French emgrants to sail from that port
to-day tomorrow for San Francisco The expense Of
their voyage is to be paid by the managers Of the late
Lottery Of the Isgot Of Gold who have already forwarded
several hundred emigants California, and viii dispatch
another shipload between the 10th and 10TH win be
remembered that the Lottery of the got of Gold was
instituted with this view
Papers received yesterday from Rome and bearing date
Of the oath of February the death Of one Of
the Cardinals CAsrRAcAsE aged 10 years 1t appears,
also, that FIVE Cardinals to be appointed nclud
ing for France, viz. NJ DosSET Archbishop Of
Bordeaux, and NJ DELAcRoIx D'ARzoLErrE, Arch
bishop of Anch. This win add two more o6co mem
bers the French Senate And speaking of the Church.
reminds me to say that the Able MoSTLouIs famous
for his social opinions has been arrested and is in
carcerated in the prison of Monlino.
see by the German papers that the Editor of the Me-
phphele, in Hamburg, has been fined about fifteen dol
lars for article against Louis Napoleon He was pro-
secuted at the instance Of the French Minister