Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-07-17

land making accession of twentyone and tits thought
they will lose twenty-five twentyth seats in Eng
land that their strength in the Parliament will be
the as it is in the present one.
Parliament is rapidly winding up its business prepara
tory to its dissolution 1t knows that its end is ngh
and therefore it talks parngy and works hard its
strength will permit summary Of its proceedings
would offer little else than recaptuation Of the titles Of
bills which have been forwarded passed
Among other new publications on the subject of the
gold discoveries is pamphlet by Mr.. E. II. Browne
who takes into his consideration the quantity Of gold now
required in the world make other countries as well off
in this respect Engalnd, and which will be required
hereafter in consequence of the very rapid increase of
population and wealth in every part Of the globe Mr.
Browne gives very satisfactory for not drawing
the sixteenth century for conclusions respecting the
discovery Of gold in California and Australia in the nine
teenh century, and shows that the winning Of gold
at this time cannot produce the effects that the plum
derng the boards Of the Mexicans and Peruvans did At
the former period The progress Of society in Eng
land in the United Sates and pretty much all over the
world, is much rapid than in the sixteenth
century and though modern contriyances for facilitating
exchange and settlement enable to dispense great
measure with the precious metals in absolute USE yet
they must always exist in banks and elsewhere in very
considerable quantities, representatives of the promi
pay issued the faith of their being always be
had on demand. The consequence of finding gold in
California and Australia is to quicken and extend in
surprising degree the commerce between Europe Ameri
CO, ASIA and the islands in the Pacific bringing oil the
old and well peopled and the and fastpeoping
tries of three ourths of the globe nearly the
of civilization with large want of the precious
falls eyfpn and for
probably quite equal to the produce.
The Crystal Palace is very rapidly disappearing from
its old site to be revived and improved its one
where it viii be placed the crest of hill not less than
three hundred feet above high water mark The whole
of the building is to be arched like the tran
sept of the old and Nv centre transept substituted
twice high the in Hyde Park. At points
will be conspicuous object at the distance of forty
miles. The total length Of the building win be 1853
feet, the date of its ERECTION hat in Hyde Park was
1851 feet corresponding with the date of its erection
the extreme width 3s4 feet We find the following
count of its proposed arrangement in weekly paper
cat end the climate and vegetation will be those
of the tropics gradually changing until at the centre
transept temperate climate and temperate vegetation
reached which will prevail throughout the remainder
Of the building Portions of the palace will be converted
into quadranges similar to the fine art medieval courts
of the exhibition These courts will be made to repre-
For instance, court will form Indian bazaar, with
adjoining durbars and reception rooms Here all the
illustrations of Indian life will be collected in vivid and
Characteristic manner possible Another quadrangle
will be devoted to the illustration of China; third will
contain reproduction of of the courts Of the Aham
bra, by Mr. Jones' and fourth will exhibit Pompeian
house fully restored In of the smaller Tansepts
there win be Egyptian antiquities, casts from the cele
hrated reefs, illustrative of the trades of Egypt and
from the most noted statuesa colored exactly like thu
originals and disposed not to be dead collsc
ton of individual Objects bat living reproduction
Egyptian manners and things In another part there vii
be presented Nneveb palace. Steps have been aread
taken to procure collections of sculpture OF architecture
and Of ornaments illustrating the progress of those arts
from their commencement to the present time The scup
lures will include the finest works Of the great European
galleries. and of the modern schools large space viii
be set apart for geological specimens arranged in the
der of the strata accompanied by maps, views and
tons of the country specimens of vegetation, &C. Mo-
dern machinery and manufactures will be largely repre-
sented in exhibitions of materials from their states
in every progressive condition up to manufactured art
ces Up the centre Of the fountains of various de-
scriptions will play The principal, or Victoria Foun-
tain, in the park, will play one hundred and fifty feet
high that is to say twenty feet higher than the Nelson
column in Trafalgar square"
The Times contains advertisement in which the
american Navigation Club challenges the shipbuilders
Of Great Britain ship race, with cargo board from
port in England port in China and back for s10
side Messrs Barring Brothers 6 Co. are referred to
for particulars.
We last week thought the plus ultra of compact in
vention had been reached in cloak which could be pack
ed in Waikngcane, but the Times has this morning an
advertisement of bedstead which, without detaching
amy Of its parts packs in sponge bath and which can
be changed in moment from bed TO lounge or sofa
for the sitting-room."
The Princess GAuzomsA, daughter Of the ex-Raah Of
Coorg, chrstened yesterday at Buckingham Palace
and by agreement between the Rajah her father and
the Board Of Control and the Directors of the East India
Company has been placed under her Maestys protec-
on to be educated in the principles of the Church Of
England in this country her Majesty has appointed Mrs
DRUMSoSp to take charge Of her. Her Majesty was
Of the sponsors to the young princess and gave her her
own name, vrcroRIA.
FRANCE affords this week long list of incidents,
yielding abundant materials for reflection and com
ment very little of which we shall indulge in. Ger
tanly nothing of independence of eloquence, or Of
energy was expected in the Legislature of France,
and therefore its proceedings during the last week
Of the session. had they occurred sooner, would have
considerably raised its character, and might have
provoked its dissolution. 1t has boldly recommend
ed that reduction Of expenditure which the state Of
the finances of France urgently requires and it has
no less boldly pointed those provisions of the cons
tuition which defeated those reductions by placing the
amendments Of the popular Assembly under the control
Of another body appointed and paid by the Executive pow
err II has authorized the publication Of the principal
speeches delivered against the Government at time when
the newspapers prohibited from reporting them.
Among other speeches. that Of NJ DE MosrALEmBERr has
bonx ad In viii he II n.