Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-05-28

be interesting than Captain Inge6elds Lecture be-
fore the London Institute the subject Of his late voy
age to the Arctic Seas in the Isabel schooner Of
hundred and fortynine tons Ii occupied four months
The photographer Of the Admiralty Sir Francis Beaufort
desgnates it one Of the extraordinary voyages
record" 1t has obtained prize from the Royal Geo
graphical Society AT the sitting Of the Society," on the
18th umo, an important paper wasread on Oceanic Elr
rents, and their connection with the proposed Centaf
American Canals, by A. g. Fndsy ESQ.,, ilustrated by
large diagrams OF the Atlantic and Pacific md L
the maps Of Lieutenant Marry Of The United States Nary
Arrowsmh's large maps Of Australia and Capt Mcores
Great Circle Sailing indicators were also exhibited
In lecture before the Asiatic Society some Chi
nese Inscriptions porcelain bottles found in ancient
Egyptian tombs there curious poetcal legends four
Of which distinctly egbe of the 9Th and the tn
centuries and which illustrate the two schools of Chinese
poetry. At the same meeting letter was read from
Colonel Rawlinson, dated 10Th February, 1863 in Bag
dad in which he announces curious discovery that the
northern Arabs about the head Of the Red Sea re-
ally governed by Queens, and that Soomons Queen Of
Sheba came doubtless from this quarter about the Gulf
Of Akaba, and not from the southern extremity Of the
Peninsula. On the Oath ultimo at the Royal Institution
DR. Connolly read discourse founded in personal expe
rience and extensive inquiry the Past and Present
Condition Of the Insane and the characters of Insanys
subject OF much consequence TO all civilized humanity
Among the papers communicated on the 9th to the
Geographical Society End these: "Notes on an excur-
sion the supposed tomb Of Ezekiel and the neighbor
hood of the Sacred Cities Of Maf and Kerbeah through
the marshes west of the Euphrates, by Thomas Kerr
Lynch, communicated by Col. Raubenson, C. B., f H. O.
81 "The progress Of the Texan Boundary Commission,
by nj. Bartlett communicated by DR. Latham The Leo
lures of Dr. Lyon Playair, tie Dependence Of Industry
Science, TEEN with knowledge and facts exceedingly
useful to the industrial classes.
You overlook the annual distribution Of prizes
of the British Art Union, which took place the 10Th
of April This most beneficial institution, so adj
vantageously and widely known abroad, has large
number of subscribers in the United States hundred
and forty nine subscriptions had been transmitted to it
from the god-diggers in Australia. The Councils
port The subscriptions this the seventeenth
year of the societys operations amount to the sum OF
l3s and they state with certainty that the
total would have been much larger If the principal en-
craving for the year. The Surrender of Calais
completed at the time arranged that impressions might
have been issued when the subscriptions received
1t is scarcely possible to find persons wholly unac-
quainted with the objects and proceedings Of the Art
Union, extensive have been its announcements and
issues but many ignorant Of the extent OF its ope
rations and would be surprised to hear that through
for the encouragement Of art and artists. The prize
holders have spent upwards of $50 900 in the purchase
of pictures the Council above 100000 these and
other works of art pictures purchased for the Roy
al Academy alone than E84 600 have been paid
Engravers have received from the society Els 000n
Professor Creasys Fifteen Decisive Battles Of the
World has passed to fourth and not cheap edition in
London. The conception OF the subject happy, but
perhaps not real exact battles, in the sense
of the teof which the scope is open controversy
might be found in history from his earliest date He be-
gins with Marathon, which had been adequately related
in Bishop Thrlwaps Greece Recent travellers confirm
believed to be haunted, in the time Of Pausanias,
with spectral warriors and the shepherds alarmed in
the night by their shouts and by the neighng of their
steeds. This battle excites in more lively SEN
satons than any other in European annals and the Ahe
mans might well deem it to the latest period the most
brilliant of their martial achievements Yet the hero Of
it, Mtades, like Phidas the inspired sculptor, died in
prison at Athens-Journal Of Commerce.