Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-08-27

and American steamers afoa and connecting favor
ed French port the principal seapors North South
and Central America. Yes ex-stage-coach company
thrown out Of employ by the extension of railways in
France and which already had upon its hands the
ngly-sucent enterprise of steamboat navigation,
Meeting Marseiles with the Eastern Mediterranean ports
proposed to spend portion of its superhuous energy
capital and capacities in the establishment of three lines
Of ocean steamers, any Of which would have been
considered as aording ample scope for the abilities Of
an English American company organized with all the
conditions suggested by experience essential to
The preposterous scheme failed 1t was abandon
ed even before commencement of execution. After this
Notifying result which would think the Gle
mentary knowledge and ordinary practical might
have spared to French propre whe would have
pected to encounter and promptly another more
egregious mscomprehension Of individual and national
capacity and misappcaton of to ends 1t is only
in France that it need be looked for and it is the logical
result of the national character which pepetualy pro-
ducing in politics, in social life in political economy ex
amples in point In 1S4s what magnificent PROMISE what
miserable performance Sterling, practical heathful
English liberty, firmly established genial and slowly,
but surely progressive the yaunted American Republic
ITSELF to shrink in shame from comparison with the
light Of the world the new French Republic which was
to rgenerate society by the example Of perfect theory
purely practicali That mushroom liberty the growth
of night from hotbed of nfamy, delusion, and
rupon whathas become oft? Spurned sit deserved to
be- beneath the boot Of the first passerby in whose path
it grew, and the who planted it glad to find shelter
beneath the protecting branches of the and
honored British oak And the French Republic of
48 With the things that have been Struck down
tcmpuousy with the fat of his sword by the first pre-
tender who dared to that its paseboard and paint
were not marble and mortar. But did net to get
intoa passion. ! even felt humorously Inclined when
beginning to tell of new gigantic scheme OF universal
navigation, which is it seems, just upon the of
azation, la Francaise by couple of gentlemen of
Lyons the Mcsrs Gauthier brothers We are informed
that little steamer Of 70horse power propelled partly
by its sails and partly by its machine invented by Mr.
Du Trembey and worked upon principle, has been
for some time making trips regularly twice month be-
tween Marseilles and Algers what it is hoped
will become after awhile French lake." The
passages reported to be made in very satisfactory
time and the complementary engine, which, with the
wind supplies the propelng power is worked by the
combined papor Of and ether and consumes, it is
Serted only q pounds of coal per hour per horsepower
eecing thus economy of less than 70 per centum
in the consumption Of COAL Thereupon, the Messrs
Gauhier with true French genius, promptude and
fdence, conceived the gigantic enterprise which is
about to be realized la Francdiss. They connected
themselves with other gentlemen of equal enterprise,
hope and enthusiasm with themselves-that is to say
equally French-bough out the patentrights of NJ Du
Trembey and resolved forthwith to apply it grand
for the acquisition of immortal glory to themselves and
France with untold wealth. This last they do not
for Of course being Frenchmen, and despisng all
considerations but they accept of the
ccssary incidents of success. hear Of Englishmen
engaged associates in this enterprise They have
the last five years at least had large share in almost
all public works in France that afforded any reasonable
promise of profit or OUTLAWS Of capital So much the
for the Englishmen The patriotic Messrs Gauher
determined to show that grande nation has need
either Of the enterprise the advice the money Of
pefde Albion and, what is more that they have need
of governmental subsidies for carrying into successful
and triumphant execution commercial scheme doubly,
trebly ay fourfod vast and important than the
Cunard and Collins lines which, inconsderable they
in comparison, hardly manage to struggle on with
the aid of large Government subventons The Emperor
may send his mail bags in their vessels or not just
peascs Messrs Gauthier 10 not for hst Now, you
would expect would you, to see such pluck in a
pie of worthy gentlemen from provincial town in the
interior? Yet Lyonsis not even seaport but lies off not
far from the of France to say there is
not in the great commercial emporums of New York and
Liverpool won't say couple of brothers. but couple
of merchants Of different families who would have
conceived this great idea of the brothers Gauther
who, if they had conceived it, would have the spirit
put it in execution. La Presse thus announces the
enterprise:
'tScence has unregistered progress more At the
moment that Government adomning indefinitely the
creation of the transatlantic lines destined endow
seaports with the Of communication which they need
just the question being abandoned problem
been solved The establishment Of Transatlantic lines
has then resumed its actually Not only has resumed
its acuay but their establishment is decided and the
first ships now being built IL seems that
in January last just sketchng the programme Of
the vast enterprise which has just been nded Genius
Of invention speculative power public necessity wants
of commerce and Of the State union banking and indus
trial capitals every species ofimpulsion that prepare
and the execution Of great things to-day
for the realization Of the scheme which theory had
marked out After much sterile labor so many fruit
less efforts, and reports of Parliamentary commissions
and official conferences that produced nothing, private
enterprise comes up in its turn and performs sponane
ously with its own proper means work to which Gov
eminent had declared itself unequal The establishment
Of transatlantic lines longer requires the condition
granting subsidy Under the praiseworthy initiative Of
| the NM Gauthier Brothers. of Lyons, q company
has been formed This company, Of the invention
of NJ du Trembley is at the present organizing
service Of rapid transport packets between the prnc
pal ports Of France and the ports Of America and India
According to the memoir published by NM. Gauthicr
Brothers. special services will be established in the ports
of Lorent, Nantes, Bordeaux, and Marscilles These
services will correspond with the principal points OF the
American continent, New York. Norfolk, [rejoce Nor
folk II Martinique, and Rio Janero. They viii touch at
intermediate points, win be connected with these points
by auxiliary lines The ships will be built upon the mix
ed principle that Is say, they viii have the power Of
using together separately and sails The speed
Of the ships viii be from to twelve knots an hour If
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