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

pie, and thought that it was with them the United
States would ultimately have to engage in strife
mortal to the other My present impressions
widely different Dispositions and views not the
same in Great Britain The universal Of vast
enlargement and irresistible advances of American pow
er; the indefinite extension and multiplication of mutual
interests; the more frequent various, and intimate PERI
sonal intercourse the religious, literary, and scientific
inercommunion the effects and facilities Of steam ma
vigaon; American Importance with the world at large
the new ympathes and ties resulting from the prodgous
emigration, and the progress of the Democratic element
spirit influence, and tendencies in the British political
and social systemthese and other salient changes have
begotten general good will, rule of Cancellation gene
raj earnestness for the peetuity of relations and feel
n9s such as become cognate and institutions and
common acknowledgment Of the precepts and ends Of
Christianity We may subjoin the agency of success
sion Of Ministers Penpotentiary like Mr. McLane Mr.
Rush, Mr.. Everett, Mr.. Bancroft, Mr. Lawrence and
Mr. Ingerso who could ngraate themselves and their
country with all parties and classes by their specific in
divdua merits, the ngeness and recttude Of their Of
fetal conduct and the cordially of their amcabe profess
sons and urbane manners Mr. Buchanan being Of the
same school of gentlemen and dipomatists with lbe-
ral expansive patriotism, will render similar and equal
service Mr. Everett, in his very able and comprehen-
sye survey before the Senate of the Central American
question, the Nicaragua dispute may be styled, has
continued his sautary work by his direct testimony to
the cardinal principle of the policy Of the British Co.
vernment-a mutually beneficial peaceful intercourse
with the United Sates and to the that there is
country in Europe where the and character
of American citizen not direct passport every
good Office that stranger desire and nowhere more
than in England"
Michauds History of the Crusades has passed in the
original to the eighth editionfour large octavos The
English translation lately issued in London appears
be quite successful The History Of the Protestant Re-
oil IF
the Edict of Nantes down to the present time will APP
pear on the 18th of next month in two handsome octayo
The Life and Writings of William Paterson, of Dunn
reshre, Founder of the Bank of England and of the
colony of Daren in three volumes octave announced
in London The topics of the third Of the twentysix
chapters his residence in America and his marriage
Boston, and of the TENTH the foundation constitution
and ruin of the Daren colony The merit of having first
planned the Sinking Fund is claimed for Paterson Alto
gether his biography projects and performances cannot
fail to possess considerable value and attraction. He
the Sir Andrew Freeport of the Spectator Queen Vic
to-ia has made baronet of her eminent physician, DR.
H. Holland He may be thought to have earned the dig
nifty by his volume alone-his chapter Mental Phys
oogy. No writer treats the mixed metaphysical and
physiological problems with more dscernment, or more
lucidy in conception, dicton and method The clever
chapters repete with profound curious, and useful
observation and reasoning.
As it would that certain folks in the United States
disposed rupture with Great Britain they may
find the b in the term in which of the chief
London journals have ventured to speak with reference
l
Morning Chronicle censured g the vouni5us babbe of
Congress" The Daily News not long since, held this
language: I" More nonsense is spoken in the American
Congress in week than escapes from crafty despotic Co
yernments in years. And the Times last week was
! equally outrageous: An honorable exception will be
found here and there in the territory of the
Union, but generally the American newspapers con-
temptbe void Of literary talent and requirement vulgar
in sentiment and meagre in the intelligence"
full translation of Kossuths long letter Of the 23d
instant on the grievance Of the official espionage and
suspicious which he suffers in London, has appeared in
Of the Paris papers He lives in daily terror Of
search-warrant The London Times is likewise his ter
for it persists in its denunciatons and treats his
denals with dsdanul incredibly The Hungarian hero
owes gratitude to England asylum, but has little
other reason for acknowledgment In the United States
he collected good round sum- but from the British, to
whom he paid his first devors and homage oil he has OBJ
tained in the end, is simply splenddly bound copy Of
Shakespeare with his and each volume and
suitable bookcase from the subscription Of the work
ingmen Mrs. Stowe is vastly fortunate In the
House Of Commons the I'D instant the bin for regu-
atng licenses for public houses Scotland occasioned
discussion with awful statements That country was
emphaticay called drunken" one its statistics Of po
tation and intoxication being matchess The Lord Adj
yocate proclaimed that the evil against which the bill
directed the national sin Of Scotland, sin which
overshadowed all other social evils of the country" Mr.
Hume said that he would readily for the introduce
ton Of the Maine liquor law, which excited great laugh
ter" Mr.. Henry Drummond affirmed that every Satur-
day night thirty thousand got drunk In Glasgow and
lay in perfect state of insensbility until Monday
morning.
1t is stated that joint negotiation is to be opened
by three four European Powers with Denmark the
abolition Of the sound dueson the payment of moder
ate sum, once for ALL equivalent This be-
longs also to the United States
The project Of the French Transatlantic Steam lines is
postponed and the Moniteur has assigned the motives in
detail If it were pursued now, the immense cost would
prevent the equilibrium fondy cherished Of the bud
get Of 1854 and such improvement in naviga
ton as the Ericsson should be awaited.
Recent discoveries, which still require the sanction Of
experience but which merit serious examination the
possibility Of reducing very materially the consumption of
fuel and the occupied by the engines thus leaving
larger space free for and merchandise. II hope
be esEed IL viii change in very advantageous the
conditions Of steam navigation"
Several French works Of value and interest are an
nounced The principal are these Memoir TO Napole-
Sd Scheme of Colonization by the Cotton Compa
ny Of Algeria View of the Five States Of Central
America by Victor Herran Charge dAfairs in Paris of
the Republic Of Costa RIGA. of Cosmography
and the Elements Of Astronomy adapted to the pro-
gramme Of instruction in the Lyceums and Of admission
the special schools by Charles Brot Professor of spe
cia Mathematics in the College St Louis Sc, &C. BIZ
Biographical Bulletin of the Learned Societies Of the De-
partmens Of France, published with the cooperation Of
the Scientific Congresses Methodica Dictionary Of
French Architecture from the eleventh the sixteenth
century inclusive, by vioet-LeDuc Government Archi
tec and Inspector General Of Diocesan Edfces two large
ocavosfour hundred artices-three hundred engravng
interpreted French Contemporary Literature by Bour
queot and Maury Elementary Course Of Astronomy. |
by Delaunay, with copperplae engraving and figures
with the text Geological Photographic Representa-
ton Of the animals in the Museum Of Natural Histo
ry Of the Garden Of Plants; by L. Rensseau, adjunct
adunct in the Imperial Library sixty plates
price Of the whole ninety francs small folios The