The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-24 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARis, 22nd Dec., 1860.
The General Board of Cust(ims and Indirect
Taxation has just published the tables of the
trade and navigation of France during the first
eleven months of the year.
The total duties received on importation amount,
for the month of November, to 10,300,000 f.; they
amounted to 15,400,00 i. for the 6(o6podding
period cit hat Oaf: Thri diminution is very
tiett4 the same as that which was observable in
regard to the month of October, and it is attributed,
no doubt justly, to the removal of the duty from
certain materials, and to the coming into operation
of the new customs regime. This temporary
deficit was foreseen, and may be regarded as the
natural consequences of the reforms which have
been accomplished. In reviewing the testilts for
the Months of ?.4tot; ifidO, and Nov.; 1850, an in-
Crease is Otaeg,atie in the iinpott of spirit tjs: 6d.),
sin 6ikdrig; 'Cereals, hemps, flax and tow,
Wig°, cochineal, linen and hempen thread, lin-
seed, lard, linseed and other oils, wool in bulk,
pit coal, cast iron, pig and bar iron, zinc, fresh
and salt meats, pepper, salts, silks, and colonial
linens and sugars. On the other hand, there is
a diminution in the consumption of Woad used
by cabinet makers, of wines and eaux de vie,
hops, oxen, bulls, cows, calves, heifers, and sheep,
machines and mechanism, cotton in bales, copper,
steel, pewter and lead, olive oil, nitrate of soda
and potass, sulphur, and foreign sugars. The
table of exports presents an increase in favour of
the following articles :—Machines and materials
for machines, tissues or fabrics of all sorts, cereals,
flour, spirits 3s 6d, yin ordinares, and of liqueurs
and soaps. A falling-off is remarked in the exports
of flax and peeled hemp, books; engravings and
lithographs, porcelain -fine and common, glass and
t ine
rl
sug sea salt
...ad ,1:) t_plty
"
silver, in bars and in coir
were for the first eleven
months of 1850, 9,776,738 hectog., and the et-
parts 01,540 hectog: in the slit-Her pefidd this
the itilPOrt§ ibpireent and
tke aPdit§ i,203,667 hectog. , there *ere
received during last year 2,264,231 hectog. of
gold in ingots and coin, and there were sent out.
of France 45,402 hectog. The importation in
1860 inCludesl4lB,CVd heog:, the exporta-
tion 38,15 i hectog. libe general bonded stocks,
at the end of November, present in metrical
quintals (hundred-weights), .a total of 4,048,784;
it was 4,309,030 in Nov., 1859, so that there
has thus been a decrease of almost 260,000
quintals, and this deficit applies in a greater or
less degree to most descriptions of goods; with
the exception of eofree; Cereals;
,pewter; linseed,
blive oils; nitrate et pdta.§§; pepper;
iit* silks, sulphur, and foreign sugars. The
review of the consumption tax upon French and
foreign salts presents favourable results. In
November, 1860, there is an increase of more
than 784,000 fr. over that of November, 1859,
and the eleven months of the present year show
an increase of more than three millions over the
eortaponcling period of last year. As regards
the navigation returns for 1860, compared with
those of 1859, a falling off is noticeable, though
not of any moment, in the number of ships
,entered and sailed, as well as in the tonnage of
the vessels: „
It is a gratifkirik eireiiiiistatiet to note what a
great itinitilus has been given in France to the
ittittisition of the English language and a know-
ledge of Eqiish works. 'At the present moment
two of the daily journals are publishing in ibuit
?dots translations bf Sir E. t,: BultVer4s Nigitt' and
Morning (Le Jour et ia gat), and the S'zvdrd
and Gown of M. Lawrence; Whose **ions tiAel
recently appeared in the sine 4a -. most H the
new bill lrtipiift it books issued in London
ippear in some form or other in the shops of
Parisian booksellers. Reprints of translations of
our ,standard works are constantly being an-‘
tiatitited; two or three periodicals depend chiefly
for their matter on the English press the cheap
sheets of Paris boric,* tis dramatic
iiithOrs on this side of the Channel; whilst the
number of critical works on the men, manners,
and books of England, shows how much the
French mind is busy in the contemplation of
EngliSh affairs.
AL tie Ic'etsigny has rettirned from Loudon,
and the interim functions of M. Dillault liu'ce
ceased.
M. Liedts, plenipotentiary from the King of
the Belgians for the negotiation of the treaty of
commerce with France; has been presented td the
Emperor by M. Finiteri Rogier:
The day before lesterday a eorindil tit ilihristers'
asseilitied; iiiider the presidency of the Emperor;
to consider and decide What steps shoUld be taken
With feioBi i 8 FriineiS 4; ttrid his resistanee at
theta. council had before them, for the
special consideration of its members,. a note,
addressed by the Cabinet of St. Petersburg to
the Court of the Tuileries, iu which the Czar
claims, in the most vehement manner, for
Francis n. the continuance of the protection
afforded by the presence of the French fleet. I
have not yet heard the result of the deliberation.
I tilist find rdditi for the following heartless
acid andatious case of what is here called " theft
l'amerceaine," and in regard to Which it is, as
usual, difficult to say, whether the credulity of the
victim, or the barefaced inipostiire of the pap&
trators of the crime, are the most remarkable.
On Wednesday afternoon about three o'clock,
a girl of the name of Madeleine B—, a domestic
in the service of a tradesman] in the Rue de
Richlieu, was employed by her master to go and
receive a sum of about 300 francs due by a com-
missionaire in the Rue Hauteville. She got the
money and was leaving
_the house of the person
who had paid it to her, carrying the amount in
her hand, when an individual who was standing
under the portico of the house, appearing to be
engaged in counting a sum which he had also in
his hands, said to her, " Stop a minute, I have
also been receiving payment of a small account,
and I am looking to see if the amount is correct':
The girl was at a loss how to reply to this obser-
vation, but the man succeeded by that means in
engaging her in conversation, and they both took
the same direction. At some paces distant, a
• man who was coming down the street, having a
portmanteau under his arm, approached them,
and addressing them in an English accent, which
Madelein edescribed as being very ivononcee, said,
"Will you have the kindness to tell me where
the Intel de Londres is ?" On which he was
told that it was a little farther on, and that he
had better ask a commissionaire to tell him the
way. 'The foreigner, with a puzzled manner,
begged them to accompany him, promising to
reward them handsomely for their trouble. The
girl at first refused, but the fellow who had got
into conversation with her in the way described,
said to her, "Let us go with him, and we will
divide between us whatever he gives us." She
ended by agreeing to accompany the other two.
Meanwhile, however, as the trio were passing a
wine-seller's shop, in theFaubourg Porsonniere, the
man with the portmanteau expressed an intention
of getting something to drink before reaching the
hotel. Accordingly the party entered the shop,
and as soon as they were seated at table in the
back apartments, the pretended Englishman
began to explain to his auditors how he had just
come fron London, and had another long voyage
before him. In the course of the conversation
which ensued, he drew from his pocket a
leather purse, filled, according to him, with
gold pieces, and manifested a desire to ex-
change them for notes, remarking that the latter
would be more convenient for him. The com-
panion of the girl, producing at the same time a
small bag, expressed his extreme regret that it was
not in his power to accommodate the foreigner ;
but, he added, turning to Madeleine, " Here is a
young lady who, I have no doubt, will comply
with your wish," to which she at once assented.
The Englishman, however, pretending to be
afraid that the two notes for the 100 francs which
she offered him might not be good, declared that
before going further it would be necessary to
ascertain this fact. This idea, of course, met with
the approval of him with the little money-bag,
only he professed great concern at the thought
of leaving his young friend alone whilst he and
the stranger were absent at the moneychangers
for this purpose. Suddenly a happy thought
seemed to strike him. " I'll tell you what we
had better do, Mad'lle, I will leave with you my
bag, which contains more than a thousand francs
in gold, whilst I accompany Monsieur, and we
shall be back in a moment." To this the in-
fatuated. young woman made no objections, and
- off the two set. After the lapse of half an hour,
Madeleine began to get rather uneasy at their
not returPing, and going down stairs, she related