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London, England, 1852-08-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1852

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all those ingenious implements which occupied so
much space in the Great Exhibition of the Crystal
Palace. We admire and wonder at the ingenuity,
inventiveness, energy, and perseverance of oar agri-
culturists. We fully believe in their power of per-
fecting our soil, and the processes of tilling it, reap-
ing its harvests, and preparing. them for the use of
man. Yet to us—we speak in all the humility of
ignorance—it appears that there is one most essential
improvement to which not ono of them has yet turned
his attention.

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It is passing strange that while they are giving
themselves so much trouble to improve the earth
they never Waste a thought on the improvement of
the atmosphere. Yet we would humbly represent to
them, that with all their ameliorations of the soil,
their work will bo but half done until they also
ameliorate our climate.

LONDON, MOND AT. AUGUST 30.

Tilt Congress of the United States, after an unu-
sually prolonged session, adjourns on the 31st inst.
Its adjournmero will probably be unaccompanied by
any "action" on the fisheries question, fur, with a
wise discretion, it arms inclined to leave that dis-
pute to the moderation and gond sense of the PRE-
SIDENT; and this Congressional abstinence from
angry talk and unnecessary interference is, of course,
very commendable. But l'ungrehs will aijourn with-
out legislation on the great question of reciprocal
freedom of trade and navigation between the l nited
States and British North America, and that is an
omission to be very deeply regretted, for it is a
measure demanded by their community of interests,
and necessary to complete and consolidate those
od relations which are the policy, amid ought to be
the pride, of both countries.
It is unfortunate for this question that one of the
peculiarities—and a wise peculiarity too—of the
American constitution obstructs its arrangement
and settlement in the form of a treaty. The details
of reciprocity are details of taxation and fiscal super-
vision; and to embody them in a treaty would. to a
certain extent, withdraw them from the considera-
tion of the more popular branch of the American
Legislature for, though a law to carry out the
treaty would be necessary after its ratification by
the Senate, as betw. en Englind and the United
States. its ratification by the latter would be binding
upon its government ; and thus the free agency of
the House of Representatives would be interfered
with. Hence it is that the difficulties of proceeding
by treaty hare been deemed so great as to render it
more prudent to wait fur legislation. The fault of
delay rn the establishment of reciprocity between
the States and the British provinces lies, however,
solely and entir, ly at the doors of Congress.
Already such • measure has been strongly recom.
mended to Congress by the PRESIDENT; repeatedly
the late English Administration assented to the prin-
ciple, and gave full authority to the local govern-
ments of the British American colonies to carry
oat in this respect their wishes; session after
Marion delegations from Canada have visited Wash-
ington to promote so desirable an object; and once
a bill fur the purpose--introdueed by a very eminent
commercial member—passed the House of Repre-
sentatives, but was lost in the Senate, for, it was
said, want of time ; but, in reality, for a reason worth
a little explanation, as illustrating an important
change in the working of the American constitution.
Though the principle of that Constitution
be, so far as Congress is concerned, one of represent-
ation, the practice is rapidly becoming that of dele-
gation. It is now an established canon of the
Democratic party (and in such matters American
Whiggery is compelled to fellow Democratic ex-
ample). that on disapprobation being expressed by
a plenary assembly of his constituents, or by the
legislature of his State, at the conduct in Congress
of a reprsentatire or senator (as the case may be),
his resignation must be the consequence. The result
is extreme carefulness in voting, and even unwilling-
ness to vote on questions on which the public has
not decisively made up its mind. Thus matters and
measures of pressing importance are delayed, post-
poned, and turned over from session to session, until
votes thereon can be safely given. And this has
been the case with the question of Reciprocity with
the British Provinces. Al? informed opinion is in
its favour ; but there are prejudices and interests still
to be overcome ; and fur their abatement it is more
than probable we shall now have to wait until after
the next presidential election ; for it is in the earlier
years of a Presidency that great and useful measures
pass through Congress.
Meanwhile, however, between the United States
and the British Provinces antipathies are rapidly
passing away. Canada has already become the
favourite summer trip of the Northern States; their
tourists cross the Niagara at the Falls, traverse Lake
Ontario, and descend the St. Lawrence; and thou-
sandsof Americans annually visit Toronto, Montreal,
and Quebec. On the other hand, Boston and New
York are the chief emporiums of Canadian business; and
the American watering places are crowded by colo-
nists seeking recreation or health. Joint enterprises
will soon connect the Atlantic towns with New
Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Canada, and these'
growing feelings and interests are yearly rendering
commercial restrictions more and more oppressive
and burdensome. The subterfuges of smuggling
will go on increasing, unless neutralised by commer-
cial liberality; already, indeed, contraband trade dis-
regards detection, and greater efforts for its suppres.
min would probably result in open resistance and
rebellion.

This consideration, which has often passed like a
cold cloud over our sunny anticipations of the agri-
cultural future of Great Britain, has been forced
upon us with more than usual emphasis by a review
of the alternations in the weather, and their probable
effects on the crops, in the letter of " A Midland
Counties' Farmer," which appears in our impression
of this day. It is a detailed narrative by a shrewd,
observant, dispassionate student of " the varying
year." And its moral appears to us to be that all
the effect's of our agricultural improvers to make of
England a corn country like unto Egypt, must prove
fruitless until they can impart to our land somewhat
of an Egyptian climate.
We are more than half di.posed to suspect that
climate tells far more than soil in rendering a coun-
try productive in cereals and other harvests. In
Egypt, it is true, the floods of the Nilo have depo-
sited a rich soil, which co-operates with the sun of
that region in festering and maturing its redundant
harvests. But look to what travellers tell us of the
Oases of Maim (in Arabia), and the cultivated dis-
tricts in the vicinity of Tehran (in Persia). There,
wherever the industry of men brings water to the
surface, and distributes it over the sterile and un-
grateful soil, the moisture, under a powerful sun,
gives forth the richest crops. The poor ignoramuses
of those regions aro ignorant of sub-soil ploughing,
or guano, or liquid manures. Water and heat aro
their only agricultural agents; but these two suffice.
Now turn to the story told by our intelligent and
experienced correspondent of the crops of our" cloudy
clime," with all the appliances of sowing machines,
ploughs, harrows, abundant manures, rotations, and
what not? This year of grace 1852 has been, no
doubt, a strange and fickle season ; has varied from
cold and dry to cold and moist, and then to hot and
dry, and again to hot and moist, in the most per ,
verse manner. But it is only in excess of our
average weather fickleness sufficiently to show in
a more marked manlier the modus operandi of our
alternations of heat and cold, moist and dry, iu
neutralising the efforts of the husbandman. After
laborious man in these islands has done his part, to
the best of his ability, he must look on and see the
elements work their wayward will with his crops—
now raising him to unreasonable hope, now pressing
him down to equally unreasonable despondency. The
sower of grain in this country adventures his capital
in a great lottery. A little too much cold or wet in
seed time—a little too sudden and violent heat in
the blossoming season—a little too much muggy
weather, hot and moist, when the reapers begin their
task, brin4 on blights, mildews, premature malting
of the grain in the sheaf, and what not.
In short, to dream of making England independent
one year with another of foreign supplies of grain,
until our agricultural improvers, single and asso-
ciated, can do as much to ameliorate the climate as
they have done to ameliorate the soil, is the wildest
and most unreal of visions. We are placed on the
extreme verge of the cereal regions, and exposed to
visitations of " the Amy influences" which bate
continually the most plausible calculations. We
must submit to be dependent in part upon the fo-
reigner for our supplies of bread.
It is not our intention to deter by these remarks
from agricultural improvement, but only to turn it
into and keep it in its legitimate channel. Our
" Midland Counties Farmer " has well and wisely re-
marked that those farmers who combine a duo
amount of stock breeding and feeding with their
cereal productions run no risk of loss even in this
anomalous year. Our climate is more propitious to
the horticulturist or grower of pot-herbs, and the
feeder of stalled oxen, and preparer of butter and
cheese, than to the grower of wheat. A very ro-
spectable quantity of wheat may be reared; but the
vaulting ambition which looks to render us indepen-
dent for complementary supplies of this commodity of
Odessa, or Egypt, or America, is sure to "o'erleap
itself and fall on the other side." All the " dirt " in
all the towns of England cannot alter this law of
nature.

FRANCE.

The United States require no protection against the
British provinces; and these provinces ask for none
against the States. The Maine forests are dwindling
away ; New England capital is being more and more
diverted (even from the fisheries) to manufactures;
bituminous coal there is little to the east of the
Alleghenies. The British provinces (with a popula-
tion of upwards of two million.) have no manufactures ;
but they have lumber, grain, wool, coal, gypsum,
fish, and grindstones, to exchange against American
tobacco, sugar, molasses, maize, pork, salt, cottons,
and dry goods ; and what they now derive from the
distant mother country, they would more naturally
take from their neighbours. Yet at preeent com-
merce on the American side is obstructed by duties
averaging 23 per cent.; and on the British by taxa-
tion less heavy, but still reaching 12 per cent.
But to the United States freedom of navigation
would be even more valuable than freedom of trade.
In reality, the St. John is as much an American as a
British river, having its bead waters in Maine, and
being the proper route for its trade; and the St.
Lawrence is the natural outlet of the lake navi-
gation of the States. On the great lakes there
are already American shipping valued at more than
eight million, of dollars. But theme lakes are only'
open seven months in the year. Threo-fourths of
their craft are fit for the coasting trade; and were
the St. Lawrence free, they would be so employed.
That freedom the late Administration was willing to
concede ; as part, however, only of a system of mea-
sures having for their object the interchange and
establishment of complete reciprocity ; sod the ad-
vantages of such a policy are so obvious and so
loudly insisted on by the colonies, that it can hardly
be refused by the present Government; though by
their folly cud rashness in the fishery question they
have seriously retarded the progress of the measure
in the United States.

TOO season of the railway meetings draws to a
close. The season of agricultural shows and dinners
has come on. The meditations and conversation of
the " pensive public" are becoming unequivocally
bucolical. The amours of sheep, cattle, and horses,
the savoury themes of manures, liquid and solid,
begin to engross all tongues. Farmer and " farmers'
friends" are the order of the day. •
There are two classes among the sanguine be-
lievers in agricultural imyrovement, whose eloquence
witches the world at agneultural gatherings. There
Is one which loots forward to the time when our
agricultural processes shall be so much improved,
that nobody will care for or ask about Protection ;
there is another which expects to render our har-
vest so abundant that nobody will object to the
entire exclusion of all foreign agricultural produce.
Wo have often enough addressed our readers on the
great question at issue between Protectionists and
Free-traders; let us vary the topic a little, and con-
sider what probability there is that the sanguine
agricultural improvers of either clam may ever see
their expectations reafistsl.
We are accustolied to li-ren to the prelectione of
these sages, with the deferential silence which be-
come" those who are conscious how little they know
about the matter. We repose as much faith
as the most coveting of th.m could require,
in sub-soil draining, manuring, guanoing, liming.
and so fetth. We • mit the possibility of con-
verting barren and ungenial soils into fields of ex-
uberant fertility. Again, we lend • willing ear to
wondrous tales about the economy i2d efficiency of

rearm his gratitude. But as the object of the tour of the
head of the state is to place himself in contact with those
populations which he has not yet been able to visit, to study
on the spot their interests, mid to come to an undentand-
WA with them on all the meliorations which it is possible to
effect, he would not see without some regret too sumptuous
jam, sad he will learn with satisfaction that a part et the
Navas so voted can be appropriated to the profit of the nem,-
Item chums, and applied to works of charity.
The Moniteur contains the following note relative
to the removal of the Duke d'Enghico's monument
at Vincennes :

Same foreign journals, faithful to the system of aspenion
towards the French government, by means of which they
furnish their quota of scandal to Europe, affirm that the
tomb raised in the chapel of Vincennes to the Duke d'Eng-
hien has been pulled down. That funeral monument,
formed of massive stones, and surmounted by several
statues, stood in the chapel of Vincennes, right is front of
the high altar. Its gigantic construction occupied a large
space, and broke the symmetry of the beautiful srehitectural
lines of the temple built by St. Louis. In order to remedy
the defect of uniformity thus produced, it was found :
eary to erect in front of it an altar to the Holy Virgin ; but
these two constructions, placed in the middle of the choir,
impeded the religious services, and diminished the place ap-
propriated to the congregation. The pious of a complete res-
toration of the monument, which aro now bring exe-
cuted, were long since decided on by the military en-
gineering department, and were never submitted to the ap-
probation of the head of the government. Without his
being informed of the matter, it was decided to remove
from the choir the tomb and the altar of the Virgia, and to
transport them into two adjacent chapels opening on the
side, of the building. The tomb of the Duke d'Enghien
has already been displaced, and carried to the chapel on the
left; and the altar of the Virgin will be re-erected in that
on the right. Thu translation of the cenotaph of the Duke
d'Enghien took place in presence of the general command-
ing at Vincennes, and of all the authorities of the place.
The ceremony was accomplished with all the respect due to
the dead, and a minute of the proceedings was regularly
drawn up. The monument is of white at d black marble,
and covered with the ornaments and attributes which pre-
viously constituted its decoration. In a few days the work-
men will have completely terminated their works of resto-
ration in the chapel specially appropriated to it."
In consequence of the arrangement of the difference
with Turkey a steamer is said to have bete des-
patched from Toulon to recall the French flcet,which
had orders to sail for the Levant. The screw-
steamer Charlemagne lime retired through the Dar-
danelles, on her return to the Mediterranean.
Some agitation was caused at the Bourse yester-
day by the announcement of the discovery of a
number of forged erentua/iti's of the Bordeaux to
Cettc railway, or in other words of old promises of
shares in that line having been negotiated. Searches
have been made at the houses of several agents who
deal in this kind of securities, and it is said that
from 30,000 fr. to 40,000 fr. worth have been dis-
covered; it is added, however, that this is but a
small portion of them. These false securities may
be immediately recognised by an m being turned,
and by the signatures being slightly shaded in the
printing.
General St. Arnaud, minister of war, returned to
Pans this morning.
The Assendib'e Nalioncoe, alluding to the muni-
cipal elections, says :
_ .

The information given us by the departmental journals
continues the same. Abstention and ind.ifertnee on the
part of the electors are what we have had to record whey
ever these elections have taken place. At Besancon, out of
8,407 electors, only 2,238 voted, and no one was elected. At
Aix, the electoral confusion is such, to use tho expression
of a journal of the locality, that the mayor himself, M.
Rigaud,hu not been elected; the only councillor chosen at
the second ballot was the candidate of the democrats, M.
Guilheaume, an apothecary. At Marseilles, where there
arc 34,615 electors, M. de Chanterae, mayor of the town,
an o the first on the list, was only elected by 9,057 votes.
The country districts du not appear to show more eagerness
for the exercise of their electoral rights. In the Crites do
Nord, particularly, the elections in many communes could
not take place in consequence of the apathy of the electors.
The Archbishop of I'aris arrived at Stuttgard on
the 23rd, on his way to Vienna.
The Akhbar announces the safe arrival at Algiers
of the five Arab families lately liberated from the
Chateau of Amboisc, where Abd-el-Kader is confined.
Tho President of the Republic has just decided
that a commemorative monument shall be raised at
Courbevoie, on the spot where the mortal remains of
the Emperor first toucl-ed the French soil. The
Prince has charged M. Clesingcr, the sculptor, with
the execution of this monument, and already several
sketches have been drawn by that artist, and sub-
mitted to the President for his choice.

The Patrie, alluding to some fanciful surmises of a
London evening paper, says that M. Pereigny has
only visited London by way of making a pleasant
use of the few remaining days of his vacation.

THE CORRESPONDENT OF A LONDON
PAPER AGAIN THREATENED BY THE
FRENCH GOVERNMENT.
PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.
When three Paris correspondents of English
papers were called some time ago before a functionary
of the ministry of police, to receive intimation of the
fate which awaited them if they continued to wage
an opposition of outrage against the French govern-
meat, or to propagate false news, it was sufficietly
evident that their character as English gentlemen
PARIS, SATURDAY. I would not suffer them to sacrifice the independence
The 2lfoniteur of today presents us with the itine- of their opinions or the interests of truth to the in-
rary of
the President in his next program. This tiwidation of a foreign despotism; and it was equally
great journey, which is to extend over a space of six. clear on the other hand that the French government
teen hundred English miles, and to occupy 32 days, was prepared to carry its menaces into effect, if they
will commence on September 13. Instead of going were not listened to. Yon will, therefore, be scarcely
first to Bordeaux, as the original plan seems to have surprised to hear that ono of those correspondents
been, Louis Napoleon will begin with the eastern should have received what may be termed in the
side of France. The points marked for stay are Lyons, administrative slang, " a second warning." This
Grenoble, Toulon, Toulouse, and Bordeaux. At each morning the following letter was put into the hand
of these cities the Prince will sleep two nights. 'Bor- of the correspondent of the Morning Advertiser, by a
desitx alone is to receive the distinction of lodging servant of the ministry of police:
theimportant traveller for three nights. The ports of Ministry of General Police, Cabinet of the Director
Toulon and La Rochelle form the extreme east and of the Frees, &c.
west pointsof this vast circuit. NeVOTE, with its cannon Paris, August 28, 1882.
Sir; Yon know that the French government has the
foundries, iron works, and old potteries; Moulin's de - iof expelling from its territmy foreignew of whatever
cloyed capital of the Bourbonnais; Reanne, which GE- nation, who may seek to Double, by their manoeuvres or by
livers the coals and iron of St. Etienne to the Loire, their writinp, publicorder and tran9uillity.
and the latter town, form the stages between Paris The minheer of general police desires patetismo this right
and Lyons, where the Prince will stay over the 20th, without serisesoir
foreign
; noor does he mesa tioorreXceir.thoef
and inaugurate Count Nieuwerkerkos statue of the ca,„ll=aasatedisimim orrelpapi.sisciess responsibleurnals
bis by those lour-
Emperor. Hence an excursion will be made to nals ; bee le le resolved not to leave unpunished the trans-
Grenoble, capital of Dauphine, and endeared to Ina- whisk emelt journals undertake ostewsibly every
perialisni by setting an early example of revolt ou gel a khan Wm- In tact, to admit it is not mib_te
ov
apoleon's return from Elba. Valence and Avignon, :Mein° latiewtho°,lllo7° the protection ilamil profit
ancient cities on the Rhone not yet connected by by the advantrajthat ear
o laws without Nisi obliged to
railway, receive the Prince on his way to Marseilles, submit to the which they impale.
where the great public works ordered after the 2nd Now • hake Paris, edireseed tees Miettegy4ll.
December at the expense of the department, will rerfiadri of ebkil Yes sr• tin arragimaseti, ea •
same a popular reception even in one of legiti- t2.7trisirtabit°6ll,„.Psainstblist: 'mak " i"radr:ttrstirld3l64/the mil
mrefe strongest holds. The President will spend him ma aka-1m ans,dies.
the 28th at Toulon, and notwithstanding the many / dusk sbooshao, so difiy to inform ss ems it di.i•
ships, laden with exiles, " rigg'd with curses dark," ler wevespealeass dwell be span addrowed hi the aerial,
that have sailed from that port since last December, Adeirtiotrolles law which az .
to deposit their sad freight in African dungeons, we of °iPeltillit,ign
Ye Ur :II: ewbfbenumei'l."l".....ertY.myagZil. r
may be sure that acclamations will not be wanting The Dewar of the press,
to the aspirant to the imperial throne. Aix, IL LA TOUR DU Moe
old capital of "dance and•Proveneal song, and sun- It appears, on nfßeLt to the correspondence
burnt mirth," now chiefly concerned to get a branch complained of, that it a charge against the
to the Marseilles railroad, whereby more easily to administration of violating public correspondence. pour its excellent oil into the seas, will lodge the Now to what extent such violation may take
President on the last night of the month. Logue- or whether it maybe systematic or accidental,lPtre
doe, teemiug with all Nature's richest blessings, no means of knowing, but this I can affirm, that eh
but peopled by ignorant fanatics, infected with neo- the same date I received myself a letter from Naples,
jacobinism, next receives the illustrious traveller. which had been re-sealed with the huge coarse seal
Ile will sleep at Nismee, where Romans have left of the poste resiante. A part of the original seal, the
more lasting vestiges of their massive architecture black wax of which made it easy to distinguish, yet
than at Rome itself. Salubrious, glowing Mont- I remained, showing that the letter had been carefully
pellicr, Narbonne, fleet stage of the Cotte Railway, I closed. A long gush, evidently made by a knife, and
Carcassonne, on the Canal do Midi, employing more not torn by accident, penetrated an inch beyond the
than half its male population in the manufacture of : seal into the letter. I thought this dlrcumstance re-
cloth of brilliant dyes, harbour the Prince Nieces- markablo enough to deserve mention in my letter of
sively till he can survey the Pyrenean peaks from the same date, and I enclosed in my despatch the
Toulouse. From hence to Bordeaux he will pause seal in question, so that you have had occulax demon-
at old Agen, smiling on the Garonne, amid stration that my assertion was not founded upon
orchards et* plume which it converts into more hearsay. In the same letter complained of by
famous prunes. Of tho capital of the Gironde M. Latour Dumoulio, mention is made of the
I need hardly speak. The extraordinary sojourn of manner of tearing off newspaper covers, age
three nights, the 7th, Bth, and 9th October, marks it ting the journal, and sending it long after
111 the crowning point of the progress. Bourbonism's the duo time to its address tied up with a dirty
stronghold is to ho stormed, and the heart of Bor- hit of cord. Not only does this happen daily to
deaux to be won over to the empire. The Prince the newspapers which I receive, but of "ouraule
seems bent upon a very careful study of some points addressed to me from Belgium, tewitzerland,
of the west; for ho is to make au excursion to the tinople, and other parts, few reach nip on the leg
coast from Angouleme, and to spend three successive when they are due, and many never at all. The dir
nights at the adjacent places of Itochefort, La Ito- ' tribution of the Independence Beige is often stopped
chelle, and Naurt. From the latter place he will for several days together. This journal, in answer
gain Poitiers, and thence return, pretty well knocked to tho usual statement of the semi-official organs of
up with a month's triumphal progress, through the French government, that it was 'tired at the
Tours to Paris, so as to re-enter the capital on the Paris post-office for containing false news, alarmed
16th of October. I distinctly that nothing could be truer than the perti-
The Preeideet's itinerary is accompanied in the ' cular pieces of information which the government of
Moniker by two official notes, the first of which France had deemed it expedient to prevent from
deprecates ateiemblages of people at the points of the transpiring within its territory,—a sufficient proof
line of route where the President dues not stop. The that the crusade against the foreign press is not
other is as follow,: directed against false news.
Is all the towns in which it is thought the President of I A detachment of artillery has arrived from Rennes
tto• Roootti.e vtll war his journey to the south, the
munkipal councils haven:
ed considerable suns for his ,
lat Cherbourg, for arming the fortifications of the
r„,.p.,,„, li, .• oft, preciousf„„wonieo of sympathy . port, the coast, and the place. The Fort du Itommet
he is much moved with them, and is happy to express at is being armed, and cannons aro transporting to arm

the rampart. of the military port, disposed so as to
receive 800 gum.
I eederstand that all the ministers, except M.
Achille Pould, have been instructed not to send any
more commioniquh to the Aloniteur. They are in
future to forward any statement they may wish to
appear in print to tho minister of state, who will in-
sert it if he thinks proper. In this way it is hoped
there may bo more unity in official announcements.
The Moniker contains a decree relieving M.
Duces of the ad interim administration of the war
department, which is restored to (len. St. Arnaud.
Another decree suppresses the 36 picked compa-
nies (rompagnis d'clite) existing in the three infan-
try regiments of the navy, and replaces them by
sergeants, corporals, and soldiers of the first class, in
the proportion of one quarter of the general effec-
tive force, exactly in the same way as is managed
for the Masseurs d'Afriyue to which the French
marine troops are assimilated.
M. de Persigny has returned to Dieppe, from Lon-
don, and is expected in Paris before the cod of the
week.

Considerable mystery attaches to a special mission,
confided to Lucien Murat, who was prevented from
presiding over the council-general of the Charente
by instructions to start post-haste for Algiers.
Nevertheless, before the President's cousin could
embark for his destination, ho was recalled by tele-
graph to Paris. Many speculations are afloat with
regard to the meaning of these contradictory orders,
which probably conceal some important affair.
The Moniteur contradicts the reports of a bad har-
vest, and states that, on the contrary, the harvest of
1832 will bo on an average equal to that of an or-
dinary year, and even superior by about one quarter
in certain departments which furnish great part of
the cereals consumed in France. It adds that on
many points a decided fall in prices has been the
result of an exact knowledge of facts.
On the 28th of December the Minister of Finance I,
will put up to adjudication 39,630,000 cigars.
The resolution of the council-general of the Deux
S.)vres has been looked for with a good deal of
curiosity. Although the appointment of I lenry Mar-
quis do Larochejaquelin us president of the council
was a striking confirmation of the reports that he
had completely rallied to the Elyske, people could
not figure to themselves the name of Larochijaquelin
at the foot of a petition for the empire. This incon-
gruity has not appeared. The council of the I)cux
Sk+res has voted an address to the President of the
Republic, sufficiently flattering, but certainly not
imperialist. After an enumeration of the benefits
arising from the " grand act" of the 2nd December,
the address concludes:
The glorious name that you bear, the prestige of which is
still living in the remotest village of our woods, has aided
you to found a firm and intelligent government, the extort.,
Sian of the national wish, • government that appeals by
conciliation to all generous instincts. The council-general
will always be ready to give it their support.
Two eouvivial clubs at Montpelier, called Fetile
Loge and the Society of St. 'tech, have been &and
by tho prefect of the Herault. The prefect's decree
was made known to the members, who happened to
be in the club-rooms, by a commissary of police,
who turned them out and placed seals upon the
doors. In the billiard-room of the Society of St.
Roth a bust of the Count de Chambord was seized.

M. liorace Vcrnet has gone to Algeria, to study
subjects for a new series of paintings.

BELGIUM.
The Emancijalion of Brussels says:
Nothing is yet definitively decided on as to the period for
the meeting of the Chambers. It is nevertheless thought
that the parliament will not be convoked until the month
of October. The treaties of the 21nd inst. will be the first
thing submitted to the unction of the legislature. The bill
containing the budget of the war departmeut of 11443. and
the report of the military commission, are at this moment
toeing printed, and these documents will be distributed in
about a fortnight.
The same journal says:
We learn teat one of the consequences of the treaty of
the 22nd, relative to literary and artistical property, will be
the creation of an office for the direction of affiirs connected
with books, in the department of the Interior. We think
we may also say that before the ratification of the treaty the
Belgian publishers and booksellers will be bound to present
a complete inventory of all the reprinted French books
which they have in their establishments, and as many
stamps as they shall have declared works will be delivered
to them, which they will themselves place on the covers of
the works in their possession. From the data of the pall--
cation of the treaty, any French book reprinted, which shall
not bear the stamp required by the law, may be seized on
the premises of the bookseller or the printer. Tho seizure
is the only penalty to be inflicted.