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births have increased during year XII. as one in
tifty, which is principally ascribed to the wise law
of His Majesty the Emperor concerning divorces,

and which makes such VIE more difficult.
The harvest, On the Continent, of the present year,
has generally been very plentiful, except in Spain,
Austria, and in the Northern provinces of France.
In Italy, Suabia, Bavaria, Russia, Prussia, Poland,
Sweden, and Denmark, as well as in the Southern
part of France, they have not, for nine years, ga-
thered such an harvest ; and, notwithstanding, the
price of grain is not proportionate to the abundance
of it. Even in Egypt and in Crimea, they have
housed more grain this year than what is required
for the consumption of the inhabitants for four !
What can, therefore, be the cause of a dearness from
which the lower class suffer so much ? It may, per-
haps, be found in the same source from which origi-
nate all the other evils of Europe, in the unnatural
wealth of Great Britain, whose capitalists, not know-
ing how to employ their money :yak safety at home,
spculate on every saleable commodity abroad ; and.
from the extravagant prices (des prix
,furs) they or
their ag nts offer, create an artificial scarcity by
their monopoly ; from which, unfortunately, the
same effeCts are felt as from a real tine. We call
upon all sovereigns, statesmen, p!iilarthropistc, and
all thou• who study, or whose duty it is to be well
versed in the political °economy of states, to find out
a remedy against such a commercial evil, which
threatens all :cations with famine or ruin in the
midst of plenty, because Britons have more money
than they should be permitted to possess.—(Journal
d.s Defrnsearc.)
The late Helvetic Direttor, La Harpe, once an
instruehr of the Russian Emperor, has not, ac.
cording to report, obtained permission to visit Rus-
sia, as he intended ; he has, therefore, returned to
Lausan in Switzerland. What has been said in the
foreign journals of La Harpe being entrusted with
a secret mission from the Emperor of the French
to the Russian Monarch, is totally without any
oundation.

Among other fetes on the day of the Emperor's
coronation, the Poissards, to evince their attachment
to their Sovereign, have demanded the permission
of the Perfe, of the Police to celebrate this event
by a supper and ball in the building of the co-devard
Valk-au-Bled.
Horse races will, with other amusements, enter.
tain the public during the festivities in consequence
M the Emperor's coronation. They will take place
in the Champ de Mars, where Franconi, father and
son, are daily exercising some beautiful Norman
horses. No horses of English breed are admitted
to run for the prizes, which are to consk of beau-
tiful arms of the Versailles manufaetory, and of
horses from French studs.
The Batavian Deputies sent by the Batavian Di.

reitory to congratulate the Emperor on His Ma-
jesty's assumption of the Imperial diadem, have
arrived at Brussels, where they are waiting for the
natarian Ambassador, Schimmelpvi.nincl., to con-
fine, their journey to the capital.
The astronomer, De La Linde, has calculated,
that more rain has fallen within these last nine
months than the twenty-seven preceding ; to this
he ascribes the fevers which at several counts-its.
To console us, however, he promises us a very
health•, dry, but, at the same time, a very cold
winter.

THE BRITISH PRESS•

LO N nON,
rCESDAY, N,riadaut 13.

Tl.e spirit of avarice appears to be at this mo-
ment naively employed to raise the price of Bread.
Yes:erday Wheat row ten shillivigs per quarter in
Mark-fare, as will be seen in the state of the Lor.-
don markets, given, as usual, in our las: page.

Anxious to afford every information upon this in-
teresting subeti, we have also inserted, in a subse-
quent column, a state of the principal provincial
markers in England in the course of the last week.
A geaeral feeling pervades the body of the public,

that there is nothing in the circumstances of tile I: in-
vest, nor' of the country, to warrant the great
and rapid advance that has taken place w:tnin
these few days, in the price of this chief article of
human sustenance. The late crop, if not abun-

dart, was certainly not below an average crop,
and the present war has not produced those
foreign expeditions, to which, in forme: wars, an
extraordinary consumption and c.insequent scarcity
have been attributed. If %se lock tii the foreign
market, we are equally at a loss to discover any
good and substantial cause Or this rise in the price
of bread. The entries inwards, on Friday and
Saturday last, at the Custom-House, amounted to
no less than I tr,l9d quarters ; and we understand
there are 70,000 quarters in the river. The Juurael
Jr. Defeemars, a dean:-.A.tal paper, which, with
several caber of the atincr, but most interesting, of

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