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London, England, 1852-08-20 00:00:00

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FRANCE.
The whole of the front page, and a part of the
second, of the Constitutionnel are taken up with an-
other article of M. Veron on the finances. This
gentleman has undertaken to show, in a series of ar-
tieles, how the Government may improve the
revenue without imposing a single new tax.
He recommends a more rigid application of the
existing laws of taxation with a greater degree
of equity to all parties, and in the present ar-
ticle attempts to prove that the proceeds from
the starap•tax imposed on printed bills and circulars
would yield a much larger sum than it does now, if
the Government would keep a sharper eye upon in-
fractions, and propose new legislation for the correc-
tion of abuses. These two branches of taxation, how-
ever, if the proceeds were doubled, would not give
a very large amount to the revenue, for the stamp-
tax on printed bills yields, for the whole of
France, only 700,000 f. per annum, and yet it is a
tax which, even in its present state, gives great dissa-
tisfaction. It is difficult to conceive how M. Veron
could make it more productive, without at the same
time rendering it more obnoxious. The article con-
cludes with a notice of a rumour that it
has
proposed to levy a tax on the advertisements to Jour-
nals. M. Veron 'expresses a hope that this idea will
be abandoned, if it has ever been entertained by the
Government. It wouNI, he says
newspapers, which are already 'heavily taxed,
be ruinous to t
and
would at the same time be very
in-
terests of commerce. injurious to the
Some gentlemen who are taking the waters at
(says the Moniteur)
Bagueres went a few days ego
amongst the mountains,
to make an exeursion
Having ascended some height the guide separated
some distance from them, and to his surprise disco-
vered the dead body with
snow. a man, partially covered
snow. He communicated the discovery to them,
and they insisted on going to the spot, t
e do.
notwith-
standing, from the state oft -endwtashedsannogwerousso
to
h
s of the precipices, it
To their horror, they not only found the body seen
by the glide, bu t on removing the snow discovered
nine other bodies. All the deceased were covered
with bruises and cuts, and had near them sticks like
those used in mountainous ascents. It was evident
that they had fallen from some height, and rolled
from rock to rock. They were all about thirty years
of age. They were conveyed to the bottom of the
mountain and burled.

PRUSSIA 2+ND POLAND.
The cholera, accompanied by typhus fever, is pre-
Talent in several places in Upper Silesia. The last
account states that within eight days, in the town of
Landshurg, out of a population of 800 there havo
beeu 60 death', while 120 were then suffering from
the disease. In the neighbouring village of Krzisan-
20witz, out of a population of 300 there had been
from the appearance of the disease from six to ten
deaths daily. In both places many houses are empty,
the inhabitants having fled. The number of fatal
cases is increased by the insufficiency of medical aid
and the extreme poverty of the people of the district,
of which the description, by a local authority, is ap-
palling. It says—
" The destitution of the people in the present year
has been increased by the unfavourable harvest of last
autumn. Many have been starved, notwithstanding the
increased contributions for their aid and a general re-
course to mendicancy. Even in the spring of the pre-
sent year the people were compelled to resort to food
unfit for cattle. The frozen and half-rotten potatoes
left in the field were gathered, dried and eaten, or boiled
with the grass-like shoots of green vegetables into a
filthy broath; the rainy winter had even at that time
produced a great amount of disease."
In the report, the number of deaths from typhus
is not distinguished from those by cholera. The
district is on the Polish frontier, within which the
cholera is also spreading, but no official reports of
the number of cases or their proportion to the popu-
lation has been made. In Warsaw the police autho-
rities publish the returns, of which the last are to the
11th and 12th August ; on the first date 479 persons
had been attacked, of whom 175 had died and 199
had recovered. There remained 1,279 in the hospi-
tals under treatment. On the 12th the number
attacked was 485, deaths 170, recovered 245 ; under
treatment 1,319. A. committee had been formed
to relieve the miserably destitute part of the popula-
tion es far as possible ; it distributes every morn-
ing 2,470 portions of tea, with bread,, and an equal
number of more solid food at noon. The Jewish
Congregation also distributes every morning 9,000
portions of tea, without any regard to distinction of
creed, and 600 meals at noon to the destitute of their
own faith. The progress of the disease in the eastern
province of Prussia is watched naturally with con-
siderable ekuxiety, but it is hoped that so much of the
mortality that can be directly, attributed to low and
bad diet, or positive want of fodd, will be checked as
soon as the present abundant harvest can be drawn on
for suppl ies.

COURSE OF EXCH.
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p,ris, 3 3
mondayeslght 25 32%
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kNGE.—(THIS DAY.)
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Leghorn •••••• •• • • 30 65
Genoa ..•• •• •• •• •• ..25 65
Milan .. e • •• •• •• •• •• •• •••••
"saPi" •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 41 ,
Palenno,peroz ........ 12334
,Mesaina .............. 124
Giab0n................ 531%
Oporto .. . • • • •• • . • • • • • • 53%
itAe Janeiro ........ ••
r•uenos Ayres .. . • .-
!Rev, 10rk,60 days'aigh t
Philadelphia .. •••• • - • •
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ICOO9OEx.
Silver in bar& ........ 0 5 0%

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B• .••• • •• ••
Vterira, flo•• •••• 12 to
Tfieste, ditto.. •••• 12 12
rlterSbargb ••.••• • • •• 37%
3f IL:lid ••••••• • • • • • • 493 i.
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BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From this night's Gazette.)
An Account. porstrant to the Act ith and sthot Victoria
the Week eliding on Saturday, the I 4tlr day of Audal-p .12 for
817 DEIASTYLINT. , 1852.

X.
Notes biped 33,620,115

£35,620,115

Datad the 19th day of August,

Government debt 11,05,100
Other securities 2,994,5t0
Gold coin and bullion 21,G01,14a
Silver bullion •• •• • • 18,967

£ 35,520,115
:yr. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
1853.

,SPA3T3CEST•

(Government secarl-
' ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity) .• 11,039 495
Other sceuritic3 10,740,159
Notes .. •.• . • • ...... 12,t,67,f,60
Gold and silver cola .• 306,012

37,803,226
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
1852.