The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-04 00:00:00

FRENCH ARTS AND MANUFAC.

TURES.

EXTRACT from the Opening Lecture of Baron
Charles Dupin, at the Conservatory of Arts and
Trades in 1840 :
France, the richest country of Continental Europe.
by uniting the gain of each, and the produce of all
work, presents an annual revenue of 10,000 mil-
liards. These 10,000 milliards, equally divided be-
tween thirty.four millions, would give to each 80e. ,
per day : consequently, if the produce of industry
were divided equally between all Frenchmen, the
share of each would be 80c., but on the con-
dition that each furnishes 80c. worth of work
in order to obtain in return 80c. worth of produce.
But out of these 80 centimes the general administration
of the kingdom and the municipal administration take .
with severe punctuality 12c. in order to make up the,
15,000 or 16,000 millions of taxes and duties raised
yearly. This subtraction being made, there remcins '
to each individual 68c. Does any one think that with
68c. per day those profound studies, those extraor-
dinary efforts of imagination, of calculation, and of in-
vention, so necessary to the progress of the useful
and the fine arts, would exist? Or, without speaking
of the chefs d'oeuvre of which the nation is so proud,
does any one think that with 68c. per day such painters
as Vernet, Ingres, Delaroche, and Pajol ; sculptors
such as Bogie, Cortot, David, and Fradier ; engravers
such as Desnoyers, Galle, Tardieu, and Richomme ;
and such architects as Fontaine, Percier, Soufflet, and
Brogniard could have produced those works which
perpetuate and popularize the finest reminiscences of
national glory. Finally, not to go farther than the cate-
gory of our great artists, I have marked the last, that
of architects, which forms, as it were, the junction be-
tween fine arts and industry. Can it be supposed
that an architect could conceive the plans, accomplish
the calculations, and direct the execution of a triumphal
arch such as the Arc de l'Etoile, such a temple as the
Pantheon or the Madeleine, or such a museum as the
Louvre, all for 68 cents. per day ?
The grandeur and beauty of monuments sililell
honour an illustrious nation should thus be do+c with-
out-
Mankind should resume their miserable huts and
cabins, inhabited by a poor and jealous populace, not ,
permitting artists of genius to rise above the mass.
Nevertheless, if the reflection be made that in Bre-
tagne, in Auvergne, and many othci provinces, the day's
work of a healthy man ;n the country is only worth 70c.,
that a Lis wire 35e., that of children, of from ten to
fifteen, almost nothing, and that of younger children,
nothing at all ; it will be easy to understand that is
these provinces the salary is far below 68c.
But at Bordeaux, at Marseilles, at Nantes, in Rouen,
and in Paris, the day's work of a healthy man is worth
2f. ; that of his wife 90c. The average share of a stork•
man, his wife, and children, far exceeds 68c.

Here is a list of a few professions with what they now
gain in Paris :—Journeymen bakers, 3f., porters of the
corn market, 4f. ; carpenters of the first class, 4f. ; print-
ing compositors, 61. ; tailors, who cut out, IM. ; clever
watchmakers, 201.

What workman at eighty centimes per day will re-
place an engineer who, by his genius, and by his capital,
has beenenabled to build a manufactory, in which arc
utade steam-engines of one, two, three, or even five hun-
dred horse-poteer? A million of francs is necestkaly for
the building and the tools of his manufactory ; can this
million be tiken out of eighty centimes, were there 100,
or even 200 workmen to make it up ? In order to
vivify by commerce ten contiguous departments a rail-
road is necessary ; a very small number of capitalists
would suffice to supply these enormous expenses, as soon
as a government had granted its protection free from the
spirit of monopoly and corporation ; but if capital be in-
finitely and evenly divided, what will be done, out of 80
centimes a head, to collect eighty millions, without which
the magnificent means of communication cannot be per-
fected ?

THE MARKETS.

C JUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK

Wheat.

Barley,

Oats.

Beans.

Pease

Per Quarter.
Carlisle .....
Hexham
Morpeth
tlenrith
Sheffield
Winchest r
Per Bushel.
Carmarthen
Cowbri ige
Swansea '
Per Ball. '
Barnardeastl
Durham
Richmond

s. to S.

S. to s.
37
3.2 NS
24 30

B. to a.

s. to s.
56

S to. .
56

50 lil
52 62

21 23
17 IA
31
20 29
6. d. s. d.
00 22
3 0 4 0
24 2

40 44
- 33
tit/
42 45
s. d. .s.d
b 6 00
50 53
56 60

81 23

52 63
s. d. s. d.
7 1
10 0 —0
78 84

28 32
s.d. s. si.
00 50
50 sti
40 48

- 43
35 p
B. ti 14.
yo'.vu
56 00

160 IR h 80 931 7 4 8 6111 • 12 61
140 16 0 5 0 9 0 7 9 8910 • 131;
116 150 70 9t;• 56 8 0 9 0 116
130 160 90 90, 7 0 8 6 7 6 86
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET
101'neat, Red, Norfolk and Sutlblk -s. 61s. to 625. fine64a
-- Lin. and Cam.
--- Yorkshire -s. -s. to 545. fine tat.
- White
_----- Foreign, Bed -s. -s. to 53g. fine 645.
White -s. -s. to 64)5. line 665.
Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk -a. to 355. fine 25t.
- Lincolnshire . -s. to 30s. line 525.
----- Yorkshire Wold 26s. to -s. fine 5:10.
- Foreign
Beans, New ..... 406. to 435. hue -a.
----•-•-•- Old
Oats, Potato . -s. to 30s. fine 325.
-,.. Poland -s. -s. to 265. fine `.'6s.
- leriezland and Small ... ........
-- Ivszaling
..... ..... 12d. to :3d. pet Stone.
Shelling
Malt
Rapeseed
NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE
.. ,
Red. White.
Wheat, Northurfilserland sos s -s t',3 1
- Norfolk and Suffolk 62s 61s 66s. 6i,
...--- Berwick and Scotch 6ls. 05s -I. 675.
- Foreign 62s. 665........ 6`24. 665.
Rye, Norfolk ‘ind Suffolk
.-- Foreign 26s. Ms -s. -s.
Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk... -s. -s '
-s. -s.
- Grinding .4nd Feeding :10s. 335...... -s. --1.
Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk . 58s 601 -s. -s.
Beans, Small 4os. 485....... -s. -s.
- - Tick ..,,,... 425. 48s. -s. -s.
Pe.ise, White 446. 41'5..... -s. --s.
-- Gray . . -s. -s. ...5. .--.S.
Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe 3os. 32s S. --.
...--.......... -....--........... Feed
Foreign -. s. -s
Flour (per sack) 4ls. 5136. - a. -A.

11; 6 11 0 •
100 110

00 100
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SCOTCH MARKETS.

Wheat.

Barley. 1 Oats.

Beans. Ultra : t

33 to 35
:4 37

to
32

tbcrdeen
Berwick
'Coldstream
Cupar (File)
Dunbar
Elgin
Inverness
Kelso ~
Kirkalcly
Perth
tar. Tho

50 to 60
36 45
4 .50 I
48 65 1
48 68
55 61)
50 66
' 36 47 1
62 67
60 '"4
;me of the
HADDIS
Wheat.
I 70s Od

25 to
1S 21
2-1 2(
26 31
26 49

13 to 21
16 17
17 18 30
18 22 22 26
23 27 40 42
20 28 18 50
19 23 32 33
15 18 31 34
33 45 48
25 35 41 44
ries throughout the c
)RN MARKET.
Oats. Pease.
26, Od 38s (11
•23, Od 35s Od
21s 3d .s Od
17s 19d, B.l2ths.
N MARKET.
Oats. Pease.
25s 8d 43s Od
22s 8d 40s Od
101 Od 31s Od
LASOOW CORN Mt It '.LT.—Dec. 30.
Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. Oats, per 2641 b. S. d.
British, old 32 6t035 6 1=9..11 l7 oto
new ... ...... t:4l 0 3t 0 British l9 0
Cimada, free — 0 0 Beans, per 2601 b.
Irish
Barley, por 3201 b. Scottish 22 0
English 26 0 2; 0 Pease, Scottish ...... 2.2 0
Sottish V2 0 25 0 Oatmeal,perl4olb.... 17 0
Irish

40 --
43 -
--

27 iO
17 21

au 40
measure v,
(3,,C0N Ci
Barley.
n4s (id
303 9d
ds Od

luntry.

First
!lird

s 11/4l

Beans.
393 03
31, A.:
30i Oil

I nos od
verage.....,
DALKI
Wheat.
f 8• f ft
514 s Od
50a Od

lfH Cu
' Nancy.
31s ©i
20s 6d
ts

First
Second
Third

8e...al •
42 Od
44is OJ
34 0.!

s. G.
•,i0

g!0
0
.30
50 0

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B IR PH S.
On the Ist inst., in Devonshire•strect, Portland-plaeo, the
laJy of Dr. Rutherfurd, of a son.
On the 3.1 inst., at Woburn-place, Russell-square, the ladf
of J. Warner, Esq., hart inter-at-lam, of a son.
On the 3d inst., the wife of Mr. W. Meek, of John-street,
Blackfriars- road, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
This morning, at Alarylebone Church, Mr. T. Evans, to th
accomplished Miss Stapleford, of CLl:ston-street, Portland-r. a I
On the 31st ult., at the parish church of Rickmansworth.
T. E. Skidmore, Esq., eldest son of the late J. Skidmore
Esq., to Ellen, third daughter of C. Brown, Esq., .f London,
At Brighton, Giuseppe Marcellino Negro (ex-officer Bohai),
to Anne, youngest daughter of the late S. Bowring,

D/Iss.D.
On the 3d inst., at Heckliffe Grange, Bedfordshire, in th
89th year of his age, Rickard Gilpin, Esq., for many years
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Beolf ,rdshire
On the 24th ult., at St. Quentin, France, Ann, widow of the
late S. Waddington, Esq., of Leman-street.
On the 30th ult., at Leamington, Captain S. G. Pechel/,
R.N., of Bereley, Hants.

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