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London, England, 1846-12-11 00:00:00

THE SUN,__LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 11, 184 i.

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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed a new Opera, entitled TIIE BONDMAN.
Marquis de Vernon, Mr. Weiss ; Floreville, Mr. Rafter ; Moliere,
Mr. Ilorncastla ; Valliere, Mr. Galli ; Ardenford, Mr. liarridon ;
Mal-a-Propos, Mr. Harley ; Madame Corinne, Miss Romer; Grisette,
Miss Rebecca Isaacs; Frivole, Mrs. Hughes.
After the Opera, will be presented a new grand Ballet, called
THE WAGS OE' WAPPING (performed at the Academie Roya:e.
Paris, ander the title of " Betty.") In which will appear Mdlles.
Sophie Fuoco, Louise, Benart, Madome Giubilei ; MM. lluguet,
Adrien, Paul, Tell ; Messrs. Howell.

THEATRE ROYAL, MAYMARKET.
Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed an original Comedy, entitled LOOK BEFORE
YOU LEAP; or, Woolngs and Weddings. Mr. Oddington, Mr. W.
Farren ; Mr. Rashlefgh, Mr. Hudson ; Mr. De Vere, Mr. Holt ;
Mr. Brandon, Howe ; Mr. Hardman, Mr. Rogers ; Jack Spriggs,
Mr. Webster; Tom Tilley, Mr. Buekstone ; Miss Brown, Mrs.
Glover ; Claribel Odffington, i Fortescue ; Mary Odnon, Miss
P. Horton ; Elinor MortimeMr,ss Mrs. Yaruold ; Fann diy
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Hardman,
Miss Julia Bennett.
After which the petite Comedy of PERFECTION. In which
Messrs. Tilbury, 11011, Clark ; Miss Reynolds (her first appearance),
and Mrs. llumby will perform.
To be followed by a New Operatic Drama, called TUE YOUNG
PRETENDER. Captain O'Neal, Mr. Hudson ; Captain Cocker,G
Mr. Buckstone ; Chevalier Charles Edward Stuart, Mr. Braid ; Mrs.
Craggie, Mrs. Clifford ; Mary Armadale Miss P. Norton.
During the evening the Band will perform tue Ovetture, " Pre
aux Clercs," " Clementinen" (Mtuourka) ; " Catnellion" (Galop) ;
the " Esterhazy" (Walzer); and a New Overture.
To conclude with the Farce of MAKE YOUR WILLS. Messrs.
Buckstone, Tilbury. Brindal, Miss Telbin, and Mrs. Stanley will
sustain the principal characters.
Box-office open from Twelve till Four ; under the direction of
31r. T. Archer, Box Book-keeper.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet
of LA GISELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the
Wills Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford.
Mr. O. Smith, Mr. Callenford, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor,
Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws.
After which the original Domestic Drama, called THE WRECK
ASHORE; or, The Bridegroom of the Sea. Marmaduke Magog,
Mr. Wright ; Alice, Mrs. Yates.
To conclude with a Bozzian Sketch, in one act, called MRS.
GAMP'S TEA AND TURN-OUT. Principal characters by Messrs.
Cullentord, Worrell, Ryan, Wright, Munyard ; Miss 31. Taylor,
and Miss Ellen Chaplin.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
J. M. Maddox, sole Lwssee and Manager.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed an original romantic Opera, in three parts,
entitled THE NIGHT DANCERS ; founded on the Story of

" Uiselle." Zits principal characters personified by Miss Georgians
Smithson, Miss Rourke, Miss Sara Flower, Miss Somers, Misses
Marshall ; Messrs. Lefler, Allen, Bodda, Walton, T. Hill, Homier,
Peren, &c.
After which an entirely new Comic Drama, entitled TILE TWO
RAINBOWS.
In the course of the Evening the Band will perform " The Perlen
Waltzes."
To conclude with Goldsmith's Comedy of SIZE STOOPS TO
CONQUER. Sir Charles Marlow, Mr.: Wynn ; Young Marlow, Mr.
Vining; Hardeastle, Mr. Granby; Tony Lumpkin. Mr. Compton;
Hastings, Mr. Rozby ; Diggory, Mr. Cowell ; Miss Hardcastle, Mrs.
Stirling ; Miss .Neville, Mrs. Hughes ; Mrs. Hardcastle, Mrs. Fosbroke

FRENCII PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Lessee. Mr. John Mitchell.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed LA 3IARIt A LSE. M. de Jerdy, M, Mas-
quillier ; Edouard, M. Boron ; Madame do Ner.s, Millie, Vallee ;
Cecile, Mdlle. Leyder.
After which, LE. CODE DES FEMMES. Paul Fauvel, 31.
Ithozevil ; 3lignouet, M. Cartigny ; Romain, M. Pagenler ; Louclion,
M. l'riston ; Emma, Madame Angelo ; Femme de Chambra, Millie.
Leyden
To be followed by a new Comedy, entitled LES TROIS CRISPINS.
Raymond Poisson, M. l'erlet ; Mar nne, Mdlle Brohan.
To conclude with the Vaudeville of L'AMBASSADEUR. Cha-
racters by MM. Perlet, Laugeral, Berou; Millie. Celine Fouquet
and Millie. Brohan.
Boxes, lA.; Pit, 3s. &I. ; Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at
half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed the Play of A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD
DEBT 3. Sir Giles Overreach, Mr. J. R. Scott; the other cha-
racters will be personified by the acknowledged talent of the
Company.
After which a grand Military Ballet of Action, entitled LE REVE
DU iOLDAT. The characters supported by Mdlle. Theodore and
the Deulin
To conclude with the New Drama, called PASSION'S SLAVE ;
er, The Outcast son. Supported by the principal talent of the
Company.

AST LEY'S, ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
Pa'ronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, 'Prince
Albert, and Royal Family.
Notwithstanding, the present concentration of novelties, and the ex-
pensive engagements entered into with the most eminent British
and Foreign Artistes for the Christmas holidays, Mr. BATTY has
purchased the whole of Mr. White's trained Lions, Tigers Leo-
pards, &c. Likewise in preparation, a splendid Comic AIRY
PANTOMIME, with other Gymnastic and Equestrian novelties.
TIIIS EVENING
Will he performed a ;rand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en-
titled TILE DEMON HORSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the
Charmed Bit.
New and entire change in the SCENES of the CIRCLE.
To conclude with the grand Military Spectacle of BATTLE
OF WATERLOO. Napoleon, Mr. Gornersal.
itox.ottice open front eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six
an ! c,nntnence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W.
llroadfoot.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
'I he success of the reduction of prices of admission at this Theatre
is without precedent, nightly overflows being the result. Boxes,
Is. ; Half-price, 6d. ; Pit, Gd.; Gallery, 3d. Continued success *1
the splendid Drama of " The Black Doctor."
THIS EVENING
Will be performed THE BLACK DOCTOR. In which Miss Via-
cent, Mrs. G. Lee, Miss L. Pearce, Mrs. R. Barnett, and Messrs.
Edwards, Bird, Searle, Furman, &c., will perform.
After which, the Burletta of DICK AND HIS DOUBLE. Dick
Deubleton, Mr. Fornan ; Isabel, 3lrs. It. Bennett ; Isabella, Miss
L. Pearce.
To conclude with JACK RANN ; or, Sizteen•string Jack, and
the Knaves of Knaves'-acre.
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I LIE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 11.
T :ERMUMETEItt Lowest, 25; Highest. 44 ; Noon, 32,
BAROMETER, 29.66.—W1ND N.W., sharp frost.

111,11 W AtEti; AT LON 'O DAY.
Vnrnlng .. 7 minutes after 7. I Evening .. 16 minutes after 7.

lately perished from sheer starvation. Nine ! Death
farnin,2 has been the verdict of the coroners' juries
upon those nine emaciated corpses. One man, who
had ineffectually applied for aid to the local relief
committee, and a woman, who was incapable of
working from her extreme debility, died at 'furlough;
another man at Bellina ; two more at Crossmolila ;
another at Cloonralogh ; one at Notish ; one at Bally-
moholy ; and another at Shangurta. We shall abstain
from dilating upon the torments and the desolation by
which these cruel deaths must have been preceded,

because we conceive that in so doing we should be

profaning the sanctuaries of an unrepining destitu-
tion. A people dying away through want of the
commonest food, without the means of obtaining a
mouldy crust, or the chance of earning a halfpenny
by the toil of their limbs, is one of the most awful
spectacles in artificial society ; but that spectacle is
immeasurably more awful when the land in which they
are perishing is: proverbial for its fertility, and the
Government, under whose shadow they are falling,
is so illustrious for its potency. It is not, however,
so much to the Government that we should look

for the prevention of this calamitous decimation—it is
to the local authorities, it is to the relief committees
which have undertaken to decrease the adjacent

sustain if he forthwith filed a bill in equity for the
purpose of enforcing payment of his charge, and
acted in the most harsh and oppressive manner to-
wards the unfortunate owner.

Every prudent lender, before he consents to advance
his money on the security of land, or, being already
advanced, before he will be satisfied to suffer it to
remain outstanding, will have ascertained that there
is an ample margin to cover any losses that may be
sustained by reason of bad seasons, deficient crops,
defaulting tenants, and the innumerable other de-
scription of losses to which the proprietors of land
are subject. In addition thereto he must also allow
fur the expenses of a foreclosure suit and of a receiver,
in the event of either being rendered necessary by
the neglect or default of the borrower. There
should also be a surplus for the maintenance and
support of the owner, otherwise there would be
little prospect of a regular payment of 'interest,
as the necessities of the debtor would most
assuredly lead to the appropriation of any sums of
money on which he could lay his hands ; an embar-
rassed and needy man would have little regard to the
abstract rights of his creditor. The general rule
, when called on to
money, is never to
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recommend a client to lend more than one-half the
present value of the property—indeed, scarcely so
much, for the interest to be paid should not exceed
half the annual income. Under any other circum-
stances it is not the interest of any party that things
should remain in state quo. The creditor cannot
hope for punctual payment, the debtor will be kept
in a constant state of annoyance and difficulty ; he
cannot discharge the duties incidental to his position,
he will be unable to encourage or assist his tenantry
to aid in the improvement of the lands,
to make judicious allowances, to act the part which
humanity would dictate in the event of any misfor-
tunes happening to those who are dependent on him,
and who look up to him for that fatherly care and
protection that a landlord should extend to his te-
nantry, which the nature of their mutual relations
demand at his hands. The attempt to retain the po-
sition of landlord in such circumstances is, therefore,
injurious to all parties—to the creditors, to the owner,
to the tenantry, and to the public at large. We trust
that some measure will pass the Senate during the
ensuing session for simplifying the transfer of such
estates. The parties in every such case should, by
mutual agreement and co-operation, strive to have
the lands disposed of in the most expeditious and
cheapest manner. Our observations, therefore,
(which the want of space compels us to postpone for
this day,) must be taken as directed to cases where
the charges and encumbrances do not exceed half the
present value of the property."

The news from Portugal, brought by the Cyclops,
is of a very contradictory character. " It appears
that Spain has been actively interfering in support
of the Afrancesado party, and has furnished CASAL,
who was driven into Spain by SA DA BANDEIRA,
with arms, ammunition, and every sort of assistance.
CASAL returned to Portugal, and purchased his vic-
tory over SA DA BANDEIRA by a liberal expenditure
of the dollars which he had received froto Spain, with
which he corrupted the two regiments of the line, who
deserted from SA DA BANDEIRA in the midst of the
battle. DAs ANTAS still continues in Santarem, where
he is well supplied with provisions. If he can hold his
position for a few weeks, SALDANIIA must either at-
tack him or retire, as during the rainy season the
plains about Santarem are flooded.

_
The following is the latest account of the move-
ment of SCHWALI3ACEI and Bomrim. The latter has
completely out-manceuverad the QUEEN'S General:—

" Schwalbach's intention being to join Saldanha, he
proceeded from Estremoz to Coruche, closely followed
by the insurgent General Bomfim, his object being to
reach Salvaterra, and Bomfim's to get to Santarem by
flanking him. Saldanha knowing Bomfim's intention,
sent 600 men across the Tagus to Schwalbach's assist-
ance, with orders to him to turn back and give battle; but
taking another direction, out-generalled his op-
pcnent, and got to Santarem on the 28th. Bomfim had
1,600 men, and Sehwalbach about 1,000. The city of
Evora has now upwards of 2,000 men in arms, and is ex-
pecting 500 or 600 more from Algarve. Bomfim has 250
irregular cavalry, well mounted, armed, and drilled, and
commanded by regular officers from the army. One of his
guerilla parties captured 18 contos (4,5001.) at Alcacer
do Sol, and delivered every farthing of it to Bomfim at
Monte Mor, with which he has paid his troops. He has
an excellent staff. The whole of Alemtejo is now in
the possession of the popular party, who are organiz-
ing troops, juntas, &c. Elvas has only 150 men in gar-
rison. It is the only place in Aletnttjo that obeys
the Queen's Government. Celestino is with Bomfim.

Count de Mello is Governor of Evora. The people
there are in high spirits, and well able to resist any
attack. All that is known from Oporto is, that Sada
Bandeira is now there. lie was worsted in the affair
with Casa! at Valpassos, but no particulars subsequent
to it are known.

The Duke of PALMELLA has gone to Gibraltar,
laving been ordered by her MAJESTY to go on his

,ravels.

The Marquises of Valloda, Minas, Niza, and

Fay al, Counts Ribeira, Rio, Maior, Arcos, Alva, Al-
cacovas, Galveas, and other noblemen, have either left
Lisbon for Cadiz, or have sought refuge from per-
secution on board the English squadron and French
brig of war.
The Diario publishes a decree for the union of the
Bank of Lisbon and the Confianca Company :
" The joint establishment is to be called the Bank of
(in paper chiefly) of 11,000
'12,400:00U It is to have the exclusive
ears of issuing notes, and its notes are
capital
et,PPr:oirbrtvttei°ul esgliagurel floarbnon withut
30
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der s. The notes of the now extinct Batik
of Lisbon are to continue in circulation, to the amount
of 5,000 contos, and to be legal tenders, fur the whole
of every payment, to the end of June, 1847; fur two
thirds, to the end of 1848 ; and for one-half, from that
to the period of their b.,ing finally paid off—for which
purpose the Bank of Portugal is to set apart an annual
sum of 216 contos."

Madrid papers of the 3d have arrived. They con-
tain no intelligence of importance.
MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 3.—The Thr€e per Cents.
closed at 34i ; the Four per Cents. at 21 ; the Five per
Cents. at 21k; and the Coupons not capitalised at 194.

We have recived the paris papers of Wednesday.
The Presse gives the following as the analysis o
the protest of M. GUIZOT against the annexation o
Cracow :

" The explanations which we have given of the pro-
test addressed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs to M.
de Metternich in reply to the notification made to the
former of the incorporation of the Republic of Cracow
with the Austrian states having been contested. We
have had recourse to fresh information, and we
can now fully confirm, at least as far as regards their
groundwork, the first explanations we published. This
protest bears rate the 3d inst.; it is in the form of a dis-
patch, addressed to Count de Flahault, our ambassador at
Vienna. It contains six pares, and, if we are well in-
formed, it was read on Sunday last to Lord Normanby,
M. d'Arnim, and M. de Kiseleff. The character of the
document is serious and gloomy. It bears the imprint
of a deep conviction of the moral disorder which must
result from the act of the three Powers in the situation
of all the states of Europe. It may be conceived that,
in a document of this nature, all the expressions in
which should be seriously weighed, the opinion of the
French Government, however energetic it may be as far
as concerns the act complained of, indicates rather than
expresses the consequences saich France may one day
draw from this attack on the European order of things
rrs founded by treaties. It is not a declamation of a
journal addressed to superficial understandings, but a
serious and. severe judgment, calculated to excite the
consideration of cabinets. Such a document as that
alluded
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expression of the profound injustice, the want of wisdom
of the act of the 16th November, and of the conviction
that it gives to all the powers of Europe the most entire
freedom with regard to treaties thus destroyed. The
French Cabinet expresses in the first place its deep and
painful surprise at the resolution of the Powers. It
shows that they have yielded to secondary and
accessory motives the general and more po.werful.
reasons which commanded respect for treaties—of
those treaties, the object of more than one resistance,
and which have created sufferings of more than one kind.
It calls to mind, in lively terms what Poland has been,
and shows that there was no reason to feel surprise at
seeing the scattered members of that great state sovio-
lently destroyed still experience some convulsions.
Poland has lost in the political world the rank which
she has preserved in history ; she has been destroyed,
suddenly cause
taking possession of Cracow. It
result from them.
The French Cabinet rtifutes. the
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the facts. The King's Government, it sa):s, cannot
Vienna, and the treaty of
admit so many assertions contrary to principles. It
may were not the
establishes that the articles of the ode of
3d explains or contests
exclusive work of the three Powers, and that the fate
of Poland was regulated by a European deliberation.
It was not, therefore, peraiitted to the
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three
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to suppress the results of that deliberation. e dis-
patch solemnly protests against the act of the three
Powers. France, it says, might congratulate herself on
jan act which would authorise her, by a ust reciprocity,

in henceforward only consulting her interests and cir-
cumstance:,; Lut such is not the feeling which she enter-
tains, and it is strange enough that it should be her
which tindi herself obliged to take on herself the defence
of the faith of treaties, and to call the attention to them
. .

or Powers who have so grievously failed. Such is the
conclusion of the dispatch. In order that it may not be a
useless appeal to respect treaties, the Minister has taken
care to point out that to power can release itself from
them without at the same time releasing all the others
who are parties to them. Such are the contents,
with diplomatic reserve, of this protest, in which it
might have been desired to have found a deeper
discussion on the point of right, but which
establishes with dignity and a great elevation of thought
the situation of France in this affair. After having read
it, no doubt can be any longer felt on the question now
discussed by the German press;as to whether the French
Cabinet was informed before-hand of the resolution of
the three Powers. There• results from it also the con-

viction that France regards herself as released, and that

the Powers have freed' her from the treaties of Vienna
by releasing themselves from them. This is said in
whits clear as diplomatic reserve and circumstances
permit. France has, therefore, prix acts (taken formal
notice of) of the infraction committed on the treaties of

81 5. We shall return, on the first opportunity, to the

situation that results to her from it, cilia we sliall point
out all the ,extent of the right which is acquired to her,
and of the perturbation caused in Europe by the resolu-
tion against which she has just protested."
The state of the corn market is producing a feeling
of alarm throughout France. Prices are continually
rising. Those who are well versed in the statistics of
the corn trade declere that, notwithstanding the recent

importations, there is not at the present moment a
sufficient quantity of corn in France to supply the
wants of the population till the next harvest. The

supply, they say, is short by 25 days' consumption o
the whole kingdom. On this subject the Debats has
the following :
" The most extraordinary and erroneous accounts are
daily given on the movement of corn in France. It is,
however, easy to attain precision through the agricul-
tural statistic published by the Minister of Commerce
from 1837 to 1841 inclusively. Although the facts it
presents may not be of absolutely rigorous exac'itude,
they are certainly as near the truth as can be, for they
are the results of a special inquiry made officially under
the control of a public administration. The following is
an analysis of the numerous tables which this document
gives on this subject. The quantity of land used in
growing corn in France is nearly 14,000,000 hectares
(the hectare is about two acres and a half English),
and, therefore, extends over a little more than one-
fourth of the superficies of the country, which is
52,768,610 hectares, or nearly three-fourths of the
cultivated I,nd. The (Abele cultivations, in fact, occupy
together about 5,500,000-'-hectares, nearly 2,000,000
of which are covered Witt- vineyards. The totality
of the cultivatedt land in France reaches, therefore,
to '20,000,000 hectares, and thus represents 38 parts out
of 100 of the soil of the nation. The annual produc-
tem of corn amounts, in ordinary years, to nearly
183,000,000 hectolitres, (the hectolitre is equal to rather
wore than two bushels and three:quarters English),
that is :to say, 70,000,000 in wheat, 12,000,000 in
meteil (mixture of rye and wheat), 28,000,000 in rye,
17,00(1;060 in barley, 49,000,000 in oats, and 7,000,000
in maize. Out of the total quantity the seed-corn takes
a little more than 28,000,000 hectolitres, or 15 per
teat. Consequently there remains for consumption in
food 155,000,800 hectolitres, deducting from which the
proportionate part of the oats, leaves fur the nourish-
ment of man , 116,000,000 hectolitres ; others say
12.0,000,000. Taking these last figures, which appear
to be the most exact, there is for daily consumption in
France about 329,000,000 hectolitres, making 343 litres
per head per annum, of 94 hundred parts of a litre per
head per day, or about 700 grammes (24 ounces and three-
quarters English). This is about one-third more than is
consumed in England, and as near as may be one-fourth
less than each inhabitant consumes in America. The annual
importation of foreign corn into France is about
1,000,000 hectolitres, the major part of which is re-
exported either in the grain or in the flour. Thus, as
will be evident, an infinitely small portion, not more,
perhaps, than one three-hundredth part, is added by
purchase from abroad to the native production; but it is
nevertheless proved that this, with the aid of reservations
made from the produce of favourable years, is just suffi-
cient for the national wants. The cultivation of corn in
France, therefore, cannot be neglected without danger.
In bad or medium years it is absolutely necessary to
have recourse to foreign countries for corn; and the im-
ports rise to three, four, or five millions of hectolitres,
which may suffice to supply food for the country fur ten,
twelve, sixteen, or seventeen days. Scarcely ever does this
importation exceed this limit. In 1832, however, it ap
proached seven millions of hectolitres, or food for about 22
days. This is the largest quantity of corn which France
ever received from abroad. It represented the current
value of 90,000,000 francs. We have, however, had
years in which scarcity of corn was much more sensibly
felt thhn in 1832, and when, notwithstanding, the im-
portations were much less. This may have arisen from
there being a less abundance of corn in the foreign
markets, and also from accidental difficulties attending
the transport. The conveyance of corn by sea may,
from the state of the weather or from the want of
shipping, and from other causes, meet with great
obstruction. To transport only one million of hec-
tolitres, no fewer than 300 vessels, of from 200 to 250
tons burden each, are required. An idea may from
this be formed of the number of sea-going
ships and of boats or barges, and carts or waggons re-
quisite for the transport to the shore and conveyance into
the interior of the country, of between 4,000,000 and
5,000,000 hectolitres, as has been done this year.
It may also be judged from what we have said of the
extreme susceptibility of the corn trade, since a deficit
of only a few days' consumption in the harvest excites
the must lively alarms in the minds of the people, and
gives extraordinary activity to the speculators, and thus
raises the prices beyond all measure. But it results also
from an examination of facts, during the last 25 or 30
years, that purchases of foreign corn, even when well
directed, have scarcely sufficed to re,establish the balance
of quantity, to allay the fears of the people, and reduce
considerably their sufferings and privations. This is
what will infallibly happen this year. We will now
remind the public that the farmers have in this century
gained a great and valuable auxiliary to their produce
of corn—we mean the potato, which 50 years ago pro-
duced in France scarcely 30,000,000 hectolitres, and
which now yields 100,000,000 hectolitres, that is to say,
a quantity which, in a few more years, may double the
production of the land for the special food of man."
In reply to the statements that have appeared in
some of the papers, as to the probability of an ap-
plication being made by the Bank of France to the
Bank of England, for assistance, the National says—
" We hope that the Bank of France will not put the
well- known prudence of our neighbours to the test. In
fact the Bank of France is in no want of assistance. It
possesses more wealth than is required to meet all de-
mands. Besides its en caisse is increasing, and this will
without doubt, strengthen the nerves of the directors.
They w ill, without doubt, learn by what has passed, how
culpable they were in testifying such extreme alarm, in
creating anxiety to commerce, in abandoning themselves
in short to an excessive panic, when they had in their
hands the means of giving ccnfidence to themselves and
to the public."
We mentioned a few days since that a dispute had
taken place between the French Consul at the Mau-
ritius and Admiral DACRES. The following version
of the affair, and of the steps adopted in consequence,
are given in the Constitutionnel :
" Some journals have lately spoken of a coefliet which,
they declared, had taken place at the Mauritius between
M. Barbet de Jouy, the French Consul, and Admiral
Dacres, in command of the English station. The follow-
ing are the facts, such, we understand, as they really
were :—Admiral Dacres had his flag on board the Pre-
sident frigate. This officer, wishing to give a ball on
board to the principal persons of the island, made the
necessary preparations, and sent out his invitations. M.
Barbet de Jouy, the French Consul, received one like the
rest ; but some hours before the ball two officers, in the
uniform of the British navy, called on M. Barbet, and
informed him that they had been sent by their command-
ing officer to withdraw the invitation which he had re-
ceived ; they added that the cause of their visit was an
infringement of the rules of etiquette, of which N 1
Barbet had been guilty, in not having gone to visit t2,11e
1.
Admiral, although he had been some time there.
Barbet, offended, wrote immediately to the governor r
the island to demand reparation ;
he also wrote a letter
to Admiral Dacres breathing great indignation, and in
'
which he rendered to that officer insult forinsshulou.,id addingsen
that were it nut for his peculiar situation he
d
him a challenge. In a report sent tewtehearl,elinister
informed,of
Foreign Affairs, M. Barbet relates,_ as.
all that we have just narrated, and, in. addition, trans-
mitsa letter from his colleague, the
Consul to the Minister h M e
Consul of the United States at t e. auri ius, affirming
that he had been present at the
.Admirals ball, without
any opposition on the part of the English officers, and
without having, any more than M ;Barbet, paid hima
visit. On his side, the Admiral, as it appears, trans-
mitted to the Foreign-office the letter which M. Barbet
sent him. This letter is annexed to a dispatch which
Lord Palmerston sent to Paris a few days back. The
British Minister demands that M. Barbet de Jouy be
recalled, and announces that if his demand be not at-
tended to, the erequatur of the Queen of Great Britain
shall be withdrawn from that person. Such, it is said,
is the state in which the affair rests."
A letter from Algiers, of the Ist December, says,
that the release of the prisoners was only obtained by
paying a ransom of 30,060 francs to the Arabs, who
had them in their custody, and who refused to obey the
orders of ABD-EL-KADER for their liberation until
this sum was paid to them. Marshal BUGEAUD has
refused to permit the celebration of a funeral service
at Algiers for the late Marshal BOURMONT.
The Alloniteur publishes a royal ordonnance, open-
ing a credit of 500,0001. to the Minister of the
Interior, fur the repair of the damage done to the
vicinal roads by the late inundations ; and an ordon-
nance, granting a credit of 800,000 f. to complete the
payment of the premiums of encourage:nent to the
whale and cod fisheries.
A report was current on the Paris Bourse on -Wed-
nesday of the death of Prince .....MtITERNIOII.
The Three per Cents, closed on. the Paris Bourse on that
day et 80E 80c.; the FiveTeretehti., 118 f. 30c.; the Orleans
Railroad Shares, 1,255 f. ; Rouen, 885 f.; Havre, 8521 50o.;
Great Northern, 642 f. 50c.; Avignon, SSW. 50e.; Yierzon,
5854 ; Bordeaux, 556 f. 25c. ; Troyes and Mentereau,

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