The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-19 00:00:00

West Indies, has been precisely the same, and yet year
by year the production of beet-root sugar in France
has been rapidly progressing. Now, the soil of Ireland
is much better suited to the production of beet-root
than is the soil of any other European country. We
are told, on high authority, that the average produce
of a statute acre of land of the white Silesian beet is in
The northern departments of France 19 tcns.
FrPnch Flanders 16
Belgium ... ..• ... 18
Germany ... 16
~
England
Irelandsuai SO I
30 22 „
The u
:prices paid for roots by the manufacturers
••• ..• •••
per ton is—

In Franca ...
... 12/.
In Germany ... 161. to 18/.
In Ireland, from ... ... 10/. to 121.
But not only ii the yield of beet-root con-
siderably more per acre in Ireland than in any other
country, but its quality is greatly superior. Pro-
fessor SULLIVAN, in a communication to the Royal
Dublin Society, on the 27th December, 1850, states,
as the result of his analyses, that not beet-root only,
but that all bulbous roots generally grown in Ire-
land, yielded nearly 25 per cent. more saccharine
matter than similar roots grown in Belgium or
France. It is clear, therefore, that so far as the
manufacture of beetroot sugar is concerned, no
country on the European continent can possibly com-
pete with Ireland ; but it would appear that the
beet-root of Ireland possesses nearly equal advan-
tages over the sugar cane of the West Indies, as is
shown in the following statement :
" A statute acre of land in the West India

colonies planted with sugar cane, yields
upon an average of raw sugar
In Ireland, a statute acre would produce
30 tons of roots. 15 tons being required
by the ordinary process to produce 1 ton
of sugar, the produce of augur per acre
would be
Again,—

" 1001bs. of sugar canes yield of sugar from sto 7lbs.
1001bs. of Silesian beet, by the ordinary
method
Or when refined 5 to silbs.
1001bs. of beet-roots, dried and operated
upon by the improved methods, which
extract the whole saccharine 8 to 101bs.
Or when refined

" Thus showing that about the same quantity of
refined sugar is produced from beet-roots as from an
equal weight of sugar canes !"

A great objection to the introduction of a manufac-
ture, such as that of sugar, which has hitherto been
confined to " crop time," is, that it does not afford:con-
tinuous labour to the inhabitants of a district, but
overworks those engaged in its manufacture during one
portion of the year, leaving them absolutely destitute
of employment during the remainder; this objection
is entirely obviated by the invention which Mr.
CRossLEy has patented
,for the use of cut and dried
roots, which can be preserved for any length of time,
and thus enable the manufacturer to carry on his
manufacture during the entire year. We consider
that the introduction of this improved process for
manufacturing beet-root sugar into Ireland will give
an impetus to, the agriculture of the country such
as it has never yet received, whilst, at the same
time, by providing abundant employment, it will

tend to raise the rate of wages, and thus to give to
the labouring clasei a greater command over the
comforts of life. For the sake of all classes of our Irish
fellow-subjects we would desire that this manufac-
ture should be introduced into Ireland with the least
possible delay.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Assemblie Nationale publishes the manifesto
of the Fusionist party, and it is certainly one of the
coolest productions, as regards the PRESIDENT of the
Republic, that has yet issued from the press. It is
a clear and distinct declaration on the part of MM.
GUIZOT, DUCHATEL, and their coadjutors, that they
consider M. Louis BONAPARTE solely as the planche
Napoleoienne, over which the Bourbon pretender is
to cross in safety to the throne, this said planche to
he kicked away the instant it has served the purpose.
The Assembles Nationale says—
" All our policy is to make the country comprehend
and accept the re-establishment of that Monarchy as its
true and only means of safety. We say it openly, and
those who repeat it will render us a service. What
would be the result of it with regard to Prince Louis
Napoleon ? Shall we at present take part for the pro-
longation of his powers? Certainly not. We ardently
wish, and we regard it more desirable for the present
welfare of France that he should definitively quit in
1852 the deplorable and precarious condition into which
he was thrown by 1848. But if in 1852 he does not de-
finitively leave it, if the vital question of his destinies
cannot then receive its true solution, we think that
France will do well not to overthrow at all risks the tent
under which she now shelters herself. Let there be no
engagement, and no premature and absolute exclusion ;
that is all that can be and ought to be said at this mo-
ment on the sulject."
Certainly, never since LOUIS NAPOLEON BONA-
PARTE was elected President of the Republic, on the
10th December, 1848, has there been published in
any journal an article so insulting to him, or so cal-
culated to bring him into contempt, as this article of
the .Assemblie National.
The journals all contain the following announce-
ment :
The Charivari of yesterday was seized at the post-
office, and at the office of the journal, by order of the
Procureur of the Republic, for a lithographic print,
under the head of Actualites, le prix de l'adresse aux
Champs Elysees, in whien the President of the Republic
is represented as encouraging the candidates for posts in
the Ministry to discharge targets at a figure representing
the Constitution, and promising a portfolio to the per-
son who should succeed in striking it most effectually.
A prosecution has been commenced against the pub-
lisher of the journal and the author of the print, on a
charge of libel upon the President of the Republic."
We find the following in the Liberte of the Pas-
de-Calais :
" Much attention is attracted by a very energetic cir-
cular which M. Lem Faucher is said to have addressed
to all the prefects, directing their attention towards the
proceedings of the Socialists, and urging them to use
their utmost efforts to arrest the progress of their propa-
gandism. We understand that the Government is about
to present two Bills of great importance. One is rela-
tive to domicile in Paris, and will place at the disposal of
the Government persons of suspicious characters, whom
the Prefect of Police may, at his will, remove from the
capital according to the abrogated law of 1810. It is
stated that this law will bo to remove from the capital
25,000 individuals of the most dangerous character in
times of revolution. The other Bill is relative to the
publications of French political exiles residing abroad.
These publications will be interdicted in France."
The Patrie publishes the following communicated
note from the Prefect of Police:—
" Several journals have quoted from the Inde-
pendance of Brussels some details as to the re-
organization of the Society of the Dix .Decembre,
dissolved in 1850 by the Government, a re-or-
ganization at the head of which is placed a person
of the name of d'Oiincourt. As soon as the Pretest of
Police was made acquainted with the circumstances
pointed out, he hastened to make them known to the
Procureur of the Republic, begging him to obtain infor-
mation on the affair. The Prefect of Police is moreover
authorised to disavow the said M. d'Olincourt, and to de-
clare that he has no relation either direct or indirect with
the Government or with the Elysee, and that he acts
without mission and without any authorisation."
The Messager publishes the following letter, ad-
dressed to it by General Pier:—
" In your number of the 14th instant you announce,
on the authority of the Independance of Brussels, the
organizi.tion of a society founded by an old member of
the Society of the Dix Decembre, and you head your
article with the title of Resurrection du Dix Decembre.
In my quality of ex-president of the Society of the Dia
Decembre, you will permit me to declare through your
journal that that society was dissolved by a decree of
the 7th November last; that its members have fully
submitted to the provisions of that decree, as they have
decided to obey all the acts of the authorities• that the
society, dead in facto as in lege, has authorised no one
to speak in its name, and that to announce its resurrec-
tion is to state a thing which is not correct."
The Bourse, which was much depressed at the com-
mencement of the business, recovered towards the
close, and Government Securities were quoted at an ad-
vance on the closing prices of Thursday. The Five per
Cents. opened at 921. 10c., and closed at 92f. 45c.
road
sh Threeare per Cents.
f Rouen,closed
63a5.
at 57
Havre, 2601.; Great
71. Sc, Orleans Rail.
433 f. 75c.;
4B7a2sfie
,501c4. ;5
fe Avignon,;
Bordeaux, and
Strasburg, 3681. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 2761. 25c.
2031.4 00 75c.;;
.Vierzon,
Paris

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 13th have arrived.
The Orden, which is a semi-official organ, in no-
ticing some rumours in the Opposition journals of
disaccord in the Ministry, declares that they are
without foundation.
The Espana states that the Government has refused
permission to Marshal NARVAEZ to visit his mother,
and that her illness is not of a dangerous character.
The preliminary meeting of electors of the Pro-
gressista party at Madrid was numerously attended,
and it was resolved that the party should bring for-
ward candidates.
The Herald() announces the arrival of Admiral
PARKER at Seville on the Bth.
The 13olsa was closed on the 3th.

GERMANY.
The Upper Chamber of Prussia has rejected the
to 59.
Ministerial RePponsibilities Bill by 74