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quence, sooner receive the tribute to be paid to him
11 the Principalities, and be thereby better able to
provide for the regular payment of the in-
stalments to Russia. On the other hand,
Russia would obtain a more important pledge for
the observance of the treaties concluded with the
Porte,tor the possession of the harbour of Trebisond
is of great importance to the trade of the Black Sea,
and the place itself is of great consequence in a mili-
tary view, as it can either facilitate or obstruct the
communications with the Asiatic provinces, andits
strength has been tried during the war ; whereas,
the occupation of the principalities is of little advan-
idge to Russia, and may be speedily and easily
effected again if the Porte should not perform its en-
gagements.
The fate of Greece, which is now to be decided
in the conferences at London, is also a subject of dis.
cussion at St. Petersburgh, and there is reason to
hope that the Greek nation will soon enjoy its re-
generation, and that the new State will obtain such
an extent of territory as is necessary for its security
and the development of its powers, for his Majesty
the Emperor and the whole Imperial family take a
warm interest in the Greeks, and nothing will
be omitted on their part that can contribute to se-
cure the future prosperity of that people. The ac-
counts received from the interior of Russia respect-
ing the harvest are very favourable, and the summer
in the west of Europe had been very unpropitious,
and the harvest indifferent. It is expected that
peace being restored, there will be a great exporta-
tion of corn from the southern provinces of the
Russian empire. The temporary absence of his
Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine
from Warsaw, which is caused entirely by the ill
health of his consort, has been spoken of in a most
- singular manner by many of the French Jouruals,
and other reasons assigned for it ; but it is certain
that there is not a syllable of truth in all that the
French Journals think fit to say of the situation of
that Prince.

The following communication has been re-
ceived this morning from our Paris correspondent:
" PARIS, NOV. 15.
" In consequence of the stimulus which has
lately been given to the cultivation of Indian
corn in England, perhaps some of your readers
may feel an interest as to its mode of manage-

ment in a country where the climate is certainly

more favourable to its growth. At the annua

meeting of the Horticultural Society of Paris a
few (lays ago, the prize founded by M. l3ossange
for the best culture of this corn in the latitude of

?aris, was awarded to the Baron Louis, or rather

:o his manager M. Berthier, who has been for
Four years at the head of the important agricul-
tural establishment of Brice-sur-Marne, in the

department of the Seine, and who is the son of
the proprietor of the model-farm of Roville.
The two acres of land for which the premium
was awarded were manured in October, 1827,

and were immediately sown with winter vetches
mixed with rye, which produced fodder in the
month of May, 1828. Turnips were then
sown, the harvesting of which was not completed
till the period of the first frosts. Immediately
afterwards the seeds were grubbed up, the ground
was harrowed, and in the month of March, 1829,

it was ploughed and again harrowed. In the
month of May following, the land was again
highly manure(' ssith cow-dung, which was
immediately ploughed in, and afterwards
harrowed. A few days afterwards, when

the weeds were well dried, the roller was
passed over the ground. In the first days of
May, 1829, the soil being completely pulverized
and in a fit statc for the reception of the seed,
two bushels of Indian corn were sown in straight

lines, 25 inches apart. As soon as the corn
was four inches above the ground, the horse-hoe
was passed through the intervals. This opera-
tion, three times repeated, occupied only four
hours each time, which was just equal to a day's
labour for the three. The wages of the plouah.

man and the boy who leads the horse, the hire of
the animal and the use of the horse-hoe, are esti-
mated in this district at eight francs a day, which
is something less than Gs. Bd. After the weeds
and suckers were pulled out, the drills were
hand-hoed by five girls, each of whom was oc-
cupied one day. At a later period a whole day
was occupied in heaping up the earth at the foot

of the plants with the horse-hoe, more streng
being necessary than formerly. As soon as the
fibres had completely issued from the ear, the
sharp top or summit of each plant was cut off;
and furnished excellent fodder, sufficient to feed
six cows for fifteen days. The gathered ears
were then stripped of their leaves and hung np
on poles in a place of shelter, but exposed to a
current of air. As the grain is not yet sepa-
-1 rated from the ear the produce could not be
correctly ascertained; but it is stated by
Berthier, that for the last four years he has
harvested from ten to fifteen septiers of Indian
corn per acre, each septier being equal to twelve
bushels. The cultivation of this plant is the
more deserving of attention, as a baker in the
Rue Richelieu has succeeded in making bread
of the flour, which is so much in request that
lie cannot supply the demands of the consumers.
" Although the French arc confessedly far
behind us in almost all mechanical contrivances,
and although their agricultural implements, parti-
cularly in the northern departments, are abso-
lutely miserable, yet there are some points of
theiw tuanagement which are not altogether un-
deserving our attentiz.n. Their waggons, for
instance, although sometimes yoked with eight
horses, and seldom with less than three or four,
have scarcely ever more than one pair of wheels,
and these wheels arc uniformly upwards of six
feet in diameter, and are strictly cylindrical, with,
out 4ny approach to the conical form. You will
readily perceive that in each of these particulars
there is a great saving of friction compared with
the heavy and cumbrous vehicles employed in
most parts of England. I incline to think, how-
ever, that the light Scotch cart, with a single
horse, ti:,c;:!.: two horses, en queue, is pre-
ferable to either.
" While on the subject of carriages, I may as
41 mention an obvious advantage possessed by
the public 6acr;: the streets of Paris over the
hackney-coaches in London an 4.
Other great
towns in England. The pole, in place of beingstraight, sing,:c, and of wood, as with us, is
made of malleable non, soi:cetimes in two parts
and sometimes in one, but always bent upwards,
in the front part, iM the form of a swan's neck,
so as to enable the fore-wheels to turn under it.
This, I assure you, is of the greatest use in the