The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-09 00:00:00

TR ANSL tTION.

SlR,—Allow me to call your attention to the accom-
panying Report on the line to be adopted in Prance for
the international railway uniting London and Paris.
The evident interest which the two nations have that
the communication between the:capitals should be by
the shortiest, easiest, and:most- regular route, assures me,
that on reading► our Report, you will recognise the ad-
vantages that the port of Boulogne possesses. • The ad-
mirable works which have
.given it such a depth of
water, found in no neighbouring port, and rendering the
passage in and out so easy, have made it selected by
three-fourths of the travellers between France and
England ; and this in spite of the great advantage accru
ing to Calais from the packet-boats—compelled to. go
there. Without this privilege (attaching to CalaiS), we
may safely assert that Boulogne would always be the
chosen port for passing from and to Franco and England, it
being even now the point chosen for the embarkation of
the Indian mail, and all commercial couriers. _

These facts being but little known, as they date their
origin only five or six years back, at most, I feel it my
duty to make them known, in order that public opinion
may from accurate information decide on that line
from London and Paris, which appears the best adapted
for the interest of the two nations.

It will not escape your notice that our plan, when
fully executed, will possess the additional advantage of
:opening to all the English ports a communication with
the different branches of the Great Northern Railway by
all the French ports from Dunkirk to Havre.

Our desire being to inforth the public, by bringing
facts and proofs before the principal organs of public
opinion, I have thought, Mr. Editor, that you would be
good enough to insert, in your publication, an extract
from our work, and so associate yourself with all the
measures calculated to strengthen the union between two
groat nations.
I have the honour to be, Mr. Editor, your obedient.
servant, THE MAYOR OF BOULOGNE.
[AL. Aunt.]
Boulogne, 29th January, 1842.

CORN GROWN IN AMERICA. .
The American Almanac for the present year contains
the agricultural statistics of the United States for 1840,
as taken by the marshals appointed for that purpose. as

iJiows :--

Corn and wheat 371,110,902 bushels.
Eye
Oats
Bue'c wheat 7,392,018 „
Potatoe3
liarley • , 4,040,094 „
76,154,731 lb.

Klee

Sugat
Togs 20,'563,888 number of

if Vv..
Sheep
Neat cattle 12,957,301 ,
Poultry (value of) 16,742,591 dollars.
Dairy (value of products) 33,959,681 „
Orchards (rake of)
T 1 he returns from North Carolina, Kentucky, 'lllichi-
gan, Vlorida, end the Wisconsin territory, not having
Beet! received in time for publication in the Almanac,
are not included in the above statement ; so that, in cal-
culating the average anionrit of grain to each individual,
we must deduct the population of these States. It ap-
petird, then, that the harvest of the yvar 1840 gave fo
the remaining 15,500,000 inhabitants of the United States
1)00,000,000 bushels of grain, in addition to a plentiful
supply of nil other ttftleles of food, This Om; a frac-
tion more than thirty-two bushels of grain to every-LI,
habitant, which is just about seventeen bushels more
that! the average supply of the people of Great Britain
anti itellattd, taking the population at 27,000.000, and the
annual supply of grain of all kinds at 50.000,000 quar-
ters, or 400,000,000 bushels. We find 'that Mr. Mac-
queen, a favourite authority among She landowners,
estimates the value of all the landed property in this
kingdom at 5,000,000,000. On what data he has made
this calculation, we have not been able to ascertain ; but
if it be founded oii a fair estimate of what the agricul-
tural produce of Ene.,visind would sell for in the open
market of the world, it is evident, measured by,the same
scale, the landed property of that portion of the United
States already under cultivation would be worth at least
1,000,000,000 morethan that of Great Britain.

`WIGAN MEMORIAL TO THE MA YOR.--•
The Tories, in the true spirit of the party, refused to a man,
to sign the late memorial, soliciting the Mayor of Wigan to
call a public meeting, for the purpose of considering the best
means of alleviating the distressed conditioo of the poor. This
is pure Toryism—professing sympathy and practising it are
two different things. —Liverpool Chronicle.
On Sunday last, a child ,was born in the parish.
of flocking, and named Thomas Har,"is, who has now living
two great grandfathers and two great grondmothers, a grand-
father and grandmother, on his father's sin a;
and on his mo-
ther's, a great grandfather and great grandmOther, besides a
grandfather and grandmother—making ten of th,',se x ncest ors
in all. If the whole were collected together at the cr...‘ris'ening,
it was a grand set out.— Essex Herald.
FRENCH BREA D-EA eFrench havt.'s
of old, been noted as lin at bread. eaters. They have a proved; Paintant gtt'il dure, in a mesare," which may be translated,
Eat bread at pleasure,
Drink Wine by measure.
Randle Cotgrave, in his Dictionary published in 161), ob-
serves that the proverb contains" a precept which the French
observe in the first (howsoever in the second) part; for "
people eat more bread, nor have better bread to eat, than they."
Mr. Davidge was buried yesterday at the Ceme-
teryat Norwood.