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POPLEIGAT.

There is considerable variety in the original columns of the
Paris Journals. .The Presse and the National 'have articles
on the proposed augmentation of the duties on linen-thread and
linens, which they describe as an' of justice. The Presse ob-
serves that the linen trade in England has flourished under
the protection of the prohibitive system, and that at this tno-
ment there is in England an enormous duty upon French
linens, to justify the imposition of a higher rate of duty in France
on the linen-thread and linens imported from that country.
The National writing upon the same subject .observes :
"We would wish to see the duty on linen thread raised to 50
per cent., and if our enemies-are astonished at this, we beg
of them to remember that the British duties levied en our
brandies are from 660 to 1,200 per cent., on our wines 200
per cent., and on our silks 60 per cent. It Sir Robert wishes
to reduce .those duties, let hiss begin, and let the French
Government reduce their duties in a similar proportion. Con-
cessions should be met by concessions, but to a prohibitive
system, which it war, France should only reply by war or by
the same prohibitive system. The reprisals demanded by us
are at the satee time just acid dignified. If they are net
adopted, our home linen trade will not be relieved, and our
most important importations will be suffered to perish."
The Courrier Francais, which seine time ago showed that,
notwithstanding the differences which had arisen between the
Governments of Great Britain and the United States, it was
so much to the interest of each to abstain from war that there
was really very little danger of an open rupture, now returns
to the subject, and cautions those persons who have been spe-
culating on a war between Great Britain and America as a fa-
vourable occasion for hostility to the former on the part of this
country. Such advice from such a quarter, although qualified
by an appeal to national resources, cannot fail to be productive
of good ; for nothing perhaps canduces so much to plunge na-
tions, like individuals, into contests, as the expectation of an
accession of force by a junction with Others, or the division of
the forces of the party with whom a conffet is anticipated. When
men are wise enough to count upon ttfeir own means, and upon
them only, they are in most cases wise enough to prefer peace
to hostility. _ -

The Ilioniteur Parisien announces that the Prince de Join-
vile and the Duke d'Aumale, who were to leave Paris for Eng-
land at the close of the month, have given up that intention for
the present.
According to the Atgsburq Gazette of the 29th, the Rus-
sian Minister of War, Prince ,Tschernistscheff, has repaired to
the armies assembled for the projected operations against Cir-
cassia, to adjust some serious differences that had broken out
among the Generals entrusted with the command of different
corps.
MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
It is not generally known that newspapers are sent and re-
ceived through the post, free of any charge, to the following
foreign kingdoms and towns not under the drminion of Great
Britain, viz., Denmark, Spain, Hamburgh, Lubeck, Cuxhaven,
Bremen, Hayti, Peru, Honduras, Brazils, Buen Is Ayres, La
Guayra, Colombia, and Caraccas.

ELECTIONEZTLING.
The Ipswich election closed on Friday, when Lord Desart
and Mr. Gladstone, the Conservative candidates, were returned.

LAW POLICE.
A Greenwich pensioner, of the 'name of Proctor, was com-
mitted on Frdiay at the Greenwich'Police Court to take his
trial for stabbing one of his comrades. - The prosecutor, it ap-
peared, had.thrown some beer into his face, and the pri4onor,
an old man, in a fit of passion, stabbed him twice with a knife
which he had lip his sleeve.
At Guildhall, William Lee, an errand boy in the service of
Mr. Watson, quill-merchant, Leadenhall-street, was committed
on a charge of stealing about 201. from a cash-box, the pro.
perty of his master. The sister, of the pi isoner stated that on
receiving aietter in the countrtfrem Mr. Watson intimating
that if the money were returned he would not prosecute, she
came to town with the intention of paying the amount missing
out of her wages, and in order that her brother, whom she
brought with her, might not escape she called a policeman to
take charge of him, and the policeman insisted upon bringing
him before the 'Magistrate.
Joseph Bolton, the footman to Rear-Admiral Bouverie, who
stood charged at Portsmouth with having attempted the life of
Louisa Pettis, the lady's maid in the same family, hasbeen fully
committed for trial.