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THE FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW,
No. 0-111., is just published.

CONTENTS.
1. The Reign of Terror: its 6. Friedrich Barondela Motto
Causes and Results Fouqu6
2. Characteristics of German 7. Mathilde : by Eugene Sue
Genius 8. Demidoff's Travels in Rua-
3. The Poems of Catulius sia
4. The German in England 9. Tasso and Chatterton
5. The Last Fifteen Years of ,10. The American Envoy and
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EARTHQUAKE at ST. DOMINUO.
A private letter from Cape Hayti (St. Domingo), dated the
14th of May. 1842, giving a description of the earthquake, has
just been received, and is particularly interesting from being
written from the very spot where the calamity occurred, whereas
the intelligence already received has come from Port-au-
Prince, which is quite in another part of the island. On
Saturday, the 7th of May, at about half-past five in the after-
noon, the city, according to this letter, was laid in ruins, and
it is supposed that half the inhabitants were at once destroyed.
Shock after shock had followed up to the date of the letter, and
at the very moment while it was being written one of the
severest had been felt, which lasted nearly a minute, instead of
a few seconds, being accompanied by a frightful subterraneous
noise, which is generally the forerunner of a shock. Fort
Dauphini had experienced the same fate, with the addi-
tional calamity of the powder magazine having blown up;
Gnnaives had been destroyed, but only one life lost ;
and Port de Paix, according to a report at the Cape, was
annihilated. The writer of the letter describes himself as
being in the upper part of his house at the time the
calamity occurred, and as having been dug from the
ruins, comparatively unhurt, half an hour afterwards. The
fallen walls had completely blocked up every street in the city,
and to pass along the ruins was a difficult and painful task.
Every house having fallen the several inhabitants were so
much occupied, each with his own affairs, that mutual assist-
am-0 was impossible. On the first days the misery of the in-
habitants was much increased by the people from the plains
ruThing, among the ruins for the purposes of plunder, and even
murder. Some awful cruelties were perpetrated. In one in-
stance, a woman had been found among the ruins with her
limbs broken, and these wretches, instead of assisting her,
tare off her necklace and the jewels from her ears. At the
date of the letter the marauders were quarrelling and mur-
dering one another, and the arrival of several companies of
the National Guard promised a stop to all such calamities as
did not proceed from merely natural causes. Famine and pes-
tilence were regarded with the greatest apprehension, par-
ticularly the latter, which might be occasioned by the number
of unburied carcase!. There is a singular fact recorded in this
letter, which is, that not one foreigner lost his life, excepting
daFrenchman from Cuba, who sought a refuge from his cre•
it

A NICE FAMILY.—A woman of the name of Ock-
well, in the hamlet of Downampney, Cricklade, Wilts, has
twenty-four children, all at home, and the eldest only eighteen
years of —Liverpool Journal.
EXTRAORDINARY CIRC UNISTANCE.—During the
violent storm of Tuesday se'nnight, some agricultural labour-
ers employed to carry home hay from a field at East Harnham,
drove the team from the spot at which they were standing,
where no rain had fallen, but when they reached the hay, the
shower fell so heavily, or, rather, in such torrents, that the
water ruse about them, and they were unable to move.—
St Herald.

I The following is the Report and Ordonnance on the
new linen tariff; extracted front the official Moniteur of
Monday last :
REPORT TO THE KING.
Sire,—Grave difficulties press at this moment on one
of our finest branches of industry—the linen manufac-
ture. The King and the Chambers have heard the ex-
pression of its suffering, and the Government has con-
tracted with the Legislature, which has just terminated,
an engagement to come to the aid of this great interest.
France found formerly in her own production the means
of providing with ease for the immense consumption which
she .had always had of cloths of flax and hemp, at the
same time that she exported to a considerable amount to
other countries. At present our exports are sensibly
diminished. The imports from abroad, which for twenty
years were stationary, now supply us with a constantly
increasing quantity of cloths, and- throw upon our
markets masses of threads, which in the space of ten
years have amounted, from 800,000 kilogrammes, to.
nearly 10,000,000, representing a value of 41,000,000 of
francs. We have even reason to fear that at the present
moment the arrivals exceed in a large proportion all an•
ticipations, as well as all actual wants. Such perturba-
tion, Sire, which is happily of rare occurrence in the
history of international commerce, has two leading
' causes. Whilst the importation of cloth is affected in a
neighbouring country with an 'entrance duty of 40 per
cent,, the mechanical means of linen spinning have been
in the same country practised with a rapidity and upon a
scale which leave behind all the efforts made by other na-
tions to participate in the advantages of this great disco-
very. The results of this revolution in manufactures were
naturally calculated to become injurious to us, ac in Fra rice
a deep-rooted and extensive practice of spinning by
hand necessarily rendered the adoption of the new pro-
cess less prompt. Our new spinning establishments have
not, therefore, -been able to support the shock of
foreign competition, and several of them have been com-
pelled to stop by the continually increasing invasion of
rival products. This is not all ; those threads in the pre-
paration of which the mechanical means employed per-
mit the use of textile material of inferior quality imported
from India and Oceania, are substituted in our linen
manufactures for the productions of superior quality of
our own soil. The agriculturists of France, therefore,-be-
hold the circle of their markets constantly narrowed both
at home and abroad, by the invasion of flax and hemp,
from other countries, introduced into France, in the
state of thread or silk. The ruinous consequences of
this state of things extend to sixty-five of our depart-
ments, in which the different branches of the hemp
trade had
.hitherto supplied employment to a popu-
lation, having no other resource. It has become
urge nt to apply a remedy. The law of the 6th May,
1841, had already attempted to confine within just
limits the competition of foreign threads in the
French markets. Desirous of proceeding in such a corn-
plicated
_question with reserve and moderation, we then
hoped that a protection of from 10 to 11 per cent. would
be a sufficient guarantee_ for our manufactures. This

hope has not been realised. An extraordinary reduction
of pri6e, the result of the progress of mechanical spin-
ning amongst our neighbours, and the use of less expen-
sive materials than curs, have overthrown the calcula•

oils and expectations of the legislator.

To check the

evil, an imposrtant augmentation of the present rate of
duty—an augmentation which for certain classes will
snore than double it—is an indispensable measure. We
have the honour to propose to your Majesty to modify
in this sense the tariff established by the law of May 6th,.
upon threads of flax and hemp. The augmentation of
the tariff upon threads necessarily leads to a similar mo-
dification in that upon cloths of the same materials, for
otherwise the equilibrium between the conditions of the

two co-relative 'branches would be destroyed, and our
spinners would hare to suffer from what should preserve
the spinning trade. But it would not be sufficient to place
upon cloth the increase now proposed upon thread ;
we must also fall back upon the augmentation
of duty which it underwent last year, and of which at the
time it was not thought necessary to take account. The
ordonnance, of which I submit the draft to your Majesty,
meets this double necessity. Sire, we. think that the
products of a bordering country in which the state of the
linen trade more resembles our own, might be excepted
from the measures which I have proposed, but the nego-
tiations entered into with Belgium, in order to secure for
us in return concessions in favour of our wines, salt, and
silks, not being yet concluded; we have been compelled
to postpone the exception until after the probable con-
clusion of these arrangements. Some rectifications of
the tariff of less importance, and some regulations, ac-
ccimpany these principal objects of -the new ordonnance.

Our seaports will find in them several concessions,
et-dated to facilitate the freighting of their vessels, and
to encourage diStant enterprise. Thus the arrangements,
which we have the honour to submit to your Majesty, at
the, same time that they will consolidate one of our oldest
branches of industry, will aid in the no less necessary
development of our maritime commerce.
- • (Signed) L. CUNIN GRIDAINE.
URDONNANCE.
_

Louis Philippe, King of the French, to all to whom
these presents :hall come, greeting. Considering Ar-
tile 34 or the 1:w of 17th December, 1814, the law of
the Bth Floreal, an 11; the decree of the 11th June,
1806 ; and the law of 27th February, 1832 ; the law of
the 3!li July, 1836 ; and upon the report of our Mini-
sters Secretaries of State of the Department of Agricul-
ture and Commerce, and of the Department of Finances,
we have ordained and do ordain as follows :
Art. 1. The customs duties on importation shall be
established or modified in the following manner, with re-
gard to the after-mentioned objects :

Per 100 Kilogrammes.

Flaxen and Hempen Threads,
measuring per kilogramme. Raw. Bleached. Dyed.
Plain.

6,000 metres, or less 3Bf. 54f. 58f.
Upwards of 6,000 metres, and
not more than 12,000 metres 48 66 70
Upwards of 12,000 metres, and
not more than 24,000 ....
Upwards of 24,000 metres 125 163 160
Twisted.
6,000 metres, or less 44 61 70
Upwards of 6,000 metres, and
not more than 12,000 metres 60 81 86
Upwards of 12,000 metres, and
not, more than 24,000 metres 104 136 134
Upwards of 24,000 metres
Threads of different species and classes must, under
the penalties established by the law of 6th May, 1841,
be presented at the Custom-house in separate bales or
packages, so that in each bale or package there may be
only threads of one and the same class.
Linen or hempen cloths without distinction as to the
mode of importation.
Plain Cloths presenting more or less decouverts in the
space of five millimetres.

Bleached,
Raw. half beached, Dyed.
and printed.
Less than 8 Threads - 60f. 90f. 90f.
8 Threads BO 116 116
9, 10, and 11 Threads 126 191 146
12 Threads
13, 14, and 15 Threads 2Ol 306 216
16 Threads
17 Threads 287 457 317
18 and 19 Threads
20 Threads 342 567 380
More than 20 Threads 467 817 537
Table linen, the chain of which presents more or less
decouveris in the slate of five millimetres :...._
Worked less than 16 threads, the same duty as on plain
cl,,ths of 16 threads.
16 threads and upwards, the same duty as on plain cloths
according to their fineness.
Damasked, the same duty as on worked cloths, with an
addition of 20 per cent.
Bed-ticken. without distinction of fineness......... 21 9r.
Twilled cloths called coutils :
For hangings or bedding ................................ 212
For clothing, raw ...................................... 322
otherwise ................................ 364
Dyed flaxen or hempen cloths for foot-carpets of
less than 8 threads in the 5 millimetres ......... 75
Threads and cloths of flat or hemp imported through
the land-frontier eustotn-hOuses situated from Armen-
tieres to La Maison, near Longwy, inclusively, shall not.
be subjected to the above duties until the 20th of July
next, unless it be otherwise ordained.
Mahogany wood imported in French ships from India,
and other countries out of Europe, one half of the pre-
sent duties.
The premium granted on the exportation of pieces of
furniture made of solid mahogany, or veneered, is re-
/laced to one-half.
Cigars and other manufactured tobacco imported on
account of the Government, in French ships :
From countries out of Europe...... Present duties.
From Entrepots.... ...................................... 7f.
In foreign ship.; or by land .............................. 15
Cachou en masse, imported from India in French

ships. ................................................ 10
Curcuma in the root imported from 1ndia...,,,,,, 10
Sul [2ha te of potasse ....................... ............. 10
Printing characters, old and out of use, imported
exclusively for the purpose of being re-cast, sub-
ject to be broken at the Custom-house, if they
are found applicable to other purp05e5....,,,,,,,, 10
Cocoa-nuts die same duties as on foreign fruits.
Produce imported from the western coast of Africa,
direct by French vessels.
Yellow and brown wax, from Senegal, per 100 kilos, 3f.
Ditto from other parts of the coast, sf.
Resinous exotics, not already mentioned, from Sene-
gal, 25f.
Ditto from other parts of the coast, 50f,
Produce from Martinique and Guadaloupe.
Cassia (unprepared), 20f.
Anatto, same duty as on that of French Guyana.
Wooden clocks, with metal movements, 2f. each.
All -others the present duty.
Undressed ornameatal feathers, white, the present
duties.

Metallic pens, if not of gold or silver, 4f. the kilo.
Flax cornbv., with iron or copper teeth, same duty as
for firming instruments.
Ditto with steel teeth, same duty as pure steel tools.
FrLEs.—All files having eight lines (tailles) or less
.to
the centimetre are to be considered as common files ;
beyond that number they arc tobe classed as fine files.
Charcoal of wood or hemp.- stalks, by the custom-
houses between Mont St. Martin qnd Sierck inclusively,
1 centime per metre cube.
Ore, auriferous and argentiferous, 20 centimes the
100 kilo.

Talc, .50 centimes the 100 kilos.
Art. 2. The bureau (custom-house) of St. Laurent-du-
s'ar'is added to those indicated by the law of July 2,
1836, for admitting prepared plaster at a duty of 10 cen-
times the 100 kilos.

Arta 3. The privelege of bonding salt is granted to
the town of Gravelines, on the conditions presented by
article 25 of the law of the Bth Floreal, an 11, 21, and
22, of the decree of June, 1806, and 9 and 10 of the law
of February 27, 1832.
Art. 4. Italian pastes (macaroni, vermicelli, &c.). will
pay in Corsica an import duty of 15f. the 100 killo-
grammes. The export of cork (inner bark) from Cor-
sica to foreign ports is prohibited. It will continue to
be received in the ports of Algeria under the French do-
minion, at the duty fixed by the law of July 2, 1830,
Given at the Palace of Neuilly, June 26, 1842.
(Signed) LOUIS PHILIPPE.
(Countersigned) L. CUNIN GRIDAINE.

THE GOLD CURRENCY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN:
Sin,—Through the medium of your truly independent
Journal I wish to draw the attention of the public at
largo to the farce that is now playing with, the gold cur-
rency, just as though the middle and lower classes of the
community were not in sufficient difficulties at the
present time, with an increase of taxation staring them
in theface in the shwa of an Income and Property-tax—
a tax of all others the most to be condemned, because not
needed ! Yet, with this vexatious proceeding, we have
another to accompany it—that is, a complete derange-
ment of trade by a late proclamation, declaring that
gold, under a certain weight, is not a legal tender,
thereby inflicting a minors loss on the already half-
starved mechanic, and as well causing great loss and in-
convenience to the tradesman. In my opinion a more
ill-timed proceeding never emanated from any Adminis-
tration, Whig or Tory, and to meet this act of the Go-
vernment Ipropose to the public generally, one and all,
to walk off to the Bank of England and its branches with
all the notes they can procure and demand gold that is
weight, and by which means we shall see how far their
gold will meet the amount of paper issued.
Liverpool, June 21, 1842.

J. M.

HAT
.A PLAGUE MY MONEY
IS TO ME.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sia,—l have struggled hard to save a little money,
and on consulting a friend whose head I thought was
longer than my own, he advised me to place it in Sir R.
Bassett's bank ; I did so, but I had not done so a month
when some fiend of evil spread a report,, which caused a
heavy run, and I was advised to get out my money and
place it at bank. Fortunately I could not get
the cash without giving three months' notice, and long
before that time expired the bank had failed : at the end
of the three months I got my money and interest, and
was a:lviied to convert my Bank of England notes into
sovereigns, for fear of the former being forged or stolen
paper. I now thought myself safe, and though my
money was unproductive I thought it would not lose its
value, happen what might, and that I had better lose the
interest than the whole. Now comes a story that my
sovereigns are not worth more than nineteen shillings
and sixpence each, and many of them perhaps not so
much ; so that in the last three months, instead of mr
capital producing interest I have lost by each 1001
ill. 10s. at the least. Pray, Mr. Editor, tell me if this be
true, or if this ruse is only played off to favour the
banks and bring paper money into credit : it certainly
has that effect ; a month since you might have almost
2s well have asked a pernon for five of his front teeth as
to give to you five sovereigns for a five pound note ; then
all were anxious to get rid of their paper—now all are
trying to get rid of their gold ; to get change for a
sovereign is quite out of the question, you must sell it at
a loss. It was said, from the immense number of failures,
that it would be all up with banks and bank paper, that
nobody would think of keeping anything but gold ; but
we did not then know what a card Sir Robert had to
play in the currency game—there never was such a
fellow for tricks : pray tell us, if possible, what his next
move is likely to be, and you will greatly oblige,
Mr. Editor, yours, TOM PIGEON.
Newport, Isle of Wight, June 21.