Star.
London, England, 1829-04-24 00:00:00

COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED AT
FOREIGN OFFICE, BRLATIVB TO WATT!.

(Detracts from.)
.-01INZIRAL lumucitusug TOM.. SIC. MINI UM).
Pert-so-Peitscs, Nov. 50,, 3111.
Various circunsstances conspire to render it difficult
to draw up any accurate account of the commerce of
Hayti, during the period of revolution and of civil, war,
which embraces thirty.one years, beginning in 1791,
and ceding in 1822. ' - ••• ••
Nearly the whole of the foreign commies of the
Republic is conducted by.foreign merchants, as the cre-
dit of the natives is not so generally established, either
at home or abroad, as to command the confldeneid
Utopian and North American shippers; but the
ness of the foreigner is eaceediagly limited by the Wit
article of the law of patents. ••• •••
The purchasers from the foreigner cannot, under such
regulations, be the great body of consumers. An fete!.
mediate class is thus.created, chiefly if not exelositiely
composed of women, calledmarchandes, who employ a
number of hucksters that traverse the costar yi attend dye
marbets, and give an account of their transaction t.
their employers, either every evening, once a week,. or•
once a month, according to theiecharacters. Many of
the merchandes are high in credit, and fulfil their en-
gagements with the most scrupulous integrity ; though
too many of them have been made the scape-goats for
their husbands or keepers, who, after having consue.ed
all that they coolJ obtain on credit from the foreigner',
leave them to their fate. Those, however, who maintain
their reputation, generally pay the merchants once a
fortnight, or even at shorter periods. Formerly the
credits were much more extensive. On the Gast opening
of the Hayden trade, the foreigner imported chiefly on
his own account,. he was cautious in his credits, and
thus made money. His success led a host of commis•
sion merchants over, who, to command the market,
gave unlimited credit. This has proved rno.t ruinous,
and the consequence has been restricted credits.
In this way the consumers are chiefly supplied with
foreign goods. There are, however, some Europeans
and Americans that carry on a retail trade through the
women that cohabit with them. .. ..
The following may be considered the ckief imports
from Great Britain s.Priested cottons of all kinds.
English and ScotCh manufacture; minting, the same;
*mon slintings, cotton eambrics, handkerchiefs in irni.
.tation of Madras, cotton checks. dicnities,, stockings.
quilting., ginghams, Irish and Scotch linens, platillas,
white and brown britaneas, tenting', osnaburghs, cottotsi
and coffee bagging, woollen cloths, bombasiiss;
mongery of most kinds, tin ware, Staffordshire ware,
glass of all kinds, cutlery, paints, paint oil, cordage.
army accOotreMentsand ammisnition ;some India goods,.

me.com,

are also shipped born Britain.
France supplies wk.., cheese, taffetas, beet, buster,
satins, liqueurs, lard, silk shawls, brandy, Perfumery,
silk stockings, oil, bats. confectionary, preserved fruits,
shoes and lwots, jewellery, linens, ornaments of all sorts,
tays, ribands, parasols. gloves, cambric,. Indiennes,
saddlery, hardware, military accowtrements sod deco.
rations, hsndkerchifs, and some lesser articles.
From Holland the importations are small, and consist
of linens of different qualities, chiefly Gerinan, cotton
ati,l coffee bagging, Russia duck, linen checks, ii:fetior
woollens, Hock and Rhenish wines, Spa and Seltzer
water, cheese, hams, butter, lard, gin, cordage, paint
and paint oil, hardware..
The small shipments fr-sm Germa .y consist of linens
of the same kinds above enumerated, of some printed
cottons, muslin., bagging, ironware, and similar articles,
as from Holland.
The imports from Vie United States are confined to
lumber, provisions of different kinds, and some India
goods, which can be introduced on lower terms than
from Europe. The North American trade with Hayti
has been uninterrupted since the revolution. ...
In the exports we have better materials for forming
an opinion, even though impertect ; f r we have returns,
of them for 1822. 1823,1824, 1825, and the three first
quarters of 1826. By these we perceive that clayed
sugar, which under the French rule was the greatest
object of export, has ceased altogether; that the mus-
cora& es exported, which in the first year of the sm-
utted series amounted to 600,000 pounds, or about 300
large hogsheads', fell off in 1825 to 2,020 pounds, or
somewhat better than one hogshead ; and, in 1826.
would (adding one-third to the.sum of dime first quar-
ters) to 41,697 pounds, or about 21 hogsheads. The,
quantity of syrup (that is, the inspissated juice of the,
cane, previous to the for otati•in of sugar) exported in
18'22 amounted to '211,927 pounds; since that year it
does not appear that a single pound has been exported.
Coffee, Inc present staple, war, exported in 1812 to
the amount of 24.235.372
:pounds. In 1823 it in-
creased about 9.000,000, continued to do so in 1824
nearly 11.000;000 more. makicg a twat increase of
about 20,000,000 of pounds, but in 1825 diminished to
little more than a total of 36,000,000, being a positive
reduction of 8,000 000 from the produce of the pre-
ceding year. In the three first quarters of the current
year the total amount shipped is a trifle more than
26,500,000; if to that we add one-third, tat Aso.
plete the estimate for the whole year, we shall !kid 11101
total not to be quite $5,6Q0.000, which is a decreaseot
' more than 5,000,000 pounds on the preceding year's
export.
Cotton, which is gathered in very small quantities,
has fluctuated from about 300,000 to 1,000,000 of
pounds; but, upon the whole, the quantity up to the
present period would seem to diminish.
Cacao has varied from 300,000 pounds to about
460,000 pounds; but latterly the quantity does not
seem to increase.
It is not a little romorkable Chet logworid, which est•
lair's cr" should in 1822 itav exceeded

_ it° cultivatioo, _
7,500,000 pounds, and have gradually fallen off, till in
1828 it amounted to less than a halt of that quantity ;
and even with the addition of one-third, it does not
amount in 1826 to 4,80Q,000 pounds.
Indigo has ceased altogether to be an export, although
Is 180 about 1,400 pounds were shipped.
Lianas vita bas Increased in quantity; in 1885 it
aras4 as will- be seen in the table, fully doable what it
.wns in 189.14-and with the ebtimated addition in the
Iptesent year, lt would be still more. •
Mahogany hu varied from about two and a half to
does jamom of sapsehial het.
_.'
firm Om 'bele, wish a very lbw sweepsiosa of no
peel Mee. the imparts as well as tba went may be
sad to ban fails* cdr fa *spa dere with* *OA*,
'lry ion. te • tO.

fls wareboosing system bas within this year been'
partially adopted.
• ma. fIONSUI, ONSABAL KACNINZia TO
JOSEPH PLA NTA, 14(1.
Promae-triarce. Dee. it, Iles.
Sits.-. 00 the flech alt. I bad' the homer to receive
yob dispatch of the 111th September, incltising a copy
of Queries transissiuted from the Colonial Department...
I take the qneries in the order in which they have been
proposed.
Ist. Whether the Segar Plantations have considerably
dieeinished?
They ate almost entirely annihilated. The plain of
Cul•de-sac, which was formerly an immense sugar gar
dee. bas now Upon*it only fiat plantations of any rzteht
These ere considered the best in the island. G(netally
speaking, no sugar is menefictured on the estates de-
voted to the saltivation of the sugar cane. The juice
is either inspissated to a coarse syrup, and sold for com-
noon lac or distilled into a very inferior rum, called here
utafia.“ The Aetnal state of the plantation called Tor,
which belongs to the only surviving daughter of the
,late Pruddeet, and is now under the management of
thillVisellt bailout, may be considered a pietist* of
tile laser eoltivation throughout the whole country.
Formerly 11,700 Carreaes (each containing aboot
Killers French feet) werein canes. above 1,510 slaves
were emp'oyed upon it ; three sugar mills were con.
gently at work. and excellent clayed sugar was made.
Now abut seven carreaus are in cultivation ; nr t fifty
labourers are employed ; and the only produce is a little
syrup And tafia, which last is retailed in i small shop by
the road side, in front of the President's residence.
The correctness of this statement is abundantly sop
ported by the fact, that the entire ex
port-of sugar from
the whole of Hayti, last year, was only 2,020 lbs. while
that in '1789 was 47,516,551 lbs. of clayed roger, and
99 1173.900 lbs. of muscovado.
'2J. Whether those who work on them are coloured
people or blacks?
The labourers maybe considered all blacks, the
number of coloured people's° employed being exceed-
ingly small ; the latter are commonly the mena3ers and
Over seers.

Sd. Whether the labour be voluntary or compulsory ?I
Most aistinctly compulsory,_ as will be seen by the
teem of the accompanying copy orthe Code Rural:.
4th. If the latter, whether the whip be used to com-
pel the labour ? •
By the law. the use of the whip has been long abo-
lished, but military men hare the privilege of using a
thick stick; and as all are militaty proprietors, I appre-
head thatsat present, as it was certainly the case under
'lslaniasaint. D:ssalines, and Christophe, corporal punibh-
namitof thatitind is very olten inflicted, though in op.
papiele. to the law..—an opposition of practice to theory
not very uncommon in Hayti.
sth. And whether, if it be employed, females are
equally subject to it?

I have no evidence that women are eve! punished
with a whips but were I to judge from the general
conduct of the men to the women, I should be inclinrd
to infer that the latter may suffer frotts.the same viola-
tion of the 14w with the mer., tow hich I have just ail-
vorted.—.l. boo the honour to be, &c.
1 ‘141) CHA ELKS MACK ENZIE.
TO-Jos47 10 sats,..l4q. &e.

... ... .. ...
OON$ITL•Od1. MACKENZIE TO MR. AFC CANNING.
Port•au.Pritscr, sth filArcb, ISM

The aunotint of Iltitish im;•ortr into Hayti d.ies not
exceed, by the shoaing of thr Gmernment, 1.457.281
&dials; and of exports on British account, 1 963'332
dollars. . • ••• •••
The insupwrahle indolence of the population, the ex-
' tr aordinai y facility of acquiring the means of JU ce,
render any chance of improvement hopeless; added to
this, the,. no but one staple article of export from 1-I.lyti,
vie. coffee, the cultivation of which has been so rapidly
Rad enormously extended in ticker parts of tie world as
to reduce its value largely. The loss in remittances has
;been suck as to reduCeoccasionallythe value of the cur-
sent dollar to threy shillings sterling This diminution
of value in the principal exchangeable prOduce lessens
the means of purchasing foreign manufactures; and ac-
cordingly, in the country the labourers are, generally,
speaking, nearly naked; in fact, adults only wearing
what is barely necessary to prevent indecent exposure,
while the children of both sexes run about withoet co-
vering of any kind. Tbese are the greatest consumers of
every doUntry.
From these facts, and that of the very small amount
of population (423,000), it seems scarcrly possible for
the import or repent trade to increase very.moeh. •
(Signed) CHARLES MACKENZIE..
The Right Hen. George Cueing. am.

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MI., emu& azosiat mocitsusas so woo NAIL or DOOLEY;
Lembo, March 10, tine
As soon as Tonissaint bad established sufficient power,
which happened very soon alter he took a decided lose
in the Colony, heplaced the whole of the agricultural
system under the direction of Denalines (afterwards
Emperor), and Moyse (his own, nephew), as Inspectors
Generals to these individuals were subordinate the in-
spectors of districts, who in their turn had under their
authority the proprietors, farmers, and managers of the
plantations throdghout the Colony.
'lle whole of these officers possessed unlimited autho-
rity over their subalterns, and all concur in describing
the system to hive been as arbitrary and despotic as
possible. The cart whip was abolished, but thick sticks,
'the stems of creeping plants called in Hayti " banes,"
were used without scruple; and not unfrequently the
sabre, the musket, and even burying alive, were resorted
to as punishments for refractory gangs. or
.44 ateliers."
I was told in the neighbourhood of Cayes, by one of
the most respectable proprietors there, that he himself
had witnessed the flogging of a woman (by the eider of
Deeselines); the was big with child, and the punish-
ment so severe that abortion took place on the spot.

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The system of dividing the land iato small allot-
ments, is every part that I have visited, has certainlyu
had the effect of rendering it exceedingly difficult to
collect bodies 'of labourers, as each individual can either
Sod, or pretend to find, abundant occupation at halite.
I only know of one g. Atelier" of ISO labourers, owthe
estate of the present Treasurer General, Nay, in the
' Cul. de-Sac ; another of Gemmel florgnella.nsat the city
of Santo Domingo, of 100; and on the property of Ge.
omit Marion, pear the city of Cayes, of 60... These list'
are a gang of North Americans, who were paralleled
sad freed hy a Society of Qesteri..
The coaseqesece of this is, that it is very dillicidt,
not hopoesibler to carry on sugar cultivation to any

lizteer: The presets I:l2vernmentlitent to have felt the
lembe ressatesit vesehissfrose this messur e, and- of late
rims-seised to mike the smell greats thetervrettrinetly
es very liberally snide to almost every applicant... ...
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••• ••
CHARLES IIACEENZIL
iIIUkONNOL leildlniatia To TIM EAU. ttl MMLIBT.
Louden. March 51,
it h estimated that then am-About five hundred
elitism, is canes, is a y,rsetched state of cukivation, in
the whole.plake of Cayes. The land is !weer meowed,
aid scarcely ever wmdedseadoely avert of each tear's
produce is converted in.dasolasses. This mires princi-
pally from idleness; to which may be added the skive.
dations of cattle, owing to bad fence*, and the *lawn
total impassibility of repairing sugar-works, fr..m a
want of washes's, and the bad faith of ell-parties coo-
caged.
About 2000 hogsheads of raw sugar, of 1 000 lbs.
eiehb may be aseeldered the mmrame quantity produced
by those estatie; but it fleetest"s vet y ouch—one year
equips =sadists the mileage considepably, and thi
hMlooawrlag Igo decreasing So alestm ouches's.
Theaveittincptesteeeof syrup in the plain of
is About 2,000,000 lbs. eensally 4 but in camel thence of
the 'mutually (*wearable Watt of 1826.3,000,000
'was produced ; and about 203 casks of teltar, of 200
pounds each (of very bad quality), procured front the
granulations of the syrup, and afterwards put into fl.itsr
barrels to drain.
The sugar nut being sufficient for the con umpi .n of
Cayes, about the same quantity is anima:ly smuggled
into that part of the island from Cuba. This isac:ua ly
less than was produced lions one estate (Lvborde's) in
the plain of Cayes, dui ing the time of the French. Few
of the plantations make more titan from three to four
hogsheads of syrup per week, and that g' neralty at
distant periods, very few havittg the poser, from Want
of manual lab"ur, ct grinding eases two or three weeks
in succession.

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The very little field labour effected is generally per-
formed-by elderly people, 'principally old Guinea ne.
groes. No measures of the Government can induce the
young creolra to labour, or depart lrom their habitual
licentiousneis and vagrancy.. The whole body 01 pre..
prietors constantly lament the total is e 'picky of the
Government to enforce labour. ••• ••• •••
The lows recognise no ether punishment th in fine and
imprisonment with hard labour, aliliongb it is no un-
common thing to see the soldiery and military police
use the ',plat de itttircr..enteoco maeac (a. spec es of
heavt jointed cane), in a most arbitrary and some inies
eine! manner; but almost always; from the natural ob-
stinacy of the negro, without the intended elect.
The few young iernales that live on plantations rel.

dory assist in any labour 'whatever, but live in a con-
stant state of idleness and deb4chery. Tins i•tolirater
by the soldiery sod military polite, abase licentious .ess
is grati6edbi this means . ••• •• ,
Money is ant at 75 per cent. per annum ... ...
The arro di.sensants of St. Marc trod Govaives.ave
chiefly devote‘ausuthejcench. Swam) the. -growth
of cotton ; bit tlie quantity las decremervtry much.
, ••• •
„, • '
The emir/• ci untry to Port-au-Psi..• ur, either by
!gibe or San Juan, is either entirely utaculivated, or
occupied by grazing farms v ith small pri.vislosn
grounds. The weans of subsistence, either fur the
ttavalet or bit cattle, are so scanty that it is nece.i.gy,
to early every thing, even corn for horses, in passing
over it . ••• ••• •••

Cloyed sugar, which, in the French time, formed so
imp!!rtant an article of earn, that in 1789 the q
ttt7*exceeded 47.500,000 Clench pow-ds, dimii ished
under Toussaint's Government to about 16 500-poonds ;
in 1818, undeiPetion's :lie, there were only 198 pounds;
in 1819, 157 pounds ; and in 1820, 2,767 pounds ; since
which it has ceased appear.on the mums.
Raw Sugar was formerly of still more importance ;
for it will be seen, on reference to the table, that ire
quantity exported in 1789 exceeded 93,500000 French
pounds; in MI it fell off to better than 1X .500;QX);
in 1818 it amounted to better-than 6500.000. •frron
which it progressively declined to 2,020 p .unds in 1825 ;
io 182611 again advanced to nearly 33,000 pounds.
Coffee. too, has not 'made greater progreso. In 1789
the expos t of this article amounted to-78,835,219 pounds;
in 1801 it had declined to 43,420,270 pounds; in 181811
sustained a still tattler reduction to little mote Man
26,000,000; front 1819 to 1824 it varied ft om 29,000 000
toabove'44.ooo.ooo; and in the two :übseqiient years it
bas fallen off, first to little more than 36,000,000, and
lastly to a mile beyond 32,000,000, or less than four.
ninths of what it was in 1780.

C4C4O does nit appear to have been exported by the
Flinch colonists, and only 648,518 pounds were shiptvd
under "roussaint ; but since the republic has been c tor.
►fished, the quantity: has varied tram neatly 500.000
to 264,000 pounds.
Indigo bad been in some measure abandoned by the
old French colonists, yet in 1789 the amount exported
exceeded 750,000 pounds. Oily 804 %es. ►hipped by
Toussaint, and 1,240 in 1824, since which no meAtou
is made of it in the official returns.
blolasses'or sytnp was an article of limited 'semi
prior to the revolution, owing to the grewer perfection
in the art of making sugar. It ansranted to 25,749
pounds in 1789; to 99,419 in 1801 ; within the last
nine, only once (in 1822)211,917 pounds were shipped.
Nearly. if not the whole is consumed, as has been
already described in the manufActuie of tatiai.
The French exported no dye woods (:bich inciede
logwood, fustic, and lignite' vita); ►ut 6,768,6344b5.
were sent from the island in 1801. kimenteen starsefter
it had increased to 6,819,3011b5. It then did tio 1620)
amount to 2,000,000; rose to 3,700,000—t0 oboist
6000,000; fell to 6,600,000—t0 3.858,151.; rose to
3,968,190, and in 1826 increased still further to
5,307,745 pounds.
Formerly there was no .trade in bides, brie /918
the small number of 98 was shipped. On On mil* of
the Spanish part with the Republic the nensbet increased
to $5,780; since which they have been 114 IOW as
24,524, and in 1826 as high as 64,641; so that it may
be regarded as the most improving ►ranch of tribe►
The growth- .of tobacco, too, bas meth int ileased„ -
chiefly from the east. From 1818 to 1924tbe numbe► cf
pounds shipped rose from about 1,900 to shore 718.000;
and in the two subsequent years they have declined,
&MA° about 500,000 pounds, and secondly, to 240,588.
Since the ye* 1822 (that of the salon of the • hole
island under oat Govessesesti cigars have Wen menu-
factored both for boas s►ad foreign ow. I base, no
'Means of estimating the former; the gunflinf must be

large, •as the use of tobacco -is universal. It appears,
however, that those consumed abroad have varied from
175,000 to nearly 400,000. The causes of these fluctu-
ations I have not ascertained.
Tortoise shell (also principally procured in the east)
A 11,10 increased from about 320 pounds annually, to above
12.000; 11).1826, however, only 8,622 pounds were ex-
ported.
• Mahogany is perhaps the most remarkable fact aft..
fitting the general position I consider established by the
tables of exports. It is to be remarked that though
mahogany. like the dye woods, requires no cultivation,
yet it requires more labour in cutting down, and in
fashioning for the European or American market. It
therefore partakes of the character of systematic la-
-6 Our, combined with no necessity for cultivation; in
fact, the business ii chiefly performed by nature, and a
small portion is left to the Hayden. •
In Toussaint's time only about 5.000 superficial feet'
- were exported ;in 1818 nearly 150,000. and in 1825'
not far short of three millions' In. 26 the quantity
exceeded two millions of superailtAltot. The labour
necessary for fitting mahogany for-thipment of late di-
. seedy counteracts its augmentation in the same ratio
with that of the dye-woods.
Within six years bullocks' horns to a small extent,
. from 4.000 to 17,600 have been • exported, as well as
firm 2 854 pounds to 13,526 of yellow wax, and from
7,338 to 68,692 pounds of gum guiacum.
The general results of this table appear fully to jus.
• tify the conclusion of the decline ok systematic industry,
and the advance of whatever, tholgh chiefly done by
nature, limy be finished at uncertain periods by man.
CHARLES MACKENZIE.

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• 01.• •• •• 640. •••
!STATE OF PLANTATION LABORDE, AT CAYES.
This plantation, Labotde, was one of the molt Sou-
fishing in the Colony, and according to. Moreau St.
Mery,had, in 1789. 1,400 Slaves, and yielded 1,200,000
pounds of cloyed sugar, besides other produce. People
of authority at Cayes declare that at the commence•
ment of the revolution there were 2,000 slaves on it,
and that the produce wa52,000.000 lbs. of clay ed sugar.
L after the revolution belonged to General Ripest,.
to whose family it• has, since his death, descended, and
is managed by the second husband of his widow, M.
Haran, an opulent man at Port. au-Prince. As its cha•
racier of being one of the most princely properties in
Si; Domingo was generally admitted, I visited it during
my stay at Cayes, and found the three sugar milk en-
tit ely destroyed and unfit for use. All the dwelling
houses, which had been of stone, and most substantial
es well as elegant, was unroofed.
. Only one sugar house retained its roof, and that was
rapidly falling into decay. Not a cane was planted—
about 16 laboutersavere banging ebour, cultivating, 1"
was told, only provisions for their own use; and I saw
from a dozen to twenty cattle grazing is one of the
Savannas.

THE EVENING .STAR.

LON DON.

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. FRIDAY, APRIL 5t4. 1829
PRICE OP STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 2.10) 11 10i 111 ludia Bond. SO $9 SI
5 vet Cent. lied. 874 South Sea Stuck
• 5 per Ct. Com. /Mb Old Annuities
pi per Celt. 1618. 964 New Ditto
Se per Cent. lied. 964 I i £lOOO Escbeg. flub SS 9
4 per Ct. New, 1034 31 1500 Ditto 58 9
4 per Cent 1888, 1044 / 2106 and £2OO Ditto S 6 60
Lone Ann. 194 7 16 lndia for Acct.
India Stock 1134 Consols for Ace, 904
FORK, FlINI)3, TWO tret.ticK
Basilian S p Ct. 53 Si Spanish lida S p Ct. Pt
Do Acct 524 3 M. MO, 104
Nes Ms. 5p Ct. 1104 Ditto 83, 10
Do Acct. 204 ' Pr. Routes, 3 p Ct. 79f
Do. Acct. &change, ISt 408
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100 - 100 04
35 10 74 70 70
100 30 Si
40 3114 to of
90 4 ♦1 45—.41 36 64
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Nothing further -has yet transpired with respect to the
reply which has been received from the Emperor of
RUSSIA to the communications dads to him by this
connuy on the subject of his war with Turkey. The
reports which creep out. however. all confirm our
former statement. that the &arum considers that he.
has a separate cause of war with Tits key. and will not
admit of any interference on the part of the other Great
Powers.

If this is the case, we trust our Government will not
be backward in a distinct avowal that Great Britain
will not any Linger consent to hostilities in the !Iles!!.
tetranean by Russia against Turkey. The Medicare-
nean Sea belongs, in fact, to this country and France,
and Russia, not having any settlement in it, has no right
to have a fleet there it its presence is injurious to the
interests of those countries, with respect to their com-
merce, or tie necessity which it imposes upon' them to
maintain a large naval force in that tea at a great expense.
The time is now arrived when English interests most
be attended to, and it is idle any longer to sacrifice our
trade and other interests to the apprehension of risking
a war. A naval war would be less expensive than the
'present state of things, which destroys all out trade in
the upper part of the Ideiliterranea'
By the Dutch Papers to the 22d inst. «filch have
arrived, we learn of a most distressing calamity which
bas befallen the city of Dantaic, and the country around
it. The Vistula, swollen by the melting of the snows,
overflowed its banks, and inundated the whole country
for thirty miles, burying fn its waters all the villages,
and the city of Dantsic itself. - Upwards of five thou-
sand houses were immersed, and the inhabitants sought
lenge on the Church towers and highest houses. It is
supposed that numbers must have perished; and the
/miter part of the cattle feeding on this fertile district
are kit. It is calculated that not a tends of the houses
will remain when the waters subside. - -

la other respects there is no intelligence of much
importance in these Papers. The murder of the Ros-
eau Ambassador at Teheran seems to be confirmed;
and it is stated that Russia is about to make an illi•
1110111111 addition to her navy. The Emperor Nscuoias
• is shady to be as Warsaw, and his Empress at Banos
free which we &add Wet that he has abandoned the

idea of putting himself again at the head of liberal on
the Balkan. Tbe prospette of glory sato be We
'aieellig than those which appeared before the Ow
ptign of 1899.
The Paris Papers of Tuesday, and the Casette le
Frames dated Wednesday morning, reached us last night.
They do not contain any intelligence relative to the state
of military affairs in the East, nor of the progress of the
associations with Turkey ; snd none of the expected
arrangements in the Ministry are announced. M. ni
CHATIATIBRIAND has been granted leave to return from
Rome, and the prevailing opinion seems to be that be
will succeed to the vacant post in the Ministry.
The French Funds are again rather lower—the Five
per Cents. having declined to 107 f. 30e. and the Three
per Cents. to 79f. sc. to 10c. The cause of this decline
is said to be the expectation of the redoctioo of the Five
per Cents. to Four per •Cents. This grand financial
operation is to be accomplished in the same manner as
a similar measure was managed in this country ; but a
loan of very considerable magnitude must be first raised
to enable the Government to pay off those holders whO
might be unwilling to accept the reduced stock. The
magnitude of the amount of the Five per Cents. will
render the intended measure one of very great difficulty,
and we hardly think that the present Government of
France is strong enough to carry it.

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ZILTAACid TDB DUTCH AND GIASIAII DANINIA
ALEXANDRIA, Muter 14.
Sit:ce my last of 10th Feb. nothing of mportassee bas taken plies
hero. The *Paella's contingent of troops of 12,000 (some my
18,000) is to much, according to the orders of the Sultan, to the
frontiers of Ersenum. Bat the march of this column win cost
large sums; It will lose many men so the way, particularly in
passing through the Desert to Paulo,. and arrive very late (per-
haps too late) at the place of its destination. Oar troops, who have
been long enured to the European militzry tWdpWe, and have
greatly improved in their military exercise, are now to be dressed
to the European fashion, that is, is good strong cloth instead of
the light flannel which they have hitherto worn. The uniforms of
the cavalry exactly resembles that of a French Ashman of light
hone, except that they wear the red cap.
We have the following account from &. Jean d'Acre—The
Captain of the English brig, the Weasel, who went to claim the
vessel under dm lonian flag, which had been sequestrated-by mis-
take by the Puha Abdallals. was not received by the Puha, who
intimated to him that if he was in the harbour the next day, he
should be sunk. Oa this an the Consuls left Am and retired to
Mount Lebanoo. English travellers who have monied, and who
intended to go to Jeremiah Ann that they were not allevied to
proceed beyond Acre.

There set sow Is our port s Freseb frigate aids brig, ma as
&etch bele. Awned staguattos prevails Is ear trade t par-
tinder, all Imported ankles foam*, is ttestead sole seem whh so
sale, is esseequeses of the salary which pervades the fats:tee of
the °pastry.

BUCHAREST, Masai $7.

Tbe measures preparing in the Russian army are involved
in great obscurity, and it appears that the campaign the
year will be carried on with great prudence. General Diehltscli
has issued an order, to the military administration; in which

be invites all the persons belonging to it to be very motive,
and wants them against negligence M the performance et their
duty. Count Zoltusekin, the new GoveniOreGeneral. hereupon
applied to the Meal authorities in the principalities, claiming their
aid in supplying the army with every thing. He promises them all
possible facilities according to circumstances, but retakes their rea-
diness to do what is necessary, that he may *he obliged, in the
performance of his dwy, to employ diocese measures. Cain
Zoltuschin is a very accomplished manorhe unitersdaddlity, mode-
ration, and pleasing manners, with great Inman of character and
a perfect knowledge of business. Only thew who neglect their
dog have reason to fear him, and sock stand greatly in awe of
him. Hitherto, bewever, be has not had occasion to make
use of his authority is this respect. The Russian army is animated •
by the beet spirit; the soldiers have the grneorst:conlidenet is their
Mee% and' the regiments pass Munk the city singing cheerful
songs on their way to the Danube. For some days Fist, however,
ha few Doers have posed through this city and the neighbour.
hoed ; and it is thought that tics maim lines of wank are the reads
to Maoist and Silisteia. Trade is hieressing, and halve &alai
who are here make large peaks; last week alenign Wine merchant
sold many tlyinand loonies of wine. It is to be observed. that here
as well as in the Warier of Russia fog this last year, bulge wines;
especially French, 'ere to be bad in the smallest towns, and travel-
lers no looses meet with so many dillerkies and dupleasant cir-
cumstances in the post houses and inns, as they did a few years ago
—4lllseswisw Zaftig. ..Iprai 17.