The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-09 00:00:00

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GIILIC,
In this rather peculiar state of things, we find
that Count Abel Hugo—the most celebrated statis-
tician in France—a Conservative, too, though the
near relative of Victor—has just published a work,
entitled " Memoire sur la Periode de Disette qui
Menace 1a France," which, in that country, has
created amongst politicians an immense sensation,
and deservedly so: for the count proves by hard,
drv. ii,rmtr,- 'Me figures, that "periods of scar-

city and abundance of corn are of -regular -AX. _
recur-
rence."overtiv
To those periods ofe . scarcity
local
distress which hespecifies la. past tines, he traces
discontent, Confusion and riot, and at times revoalec.l-
- ; and in these inferences it would be difficult—
nay, impossible—to overthrow Count Hugo's argu-
ment. Several of our own " strikes" are ascribable
to the same cause. But with regard to the Count's
he is entitled to no merit or credit
discovery of the " cycle or periods of scarcity and
abundance"
whatever. To the readers of this paper for several
years past the subject of this cycle must be fami-
liar ; and on the present occasion we need only ob-
serve that the editor of the Glebe, who lately
brought the work of Count Hugo prominently un-
der notice in this country, on being reminded of the;
fact, admitted the claim of one of our own country-
men to this important discovery. In fact, a " P;i
mary Cycle of the Weather" was communicated to
several authorities in this country in 1818 and 1819:
and in 1821 was transmitted to, and acknowledged
by, the Academy of Sciences in Paris ; and, so far
as the periods of scarcity and abundance are con.
cerned, the work of Hugo is merely a re-production,
or rather an adumbration, of the discovery of
Mackenzie. It appears that Sir David Brewster
has been familiar with this system and wrote upon
it so long ago as 1818 ; and so lately as 1851 was
furnished by the author with a diagram of the
cycle, retrospectively and prospectively, for a period
of two hundred and sixteen years ; by which the
corresponding periods of atmospheric extremes and
have the industry
meteorological disturbance can be clearly and easily
traced by all those who or the
inclination to study them.
With respect to the weather of the existing period
of the cycle, we are led to the conclusion that there
is little or no prospect of any improvement, so fai
as regards the productions of the earth in this coun.
try, before the years 1855-56 ; and that, trying, to
the agriculturist and grievous to the consumer as
years es,
the present year may prove, there is no appearance
whatever of next year being more propitious. The
tellYeebaraliPnc3
wet weather of last winter and spring, andthe cc—in`e
pressed weather of the year, as deduced from the
cycle, are doing their allotted. work; which was un.
Providence,
equivocally announced_ more than two,
throughout England TbldegiSCnOttolanreds.toThre
will, in all probabilitY
of the existing extreme in the weather • and it onie
remains for us to hope that, under
some means may be found in the interval to ,
artwietrhsa:s
People which
miti-
gate those distresses of
_our
"mfaorrheidi
such
periods,invariably superinduce.
Count Hugo's work has been
The present subject
.seems to be far from an ac
-
The
one to those in " high
twroeaultdedatpyetahre that
thorities in France6ciu
neglect and ignorallt,l)rjudie as IVlackenzie's dis-
covery has met with in this country. It would
seem to be purposely reserved for higher names and
more influential parties to develop the system. Be
that as it may, it can be safely predicated
that the
order of the weather is as regular and irreversible
as that of any other system in nature—that there
cannot be in existence such a thing as two cycles of
the seasons no more than there can be two SIMS in
the firmament--and that all future observers must
on this subject have recourse andfile o
whichy exposition
which has yet been produced, _ has been
for upwards of thirty years before the ,publio—
Ore than sixty
founded, moreover, as it is, 7t
mt.
nof the "
years' daily and 'continuous reqistrail°nd.— C wea-
ther in all its phases by one solitary la hurch
and State Gazette. _
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rin, tates that the grape-blight
in the Opinione of
AUSTRIAN ITALY.—A letter from Milan of the 29th ult.,
iosmbardy and that the scar 't
felt. All the labourers and wocirky-
cau,ses great uneasiness in
of corn is begining to be
.ects,
have
been ordered back to Lombal dy. The same letter states that
men, being Austrian sub! now in Switzerland,
one Besets, a priest, and vice-curate of the cathedral at
lean, hs absconded with a large sum of money he had
scraped together by playing upon the credulity of poor
people who resorted to his c,onfessional, and from whom he
eztorted their savings under various pretences.
SAD CASE AT CLINTON.—The Decatur (Marion county,
111.) Gazette of the 15th ult. ha.s. the following :—Herr
Alexander met with a most terrible check at Clinton,
pistol, it proved to be loaded with, balls, and
Dewitt county,, last week. In playing off the hocus pocus
George Smith, who was to stnd up and
of the magic
the young man,
catch a fictitious ball in his mouth, received the contents_
of the loaded pistol in his left side ; and from the character
of the wound the probability is that it will terminate his
life, leaving a widowed mother, who was solely dependent
on him, inconsolable.
" SANDING" TILE SUGAR : CONSCIENCE AT WORK
AMONGST TIIE GROCERS.—The Washington County Post
says, that a denizen of a certain village, with whom•he is
acquainted, having had sanded sugar sold to him, inserted
in the, weekly paper the following :—"Notice.—l pur-
chased of a grocer in this village, a quantity of sugar, from
which I obtained one pound of sand. If the rascal who
cheated me will send to my address seven pounds of good
sugar, (scripture measure of restitution,) I will be satisfied ;
if not I shall expose bim." On the following day nine
seven pound packages of sugar were left at his residence
from as many diffewnt dealers, each §uppogiughiwatliQ
intended,

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