Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-11-09
Prom the P.ri. Correspondent, Of the Nat. Intelligence
RICULT URAL MOVE MENTs
IN FRANCE,

IN FRANCE.
At the recent French Scientific Congress, OF Ly-
ons, coplous and able memoir was read from Eel
lenberg on the nature plans objects and results OF
the Agricultural and Educational Establishments
which he founded, md has superintended for forry
years at HOWL, near Berne. Long since re hea I'd
much in the United States Of Felienoerg and his
Institute. The Scientific Congress appointed
committee TO prosecute inquiries at How'll and other
similar establishments, with view 10 the formation
somewhere in Fence, Of formal and special inst
tute for agriculture and moral culture combined.
The French public economists only begin TO see the
reciprocal utility Of physical welfare and eltered
education for the millions. II has been the fashion
with their Republican and high philosophical pro-
ftssors, to decry material interests. Michel Cheya-
Ier labors hard TO teach them that they will cease
to be the ruIer0, and perhaps, even the lumnaries
OF the world, If they do not condescend 70 Law rails
finish canals, apply steam, in short, put the body
OF the nation IN a way 10 rise IN the world. The
same writer recommends the growing Of cotton in
the French colonies not retaliation on the United
States, or rivalry, but as practicable addition 10
French sources Of national wealth and indepen-
dence.
SUGAR FROM BETS.
Michel Cheyalier has recently published an in &.
teresting exposition oil the Bee,-rOot manufacture,
In France the three hundred and eighty. nine facto.
nes yield, this year. ninety million pounds OF sugar.
Notwithstanding the oucry OF universal ruin, rails
ed by The manufacturers when the tax was lncrea sed
from a eleven TO twenty-seven francs the 200 lbs.
the prod uclion did not diminish between 1887 and
1910. Belgium makes sixteen million pounds-hali
her consumption Of the articles; the German I'm.
on thirty nlilOns-a third Of It's consumption; Aus.
lrla the same, but consumes one hundred and ten
millions Of foreign sugar CbeyaIIeT estimates the
total consumption OF "the most industrious and dour.
lshng countries Of Europe" Of Best-rOot sugar al
one hundred and seventy xix million pounds-not a
third Of the whole. lie admits that twenty millions
ot francs might he the annual giin Of The treasury,
d the Beet manufacture was prohibited IN France .
but, Their, the measure would require al indemnify
Of forty millions 70 the mandatory and throw out
Of employ great mum er Of hands lie pfonoun-
ees any aOuushing manufacture 10 be a moral not
less than materIl capital guaranty Of internal
peace and social concord. On the whole, q vas,
manufacturing system would not seem TO have TIN,
character IN Great Britain, where the new mnstef,
are Threatened IN Parliament and by the Press with
terrible eruption, this winter, Of She slumberng
volcano" unless they provide immediate relief fOi
the factories and operatives. Your boundiess terri.
tory, open 10 a countless population, would with
you, subtract considerably from the force Of the
French argument We are told that N Two Of the
largest French Beet factories the problem Of ma *.
ng refined sugar de premier jet, at first cast, has
been solved on a crest scale. The great manuiac.
turef Matthew de Dombsslo uses maceration as III,
process Of extraction II smpliheS apparatus anC
labor, and neutrazes the causes Of waste he Oh
lans % iJr 100 Of JUICE, instead Of 10 the fOrme
yicd, and ten per cent Of sugar easily. This pro-
cess has been adopted ~ several este bshme nts
loregn as we'll as domestic. The complaint comet
rom n'z and Narcotics, that potato sJgsr, uotti
seven sous the pound is miIed with colonial cost
sng ,leVen, and ne compound is sold, Of course
.un price. ~ not less difficult u procure IN Pan
than an ounce Of genuine salt, or a glass Of smpI
grape Juice.