Weekly national intelligencer., 1853-03-26

Pas de Calais, (Artos) and Asne, (Picardyl were th
most successful The manufacturers Of Dunkirk were
now able to take great extension. Upon the cessation
Of the privilege Of the farmers general they promptly
flooded all France with their snus and smoking tobacco
and their expectations continued with great profit until
the events OF the war put stop to their relations with
foreign countries The caused the manufacturers
OF Holland TO assume great development They supplied
the markets abroad which had been previously furnished
by Dunkirk The factories Of Nuremberg, Frankfort,
Ofenbach and Switzerland enlarged their business and
new establishments prang up at Hambourg Augsbourg
Mannheim, Lahr, and other German cities. They took
possession of the foreign markets formerly supplied by
the manufactures Of Srasbourg and Of Cologne and of
other countries in succession the boundaries Of the
French republic enargedby successvevctores. The
Of Srasbourg suffered least however, for
the neutrality Of Switzerland favored their expectations
In France manufactures Of snuff and smoking tobacco
started up all over the country competing with the great
establishments of Dunkrk and Srasbourg for the supply
OF the demands for home consumption. Dunkrk main
tanned its antique reputation for the manufacture Of the
superior qualities; but its manufactures met with form
dable opposition in the productions of the establishments
OF Paris, Hayre, Morlax, and Tonnens which had the
advantage Of long experience under the farmers
in the manufacture OF articles suited to the peculiar tastes
OF the French populations Of various regions Sasbourg
continued without rival for the supply Of common tobac
CO.'S The manufacture in the Departments Of Lot and Lot
ct Garonne did not prosper long, in the interest OF
their agriculture the manufacturers continued wholly
mainly to make of indigenous tobacco for their pro-
ductions The farmersgeneral employed but about
part in five indigenous tobacco in the composition Of their
manufacturers and they had formed the popular taste
upon this standard The free factories, which succeeded
them under the reign Of absolute liberty compelled
to conform 1t only at Strasbourg and there in the
manufacture of the most ordinary qualities that indigo
tobacco used without any mixture of foreign
leaves. These found ready sale by of their
tremely low price. The tobacco of the department of
Bas Rhin, Asace possessing the quality of bearing with
facility mixture with all other species Of tobacco
employed for this purpose with great pecunary profit by
retailers in all the departments of France. se
About twenty years elapsed between 1791 the date at
which all privileges abolished and 1911, the date
which the monopoly rsestablished During this pc
riod the tobacco interest passed through two distinct
phases. The culture free during the whole time.
From 18th March, 1791, to 2lst September, 1898, the
manufacture and sale of tobacco also free and
was importation, subject only to the duties above
toned This called the regime Of absolute liberty 1t
lasted years and six months From 2ls September
179S to 1st july 1S1 while the culture continued free,
the fabrication and sale subjected to several scales
of heavy taxation and the import duty foreign tobacco
was increased This called the regime Of the tares
1t lasted twelve years and nine months.
extract from thearge volume containing NJ. VIvIEN's
report the occasion of the great Parliamentary inquest
on tobacco in 1885, the facts Of the following table 1t
shows for ten of the principal departments in which to-
bacco produced during the twenty years of free cu
ture first the average value per merical quna of the
four qualities OF tobacco composing their annual crops
secondly the nett value in money of the product of each
hectare cultivated in tobacco; and thirdly the expenses
per hectare incurred by this culture
The metrica qunals 100 kogrammes, (220 571 pounds
ayoirdupois.) The hectare is 2,47l English acres.