Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-03-28
From the National rn.eIligeucsr.

We gather from the "Repcrt on the Commercial
Relations Of the United Sites with all Foreign Ma
tons" prepared in the Department Of State by Mr..
FLAGG and bis assistant, some statistics which are
not only curious but Instructive to the reader who
has ste for Investigation. There are many facts
developed which are altogether new, and which
vi surprise persons unfamiliar with the habits and
condition of the people to which they relate
ExGLAsD.-It is assumed by British statsticians
that the yearly consumption of tobacco in Great
Britain aud Ireland amounts to 20, coo tons, about
one-hsf OF which, it Is supposed, is smuggle1, o"-
ing to the excessive duties Upwards OF LOCO per
cent? levied on the article under the tariff system
Of that kingdom. The quantity Of cigars and snuff
imported does not exceed two or three hundred
weight per annum.
FRANcE.-The article OF cotton has, for a num-
Der of years. constituted in value upon average,
three quarters of all domes tic exports 10 France
Our other chief export to that country Is tobacco,
the trade in which is monopolzed by the govern
nent the exclusive right to purchase imported and
indigenous tobacco, being invested in the regie or
commisson-an association under the supervision
of the Minister of Finance.
0ne-half of the area Of France is cutivable, and
of this nine parts are meadow four add half parts
vineyard; fifteen parts woods and forests; fifteen
downs pastures, and heaths the remainder con-
sisting OF roads, cities canals, vegetable gardens,
&c. 1t presents every variety OF geologic Al lorna
ton, exhibited in almost every variety OF known
relltions. All the departments eighty live in num-
ber) contain mineral substances. There are thirty
six coal fields in thirty departments and the annu-
pl produce of coal exceeds 5000, GOO TONS France
is surpassed by England only in the production Of
iron, twelve mines of which are in operation Three
hundred thousand persons are engaged in mining,
and their operations show an annual value OF $50 :
100000.
Schools are provided for only about one sixteenth
OF the children, and the aggregate annual revenue
from all sources is about $3.50, 000,U00 while the
national debt is over 100000, 600
The VINE-The number of acres under vine
| cultivation 10 France exceeds 100000, giving
! ployment in the cultivation of the vine and the
! manufacture of wine, to about 2 900 600 persons,
mostly females) and in its transportation and sale
! 10 250 900. The vine disease, now more or less
prevailing in all wine-producng countries, has it,
creased the average price of vine from 100 to It's
per cent. The French Government derives con-
siderable portion of its internal revenue from the
manufacture of this beverage, about 90,O00,OOO
gallons of which, annually distilled into brandy,
the expottlt ion of which is under special Govern
mentresuictons Next to wheat the vine is the most
impOTtint of the vegetable productions OF France,
and extends over the southern half of the Empire.
In lS49 there we're produced in France 925,OO0, :
600 gallons of wine.
REAL EsTATE.-Landed property is more minute
| ly divided III France than any where else in Europe,
or even than in the United States. In few de-
partmeBts may be found estates of two hundred
acres but they are rare, and daily becoming more
so, as the law divides the real equally among the
children. The greater portion of the farms are now
less than twenty acres. Improvements 10 the meth
DDS of cultivation progress langudy, and the meth
DDS of manuriag and rotation of crops aud of EN-.
pioying machinery continue to be very defective
CoTroN.-The manuf icture of cotton was first
introduced into France in l770, and has increased
at an enormous rate. The total number OF persons
now employed in it is near 800, 900. The total
value of all the manufactures OF France annually is
1900, 900 francs, and they are rapidly increasing