13 MARCH 1847, Page 2

In France, there is an alarming tendency to rise even

above the high level of the present prices for grain.

-Belgium has been disturbed by food-riots of a very formidable and embarrassing kind.

- Portugal exhibits the most extraordinary continuance of that atagnation which has all along characterized its civil war. Mexico and the United States collectively display similar cha- racteristics: Mexico is nearly exhausted ; the Yankees are nearly sick of the tedious contest.