We learn from the National, that the petition of the
National Guards of Paris for Parliamentary Reform bad excited a powerful sensation in the provinces, and that the Guards in several important districts were signing similar petitions in great numbers.
The Commerce contains a long article on the operations of the Joint- stock Banking Company lately established by M. Laffitte, showing the growing and already immense increase of its business, particularly in the branch of discounts. The amount of receipts and payments in the month of July was 68,000,000 of francs, and in the month of August 70,216,000E, the highest sum which the monthly transactions of the bank had yet reached.. The discounts in the same month ( August) amounted to 22,488,148f. ; showing a large augmentation, "principally in country hills." These facts led to a resolution to issue letters of credit payable in every part of France.
Whets General Bugeaud was a Commandant of the Ecole Militaire, a corporal was detected, not in a robbery, but in accepting a pot de vin (Anglice a bribe.) He purchased the soup, meat, tkc. of his company, which he paid for at the regular market- prices ; but he bargained with the tradesmen for an allowance of 5 per cent. upon the amount, threatening to deal with others if this was not granted to him. It was at the same time proved that these perquisites were regularly re- mitted by the corporal to his father and mother, who added to them a small portion of his regular pay. On these dealings being made known to his colonel, the poor corporal was degraded from his rank, and subjected to other military punishments. But, on the report being laid before General Bilgeaud, he complained that the colonel had been too lenient ; and it was with the greatest difficulty that the General was deterred from sending the delinquent before a court-martial, by which be might have been sentenced to imprisonment for three if not five years.—National. [This is the General who himself took the large bribe in Africa.]
A letter from Perpignan states, that Mustapna Ben Ismael had been much displeased with the independence of his African servants ; who, since their arrival in France, had taken the liberty of speaking aloud in the presence of their master, contrary to the laws of the Koran. To prevent the spread of so dangerous an example, the ex-Bey of Tlemcen had purchased a good rattan, and had condemned the most loquacious of his domestics to twenty.five stripes on the back in presence of his com- rades.
A letter from New York says—" We are making rapid advances in the cultivation of the mulberry and the growth of silk. Several large cocooneries have lately been established in the state of Connecticut, and bid fair soon to yield a handsome profit. Our country is parti- cularly calculated for the growth of mulberry ; and the next ten or twenty years will find the Union exporting, instead of importing, silk. I have now upon me a very beautiful vest made of the finest American silk, manufactured in Connecticut."
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