3 OCTOBER 1846, Page 1

France also has its dearth and its violences. Bread is

con- tinually rising, and the people suffer more and more, with small prospect of alleviation in the winter. The efforts to provide for the indigent appear, to the English view of such matters, little and inefficient—a "drop in the ocean." The people resort to a ready beacon of distress—incendiary fires. But not having, like Ireland, a richer relation to use and abuse, France bears its share' of the general dearth with less disorganizing agitation in the several classes of society ; venting its political spleen on the Spanish marriage affair.