The French Councils of Agriculture, Commerce, and Manufac- tures, haVe
been sitting at Paris for the lastsfortnight, for the pur- pose of discussing certain projected alterations in the existing tariff of duties on cotton, wool, iron, coal, and cattle. The three Coun- cils, after having separately considered the proposed measures, met together, and decided that only a very trifling diminution on the existing import-duties should be recommended. The manuo facturing and agricultural interests proved too strong for their more enlightened antagonists. Still it is evident, that Free Trade principles, are making progress in France. Almost all the Paris journals advocate their adoption. The principal exception is the . organ of Carlism, the Gazette de France; whose competency to discuss the question may be inferred from its account of Mr. Husitissosr, the most noted of modern advocates for free trade. . The Gazette calls him "Lord Hutchinson ;" says that his house was pillaged by o: mob of silk-weavers, who burnt him in effigy; and that lie was a " victim immolated to industry by a steam- horse on the Manchester railway."
The Belgian Government have despatched a commission to Paris to negotiate a relaxation of the frontier duties of the two kingdoms.
The diplomatists at present in Paris have divided themselves into distinct cliques : the Ministers of the Despotic Powers muster at the residence of Pozzo DI BORGO—those of the Free Govern- ments at Lord GRANVILLE'S or TALLEYRAND'S. Mr. ROTHSCHILD visits them bo.h—the per sherds are of no politics, or all.
