The States composing the German Customs Union possessed, to- wards
the close of 1838°, eighty-seven manufactories of beet-root sugar in full operation, viz. Prussia, 63; Bavaria, 5; Wurtemberg, 3; Darm- stadt, 1 : other states, 15; besides 66 which were then constructing. The refining of cane-stiAar is an important branch of industry in the. States of the Union. No less than 800,000 quintals are yearly refined therein ; 750,000 of which are for the home consumption, and the re- mainder for exportation. At the close of 1838, the number of sugar refineries in those States was 78, viz. in Prussia, 66; Bavaria, 7; Sax- ony, 2; Electoral Hesse, 2 ; Grand Dutchy of Hesse, 1.—Mondear. The cultivation of silk in Prussia is yearly increasing, notwithstand- ing the frosts which destroy every winter a considerable number of mulberry-trees. In the neighbourhood of Potsdam there are now 27a plantations of that tree. Last. year's crop exceeded 13,000 pounds of silk of au excellent quality, which sold at the rate of from 305: to 37f. 50e. per pound.—Moniteur.
Habits of piracy and fraud have been introduced into French cam- meice, once famed for its honesty. M. Duchatel, when Commerce Minister, was obliged to denounce in a public circular the shameful tricks practised by French traders in South America. A day or two ago, the Bordeaux papers published a letter from Martinique, complain- ing of the way in which the flour sent from France was adulterated. The English buy our wines at Bordeaux, and supplant French wine
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merchants not only abroad, but even in Paris. Cloth we can no longer sell abroad, since it is known that French manufacturers send cloth without solidity, and fraudulent measure. Everywhere and in every branch, French reputation is discredited by greedy men, anxious merely for momentary gain. France keeps the only commerce of mode and
(amts. The speech of the President of the Tribunal of Commerce sroves how low commerce is fallen. The dividend* in bankruptcies Use been but 15 per cent., .on an .average, for the last two years. In 496 bankruptcies, the prun.tt!ye capital 'was not more them six millions °manes, or 240L per mdivtdual ; whilst the debts incurred amounted to forty millions of francs. Thus the average that each of these per- sons, with a capital of 6,000 francs, continued to spend, was 11,300 francs each year for six years."—Courrter Francais.
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