326 Foreign Notices : — France, Germany. 



sent, vvc slioukl suppose, be foreseen; but we consider it of very great 

 consequence, with reference to the future happiness of nations, to see it 

 proved beyond a doubt, that ahnost every country in the world could grow 

 its own sugar if it were compelled by circumstances to do so. There 

 could not be a better time than the present, for commencing the growth 

 of the beet root and the manufacture of beet-root sugar in Ireland. The 

 manufacture of i)otato flower as at Trappe, near Versailles, and other 

 l)laccs near Paris, wc should think, might be advantageously commenced 

 there also. — Cond. 



Art. II. Foreign Notices. 

 FRANCE. 



Paris, Aprit 21. — The season has been quite as backward here as I 

 remember it ever to have been in England; but the lime trees in the Thuil- 

 leries are getting green at last, and the yllyssum saxatile and the wallflower 

 are in bloom in the borders. — M — y. Place Vendome. 



The Process of boring for Water has been practised with great effect in 

 Paris. Two sheets of water have been ascertained to flow beneath the 

 Paris basin ; one between the chalk and the green sand, the other at a 

 greater depth. From the last of these, the water is discharged at St. 

 Ouen to the height of 10 or 12 ft., and the quantity 8656 gallons daily. 

 The singular fact that wells are affected by the tide is confirmed by observ- 

 ation on those above mentioned. {London Weekly Rev., April 4. 1829.) 



Coal and Iron in France. — All the coal-fields in the south of France 

 are associated with iron-stone, or iron-stone is found close to them in 

 abundance. France is, in fact, extremely rich in coal and iron. A little of 

 British enterprise is alone wanting to render France most powerful in every 

 thing relating to the production of coal and iron. There is one field alone 

 that would be sufficient to supply all Eui'ope with iron and all France with 

 coal ; it is at Creusot, near the eastern boundary. From this field, coal and 

 iron can be transported by water to the shores of the Mediterranean and 

 the German Ocean, and nearly through all France. {Ibid. Feb. 25.) 



Flax-breaking Machine. — M. Ternaux, the celebrated French manufac- 

 turer, has obtained a patent for certain machinery for the purpose of depriv- 

 ing flax of its skin, without there being any necessity for resorting to the 

 custom of previously soaking it, {Le Globe.) 



Six 7/onng Afiicans, from the most distant parts of Ethiopia, ai*e now 

 receiving education in Paris. {London Mag.) 



GERMANY. 



Munich. — The university here, in the third j'ear of its existence, is ex- 

 tremely well attended. A degrading and injudicious constraint, with respect 

 to the mode of study and subjects of discussion, had disgusted the youth of 

 the present age with several of the ancient institutions for education in 

 Germany; but from all such regulations, the present King of Bavaria, him- 

 self a literary man, has set the University of Munich entirely free. {For. 

 Rev., April, 1829.) 



Education in Silesia. — According to a statistical report of the schools in 

 this district, published in the year 1827, there are 20 schools, 228 teachers, 

 and 5694 pupils, all or chiefly of the lower classes. {London iliog., April.) 



Hutigarian Gardeners^ Song. — " Oh, that I had a large garden, well 

 stocked with fruit; a farm well stocked with cattle; and a young and beau- 

 tiful wife ! " {Buckets Beauties, of Nature.) 



