The Enquirer

Washington, June 25.

We have not in the French papers we have received been able to find any thing in the shape of news which could be interesting to our readers. Indeed from the severity with which the press is restrained, their newspapers have almost become mere registers of municipal regulations, and of fetes, addresses and eulogiums on the Emperor or his family.

We discover that every exertion is making by the French government to recommend and encourage the culture of beets for the purposes of the sugar manufactory. Very particular descriptions of the plant, its various qualities and uses of the mode of converting its juice to sugar, the profits it will afford &c. are inserted in the Bordeaux papers, under the authority of the government. And so far does this anxiety to procure a substitute for the colonial sugars prevail, that a decree has been issued requiring the cultivation, in the empire, of a specified quantity of land in this article; and measures appear to have been immediately taken for enforcing the decree. This circumstance becomes of importance only as it manifests the firm determination of the Emperor (if possible) permanently to exclude colonial productions from his dominions.

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