Edgefield Advertiser

Specie Payments abroad—Crops in France.—Mr. Walsh writes in his latest letter to the National Intelligencer—"We are now told that no plan of a treaty for armed neutrality has ever been entertained by the secondary Powers of Europe. Letters of Marque have been asked from both the British and French Governments. Here, the applications have been officially registered. In the event of war, specie payments must soon be suspended in Great Britain, and the coin will be hoarded in France. The shares of the Bank of France have occasionally declined with the Government stocks, in which, as you know, that institution has invested nearly the whole of its capital. Competent judges anticipate very serious financial embarrassments and derangement of the currency for France, from a contest of any duration. Never were the crops—grain and wine—superior in this realm, either in quality or quantity, to those of the present year. Since the beginning of this month, until yesterday afternoon, the weather was bright and rather keen. The display of fruit in Paris is unexampled."