Fr. Ct. Fr. Ct. 1825 76 35 July 23 1817 69 0 July 29 1829 86 16 Dec. 5 1821 90 60 Nov. 2 1830 85 35 Jan. 18 1822 95 0 Sept. 5 1831 70 50 Dec. 2 1824 104 80 Feb. 5 1834 85 50 Nov. 30 1828 109 0 Sept. 4 1840 86 65 July 22 1829 110 65 Mar. 4 1844 85 65 Dec. 22 1831 98 30 Dec. 15 1845 86 40 May 20 1835 110 36 Feb. 4 1846 85 0 Feb. 28 1837 111 0 Sept. 5 1847 80 30 Jan. 2 1841 117 5 Sept. 4 1848 47 0 Mar. 15 1844 126 30 Mar. 4 1848 41 27 Mar. 28 1847 119 40 Feb. 22 1848 35 67 April 1 1848 116 75 Feb. 22 1848 34 64 April 5 1848 97 50 {fell to 80 Mar. 7.} 1848 33 10 April 14 1848 65 80 April 2 1848 51 0 April 12 _La Presse_, March 12, and _Times_ since that date. The value of railway stock and bank shares has declined in a still more alarming proportion. Bank shares, which in 1824 sold for 3400 francs, are now selling at 900 francs--or little more than A FOURTH of their former value. Railway stock is unsaleable, being marked out for immediate confiscation. Taking one kind of stock with another, it may safely be affirmed that TWO-THIRDS _of the capital of France has perished since the Revolution, in the short space of seven weeks_. The fruit of thirty-three years' peace, hard labour, and penurious saving, has disappeared in seven weeks of anarchical transports!! Of course, the means of employing the people have declined in the same proportion; for where credit is annihilated, how is industry to be maintained, before its produce comes in, but by realised capital? How is its produce to be disposed of if two-thirds of the classes possessed of property have been rendered bankrupt? Already this difficulty has been experienced in France. The Paris papers of 13th April announce that seventy-five thousand persons will be employed at the "ateliers Nationaux," or public workshops, at 30 sous a-day, in the end of April--at a cost of 112,500 francs a-day, or 3,375,000 francs, (£150,000) a-month. This is in addition to an armed force of above 100,000 men, paid for the most part two francs a-day for doing nothing. No exchequer in the world can stand such a strain; far less that of a bankrupt and revolutionised country like France. It is no wonder that the French funds are down at 32, and an issue of assignats--in other words, the open and avowed destruction of all realised property--is seriously contemplated.