FRANCE.

Colonist, Volume II, Issue 104, 19 October 1858, Page 4

FRANCE.

Several districts in France are suffering severely from a great want of water. In some of the central districts the inhabitants have given up their daily ablutions. The scarcity extends to the neighbourhood of Paris. At Versailles, the-Mayor has published a proclamation, urging the inhabitants not to waste the precious fluid. In Paris it is used very sparingly by the lower classes. In the north the cattle are suffering greatly, and water has to be fetched from such distances for their use that its values has much increased,- —a pail of water being sold at the same price as a pail of milk. A curious stoiy is current in Paris, which hints that Fuad Pasha's illness is occasioned by learning that his only daughter has been forced to enter the harem of the Sultan. JFaud, who is more of a European than a Turk, has given her an excellent education, with a view to a better fate. The price of bread in Paris, for the first fortnight of the month, is fixed at 35 cen- - times the 2-lb. loaf, being an advance of 3 centimes on the previous fortnight.' The Correspondence newspaper declares the report, that the yellow fever had appeared at Lisbon, was without foundation. The Memorian, of Ameans, states that no summonses have been issued, nor will be issued, calling upon the duellists, Courtiel, and Hyene, to appear before the military division at Sille, in the affair with M. de Pene. Rhodes advices of the 17th June, state that, besides the band of eighteen pirates before reported, there is.another piratical vessel, with two latteen sails and seven men on board, near the island of Fourni, where they chased an Ottoman bombarde. It is stated that the new Minister for Algeria, Prince Napoleon, will preside at the Cabinet Council in the absence of the Emperor, instead of Prince Jerome.