Wartixc of the monopoly in copper, which the French Syndicate that has been buying, up that metal and tin, is supposed, and probably truly, to have been desirous establishing, the Spectator gives an inter. ing account of the effect which the greatly enhanced price will have upon trade, The operations of the Syndicate seemed tu have been crowned with success; they had an enormous profit on paper not only on their purchases ut tin and copper but on the shares of mines—one copper mine having advanced 400 per cent. in two months, But an unexpected obstacle was interposed The Syndicate had, as regard copper, been just a trifle too successful, and was warned the hundred tongues of Paris that it had incurred two formidable enmities,—that of the French Treasury, and that of the Parisian artisan. The French Ministry is absolutely bound, by its pledges as well as by public opinion, to introduce an economical Budget; but at thesame time, with Europe in commotion and war in the distance, it must comply with the requisitions of the War Department, The most peremptory of these joms is anew magazine rifle, and for that it is need-
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