Show the sorgho plant the scarcity of corn in france has drawn attention to a new plant recen recently introduced from china cilina which promises to 0 o supersede to a certain extent the use of beetroot in the manufacture of sugar and the distillation of alcohol the agricultural committee of toulon has recently addressed a report to the minister of war with respect ta to the use of the plant in n ques question t i on I 1 it t is called the sorgho 0 or r balcus sac chart charatis ch aratus us and was first introduced into france in 1851 by M de montigny the french consul in china who sent some grains of the seed to the government since then the culture of the plant has been commenced with success in provence and dro to be of great grot advantage to algeria the sorgho has been called the sugar cane of the north of china and numerous experiments have recently been tried with a view to ascertaining ta if it possesses the properties necessary for producing a crystalli syrup so as to become a rival to sugar cane and beetroot according to the report of or the toulon agricultural association it would appear to have hare these properties the fact has been ascertained by a series of experiments made in the tile department of the var it also appears to be richer in the saccharine s ac principle than any known plant excepting the vine beetroot c contains plains 0 from 8 to 10 per cent of s ugar sugar the sorgho P produces from 16 to 21 20 b per C cent e lit rit from wh which ic h 8 to 10 per cent of pure alcohol fit for all al and domestic pur purposes poes Toes can be prod produced aced the refuse is ec excellent ellent eilent food for who are very fond of it the tiie plant grows hutli are great it rapidity and does not net require irrigation dispatch caru can cart any ny 0 our eders abroad furnish utah with the seed of the moreho sorzio plant ED ll 11 sa A correspondent of tiit tin london Daily dally News gives an account of a dreadful storm at naples he says pays I 1 there has been much illness during the he win tt inter I 1 in naples and the proportion of deaths w was as for a short time as great as during the pestilence of the cholera this last year every one has been attacked by T influenza and several of our oldest residents have been taken off by it when inkrote last I 1 complained of the weather as having been very cold coid and badim having inflicted serious damage oil on the tile orange crops I 1 am fini noly writing on oi the day after the severest storm which has been known here for many manx years it cam came on on the evening of the from the southwest and raged with the in tensest A fury till the morning of the lath in some villages near the coast boist the sea rea which rose as if impelled liv lyv some subterranean commotion made a dean breach over the houses swee sweeping plug them gut out completely of their contents and taking them off to sea the early crops have baye been destroyed and the olive trees have bare suffered much As vet we have heard but little of the i disastrous effects of the storm but we are fearful that athas illias occasioned a faide ide spread ruin Louis louls martsh march 17 we were visited with 4 a most tremendous storm last night the tiie hail hai stones that feli fell were wede at least two indies inches in c cir clr ir arid and they came down with such force as to break in roof roofs demol demoi demolish h sl skylights andio ani and do much damage otherwise |