The increase of crime in France is, proportionally, six times greater than the increase of population, as appears from well-authenticated returns.

From the year 1826 to 1843, the increase of population was only at the rate of seven per cent., while the increase of the various crimes was forty-five (45) per cent.

This record, fearfully large as it is, contains only those crimes which have "been proved upon individuals; and if these be added to those which have never come to light, or which have not been successfully investigated, the percentage must be swelled to an almost incredible degree.

The statistics of France, in suicides, show an alarming increase in this kind of amuse-ment so peculiar to that country.

From 1820 to 1830 (ten years) the number of suicides were 1,765; from 1841 to 1843 (three years), 2,573; in 1844 (one year), 2,900!

.It has been frequently asserted, and, we believe, truly, that " the use of wine is as common in France as the use of tea and coffee is here,"

A distinguished banker and philanthropist of Paris (Mr. Lutteroth) furnished to the writer of this, while in that city, the government returns of the quantity of wine and distilled spirit drank within the wails, in a single year. Within the barriers there is an excise; without, none.

The returns give a consumption of about one hundred and thirty bottles of wine (nearly a quart each), and six of ardent spirits, to every inhabitant of the city. Outside the walls, wine is drunk without excise, and there can be seen drunkenness in all its horrors; and it was to these localities that Louis Philippe directed my attention, as furnishing a fearful illustration of the drunkenness of France.

If the inhabitants of Paris drink wine "as we in this country drink tea and coffee," as has been affirmed, and doubtless truly, the statistics of Mr. Lutteroth the banker will not appear exaggerated, nor will it seem at all singular, that the great physician, Broussais, found most of the stomachs of adults, which he dissected after death, "in a state of disease".

Louis Philippe, while the writer was in Paris, expressed to him his conviction that total abstinence was the only true temperance, and that the drunkenness of France was on wine. His son repeated the same fact, and added that it would be a blessing to France could all the grape-vines be destroyed, except so far as their products may be used for food.

The fearful increase of crime in France may reasonably be traced to the increased consumption of strong drink - if not adulterated, an exception to a general rule.

Dr. Baird, who travelled extensively in France, and was a close observer, states that "pure wine could only be found at the vineyards;" and that "adulteration was all but universal!"

How far the increase of crime is owing to the increased virulence given to the intoxicating liquors through the agency of other poisons, than the original poison, alcohol (always found in intoxicating wine), is a question which every one, after ascertaining the facts in the case, can settle for himself.

Inasmuch as pure wine can only be had at a certain high price - and as imitations as to sight, smell, and taste, are now so perfect, that few can distinguish the pure from the impure - and as the impure costs only from one-eighth to one-quarter the value of pure, all can judge how barren the chance is of any one getting a drop of pure wine.

R. M. Hartly, Esq., of New York, several years since, at much cost of time and labor, compiled from authentic documents the quantities of strong drink annually consumed by various nations, showing the following result: France, 1,053,797,864 gallons of all kinds, average to each person forty-two and a half gallons a year; equal to four and a half gallons of naked alcohol to each J The consumption of naked alcohol to each person in Sweden was found to be three and a quarter gallons; in Prussia, one and a sixteenth; in the United States, one and an eighth.

We have long believed France to be one of the most intemperate countries on the face of the earth, and the statistics prove it.

A great injury is done to the cause of temperance (unintentionally, doubtless) in this country, by American travellers who pass rapidly through the wine countries, visit the capitals of the various nations, frequent the splendid squares and streets, and then return home and report "no drunkenness in wine countries." They do not look for it - do not go where it is to be seen. The writer, while on a foreign tour some years ago, did look for it, and found it too, with ail its attendant horrors; and he found its effects also, stamped with its dark blight everywhere as here: Crime, poverty, and disease, its sure companions. The Duke of Orleans, General-in-Chief of the Armies of France, told him the ration to each soldier was a bottle of wine a day - the use of that bottle only stimulated the appetite for more, and their small pay was usually squandered to purchase it; and that want of subordination in the army could be traced to the wine; and most of the crime and poverty in the country, especially in the wine districts, to the same cause.

J. Fennimore Cooper says: " I came to Europe under the impression that there was more drunkenness among us than in any other country, England, perhaps, excepted. A residence of six months in Paris changed my views entirely. I have taken unbelievers with me into the streets, and have never failed to convince them of their mistake in the course of an hour.....On one occasion a party of four went out with this object; we passed thirteen' drunken men within a walk of an hour - many of them were so far gone as to be totally unable to walk. I once saw three men wallowing in the gutter before my window, a degree of beastly degradation I never witnessed in any other country.....In passing between Paris and London, I have been more struck by drunkenness in the streets of the former than in those of the latter".

Says Horatio Greenough, that eminent American sculptor, in a letter from Florence, Italy, so long ago as 1839, to the writer of this article: "Many of the more thinking and prudent Italians abstain from the use of wine; several of the most eminent of the medical men are notoriously opposed to its use, and declare it a poison. When I assure you that one-fifth, and sometimes one-fourth, of the earnings of the laborers are expended in wine, you may form some idea as to its probable influence on their thrift and health.....How far the distinctive and poisonous influence of Wine, as here used, is to be ascribed to the grape, and how far it is augmented and aggravated by poisonous adulterations, it would be difficult to say; for although the pure juice of the grape can be furnished at about one cent a bottle, you, who have studied the matter, know very well, the retailers choose to gain a fraction of profit by the addition of water and drugs, that will maintain the color, body, bouquet, and intoxicating properties it originally possessed,"

Lord Acton (since Cardinal) while Supreme Judge of Rome, assured me, while I was in that city, that "all or nearly all the crime in Rome originated in the use of wine." He directed me to that part of Rome, which would well compare with the Five Points in New York. I visited that district, and there I saw men, women, and children, sitting in rows, swilling away at wine (making up in quantity what was wanting in strength), and such was the character of the inmates of those dens of debauchery, that my guide urged my immediate departure as I valued life. "And to-morrow," said Lord Acton to me, "I shall be obliged to condemn to death a man who went direct from one of these dens to his home, where, under the influence of wine, he butchered his mother and his wife. And this man, when not under this malign influence, was a kind-hearted son, husband, and father".

The evils of intemperance are now universally acknowledged to be so vast and overshadowing, that even our former opposers are seeking out a remedy - and that remedy, in the manufacture and importation of pure intoxicating drinks. It is now too late to waste a moment on this idea as a remedy. It is out of the question to decide which is or which is not pure - all the chemists in the world could not give a correct analysis in one year of the contents of a single wholesale liquor establishment that could be named. The only reason why even pure intoxicating liquor is drunk, is for the poison in it - the poison, alcohol - we do not want this poison, as a beverage, in any shape.

Ohio is striving for the bad eminence of becoming a wine-producing State. If she succeeds, it will be a curse to that State, and through her to the nation.

The only safety for us is in prohibition of the traffic of all kinds of intoxicating liquors, as a beverage, in all the States, and the non-importation of the same from abroad.