From the square of the Hetel-de-Vflle another magnificent street, a mile long, planted on each Lido with tree., and lined with houses six storkes high all built of white stone, rune northward, crossing the boulevards from the quay. to the handsome terminus of the Stras bourg railway. This street, which is not yet completed, forms • most magnificent entrance to Paris.
A railway is nearly finished completely encircling Paris, in order to connect all the metropolitan lines of railway together, and to enable companies to carry both passengers and goods from one end of France to the other across the metropolis without changing carriage. In France railways have all the same gauge.
In the Champellysdes, on the left of the Great Avenue leading from the Place-de-la-Concorde to the triumphal arch de-rEtoile, a build ing intended for industrial exhibitions, public, ceremonies, and imperial festivals is rapidly approaching completion. This noble ball is 900 feet long by 500 feet wide. The exterior walls, built of stone, consist of two stories of massive arched windows, riming one above the other and ornamented with sculptures emblematic of the principal cities of France. Through these windows (which are painted) and the arched roof, which is constructed of iron and ground glass, the building Is lighted. In the centre of each long side of the building are noble projections to break the uniformity of the facades; the projection on the northern side contains the principal entrance under a noble arch flanked by two lofty towers. This building Aims part of the Falai, dcol'Indaatrie for the Universal Exhibition of 1855: several wings and gallerie extensions of the plan, are connected with it.
A very beantifnl gothic church, of cathedral dimensions, surmounted by two lofty towers and lighted through windows of stained glass, is built in the Faubourg St.-Germain near the Legislative Chamber. The building of the Alma Bridge has been already mentioned. Among other improvements we may enumerate the restoration and decoration of Notre-Dame, the Palads-de-Justice and its Sainte-Chapelle, the churches of St.-Enatache, St.-Etienne-du-Mont, and St-Roth. The dome of the Invalides has been regilt to make it more worthy of the Tomb of Napoleon 1., the moat wonderful monument of Paris. The qnaya have been completely finished and put in order, and several of the oldest stone bridges rebuilt. The great central markets have been constructed on a grand scale. The Boulevard Mazas, connecting the bridge of Austerlitz with the Place-du-Trone, and passing the termi nus of the Lyon railway, has been completed, and a new boulevard is being cut from the Madeleine to the Park of Monceaux. Finally a free library, containing 200,000 volumes, has been opened near the church of Sainte-Genevieve in a stone building of great architectural merit, in the Italian style. The interior of this institution is remark able for its elegant and judicious arrangements.
The population of Paris in 1791 was estimated to be above 610,000. The first regular census was taken in (we believe)1806, and the popula tion of the commune of Paris in the years named was officially given as follows :—In 1806, 580,609; 1826, 890,431; 1836, 909,126; 1846, 945,721; 1851, 996,067. At the census of 1851 the population of the arrondissement of Paris (a division of the department of Seine) was 1,053,262. But the population of Paris as bounded by the great modern fortifications considerably exceeds this last number.
The total number of births in Paris during tho year 1851 was 32,324 (16,349 boys, 15,975 girls): of this number 10,635 were born out of marriage. The total number of deaths for the year was 27,585
(13,098 males, 13,8S7 females): tho number of bodies exposed at the Morgue in the year was 335 (296 men, 39 women); the number of deaths from smallpox amounted to 364.
The following items of the consumption of Paris are taken from the official return for the year 1851 The students of various classes form a considerable part of tho pope lation of Paris, the total number reaching nearly to 18,000. There is also a very numerous manufacturing population, which has been lately estimated at 450,000; for in the variety and extent of its productions of industry, Paris may vie with most cities of the world. The carpets of the manufactory of La Savonnerie and the tapestry of the Gobelins are well known. The two establishments are new united at the Cobelins. Cathemire, silk, and woollen shawls ; light woollens, cotton goods, hosiery, gloves, hats, embroidery, lace, and other articles of fashionable attire; steam-machinery, jewellery, gold and silver plate, and trinkets; pens, clocks and watches, glass, and bronzes ; musical, mathematical, and philosophical instruments; paper-hangings, house hold furniture, carriages, saddlery, leather, glue, cutlery, fire-arms, liqueurs, and confectionary are manufactured. Dyeing, printing, engra ving, and lithograph; the manufacture of salts, acids, oxides, and other chemicals; the refining of sugar, tallow-melting, th o distillation of spirits, brewing, and the manufacture of starch, are carried on with activity. Tho special exports of Paris according to official returns were valued at 94 millions of francs in 1837. In 1847 the value was 363,572,187 francs; in 1848, a year of great depression, the value of the exports was 157 millions. In 1851 the exports had risen to 219i millions, and in 1852 to 221i millions of francs (8.860,0001.), or nearly one seventh of the value of the total exports of Franco. It must bo borne in mind however that many article, manufactured in other towns of Franco are sent to Paris to be finished, and are included iu the exports of the capitaL The great manufacturers of Lyon, Rouen, and the other chief manufacturing towne of the provinces, have their agencies and their depOts at Paris. The Seine furnishes the principal moans of water-carriage. The Ourcq Canal, which opens a communication with the country to the north-eastward, terminates in the basin of La Villette,just outside the wall of Paris, on the north-east side of the city ; and the canals of St.-Martin and St.-Denis open a communication between the Oureq Canal and the Seine. The canal of St-Martin enters the Seine in the very heart of Paris, opposite tho island Louvier; its termination toward the Seine is formed by tho basin of the Arsenal. The canal of St.-Denis opens into the Seine at tho town of SL-Denis, a short distance north of Paris. Paris also has abundant facilities for transport by means of railroads, which connect tho capital with Lyon, Troyes, Orldans, Nantes, Bordeaux, Bayonne, Strasbourg, St-Quentin, Lille, Dunkirk, Calais, Boulogne, Rouen, Havre, and Dieppe, besides short lines to Corbel, Versailles, Chartres, and Le-Maus. The western railway now open to Le-)lans is part of a great trunk line iu course of construction to Brest, which ie to bo connected by branches with a north eveteru line to Cherbourg. Along all these lines electro telogrsphie wire. are laid.