PATZCUARO. [Mexico.
PAU, the capital of the French departmeut of Basses-Pyrendes, is situated on tho right bank of the Gave-de-Pan, 403 miles S.W. from Paris, in 43° 17' 44" N. lat., 0' 22' 24" W. long., and has 15,171 inhabitants in the commune. The town is situated on a height, and is divided into two parts by a deep ravine crossed by n bridge; the principal pact is on the south side of the ravine. There is a suburb, on the bank of the Gave-de-Pau, at the foot of the height on which the town stands. Pell is well laid out ; the houses are well built, and coated with cement. The poorer houses in the suburbs are chiefly of pebbles laid in very hard mortar. The principal object of interest is the cradle, the birthplace of Henri IV., on the west side of the town. This building is all irregular gothic structure, striking from its vast uess and interesting from its historical associations. It is kept in repair by the government The room in which Henri was born is still shown. The castle, which commands a beautiful and extensive prospect, and has a fine park attached to it, was for a part of the year 1848 the prison-resideoce of the Arab chief Abel-el-Kader. There arc
two handsome squares in Pau, called La-Couiddie and La-Place Royale ; the latter is planted with trees, and adorned with a fine pedestrian bronze statue of Henri IV. There la a good bridge over the (lave-de-Pan, leading from the lower town to the neighbouring town of Jur:mien, celebrated for its Whim There are a court-house, a market-house, with a fountain in front of it, and several promenades. The town is the seat of a High Court, which has juriadictiou over the departments of Bariaes-PyrOndee, Ilautts-Pyreuttes, anti Landes. It has tribunals of first instance and of commerce, a public library containing 18,000 volumes, and a college. The principal manufactures tire car pets, linen, bandketehlefs, leather, and table-covers. Trade is carried on In hens, salted legs of geese, wines, chestnuts, cotton yarn, cotton goods, and coarse woollens. The English, who are pretty nutnerout at Pan, have a church and clergyman of their own, also au English banker and several Euglish doctors. An English tits-consul resides in the town.