PARIS. This most important city, besides its distinguishing featairee in other respects, has a considerable manufacturing population;;' for in the variety and* extent of its tiong of indirstry, Paris* may vie with most cities of the world. The carpets of the ma nufactory of La Savonnerio and the tapestry of the Gobelins are well known. Cashmere; silk, and woollen shawls ; light woollens; cot.: ton 'goods, laOsiery, glove's, hats, embroideii, lace, 'and other articles of fashionable attire ; jewellery, gold and silver plate and' trinkets, clockS and watches, bronzes; and musical, niathemalical, and philosophical paper -hangings, houshold. furnitUre, Car riages, sadlery, leather, glue, cutlery, fire arms, liqueurs', and Confectionary, are made. Dyeinv, printing, engraving, and lithography; the 'manufacture of salts, acids, oxides, and other chemicals ; the refining of sugar, tal low-melting, the distillation of brandy from potatoes, brewing, and the manufacture ofpota to-starch,—all are carried on with considerable activity. The Seine furnisheS the principal means Of water-ear:Hap: it is' navigable for barges and other smelt craft. The' anals of the Ourcq, St. Denis, and St. Martin, give to Paria water communication with many parts of the vicinity. The timber brought into Earis is, immense. Wood is the principal fuel consumed at present, but the consump tion of coatis gaining groimd. The.inarkets for the Sale of proviSiotts are 'numerous aria genoreily well arranged:— There are some curious industrial statistics in which London and Paris are compared, contained in a recently published report to the French government, by M. Darcy, divi sional inspector of the Pouts et Chaussees, who has been to England to obtain information relative to the macadamized roads. The total
surface of London is said to be 210,000,000 square metres ; its population,1,924,000 ; num ber of houses 260,000; length of the streets, 1,126,000 metres ; surface of the streets, not including the foot pavement, 6,000,000 me tres ; length of the sewers, 639,000 metres. The total surface of Paris is 34,379,016 square metres ; population, 1,053,879; number of houses, 20,526 ; length of the streets, 425,000 metres ; surface of the streets, exclusive of the foot pavement, 3,600,000 square metres ; length of the sewers, 135,000 metres; surface of the foot pavement, 888,000 metres. Thus in London every inhabitant corresponds to a surface of more than 100 square metres ; at Paris to only 34 metres; which shews that Paris is much more densely populated than London. In London the average of inhabitants for each house is 7i ; at Paris, 34. The Boule vards of Paris is the part where the greatest traffic takes place, and the following are the results of the observations of M. Darcy on the subject :—On the Boulevard des Capn eines there pass every 24 hours 9,070 horses drawing carriages ; Boulevard des Italiens, 10,750 ; Boulevard Poissonniere, 7,720 ; Boulevard St. Denis, 9,609; Boulevard des Filles du Calvaire, 5,859; general average of the above, 8,600. Rue du Fanbourg St. An toine, 4,300 ; Avenue des Champs Elysees, 8,959. Other items are given respecting the traffic in the London streets ; but these seem to be of doubtful accuracy.
The numerous Industrial Exhibitions at Paris have been noticed in the Introduction.