The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-04 00:00:00

THE NEW ILYCLOSUIE OP P4RIB.

The officials of the Octroi have taken possession of
the porta established in the new aniosare et Paris, now,
like indent Thebes, become the City of the Hundred Oates.
Under Louis XV., Paris had already considerably locrosesd,
end some neighbouring villages were added to it, among
arises that of the Hoak, which wee made • suburb of the
city. In 1784, under Loafs XVI., the farmers-general re-
wired perralwion to surround the capital with • wall which
is warty We seem se that now existing, bat which will
soon disappear. et that period the hurter gates were
almost all of wood, end the °Sloss small wooden
houses, pieced on wheel; for the aonvesienee of
locomotion. The barriers were sixty in number,
classed in three divisions—north, south, and east.
The new enclosure of Paris, with its 100 gates, its deep
ditches, and its green slopes, will better respond to the gran-
deur cf the city than the wall by which it hie bees hitherto
surrounded. en immense number of Pertain's did net low
the chants of profiting by the change in the barriers.
Daring the afternoon and evening of the day before the
alteration was affected, they flocked outside the old barriers
' and made purchases ut every kind, and for some hour, beta,,
midnight all the barriers were crowded with vehicles end
foot passengers waiting for the moment when they might
pass through without being stopped. When midnight
struck, the barrier gate. were thrown open, the Octroi men
retired, and the whole body entered Paris and proceeded in
their respective destinations, happy at having thus effected
some saving, though at the con of considerable trouble.

THE POPE AND THE CONGREBB.—The Corriere
Mercantile says :—" The paropblet oa the Pope sad the
Congress has laid Its finger on the sore point of Roman
society. It la precisely the moderate language of the
pamphlet that has most exasperated the clergy. In fact, this
moderation attests the author's conviction, and not only
that, but his conviction aleo that the remedy he proposss
will be accepted. The illustrious Georgie, proposes that
Rome ahall be made neutral; M.IIIIIiWO d'Ateglio, in lila late
pamphlet, proposes that the Pope shall reign over Route,
declared a free city. The memoir of Count Aldial, %ad she ver-
bal note communicated by Count Caesar to Count Waloweld
sad Lord Clarendon, on the 27th of May, 1868, oostaio the
germ of this solution. The speeches delivered in oar elective
chamber. in the month of Kay, 1866, partook of the Caine
views. Whin •11 politicians aim to point out one and the
Mae practical solution, it may well be believed to be the
best."

STATISTICS OF LONDON.--Tbe thirsty souls of Lon-
don, then, need have no fear of becoming thirstier so long as
than are upwards of 4,000 public-houses and 1,000 wine
merchants to minister to their deathless thirst. The broad
to this enormous quantity of seek is represented by 2,600
bakers 1,700 butchers, not Including pork butchers, 2,600
tes-deilers and grocers, 1,260 coffee-room keepers, nearly
1,600 dairymen, and 1,360 tobschnints. To look after the
digestion of this enormous amount of food upwards of 2,400 •
duly licensed practitioners, surgeons. and physicians are
daily running to and fro through this mighty metropolis,
whose patients, in due count) of time and physic, are
bonded over to the tender mercies of 600 anti rakers.
Nearly 3,000 boot and shoemakers add their aid to
that of the doctor to keep our feet dry and warm, while
2,960 tailors do ea much for the rest of our bodies. The
waists of the fairer portion of the population are supplied by
1,080 linendrepers and 1,260 milliners and dressmakers, not,
of course, including thole poor creatures who, like i3arsh
Dyer, " stitch, stitch, stitch," over " seam and gusset and
band" without hope, and °fen without reoompense. Of
theta this book (the PorreiforDiresfory) speaks not; it
speaks only of those who have a fined and known abode.
1.640 private schools take charge of our children; and
for the information of possible 114.P.'s for Green-
wich let us add that 290 pawnbroker.' shops find
employment and profit out of the reverMlN follies
and vices of the community. About 300,000 house:
give shelter to upwards of two millions and a half of people,
whiles little differenoes ere aggravated or settled by upwords
of 3,000 attorneys and 3,900 barristers. The spiritual wants
of this mighty aggregate of human souls are cored for by
930 cisegyriten end dissonting ministers, who rave:tied,
monde over 429 churches and 423 chapels, of which latter
buildings the independent. have 121, the Baptiste 100, the
Wesleyaas 77. the Roman Catholics 29, the Calvinists and
Epsilon Prohyternine 10 mob, the Quaker.. 7, end the Jews
10. the 011110111,0111111 other sects being content with numbers
varying from one to Iles mad.— Times.