The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-31 00:00:00

THE NORTILERN CIRCUIT.

Now that the assizes on this circuit have come to
an end, and as there is much comment on the busi •
ness of the circuit and talk of projects for dividing
it, or taking York away from it, a short statement
of facts may not be without interest.
At York Queen's counsel sat for five days assist-
ing the Judges to get through the calendar, and on
two of those days two Queen's counsel sat. In other
words, seven days' work for one Judge was done by
Queen's counsel sitting as commissioners, and yet I
two long causes were made remanate.
At Durham two Queen's counsel assisted the
Judges in the trial of prisoners two days each, or
four days' work for one Judge was done by them,
and with great difficulty the assize work was got
through late on the Newcastle commission day,
At Ne wcastle Queen's counsel assisted the learned
Judges in the trial of prisoners two days, and a
heavy cause was made a remanet there.
At Carlisle one Judge remaiced after the com-
mission day for Appleby, and until the commission
day for Lancaster, sitting two full days beyond the
time appointed, and a heavy road case was, not-
withstanding, made a remanet.
At Appleby there were five or six ordinary cri-
minal cases and a charge of murder to try before
the single Judge in one day. There was no civil
business, and the work was done in one long day,
At Lancaster there was an unusually light calen-
dar. This enabled the two judges on the second
day to try causes, and a heavy cause list was thus
got through late on the Liverpool commission day.
At Liverpool, with a very heavy calendar, and the
usual great cause list, the judges have found it ne-
cessary to call in the assistance of Queen's counsel
to sit as commissioners for the trial of prisoners, and
they have sat nearly every day for a fortnight—or
rather, to be strictly accurate, Queen's counsel have
sat on ten days, and on five of these two Queen's
counsel have sat; in other words, our judge's work
for 15 days has been done by Queen's counsel, or
two and a half weeks' work, excluding the Sun-
days. Two of these days Queen's counsel sat try-
ing common jury causes. Queen's counsel have,
therefore, sat 23 days this circuit-26 days trying
criminal: and two days trying civil causes. It
may be fairly assumed from the remanets left on
different parts of the circuit, they being all
heavy causes put off to the last, that, if tried, and if
the pressure used in other cases in order to get
through the work had not existed, the civil business
of the circuit would have required the services of a
judge one week longer than it has taken, and it is
equally clear that without resorting to the gratuit-
ous assistance of various Queen's counsel the criminal
business of the circuit would have required the ser-
vices of Inc judge one month longer than the time
taken. It would therefore have required the ser-
vices of three judges instead of two to get through
the work of the circuit in the ordinary time had not
the aid of most of the Queen's counsel been called in.
It is proposed to make Manchester a new assize
tewn. It is expected that that will materially in-
crease the local civil business, and that a great
many causes of importance now tried by consent of
parties before the Salford Borough Court to save
expense will then be tried at the assizes. It is also
certain that the commercial causes of Stockport,
Altringham, Knutsford, and Macclesfield—great
manufacturing places in Cheshire, with a direct
railway communication to Manchester, and nearer
to Manchester than to Chester, with commercial
juries at one place, and juries of farmers at the other,
will go to the Manchester assizes for trial. There is,
therefore, every probability of a fortnight's civil
business being added to the circuit from this cause.

A strong effort is also being made to get anew
assize town for Yorkshire at Leeds or Wakefield.
The probability is that the facility of trial so given
will increase the local civil business so much as to
take nearly a week longer to try.
If two Judges, therefore, do the whole work
assigned to them without calling in the constant aid
of Queen's counsel to do a great part of it for them
—and however ably these learned gentlemen may
try prisoners or causes, trials in little back rooms,
where judge, and counsel, and officers, and wit
p
nesses, and jurymen, and prisoners are all huddled
together on a level round table, are neither so dig-
nified, nor so satisfactory to any of the parties con-
cerned, nor to the public, as trials conducted in
open court—it follows that one's month's time
additional to that now required to get through
c
the circuit business, both civil and criminal, by two
Judges will be necessary; and as the circuit now re-
quires nearly two months to get through the work,
the Northern Circuit will require three months'
time to get through the ordinary business of the
circuit. This is the simple calculation of " two and
two make four," based on facts as they exist. But

the great manufacturing North does not stand still;
nor does its population decrease.
A three months' circuit is clearly impracticable.

It is proposed, it is said, to make all things work
well by taking off York and adding it to the Mid-
land Circuit. Yorkshire has now a fortnight al-
lotted to it ; with an additional assize town, it is
assumed, it will require three weeks. Take three
weeks from three months, and will an eight or nine
weeks Northern Circuit bo less oppressive than it
now is ? And yet the circuit, if two Judges do the
work to be done with York, and with the proposed
change, will clear/y require that time.
But, add three weeks of Yorkshire to the Mid-
land Circuits which now requires five weeks, and
give the Midland Circuit a new assize town for
Birmingham, which it urgently demands, and ought
to have, and which would probably add another
week to that circuit, and you make a nine weeks'
circuit of the Midland, which is found to be almost
impracticable on the Northern. And, again, York-
shire and Warwickshire will not stand still, nor
their population decrease:
It is clear that some other adjustment of the cir-
cuits is needed. whether that be to divide the
Northern circuit simply into two circuits—York-
shire and the north-eastern counties, and Lanca-
shire and the north-western counties, which would
require two additional Judges for the additional cir-
cuit; or by dividing the Midland Circuit between
the Norfolk Circuit on the south side and the north-
eastern side of the Northern on the north side, thus
making two good circuits, constituting Lancashire
and the north-western counties a distinct circuit,
and thus equalising the business of the three cir-
cuits, without increasing the staff of the Judges, is
the real question which the Lord Chancellor and the
Government have to determine. Anything less
than this will simply be useless, ineffectual, and
mischievous.-7intes,

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OP WALES
IN THE HIGHLANDS.

THE BRAEMAR GATHERING.

The Braemar gathering, with a chance of witness-
ing a meeting of the clans—after the modern fashion
—has of late been one of the principal attractions
towards Deeside, and no doubt the numbers present
this season, even under ordinary circumstances,
would have been considerable, There can be no
question, however, but that the intimation which
had been publicly made that the Prince and Princess
of Wales intended to honour the Highlanders by
visiting the gathering, proved the loadstone which
drew together the large company who last week
bent their steps to the upper valley of the Dee. For
weeks past the Earl and Countess of Fife have been
making preparations to render the reception of the
Prince and Princess worthy of this their first visit
to the Highlands, a loyalty and thoughtfulness
which have been fittingly recompensed by their
Royal Highnesses graciously becoming the guests
of the Earl and Countess at Mar-lodge from Thurs-
day till Saturday. Mar-lodge, which tourists to
the Linn of Dee will know better as the roman-
tically situated Corriemulzio Cottage, in the vicinity
of the beautiful Falls of Corriemulzie, was suddenly
converted into as pretty a Highland palace as eye
could desire to look upon.
The gathering of the Highlanders for competi-
tion in feats of strength and skill was fixed to take
Place on the ample lawn in front of old Mar Castle,
and to this spot tourists and residents alike con-
verged by midday on Thursday. Across the road
leading to the castle a very handsome triumphal
arch, composed chiefly of heather and birch and sur-
mounted by a crown of the former, was erected,
while the grim old castle itself looked quite gay in
its bedeckings. Immediately in front of the castle
snow white tents were placed for the reception of
the Princa and Princess, and the company from
Mar-lodge, a slightly elevated dais being so con-
structed that their Royal Highnesses could
witness the sports comfortably, whether the
weather should prove wet or dry, by being under
or beyond canvass. Between 1 and 2 o'clock the
sound of the pibrochs coming across the water an-
nounced the approach of the Fife and Farquharson
Highlanders, " all plaided and plumed in their
tartan array," &c. The Forbes, or " Lonach" men,
from Strathdon, who have always made the most
imposing appearance at these meetings, were un-
fortunately absent on the present occasion, through
recent domestic affliction in the family of their re-
spected chief, Sir C, Forbes, of Newe. Each of the
Fife men carried a pike in hand and sported the family
emblem, the sprig of the holly in his bonnet; while
the Farquharsons bore broadswords and displayed a
branch of the yew. The former clans were com-
manded by Lord Macduff, Mr. Kennedy Erakine,
Mr. Duff Abercromby, M.P., and Mr. J. C. U. Mill.
In the absence of Colonel Farquharson the me .n
of his clan were under the command of Mr.
Brown, the resident factor on the Invercauld estates.
Up till about 3 o'clock the day had been cold and
dusty, "dirty weather," in short, as a sailor might
say, while the portentous mist that floated in thick
clouds overhead and crept like smoke up the sides of
Craig-neich, Craig Vallech, Craig Nurron, Craigin-
taucht, and the other lofty mountains that enclose
the old Castle of Mar and the fine valley in which
it is set, gave no hopeful tokens of the sun lending
his powerful influence to aid in the enjoyment—to
say nothing of comfort—at the gathering. Just
about 3 o'clock, however, the flying showers ceased,
and when the Prince and Princess drove up, the
weather may be said to have become on the whole
favourable. Their Royal Highnesses, who were
in an open carriage, were received by the High-
landers and the spectators with loud cheers, which
they graciously acknowledged. The Prince was
dressed in full Highland costume, with broadsword,
sporran, and dirks complete. 'r " garb," it was
universally admitted, became him remarkably well.
The Princess worn a dress of the Victoria tartan
pattern, and thereby won additional favour in the
eyes of the Highlanders. Immediately on the Prince
and Princess taking their seats on the dais prepared
for them, the sports began. Among the company
present were the Duchess of Roxburghe, the Master
of Lovat, Mr. and Lady Susan Grant Suttie, Sir
Thomas and Lady Louisa Moncrieffe and the Misses
Moncrieffe, Lady Annally, the Hon. Miss G. White
and the Hon. Capt. White, the Hon. Lewis Wing-
field, the Earl of Brecknoek, Viscount Boringdon,
Sir James Elphinstone, M.P. ; Sir Frederick John-
stone, the Earl and Countess of Listowel, Lord
Berkeley Paget, Major Balfour, Mr. John Phillip
R.A.; Col. Phipps ; Col. Forbes, of Inverarnon
Mr. Charles Forbes, jun., of Newe ; Mr. W. R.

Duff, of Fetteresso, M.P. ; Mr. Augustus Lumley,
Mr. Theodore Williams, Captain Balfour, of her
Majesty's ship Winchester, and Mrs. Balfour, Dr.
Will, Colonel Kinloch, &c.

The games commenced with "putting ,
the stone,"
followed by " throwing the hammer" and s
tassi
thearm c.
whicha
bFcro,r"
excellence feats peculiar
depends to the
chiefly Highlanders,
on
strength
in
'1 putting the stone" Donald Mimic,
known
as
,“ the Deeside Champion," and a sore
thorn in the sides of the Highlanders, as he is not
of them, being a modtst-looking lowland lad, firmly
knit, and evidently a man of vast power of arm,
stood first, throwing a stone of 281 b• a distance of
27ft. Dinnie also was victor at the next exercise,
making a hammer of 161 b. fly through the air 84ft.
At "tossing the caber''--that is, making a pon-
derous tree of 20 or 30ft. in length spin right over
the ground—Charles
gander, was proclaimed
hero. end without touchiilni
Al' Hardy, a stout young
hero. A long race followed, and was won by Robert-
son, a Glenisla man. But the Highlanders cannot lay
claim to any particular merit in games
ewsthhearu'
where
speed, agility,"or skill are necessary. l
'wiping they can give no examples of what rh:eittnrg o
ainr-
jog and fleetness will achieve such as ly
White, Brighton, or the crack English competitors
display, while the grace of attime
e. Tv oiliness

of eye that characterise the feats of Caffyn at the
bat or Tom Lockyer keeping
be-
yond their aim and roach. - the
wicket seem Bu their dancing is
decidedly attractive, and some of the Highlanders
on the present occasion displayed
great neatness
and dexterity in the execution of " Gillie Callum"
(the sword dance) and their exciting strathspeys
and reels. A Farquharson man named Mackenzie,
carried off the dancing honours—though probably
for grace of movement and variety of step a Cor-
poral Forbes, from Dundee, who entered in the con-
test for all corners, won most admiration. The
objection to his performance, however, was
that it showed too much art, and consequently
was wanting in the untutored naturalness, so to
speak, demanded in true " Highland"dancing. The
Prince and Princess seemed much interested in the
games—more especially the dancing—and did not
leave the ground till nearly 6 o'clock, when they
drove off amid loud cheering for Mar. lodge.
The games were finished shortly after 6 o'clock,
and by 7 the Highlanders and the spectators bad also
left the ground for Castletown, where the former
were entertained to dinner by Lord Fife, and the
latter entertained themselves as best they could—
the whole resources of Messrs. Fisher and Hunter
and the villagers generally being in constant and
urgent demand.
At Mar-lodge the Earl and Countess of Fife en-
tertained the Prince and Princess of Wales and a
distinguished company to dinner, and the evening
was closed with the following tableaux :

I.—Mary Queen of Scots at Wemyes Castle.
Queen Mary .. Miss G. Moncrieffe.
Mary Beaton
Mary Carmichael
Mary Seton .. Miss H. Moncrieffe.
Mary Livingstone
ll.—Mary Queen of Scots, attended by Rizzio.
Mary Stuart
Rizzio
lll.—Elaine.

Elaine
" Lay the letter in my hand
"A little ere I die, and close the hand upon it;
"I shall guard it even in death.
"And when the heat is gone from out my heart,
"Then take the little bed on which I died
"For Launcelot's love, and deck it like the queen's
" For richness, and me also like the queen
"In all I have of rich, and lay me on it
♦ • ;
So that day there was dole in Astolat."
—"ldylls of the Bing."

IV.—The Soldier's RetTurn,
Lady Ann Duff. Lady Agnes Duff.
Master of Lovat.
" The wars are o'er, and I'm come hame,
"And find thee still true-hearted I
Though poor in gear, we're rich in Love,
"And mair, we'se ne'er be parted."—Burns.
V.—Charlotte Corday contemplating her Picture before her

Execution.

Charlotte Corday . . Hon. Miss White.
Gaoler Mr. W. Kennedy Erskine.
Vl.—Faith, Hope, and Charity.
Faith
Hope
Charity
Child
The various " tableaux" were admirably presented,
the steadiness of the figures, so requisite for the
proper effect in these " living pictures," being as
nearly as possible perfect. The Prince and Princess
joined heartily in the applause bestowed upon the
" distinguished performers," and the encores were
frequent. During the night watch and ward was
faithfully kept at the lodge by a picked body-guard
of the Fife Highlanders. •

' RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The following is a summary of the railway pro
ceedings of the week. The report of the directors
of the London, Chatham, and Dover states that
the working for the past six months shows an in-
crease:of 45 per cent. in the passenger and 40 per
cent. in the goods traffic over the corresponding
period of 1862, but they express their regret that
this increase has not benefited the revenue, in con-
sequence of the large amount expended in earning
it. The board further states that the receipts on
the metropolitan extensions, although only opened
for traffic between Victoria and the Elephant and
Castle, have averaged about £9O per mile per week;
that sine the opening to Beckenham the receipts
have averaged more than £133 per mile per week,
and that the last week gave a return of £l5O per
mile per week. At the half-yearly meeting the
report was adopted ; Mr. Holroyd, the late secre-
tary, was elected a director of the company, and
Mr. Johnson, who has been appointed in his place,
was voted a salary of £5OO per annum. At the
Sevenoaks meeting the report, which was adopted,
stated that the receipts for the past year, which
was the first year of working, had been £5,170, but
it was expected that there would be a consider.
able increase when the goods termini with
the London, Chatham, and Dover, and the
Lewisham and Tunbridge lines were completed.
The net available balance of revenue on the half-
year's working of the Waterford and Limerick is
£2,400, out of which the directors recommend a
dividend of 53. per share on. the original capital.
The report of the directors of the West Hartlepool
was adapted at the half-yearly meeting. At a
special meeting of the company the directors were
authorised to raise, under their act of the present
year, £729,000 on debentures, to pay off the primary
charges against the company, and £300,000 on de-
benture, for other purposes. The half-yearly report
of the directors of the Metropolitan was unani-
mously adopted at the general meeting, and a divi-
dend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum declared.
The chairman expressed his conviction that the
traffic for the past six months was not one-third of
what they might fairly expect hereafter. At the
Sonth.Eastern meeting the report was adopted,
and a dividend at the rate of 412 per cent. per annum
was declared on the half-year's working. The
Great Northern meeting also adopted the report, and
dividends were declared as follows;—At the rate of
1 per cent. on the Hertford stock, 4 per cent. and 6
per cent. on the Luton stocks, 41 per cent. per
annum on the Great Northern original stock of 3
per cent. for the half-year on the B stock, and of
£1 ss. per cent. for the half-year on the A stock.
The directors were authorised to subscribe on behalf
of the company £30,000 to the Stockton and Wood-
ley Junction, £58,000 to the Stockport Ti : mb erleY,
and Altrincham ; £65,000 to the Cheshire Midland,
and £67,000 to the West Cheshire Company. At the
Vale of Neath a dividend at the rate of 31 per cent.
per annum was declared. The receipts on the half_
year's working of the North and South-Western
Junction showed an
increase of £604 over the cor-
responding
period of the precious year, and out of
the balance,
2,103,the directors recommend a divi-
dend at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum, which
was declared at the meeting of shareholders. The
report of the directors of the North-Western, which
was adopted at the meeting held at Leeds, stated
that the receipts for the year 1862 amounted to
£59,301, and the Midland Company had paid
£11,910 for guaranteed interest and dividend. The
dividend at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum was
declared, and the chairman announced that the in-
creased dividend of 31 per pent. would commence
at the beginning of next year. At the meeting of
the Corn wall the report was adopted, and the
directors Were authorised to issue a further amount
of debentures to the extent of £82,980. The Taff
Vale meeting
the 1,1 declared a dividend at the rate of 9
per cent,
per annum, and the agreement for working
entrissant line was approved of. The directors
of the Whitehaven and Furness Junction, at their
meeting, congratulated the shareholders on the fact
of the receipts having increased 25 per cent. ovei the
corresponding half of 1862. A dividend at the rate
of 5 per cent., as recommended, was declared. At
the meeting of the Crystal Palace and South Lon-
don Junction the directors reported that the whole
of the works were progressing very rapidly, and
that the line would be opened within the term of the
contract, The half-yearly report of the Staines,

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the meeting of shareholders, showed the gkis
ceipts for the year to have been £12,275, being an
increase of £1,937 over the previous half-year. The
directors of theMid-Wales report that the works on
the line are in active progress, and that the lino
~ive progress, and that the line will be
open, qth - t year. At the Severn.
Valley the report was adopted, and a dividend at
the rate of 3 per cent. per annum declared on the
ordinary stock of the company. At the Bedford
and Cambridge the report was adopted, and a
dividend at the rate of :3.y per cent. per annum de-
clared. The directors of the Kent Coast state in.
their report, which was adopted at the share-
holders' meeting, that the double line between
Herne Bay and' Margate, and the second line of
rails between Faversham and Herne Bay, will be
opened by the let of next month, and that the line
to Ramsgate will be opened by the commencement
of October. At the Oswestry and Newtown, a
dividend at the rate of 41 per cent. per annum was
declared. The directors of the Cannock Mineral
recommend a dividend at the rate of 31 per cent.
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THE WATER SITPPLY IN PARIS,

The constantly increasing size of Paris, the augmentation
in the extent of its gardens and plantations, and the greater
superficies of street, road, end boulevard it is now deemed
r
necessary to water in dry weather, obviously implies an
increased consumption of water, for which it is urgent that
the municipal authorities should provide. The subject is
one upon which a good deal has of late been written in the
newspapers and in pamphlets, and its importance is all the
more pressing because it appears that for a long time past
the supply of water in Paris has been less than was
necessary to satisfy all the demands of health and
cleanliness, and far less than that enjoyed by most
other European, capitals— A . recent writer on i the
subject calculates that the total supply of water to
Paris is hardly 90 litres (a litre is equal to 1 760 English
pint) per inhabitant daily ; that is to say, six times less than
to the inhabitant of Marseilles, seven times less than to the
inhabitant of New York, 12 times less than to the inhabi-
tant of Rome. Old Paris was built at the bottom of a chalky
basin, up the sides of which it has beat constantly climbing.
Within its new barrier, the fortifications are 7,800 hectares
of ground, or more than 16,000 acres. According to the last
census, its inhabitants are 1,600,000. Converging towards
it, and running around it, numerous railways and canals
combine to supply its enormous consumption of all imagin •
able things. The Seine, but a slender stream for so great a
city, flows lazily through its heart, and afterwards meanders,
in many bends and folds, through its pleasant environs,
as if reluctant to leave the greatest ornament of her banks.
The annual consumption of Paris is of course prodigious ;
everything atnunds in this centre of gaiety and plea-
sure. Fur thirty leagues around the country contributes
to the supply of its wants ; from the south the rail-
ways bring fruit and much of the finest poultry,
from the various seaports immense supplies of fish. The
canal and river boats bring wine, wood, iron, and other
heavy merchandise; stone for building is plentiful in the
quarries of Paris itself. There is lack but of one thing--
the most precious, the most indispensable of all—and that
one thing is water. The Seine is there, certainly; but it
can afford but a small portion of what is needed. Besides
that a very costly machinery would be necessary 'to raise
200,000 cubic metres of water daily to all the elevations of
the city; it has been proved by:men of science that if such
a quantity of water was taken from it the current would
no longer have sufficient strength to carry off the drainage
from the sewers. All that is taken, therefore, is about
40,000 cubic metres, which is used filtered (a very expen-
sive process) for drinking, and in the houses. The Canal
de POureq affords 108,000 metres for other purposes. It
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and they reckon for little. The well at Passy is barely
sufficient to supply the Bois de Boulogne. Of course, a
large quantity of water is required to wash out the contents
of the sewers into the Seine, just as it is necessary to leave
the river a sufficient water power to carry the drainage
away. In short, the water borrowed from that river and the
Ourcq canal forms the sole supply of the capital. The chalky
character of the soil of the basin in which Paris stands ren-
ders the springs that rise there unwholesome for drinking
purposes, and hence the necessity of incurring the expense
of filtering the Seine water, which, even when it has under-
gone that process, is by no means of first-rate quality. After
a great deal of labour on the part of the Prefect of the Scino
Department, after many commissions have sat and many
reports been stride, it has been decided to substitute for the
water of the Seine that of two streams—the Dhuis and the
Surmelin, which is to be made to flow to Paris from a dis-
tance of 139 kilometres. For further wants there aro kept
in reserve 60,000 cubic metres from another stream, the
Somme Sonde, but that would require works alang an extent
of 252 kilometres. There was talk of making a diversion
from the Loire by means of a canal 175 kilometres, in length,
which would have supplied half a million of cubic metres a
day, but this was abandoned, partly on account of difficul-
ties and expense and partly in consequence of the opposition
made by the people dwelling on the banks of that river. Of
course every attempt to divert streams for the use of Paris
excites discontent somewhere or other. As soon as the works
are completed which are required in order to bring the waters
of the Dhuis and Surmelin to Paris, the quantity now des
rived from the Seine for the use of the houses will be aps
plied to purposes of general utility and cleanliness. Tho
148,000 cubic metres of water, which now constitutes the
whole supply of Paris, is estimated to be quite 100,000
metres less than this capital ought to have. Only two-fitths
of this deficiency is to be supplied by the works now in pro-
gress ; the great question is—whence is the rest to come ?
.It is very costly to divert streams from a great distance.
One writer on the subject has supposed to get water from
the Seine at a moderate distance below Paris. Owing
to the twists and turns the river makes in that part of its
course, the water might be brought over a short distance
from a very considerable one down the stream, which in
the interval would have completely diluted the drainage of
Paris. This water would not be used for drinking.
Paris earnestly demands more water—the more earnestly
that it has not yet recovered its usual complexion, or ceased
to perspire from the effects of tho late intense heat. In its
warm weather still—although there was a good ,deal of
rain early yesterday morning, and the day was sunless,
the thermometer stood at 73 deg. at half-past two. But
one feels delightfully cool by contrast with the temperature
of 20 and even nearly 30 deg. higher which wa.s enduredt
t
the earlier portion of the month. Scorched as lately was,
running Paris would gladly have seen the kennels all day,
and the water cart perpetually at work. Instead of that,
Paris had to swallow a vast deal of hot dust. Amid
the
many great things that have been donefor Parishun
deniably
under the
as
present reign, the hydraulic Parisdepartmenthas s
been plenteously
been somewhat neglected.
but it has not enough
supplied with light and air, but enou, water.
positively, and doubtless with
A Paris journal lately seated
perfect truth, that the. scarcity of monumental fountains
here is due to the deficiency of water. It may with great
reason be insisted upon that it is at least as necessary to
have water plentifully distributed through the houses of
Pads, and especially to that topmost story in which poor
people use, as to have gas illuminating all the staircase
And conveyed into a vast number of the apartments. It watt
probably the scarcity of water that first led to the Parisian
practice of waxing floors and stairs instead of washing
them—and the Englishman newly come to Paris is speedily
apprised bythe uncomfortably small dimensions of his
basin and ewer that ho is no longer in a land where pro-
fuse ablution is encouraged by an abundance of the refresh-
ing element.

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