The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-04 00:00:00

glance at their own productions placed by the side
of those from other nations will in minutes speak
volumes ; they will learn to respect nme who ap-
proach, if they do not excel, them in the handicraft
which they have been trained to regard as their
pride. Under such a process prejudices dissolve like
a GOMPERTZ ghost, and in the same place admira-
tion takes the form where an ignorant contempt had
before been so distinctly visible. They also see in
what their country truly shines ; they learn the
value of settled and steady labour—of capital freely
expended, and they begin to get an insight of what
is due to nature and what to art in their own dis-
tricts. Nu city is better adapted than Paris to open
the eyes of the ignorant—no scene than the Exhi -
bition. Here, then, is the opportunity ; but what
has to be done is not only to transport the masses,
but to giyß. them the means of living at a rate they
can afford to pay. Now, this is the difficulty, for
certain causes invariably produce certain effects, and
if Paris be over -crowded prices must of necessity
rise. The deputation to which we have alluded was
organised by the Universal Tourist Company,
which was itself created from the fertile brain of
' Monsieur 2-,LF. D. DE LAVIGERIE. This gentleman
has long and hitherto vainly been striving to carry
into effect a well-matured scheme, to transport in
thousands people of all classes to any part of the
world, but more especially to Paris during the Ex-
hibition. He has as yet found it impossible, owing
to the discredit into which joint-stock undertakings
have fallen to form a company, which, by means
of interpreters, guides, and an elaborate machinery,
may guarantee to take people up at a given spot,
to show them the things best worth seeing in Paris,
and to bring them back to the same spot, for a cer-
tain fixed sum. People dread to trust themselves
in a city which is daily becoming more, in the way
of accommodation, like an English town during
a racing week. To get to Paris may be very easy,
but when there most have a shrewd idea that they
are in the hands of the Philistines, and no decree
of the EMPEROR will save them from a perpetual
wrangle against over-charges, which will embitter
the period they have devoted to pleasure, and re-
turn them to their provinces pigeons well plucked.
If the Universal Tourist Company can carry out
its programme, which the delegates feel now as-
sured of, Monsieur DE LAVIGERIE will have done
good service to both countries. No time, however,
sto be lost. The EMPEROR has approved of the
plan, and his Ministers have favoured it all the
more readily, that the working will be in the hands
of a Frenchman whom they can personally make
responsible that the laws of the Empire are care-
fully observed.—Anglo-American Times.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN OF FRANCE.

The traffic receipts on this company's old lines,
662 miles in length, for the week ending the 20th of
May, amounted for passenger traffic to £28,100 and
for goods to 5.39,211—t0tal £67,311 ; and for the
corresponding week last year on the same mileage
to £58,902, showing an increase of £8,409, or 14.27
per cent. The receipts on the company's new lines,
208 miles in' length, amounted for passengers to
£2,866, and for goods to £2,032—total £4,899,
and for the corresponding week in 1866, on 126
miles, to £3,455, showing an increase of 82 miles
and of £1,444 in the receipts. The aggregate re-
ceipts on both lines from the Ist of January to the
above date amounted to £1,266,081 against
£1,203,981 for the same period last week, showing
an increase of £62,100.

SAN PAULO (BRAZILIAN:)
The traffic manager of this company, in his re-
port dated Santos, May 5, stated that the traffic
receipts of the line were still rapidly increasing, and
that in spite of the Easter week there was an
almost entire cessation of business, the receipts for
the month of April amounted to 30 per cent. more
than the preceding month of March, there being for
March £9,811, and £12,780 fur April, or at the
average rate of £34 per mile per week.