The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-17 00:00:00

LIGHTING THE METROPOLIS.—The following curious
statistics, prepared by one of the principal gas companies,
will give some idea of the means at present employed for
lighting London and its suburbs :—There are 18 public
gas-works, conducted by 12 companies; their capital
amounts to upwards of £2,800,000, employed in piPeg,
tanks, &c. The revenue derivable therefrom is estimated
at £450,000 per annum. There are about 180,000 tons
of coals used annually ; there are 1,460,000,000 cubic feet
of gas made; 134,300 private lights, 30,400 public lights;
380 lamplighters, 176 gasometers, several of them double.
and capable of storing 5,500,000 feet ; and about 2,50°
persons are emplayed in various ways.

CURIOUS FACT.—II is a curious fact, that the five
commercial towns in England, namely, the metropolis,
Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, and Leeds, with
their suburbs, contain, within an area of 96,000 acres, or
as nearly as possible the area of Rutlandshire, a population
equal to the following seventeen purely agricultural coun-
ties :—Bedfordshire, Huntingdon, Suffolk, Sussex, Berks,
Buckingham, Cambridge, Cumberland, Hertfurd, North
and East Ridings of York, Dorset, Rutland, Hereford,
Oxford, Westmoreland, and Northampton, with all the
country towns within those counties, which occupy an
area of 10,000,000 acres, or about a third of the whole ea'
tent of England ; further, that the population of the sew.,e
five towns is equal to that of the whale of4Scotland,
its 19,000,000 acres.

THE TAKING OF THE TUILERIES.—" We have a vivid
description of the taking of the Tuileries by the populace(
Some amused themselves by mutilating the statues ?,
kings, or by firing at the portraits of such of thenuirs_illa"
as they consi d e re d t o have
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poleon. A number of artisans installed themselves in 1',.,0
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court-dresses which had circled the waist of royal Pr'n-ci
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revolution.
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three thousand francs in the Louvre, and hastened With
thoe
drive
mob from
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had gotle '- work,erariPll-
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in s°earch
modfeastnthre unhappy Charles X. The king had leftg°Tb•°-uitio-
let before the mob reached it, so that they had nothing to
do but to return, unless any work of demolition should
invite the
invite them to stay. M. Degouss6e, at that mom
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able 0'
the mob. In a moment these gilded vehicles, blot,ot, "'
ride
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with the royal arms, were filled with the lowest
by silken postilions, were heaped ur,
horses, and driven r 1 Paris
inside and out, with this riotous crew, who entere
pceasr carriages, etsh,
of the
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sp.rojeTcbteedsothsetiartopi
in triumph, amidst the responsive jests and shouts
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Driven up to the Palais Royal, the/ 0!...
populace. theme,
over voitures i
over to their new owner. " Tenez—voile vos
0. the
they shouted, as they alighted under the windows I '
Duke of Orleans."—Blackwood's Magazine.
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scended from their splendid vehicles, and delivered rbawann4s
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