The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-05-21
FRENCH POLICE.


PARIS, March s, 1928.
The patcrnal care Of the French government
in whatever concerns the public safety and
health, is admirable. In England, we hear con-
tinually of houses in state of dilapidation, fall
ling and entombing numerous persons IN the
ruins. In Fr>Ice there are regular inspectors,
who 90 Systematically through Paris, to ascer-
taiE the state of the houses; and whenever the
slightest appearances of danger is obvious, the
tenants are ordered to quit, and the place is
pulled down. Private interests are never con-
suited, when the personal safety of the public Is
concerned. This Surveillance is extended to
the construction of all forges, furnaces, steam
engines the manufactures of chemical products
emitting offensive odors &c. fla high press
IRE engine be permitted in town, one OF the
conditions is, that it shall be surrounded by a
wall four feet thick and the chimney must rise
to certain height above the adjoining buildings.
The engine is not even permitted to be wrought,
unless the boiler has been previously proved ca
pable disappearing power of steam four times
greater than that at which it Is intended to
work. Besides these precautions, every boiler
must be provided with metallic plate, iusible
at a small degree above the working power, that
that in case the safety valve should not act, or
any other dangerous circumstance arise where's
by the steam would become of greater force
than intended, the plate may melt, and the
sGSddi escape III dUuuudhCe Dy llie OIitiCS.
A few months since, q dyer, near Paris, who
had higa-pressure engine, was iGterdlstcd
working it, on account of the insecurity of the
boiler. The proprietor ordered another to be
made, and invited The officers of government to
witness the proof oft at the makers it was in
tended to work al two atmospheres and perfeet-
" resisted the force OF eight atmospheres; and
was consequently approved. The proprietor,
however, thinking to be too cunning did not send
II bpf had oil hosla fcbo Il j
AGAIN The government engineers, not suspect
ing the trick, did not examine e. boiler when
putting up. The engine had not been at work
two hours, when the new end Of the boiler was
blown Oft at the riVets; the steam rushed out
and destroyed two houses in the rear, and the
boiler itself was driven, in contrary direction,
through the engine house, to the distance of
sixty yards though weighing above Two tens,
1t destroyed the engine, and killed the engineer
and the proprietor, who happened to be in the
engine house This accident arising from the
willul misconduct of the proprietor, lis family
was ordered to grant pension to the widow OF
the engineer In like manner, if any person be
manned or killed, by being run over, the pro-
prietor Of the horse carriage is obliged to
grant an indemnity to the sufferer, or grant a
pension to the parents, widow, OF children Of the
defunct
Last season, two persons were out shooting,
the gun of one of them went off; part of the
shot lodged III the face of his companion, and
deprived him ofone of his eyes: he brought an
action for the injury, and the other party was
sentenced to pay him an annuity of fifty pounds
during his life. In England there being no
aldttce prcPeaSc, the matter would be regarded
as an accident, and no action could he sustain
ed; but the French laws consider wisely, that
an accident is the result ot'neggence, and it is
punished as such, as no person ought to suffer
from the negligence of another
BY recent decision of the tribunals, no for
eigner can be appointed an Arbitrator poor
compliment to the honor OF other countries and
likely to produce injurious results to the prop
erty of foreigners invested in France
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