Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1849-06-30
From Colnan's European Life and Manners.
LIFE IN LONDON-THE "TIMES" NEWS
PAPERS-PARIS, &c.

LIFE IN LONDON-THE "TIMES" NEWS
PAPERs-PARIs, &c.
There is everything in London to admire
its populousness, its wealth, ts gorgeousness,
its dazzling spiendor; but there is the other
extreme, and you cannot walk rod, especial
Iy at this season, without meeting objects
which fiji you with anguish, and make you
wonder how human beings can live under
such wretchedness and destitution. Here, in
the midst of plenty, men, and women and
children are dying of absolute starvation
and when you see these poor shivering, hun
CRY creatures looking into the window of a
cook shop, redolent with every savory per.
fume, and crowded with viands, cooked and
uncooked, of every description to tempt and
pamper the Epicurean appetite, you are a.
mazed that a thin, transparent plate of glass
keeps them back from an actual onslaught.
Whether any can by human ingenuity be in.
vented or found, is too difficult problem for
me to solve. The tide of human life here
that rolls along the great streets is beyond
all description; where they all come from,
where they are going to, how half of them
are fed, how half of them are lodged is in.
conceivable. Eight times out of
nine, the Times publishes a supplement, and
very frequently two supplements, almost en-
clusively devoted to advertisements. The
charge for advertising is always considerable
though there is included a heavy duty 10 the
government. Each column of advertisements.
after the duty to the government is deducted
may be expected 10 pay at least twelve pounds
sterling, or say sixty dollars. Now, in count
ing the columns in the Times, with its two
supplements, which lay before me, find
sevcnty-six columns of advertisements. This
would be f9l2, or $500 for the advertise
menta in this single papcr now, two-thirds
of this sum, say Cor three hundred days
would be 49l2,O0o. Add to This, the pro-
cceds Of twenty-five thousand papers sold,
after allowing the government tax, which
would be $3.50 per day, and would be, by
the year, s5i5,0OO, making total of the re-
ceipts for n single newspaper establishment,
of Sl,45S,OOO. What do you say to this!
With one single gross exception,
the streets in Paris are as clean as in London
the public conveyantcs much better; their
drivers are better dressed and the i'oit"rcs
and carriages much cleaner. The driver be-
ing always required to give you his number
on a card when you enter, and the table OF
fares being posted up in the carriage, you are
secure against imposition. The omnibuscs
are so wide that you can get in and out with
ont crowding your ncighbors, and there is an
iron bar or strap overhead TO steady your
passage,-bcsiles they are always lighted AT
night. The streets are more quiet than i'll
who infest the streets of London, by night
and by day, are ever suffered to show them
selves before candle lighting they are not
permitted, under the severest penalties, to
speak to any person without encouragement,
and are at once taken to prison, if they are
found in the streets after eleven O'Clock.
was presented with a ticket
few nights since, for the opera, to see and
hear Jenny Lind. Parts Of her singing, or
rather the singing of certain parts, | have
heard better executed by others; but, as a
whole, have never heard her equal, or
scarcely any one comparable to her have
never known such extraordinary compass of
voice, such facility of execution, such ileXi-
bility, such beauty and melody of articula-
tion and accent. 1t is something of con-
tras', however, to find people paying two
and sometimes twenty dollars, for single
seat, and then come out and be surrounded
with poor wretches begging few pence to
save them from lodging in the gutter or on
the sidewalks all night.