The southern press., 1851-08-28

"Moreovcr, an imnenss part OF the popu
lation are plunged into shs direst MISERY, aus
the means of existencs ~ anothsF great Iur
are far from sufiiceqE People who visit Paris
and SOC its gorgeSessshops, and gay bopisvards
It's promenades sua agislocvxtic mansions littl
think OF the guilt and the vice, the hunger ane
the crime, which are TO be found In its lowe
quarters. On the surface, there is no city so gay
as Paris--hardly any which appears NOR,
wealthy but descend to the lower strata of tn,
population, and You will be scandaiized or horri
fed. And TO think that this horrible mass is, al
times, maddened with political excitement, and
that II has been carefully drilled into the fanatis
belief that property is robbery and the rich
m The latter portion Of this paragraph is rdcul-
Gus. after the details of London misery given
by Mr. MAyHtw, or authenticated by official
reports.
/ A period Of revolution, when the working
classes are unemployed, is not fair time TO
judge of u population. Previous to the revolu-
ton, and during the bread famine in l847,
Caused BY scandalous speculations.) the num-
Der of poor and distressed, receiving some sort
of relief, however trivial, was reckoned at
$4,000, out of a population of (at that time)
nearly 100000 The majority of these were
old people, women and children. ssi 81
The proportion is small as compared with the
permanent distress of London. There, a vast
multitude are al,oays getting parish relief. Out
of 100000 of the working class, onc-third is
alloays out of employment; and if to these, we
add the beggars, (a race hardly seen in Paris,
and which no police could hide,) and that popu-
lation which rising in the morning knows not
where orh0w to get IN orsel to cut for the day,
we should have mass of distress and misery
that would make Paris, with its narrow but pic
turesque streets, look like happy city, as COM
pared with London. sa afnsst
And so, without exaggeration, it is to every
one who has lived some years in the two capi-
tails, and has been able to compare the aris-
tocratically governed population of London,
with The comfortable, we'll fed, and happy look
ing people of Paris Rsi te''
-hh III lcLtcI lTOuf
in the " American Artisan, says:
"With the surface Of Paris am pleased all |
that may be seen openly in her streets, or in her
palaces and gardens, commands admiration and
esteem. The under current may be different,
and those who ssekmdu find her like the painted
sepulchre.' Home and its sacred endearments |
may bind with weaker cords, and glaution and |
lie hidden where love and sacred |
confidence should alone be found but ] will
say this, that you will meet more representations
of open, bold, defiant lewdness, in five minutes
walk at evening, through any of the streets of
London than you will in walking as many
hours through the most public thoroughfares Of
Paris. London is cursed as with the plague,
and shame upon her mighty power that it is not
removed. While progress Is the watchword, !
there is hope" ~
More is supposed Of Paris than is true. Her
old reputation under aristocratic leading, and
courtly example, still clings to her in her demo-
cratic change II is wrong. Many strangers
imagining her to be what she ,cns; do not live so
honestly there as they ought They see little
or nothing of French society, and return home
moralizing on their own experience, and Judging
all by their own impure associations