The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-08-27

THE POPULATION OF PARIS.

We extract from La Presse the following interesting
statistics relating to this subject the examination
which, says contemporary all questions of admins
traton and of public works must be based OF the
1856 242 families resident in Paris, 2l9 900 occupy dwell
ngs of which the annual rent is not higher than six
pounds $4,000 families occupy dwellings of rent be-
tween six and sixteen pounds H. 900 rent of sixteen
to twenty pounds. The remainder of the population
say 10000 families pay rent higher than $40 per
mum and there only 5,302 families paying than
f96. ",The number of inhabitants who are in
digent temporarily necesstous cannot be much under
400, 900 Individuals
According to an inquiry instituted by the Chamber OF
Commerce in lS47, there in Paris 342 $50 ourier,
OF both In period of thrtyve years from 1917
the population of Paris has increased by SOULS
Al per cent According to the census of 1881 the popu-
ation Is classed follows Mechanics 43 per cent
cudng both In receipt of salaries 20 per cent
liberal professions, 6 per cent military 10 per cent
commercial, per cent The 1000, 900 inhabitants who
reside in Paris the tenth part of the entire pro-
duction of France Partisan eats annually as much
meat as six inhabitants of some Of the provinces.
Paris draws its immense stock Of ordinary provisions
from sixty of our departments and three foreign
tries 1t devours nearly oil the fish that caught
coasts and sends for its game far Germany. The
of the Partisan population valued at $50 000
900, is drawn principally from the three following
The industry and commerce Of Paris produces
annually about f40, 900 900 the civil list and State
fnctionaries of all kinds spend annually in Paris about
f2O 600 tho remaining f20 900 900 is received from
the floating population of strangers, numbering about
GO, 900.
From these general indications there results this
quence that Paris Capitalization is not only political in
tecctua artistic, &C., but economic in very high de-
gree centre of population which consumes OF itself
the tenth part of the general productions of the country
and third of its budget is fact considerable that it
destroys all equilibrium. Another fact Of the highest
importance which gain from these figures Is that
out of $4,000 families $4,000 occupy dwellings of
which the rent is not higher than &c per annum.
Ira Pree proceeds to state that question is much
disputed whether this immense attraction and alb
sopton of the metropolis and consequent depopulaton
of the rural Districts is benefit cvilf Our
temporary to be of opinion that If it be evil at
ALL II is irremediable and irresistible in the present
trastoy state of the economic organization of the
that il arises from the sudden extension Of railways
having increased the of transport beyond the level
Of production and that when knowledge and capital shall
have flowed back into the provinces by the facilities
Of communication, the ratio OF production will ncrcase
and the equilibrium be restored. &
Our contemporary concludes with the following bright
vision Of future prosperity for his country When the
regime (cononr shall be established the peasant will
give place to the agricultural or,er amarixcd with
modern lights. Rich fields will extend themselves where
misery and disorder regning for want Of cap
tal, without which the land remains unproducvc Let
us look fcarlessly towards the future, without being
stayed by obstacles merely transItoy This future is
brantt is fertile the science which has created it,
and by which it will be abandoned