The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-07-14

London accommodates several hundred thou.
sand more people than Paris. In the amount
Of trade done, London far exceeds Pars IN
the amount Of pleasure, Paris is lar ahead OF
London. With reference to fashion they are
about even. Late dinners and ah-night balls
are common to both, and an American, accus'
toned to the habit Of his own home OF trying
to get to dinner before dusk, and to bed before
midnight, soon tires of the European mode Oh
carousing at night and sleeping oy day. Ofthe
two cities, as place to live, Paris Is far pre-,
ferable to London, and few Amerlcans ure OF
visiting it.
The glory of London is its enormous trade.
The Thames is crammed with shipping; the
streets are filled with wagons; and the old cit y
is q vast corclomeratioa Of enormous ware
h6iises and of business houses famous every
where. A visit to London cannot but convince
that there is the commercial and financial cen
/ ire of the world, and that within RADIUS OF q
half mile around the Bank OF England, are 70
be found the men who rule the mercantile az
fairs of the earth. There is no effort at pre-
tension in any of the buildings where these great
trade affairs are carried on. The Rothsehlos
have banking house far more modest tnan
half The brokers' offices on Third-street, Phlla-
delphia, and to launch out into pretennous
building is regarded in London as PROOF OF
impending bankruptcy. To accommodate the
vast trade that centres in London, system OF
observer. The city is surrounded by net
work Of myriads Of tracks running In all direc-
tions, crossing about in bewildering style,
carried over the tops OF houses, or under tnelr
foundations, upon bridges and trestles, or
through tunnels, and with trains rusnlng
everywhere and at all rates OF speed Wi'nou'
There are several hundred places on the bor-
ders of London where hundreds OF trains pass
daily. and at one particularly Chaplain juno
tlon.where the lines spread space PROB
ably two hundred yards in width "a train pass-
es nearly every minute. 1t is said that II an
Englishman Of clever intellect we're sent to
this junction, and given q week to discover
where all the trains 90 and how they manage
to do it without accident, he could not solve
the problem, but; before three days study had
ended, would 70 crazy. Even the railway men
themselves can tell very little about it. Each
works his own particular track and switches,
and without attempting to find out how the
multitude of others are cared for, trusts 10 q
merciful Providence to guide them arisht;
Paris has nothing to compare TO tine; raiiway
trade require It. Visitors go to Paris not for
business, but for pleasure. They try to ENJOY
themselves as much as possible, and ln Parls
find the most beautiful city OF Europe, and
every style of amusement that can be desired.
The present French Emperor, more than any
one else, is to be thanked for this. he mas
opened new streets, built new buildings, plant
ed rows Of trees, set up cooling fountains,
erecied statues, made beautiful galleries OF
paintings, and in numberless other ways en-
deavored to supply the French desire for
pleasure There ls no taste that cannot be
eratiied in Paris, and although he rs mon
arch, whose power is unchecked by any m.
man restraint, he has studied always TO please
his people, and keeps them quiet by an un-
ending succession Of fetes and. amusements.
The Frenchma1, who is not politician, is
always happy in Paris.