Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-09-23

sun that seemed to shine brighter than ever W.
would always say to each other when it rained
that it would soon be over
The municipal regulations Of the city appears
to be quite complete. 1t is divided into 2(
parishes or ACCOMPLISHMENTS and governed by a
body of 60 municipal councillors named (durina
the Empire) by the Emperor for the whole &c
parishes, each being under the jurisdiction Of a
Mayor and two subordinate officials. These
arrondissements are named and called respec-
lively. Louvre, Bourse, Temple, oteI-de-vile,
Pantheon, Luxembourg, Palais- Bourbon, Ely
see, Opera, Enclos-Saint- Laurent, Possincourt.
Passy, acknowledgements Buttes- Mont
martre, Buttes Chaumont and Menilmontant.
The Notifications are immense and on a
grand scale. They are divided into two parts,
the city walls and the detached forts. The
walls are "a, 600 yards long, having "a fronts
formed by curtain and two half bastions, and
comprise military road, 81 feet wide; a ram
part the parapet of which is 18 feet thick a
wall 80 feet high. built of ashlar and lined with
facing OF millstones, feet thick, also ditch
40 ieet wide and glacis. The circuit of the
walls is pierced by 70 gates, all massive and
strong, built In the strength of other days. The
detached forts are Is in number. viz: on the
right bank OF the Seine the fort de la Br1che
the fort du Nord, the zunette du Mamie. and
the fort de pEst the principal object of which is
to protect Saint Denis; the ford Auberviliers,
on the road to the Bourget; the forts de Ro-
naasnu,ue, Noisy, Rosny and Nogent; on the
left bank of the Seine, the forts of Iury, Bi-
cetre. Montrouge, TduUes, Issu and the fortress
Of Mont Valerien
Paris now covers altogether 42,15O,64O So.
Yards Its circumference is 25,97S yards =
There are IS, $50 900 square yards occupied by
public roads. etc, and the walls enclose up
wards of 45, 900 houses The population, which
increases every year. numbered at the last CEN
sus (l86l) lS25,274 inhabitants. Now what
shall l tell you about the Roulevards Every
body has heard of these spacious, superb streets
and thorough-fares, but everybody has not seen
them and do not know all about them; therefore
it may not be amiss for one who has seen much
of them and enjoyed them to say something.
or to write few sentences both describing and
praising them. OF course, they are too numer-
GUS for me to give description of them in de-
tail or even mention them all. So you must
be content with selection Of the most promi-
nent ones in regular order Among the most
extensive aud beautiful of the old Boulevards
are the following: Boulevard Montmartre,
Boulevard du Temple, Boulevard des Itaens,
Boulevard des Caupucines, &c Among the
new, we will only speak Of the Boulevard de
DOueVarQ de CeDaSt0pOi DOuie-
ward Saint Michel Boulevard Malesherbes, &c
To see al of these rightly and to fully appreci-
ate them, you can, by paying few sous, take
an outside place on an omnibus and ride for
hours from one point to another. In this man
ner, you may pleasantly and proftably spend
days before you will see them well aud
and then when the daylight of each
day is past do not fail to see the Boulevards
of Paris at night under the many thousand
lamplights aud the glare and glitter from all
those brilliantly lighted stores and gorgeously
arrayed show windows. There is no city in the
world that can compare with the splendor of
Paris, and particularly with Paris at night. |
when in every respect she is both lunai
nous aud vO- luminous, when she is grand
aud beautiful. glorious in her virtues and al
most respectable in her vices, when wealth and
rank rolls In unlimited luxury, and poverty and
rags smile with only the possession Of franc
The crowds upon these Bouevalds that you
may look upon or elbow your way through are
purely French-truly Parisian-and they pre-
sent many Republican features in the gay. free.
easy way that they mngle and mix. Apart
from, but parcel Of the throDg that is contin
uay coming and going, you will see hun
dreds and thousands seated in every direc
ton upon chairs and benches, with little tables
or stands covered with bottles of wine, glasses,
and various refreshments. At these tables and |
upon these chairs and benches they sit and
sip their wines by the hour, with no cares for
the future. no regrets for the past
To be continued in our next