Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-17

tained divorce. A woman first, wife
 afterwards, as you see. Madame Lucca,
 tired of singing parts created by other
 singers, one day asked the manager of the
 opera in Vienna, to which city she had re-
 turned after her triumphant wanderings. if
 he could not give her something new to
 sing-a part to create. He gave her the
 music of Carmen, which he himself thought
 highly of, warning her that it had been
 badly received on it's first appearance
 Could she undertake to make success of
 it2 Pauline Lucca tried it, was charmed
 with it, learnt it and has made every one
 love it. Who has not heard Lucca in Car
 men does not know her.
 The Right Honorable Sir Charles Dilke,
 member of the late government is to be
 married to-day to Mrs. Mark Pattison, the
 widow of the late rector of Lincoln college,
 Oxford. This interesting event will reflect
 much credit on this lady, who shows so
 much confidence in a man who will have
 in few weeks to appear as correspondent
 in the Divorce court. No one here believes
 him guilty; but the courage with which
 Mrs. Pattison wrote from India to an
 nounce urbi ct orbi her engagement with
 the Right Honorable gentleman, at the
 very time when the scandal was making
 such noise in England, must have proved
 great comfort to him at trying time. A few years ago you mi ght have seen all
 the English ladies who prided themselves
 upon following fashions lead, walking lame. The reason was a slight lameness of the
 Princess of Wales, who had recently recov- cred from attack of rheumatic fever which
 had settled in her knee. The other day the same charming princess was photographed in the helmet and gown of her academic degree doctor of music, and immediately hats of similar shape became the rage. Just now every fashionable lady who wishes a photograph of her baby has it taken in 8 pretty cot, and why? Simply because the ;,fo, n,,l-a ofA so to:be seen in all the photograph shops, has been taken in that way, with his mother bending over him. If imitation be the sin cerest hattery, the great ones of this land may be congratulated upon the quantity of the genuine article that they receive.
 London is city of wonders and contrasts. From different statistics that I have gathered 1 can thus describe the great city. Its diam eter is twenty-four miles and area seven hun dred square miles. It numbers within these boundaries five million of inhabitants. It contains more Roman Catholics than Rome itself, more Jews than the whole of Pales- tine; more Irish than Dublin; more Scotch 1 men than Edinburgh; more Welchmen than Cardiff; more country folks than the coun- ties of Devon, Durham and Warwickshire ! put together. It has a birth in it every five l minutes and death every eight minutes; has seven accidents every day in its eight thousand miles of streets; has an average forty miles of streets opened and fifteen thousand new houses every year. In 1883 | there were added g, 110 new houses to the vast aggregate of dwellings which is called | the metropolis, thus forming 369 new streets l and one new square, covering a distance of | sixty-six miles and eighty-four yards. In ! 1881 Brighton had 20,370 inhabited houses, | so that London in 1883 added to itself u town I bigger than Brighton. It would require two | Cambridges or two Oxfords to represent the addition made to London in a single year. l London increases it's population by forty l thousand every year. It has over one thou l sand ships and ten thousand sailors in it's | port every day; has as many beer shops and | gin palaces would, if placed side by side, ! stretch from Charing Cross to Portsmouth, :, I a distance of seventy eight miles; has thirty eight thousand drunkards annually brought before it's magistrates; has seventy miles of open shops every Sunday and has intercourse l with all parts of the world, represented by a yearly delivery in it's postal districts of about | three hundred millions of letters. It nas
 more vice than Babylon and more churches l and chapels than the whole of Italy. It has SIS railway stations; 1 1,374 trains pass Chap goods trains, and the underground railway
 runs ,211 trains every day, carrying over l twelve million passengers in the year. The | London omnibus companies have 1 1,02(
 stage carriages, which carry over ffty-siz
 million passengers every year. It is more ! dangerous tO Nalh IHfOuSu Lue streetS ol
 London than to cross the Atlantic. Last year 13O persons were killed and 2,051 in jured by vehicles in the streets. There are 1 in Londnn fourteen thousand policemen, l fourteen thousand cabmen and fifteen thou
 sand persons connected with the postoffiee.
 The cost of lighting London by gas annually
 is three millinns of dollars. London has
 over four hundred daily and weekly newspa- pers. Last year there were 2,314 fires The l ancient city of London was founded by l Brute, the Trojan, in the year 2832. A mix 1 ture of beer and Bible, of gin and gospel, of drunkenness and podsnappery, of unheard
 of squalor and unbridled luxury, of poor, | abject, shivering, starving creatures ana peo- l pie insolent with happiness and wealth
 'Hell is city much like London" said Shelley. MAX O'RELL.