it LII-‘E ly PARIS. ’\

The Manchester Guardian’: Paris Csrres ‘ n- dent thus describes the s lendcur and mi Cy of Parisian life :—lt is real y becoininga in , __ of serious consideration how people of mode- rate incomes in Paris are to live; I use the word “ moderate income" because it proves. aforlicri, how much more hard must be exis- tence to those who have not‘ even that, or to those whose means of living are precarious. short article in the last number of L’I/Iuslra- (ion, entitled “ In Search of Lodgin a" 59“ forth the diﬂiculties of ﬁnding an a ode for such as are not inillionaries, and there are few persons in this town. who will not at each sen- tence, cry out “ How true!” “ By dint of

buildin houses in Paris," says the Writer. " Parishes become uninhabitahle ! ” People at

their case are obliged to ﬂy, and as for poor 0

families, they try to ﬁnd a lodging at a dis- tance in the suburbs, where the very pompetb tiou which their llllﬂllxl escﬂtcs raises iodgiplgz to the sonic price tiey ia _ cen paying in I capital, where they had their eniployiuent_close by. and lived in the centre of their. activity. “ Time is i...»ney,” is a proverb that is but too well appiiec on Paris just now, and the cost of which is too well known to those who_are not rich; for they know what represents in value all the time they are obliged to lose. And ‘et

on ma hear qlitlical eclonomistp c_ndla‘i-ging u on the theme 0 tiose w io are a rat 0 use tlfeir shoes ihn walking to Niel; work. l)0i'il§

ave mono snou o 0

giiligniii :0 carriage ! ”y But this is ll? {Ill- -‘ Not only are there no lodging: in Paris Just now for poor people, but there are too many by galf for righ ones. Peril: ip undoubtedly 0:516:18

id han some town, a men are no ui . ordcyr, as it is asserted ﬁsh will be in the Bois de Boulogne. There are not half the number of elegant inhabitants that there are of elcgiint habitations; and to cover the outlay necessita- ted by the construction of the dwelling-houses in almost all the new streets, extravagant prices are asked, which will probably soon be

richest are literally homeless.

This is so true that, upon the days when house rent is due in this town, the streets pre- sent the aspect of a city. whose population is busy preparing for emi ration. The poor fami- lies who havi JBBH a lie to pay and save their furniture may be seen by hundreds, transport- ing their goods and chattels to some other part

the town. liicause unable to pay, wander forth with their half-naked children and a bundle on their shoulders. containing their scanty clothing.

You will probably have forgotten it circuni- stance I told you late in last autumn, some- where about October, and which bears n on this state of things. I will recall it in a cw words. A respectable journeyinun locksiuith, with his wife and four cliildi-cu, a man in the receipt of excellent pay, was turned out last

ear,beeause he could not pay his last quarter's font of an a artment costing I40 francs ii year. some few ai-)ticles of furniture were promised hiui anew by persons who took an interest in him and his fainily,_and he hired another lodg- |n less good than his former one, but at a cost ofgllo fraiics! “ Ofcourse.” said the wife, “as we could not pay M0 francs a year, we cannot 200 francs, but it will be six months gained! we cannot live in the streets! This was the woman‘s deliberate calculation. and she added, “It is that of hundreds and tliou- aands of others." This was the anecdotal related to you last year. Well, by souie extra- ordinary means, this family aid their first uarter; but neither the Apri , nor the duly one could be paid,and, accordingly. a lortnight ‘go, all they ossessed was seized. Mid W93 were turned a rift. I saw the woman [ speak of the day before, and she said to me, with the carelessness of despair, “ Bl: ! 111011 D100 l we shall be in the street to-morrow, but what no u to do! hundreds and thousands will be in the same state as we ;—besides, this must all gong to an end some day.” What they exactly mean by this phrase, I never could clearly find one I quote this instance, because it is one_ in

‘in, and one which exempliﬁes the position

3% ",1 large majority. These people I speak (H, honest and laborious; the husband has :9... for ﬁfteen years with the same emplo er, ‘mi ‘ﬂag on an average from three t0h¢“i|':; is da . The ave "" ‘ ""ii"i'°',ooa ale their wait}; is that or the fall I ' v I h . t, of wt Qatar pro rtlon c_ t sir coun I 1. Easy have not drunk wine for more than P {us and I half, and for the an 18 months h.:,,,,.[, eaten meat once a west‘; 5|" 0'?!‘ ' led in rice e are. I 0 ""‘-"3 mi" fourtiissed llyphlie in his impossi- “'°" hue?’-' pp d duced to the condi- “” of hung, s_n are re M 1 use dsscri A few weeks since, a ll“ 5,... be before the tribunals likewise “- |gd‘tlIO present shts of iniser to which inn": A man was seen at 3 o‘c ock in the I ‘nu 0' in a deserted part of the Boulevards, .,'... a uni sunbqlo. enqémyoopmns '1 I 5‘ “d ""l".iii.' ‘into the bundle the linen e his lines. E wf, gﬁotcbod himself is on cue‘ lloktlilenwcoden beaches OM08 "'h3°"’h ‘ "' o w on 0 we and was preparing fol’ I 51°’!-‘v

HASZARD’S GAZE'l"

Elise ii\gs|:ts,hwho had been gyistpliip‘ ;I'h|’:I‘:°£ in. n e was examin , an interpreter ; that he had not wbcrswith to y fodr a lipid idgdand kqiep liiinaclpf. r¢l.0:plIl1|l' ; an t mt ecent ress v_v stock in trade. The bundle scised upon con- tained&combs, brulshcs, soap: ¢tl1IIl:°8;*-l;:l,°°f:; h . ; ' t in in s or fhiiefiiilect; liiiirlie in-5 and over’ repeated that, at the rice which led rings now were, it was imponllblﬂ that he should have a bedroom any- where and defray the expense of his clothing. some hopes there are, however, that the ex- cellence of the ensuing harvest may diminish, the price of bread ; and the accounts frqm thef ' u-' also e 1 ea 0 :li::p:l?uWnlli:." lfn:.dllI?§flt‘l br_ead were once more what they used to be, and if the common vegetables and eggs lowered somewhat in value it the markets, there would be some chance for the poor of this town; 1'01’, if "'0 “'0'” comes to the worst, they can contrive coin ra- tively to do withiotit meat.f ‘Vlikli an ome qttg, ' bb ‘to r,orassa, ploavictfed dissect: hn.vdnvlvliat hiiowants of bread, and a less of wins, a Frenchman lives calm- fortably ; and it is but just to them to say at they are anything but ready to complain.

l‘E. AUGUS 1‘ I 30. ,

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me GREAT EASTERN‘ AFLOAT. wa f ma this le Some very curious considerations arise out of chin e to,‘ in their the gi ntic proportions of this leviathan vessel. A an All tﬁ centre and upper part of the interior, __ ly vsd as a oak or a‘ coekle-shell . but s cc will be appropriated to the accsmniod shrm-winds and thl storm-waves of‘ the tion of passengers ; and the lower part, beneath open ocean have-a ti-omendoug pow", “vi,” the waterline, and the fore and aft parts, will will they do, then, with tlvl stupsli ous inor- be given up to m_schinery and merchandise. sel, when "they have it fair .1 bin their Besides the workin crew of 400 men, there clutches? The heaviest h ‘£39-wing bio,” will be room for 000 piissengers——800 first with a force that would open a square foo; class in regard to accommodation. 2000 second of resisting surface with a psessu inlay class, and the rest, third class. In addition to to a wei ht of forty pounds. Siiqh could this, there will be space for 5000 tons of mer- only hes the leviathan, with its full load, out chandise. and stowage for enough coal to steam 1 of the perpendicular to the extcntof six inches the pouderous ship, with her live and dead sveni it struck it quite on the’ side! Th; freig t, entirely round the world. When it is waves of a fresh sea run about 100 feet lon ; launohed—an operation which \\ ill be effected . those of a moderate gels are 300 feet long. f)f sidewa s, and probably under the agency of suoh,the leviathan would take three at once, hydrau ic power—with all its working rts‘and would preserve the while almost an even lixed in position, it will weigh 12,000 tons. and keel. The hi hest storm-waves ever seen on will sink eighteen feet into the water. When the wide and eep ocean are on! 28 feet high its entire burden is placed in it, it will weihgh,frcm trough to crest, and 600 feet long from about 27,000 tons, and, wonderful to ca , on ; trough to trough. Of such, the leviathan would account ofits extraqdinary length, it will not. still take two at a time, when the crest of one then draw more than twenty-eight feet of, was near to the bow, and the crest of the other water, which does not exceed the draught of near to the stern. Under the most unfavora- the heaviest line-of-battle ships by more than.ble circumstances, such waves would not die- a couple of feet. Its tonnage will nevertheless’ turb the horizontal equilibrium of the deck-

und too high, and all classes’ except the very b

Those who have been turned out-

discredit the stability of the omplre—by-engines stationed convenientl for oil

-encounter a peace without more genius

be more than six times greater than that of the heaviest line-of-battle ship of the British set. The entire breadth from side to side will be 83 feet. and the extreme depth from deck to keel-plate, 60 feet But how is this wonderful ﬂoating mass of so many thousands of tons to be driven through t e water? It will have seven masts, and can- vas wings containing between 6000 and 7000 square feet of surface expanded from them to catch the breeze. These. however, will be of ver little use practically, on account of the am itious views of the projectors, who require that the vessel shall ﬂ along over the water with a speed greater t an that of the wind, unless w on blowing with the force of a hurri- cane. The design is, that it shall be moved by steam, and that the steam shall work it pair of vast paddles, each fifty feet across, and a screw twenty-four feet across, at the same time. '1‘ fans of the screw will be attached to a shaft 160 feet lon , and containing sixty tons of metal in itsel '. This will be whirled round by a power equivalent to the strength of nearly 2000 horses, and each paddle will be turned by the power of another 1000. The bows of the ship will be a perpendicular line, as sharp almost as the edge u a knife, and this line will

The effects of ii sudden change, from a state of war to one of general peace, are beginning to tell unfavorably upon ship- ping interests, not merely among the na- tions that were belligerent, but throughout the maritime world.

in prospect of a continuance of the war- ships, most of them of heavy tonnage, were built and launched, in great numbers, to an extent indicating belief that ships could not be supplied fast enough to meet prospec- tively increased nnd increasing demand for transports. But peace came unexpectedly —transports were not required, for Eng- land and France alike, in a spirit of wise economy, employed their war-marine In ringing home the Crimean nrmics—and, at once, it was felt, that there were aﬂoat too many inercliaut vcsscls,and now freights are lower than they have at any time here- tofore been l{liUWll to he, and this is the case all the world over.

In China §,‘,l0 per ion is the rate to New Y0l'kS in Mﬂlllllil “"3 Bﬂlllf‘. mid C‘{'“l_""'“' diverge backwards into the sides almost imper- tivcly low rules rule to Great Bi'iluiii.— ceptihly. Lying by the end of the leviathan, From Great Britain, frei;_vlits are very low and at present stopping _its forward growth, to and fmm an pans of me w°,.|d__,Chinn, 3 (‘here is a sinall_stcain-ship built upon exactly India’ Russia, America! &c_ 1,, ‘he Umwd t to same model, iultended for the Brighton and States frei lits are also cvlreinely low At : D'°l‘l’° “‘"‘°“' [P09 p“.""'g under the r°.'°'

’ 3 _ ‘ ‘ ' ‘part of the keel of this iiuniature, and looking NGW O"l°a"5 932d-v '"'d 5" at an lh°_c°l' Lop, the cxtraordinar capacity of the model for ion p0l‘lS- In New Yolk! COW)“ l0 LlV°"' clcaviiig the water becomes immediately con- pool l-8d.; Flour ls. 4d., &c. &c. Ol.ll(’i“_spicu0llti. For many feet backwdars, the struc- fi-eigbts are low,---£4 to Liverpool; to Cu- ,ture sf.-cins_ to have _no internal width to sepa- m-omia 255 per foot’ Wm, om’. three veg-‘I'flIC itsdsides. ‘It is. calculated that ii sharp eels on the berth from all American ports. l°,“l§ “*3 _l-?9 0r ‘"9 l‘"‘dv mlllencﬁl l’3’_”'° f°"~'° There are no guano freights offering to the M near‘) 4000 ''°'"'’ “'5! °“°"d‘”3 ‘ts ]°"“lh

, . :on the water along a distance of nearly 700 Umted Slams’ andpnly £4 108.’ to Glam feet, will pass through it with the speed of Britain; to Australia but little is going iitmemy miles M, h,,,,,._ phi. would be amply §27c.pt'.l' f00l. and 050"‘ ll!" -‘RN10 Tales I||'0.siifﬁcicnt to enable it to make the voyiigc to

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are very low, and so it is everywhere days, or to .-\ustral_ia in thirty-three days. 'l‘he almost without exception. Such a gencralypppplzsneg ]i',‘:i,;i::::]h-rl‘;p)¢:e (:0 Rtpppimeligts‘ lg:-pmnigzip d°P'°ss'°" wouldhqeenl md gm“? that (T::;e‘Garcia and King (leorge’s Sound.,would re- am t_°° mag} 3 JP‘: 3" "0 ‘"8° um 0", quire at least ten days more.

Notwnhsmil mgd '6 In-ommust tmgvuw 0» The engines of the leviathan are to lie at the folton’. ‘tram “:8 l:_'i.:;m:?I_':;Ie:; rsleé high bottom of the bull, surrounded by coal-bunkers us win er an p , i

_ , of enormous capacity ; the engine-room for the for only I508‘ 91-‘ “'9ek3-‘-1-Iallf“-'~' SW‘-jservice of the paddles will be near the middle

[of the keel : that for the screw-service will be Fnﬂcu pRo,"c"_-.-0u,- hgegt advice; ‘ nearenpp the rte}:-n. Two water-tightiron tun- from Paris announce the alarming fact, _:’_°‘;_::lllpasml-ogznpizhth?°o:;;'::'V;“$fo£“::]'; that “N 'P°°i° in ‘he Bank of. Frmlc? had’ lrleliidy passage of the engineers ' without their bl’ ‘he 1"‘ "°""'“' ﬁne" Mr “me """'°"’ 9f. bein constrained to ascend to ‘the upper-deck dollars. This unprecedented decrease, ingforg ,, ,,,.po,,_ A m.o,,g ,0,“-of in,“ 1,“, so short ii space oftime, can be due to but, will entirely gepargte the working par: 0 me two causes. One of these is the inundations, , ship from the habitable part above. which no doubt have been the means of; So_much for the motive arrangements. _But throwing more specie than usual into the I how _is the vast_ mass to be held still, when it is sutferiu districts. Properly destroyed ‘in the ;:<:l|:|;';_d :'l;::h"a":'d‘l1c|:'f‘:_:’n':'a°':,;°nTg° wart)‘; ;l::rl:;:n:;‘:e2_;T“l°;sPr°:;f,e’ §:):nl::‘u:;” lcoursc be large in proportion to the greatness. partially replaced in _com by the benevo- lence of private individuals or the muni_ - cones of the government. But this will.

that is designed to eﬂect its mooring must be of the most colossal dimensions and strength The anchors alone will weigh liﬂy-ﬂvs tons

A couple of millions at most will cover all I the money that can have been sent to the i"““d'“°d.d.i'"i°t" Tm b"'"°f’.' 3 '""'.stsaiii sailors will be prepared to do what the of raven millions, must have been with rawnpﬂuh nnd_b1o°d “"0" would no, go ‘we to 9'0" 519'“ bl’ P°"'°"' "'l'° l‘"° l’°8““ ‘°|accouiplish. There will he journeyn

nd warps connected with them. These pon- ‘ erous implements obviously could not l iwielded by human hands. and accordingl

set‘ the‘ men who have seen, in the failure ofPlace,'anchoring and weighing, an indeei figs er- a s in tom oflhc proximate fall oflhe Cre-f fofmlﬂit "ml! °“'9" 9° °" ° “"7”! °'"l°d ditiiiopbiiiu Ind who like M Thiers doi°“ by the min foPo;-My she" rri ‘I, M be

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sidiar steam-service, that only 400 men will be

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than there is sag, reason to suppose he Md ¢,,'o,§...n....i,:£, possesses.—Jt'¢w orkﬂerald. ’ Once, again, how will e winds and the

current in England. To Havaiinah freights India, round the Capeof Good Hope. in thirty‘

iof its bulk. and consequently the apparatus,

only account for a small portion of the loss. 1 and there will be 200 tons of capstnns, cables,-

on steam- 1

line to the extent of more than ﬂve degrees.

The leviathan being a sbi , will of course require a long-boat, like al other ships, to land passengers and render other odd services in the messenger-line. This long-boat will be hung somswerc over the side, ready to be lowered down into the water by the steam- sailors whenever re uired ; and it will be very lon indeed—-more t an 100 feet. It will be as a '1‘ ames river-steamer or one of the gun-boat ﬂotilla, and will be, in fact a steamer itself, having engines and a screw-propellor on board, always ready for use.

The captain of the leviathan will have a cabin for himself, situated conveniently near the centre of his domains, on the mid-deck, and between the hu addle-boxes. But placed here, like a spi er urking in the centre of its web with outstretched attentive feelers, he will have to use his telescope to see what is going on at the bows and stern ; and the old contri- vance for issuing orders, the speaking-trumpet, will be ulto ether out of date, and valueless in his hands. lie voice, even with this aid, would hardly be heard half-way to the stern. He will have to signal his directions to his otiicers by semaphore arms by day, and b coloured lam s at ni ht. lle wil also have e ectric-telegra lis rnmi ying to the engine-rooms, and to otier

laces to which it may be necessary that his instructions should be instanecusly communi- cated. The compasses will be placed aloft on a staging reared forty feet above the deck, to re- move them from the disturbing inﬂuences inhe- rent in the vast masses of iron below ; and it is pro osed that strong shadows of the needles shit] be cast down a tube, so that the steers- man may at once watch these shadows, and so follow dirccclythe movements of the compasses, as they traverse it is also proposed to carry a perpetual moonlight diffused around the ship, emanating from an electric-light planted on the loremast-head.

Up to the present time, L 350,000 have been .cxpendcd upon this voudcrful construction, land by the time the vessel is ready for sea this sum will have con augmented into nearly [A 800,000, It will, however, be readily under- stood. that there is a fair capacity in the vast vessel for yielding a revenue ample enough to render the undertaking a commercial success. notwithstanding this great cost, when it is borne in mind that if the fares, for a single outward or hoiueward passa e to India or Au- stralia for the three severa classes, be fixed only at L.65, L.35 and L25 respectively, the

assage-money alone for the voyn out and liome would amount collectively to something beyond L.soo,000, if all the berths were occu- pied. it is an interesting fact, that naval engineers fix the amount of tonnage required in a steam-vessel designed for any rticular voyage lay a very simple standard : t ey consi- der that one ton of burden is needed for every mile to be traversed; hence it is that this vast stcam-sliip has been made on bio of carrying

, It is intends to go in every voyage 25,000 railes—-that is, a distance equal in extentto the circumference of the world. It is estimated that this great vessel, with tons of merchandise, and her complement of 4400 living beings, would still be able to store enou h cv-al for her consumption during a comp etc circutnnsvlgatlon; or a voyage out and home. But it is also he that at some futiiretiiiie it may be foun possible to pro- cure the quantity of fuel required for the liomeward passage from some eastern sourcc_of suppl , because the capacity for merchandise woal be thereby doubled at once.

l “Tunas are some members of a coin-

munit ," said the sagacious and witty Tho- mas radbury, "that are like a cruin In the throat; if they go the right way they sﬂbrd little nourishment, but ifthey happen to o the wrong way, they give a great deal of trouble.’