IMPRIMERIE.-Tableau systématique des Ouvrages qui ont été imprimés en France pendant l'année 1824, et dont une très-grande partie sort des Presses de la ville de Paris. Nota. Le recueil précédent donne des renseignemens généraux sur le commerce de l'imprimerie dans la ville de Paris, et sur les produits moyens d'une année pour cette branche d'industrie. Census of Paris. 1833. In 714,000 inhabitants, there are 446,300 men, and 267,700 women. 340 high public functionaries. 70,000 national guards. 490 persons in the law. 1140 members of the institute and the uni versity. 18,460 clerks. 47,000 students. 19,000 soldiers in garrison. 77,200 inscribed indigent poor; but the office or charity relieves nearly 90,000. 80,000 servants. 266,000 living on their incomes. 290,800 day labourers. 13,700 sick, infirm, or old, in the hospitals. 12,160 foundlings. 12 parishes. 27 chapels of ease. 38 religious establishments. 2 basilics. 19 libraries. 23 royal schools. 9 royal colleges. 269 pensioners of both sexes. 26 theatres. 84 barracks. 10 prisons. 16 gates. 11 markets. 4 aqueducts. 3,900 grocers. 2,000 wine shops. 9 cemeteries. 12 mayoralties forming twelve divisions. 48 wards. 1,190 streets. 120 blind alleys. 13 enclosures. 130 arcades. 73 squares. 33 quays. 98 toll-houses. 23 boulevards. 8 palaces. The annual expenditure of Paris is estimated at 894,032,893 francs, equal to about 36,000,0007. which on a population of 875,000 gives an average of about 1,120 frs. a head; and this division forms the basis for that calculation I have given from M. Millot. The annual consumption of food and drink in Paris is about 12,349,800, giving each individual for his share 147. 1s. 11d. EXTRACTED from dr. BOWRING'S VERY INTEREST ING REPORT. Questions of the British Commissioners concerning the Workmen of Paris. 1. What has the fall in salaries or wages been during the last five years? 2. How many days in the week do workmen, in general, labour? and how many hours in the day? 3. In what trades is it customary to take apprentices? 4. At what age, and on what terms is that done? 5. Do workmen, in general, spend the whole of their income? 6. Do they frequently place their savings in the savings' banks? 7. On what day of the week do they receive their wages? Answers given by an intelligent Parisian Workman. 1. The fall in prices was but immaterial during the three years preceding the Revolution; it has only been important since that epoch, and has even yet much affected only trades of luxury,—such as jewellery, carving, gilding, cabinet-work, engraving on gems, watch and clock-making, coach-making, |