Divided into twelve _arrondissements_ or _mairies_, and every _arrondissement_ into several _quartiers_, one finds such a difference between these divisions--in the manners, habitudes, and physiognomy of their inhabitants--as scarcely to believe they form part of the same community. Thus les Quartiers des Tuileries, des Roule, des Champs Elysées, &c. &c.--in which are situated the court, the hotels of all the _grand seigneurs_, &c., consequently the richest, smartest, and best shops--distinguished for elegance, cheerfulness, and cleanliness. Le Quartier de la Chaussée d’Antin is the residence of the rich bankers, as in like manner that of the Palais Royal is of merchants, brokers, &c. The Marais is inhabited principally by people of moderate incomes, fond of quiet and tranquillity; and among these are to be found the principal remaining specimens of the _bon vieux temps_--good, easy, old-fashioned people. The Pays Latin--as the neighbourhood of the Rues St Jacques, de la Harpe, &c., is called, from containing the College de la Sorbonne, the schools of the University, &c. &c.--is the cradle of science, and the residence of almost all the bookbinders, parchment-makers, &c., of Paris. Here reside professors and students of theology, medicine, law, natural history, &c. &c. All is here quiet gloom, and some small degree of filth. Les Halles present the singular spectacle of a rural population in the heart of a great city. The other parts of Paris, inhabited by various classes of artisans, are not only different from all those already spoken of, but differ even amongst themselves, according to the business pursued in them. Thus the Rue de Clery is one complete magazine of furniture and cabinet-work, &c.; and most of the work in silk, such as curtain-fringe, &c., is done in la Rue de la Feronnerie and Marché des Innocens, &c.--but of the more distant quarters of this description I only speak from hearsay, the temper of their population being such as to render it dangerous for an Englishman to appear there as an idler; therefore have I never yet seen the Quartier de St Antoine, nor the Place Royale--the very focus of this spirit. It is clear, therefore, that Paris cannot be characterised by a _trait de plûme_--as clean or dirty, grand or mean, &c. Handsome, and what we should call fine, streets there are, and others which, without any pretension to these names, are yet striking from their extent and bustle of business, &c. &c. Of the former are the Rues de la Paix, Royale, de Rivoli, de Mont Blanc, de la Place Vendome, du Faubourg St Honoré, &c. &c. All these are scrupulously clean and very cheerful, full of fine hotels (_not inns_), fine shops, and for the most part have good and spacious _trottoirs_. The first two in particular are very handsome streets. Of the latter description are the Rues de St Denis, de St Martin, de l’Université, du Faubourg St Denis, Neuve des Petits Champs, and many others. These are generally long streets, some of