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pour les crimes contre les propriétés. nombre des individus acquittés a été de moitie dans les accusations de la première classe, et de 31 sur 100 seulement dans les autres." The rapidity and certainty with which minor offences are punished, is an admirable feature in the French code. The maxim is, "la justice correctionelle doit être prompte pour que la poursuite et le châtiment soient efficaces;" which, if I recollect right, was the principle Sir Samuel Romilly was anxious to enforce, in his projected melioration of our own code. Common sense presents few truths more palpable than that if we could ensure the certain and prompt infliction of minor punishments, it must go farther to repress petty delinquencies, than if a punishment, however disproportioned to the extent of the offence, were only held out as a bugbear in terrorem, seldom or never to be put in force.

Of 2,069 persons prosecuted for criminal offences, contre les personnes, in Paris, in the year 1825, 1,023 were acquitted, and 134 suffered death; while out of 7,234 arraigned of

crimes contre les propriétés, only 2,640 were acquitted, and 176 suffered.

16th. At the Académie Royale de Médecine. This establishment was founded only of late years, and is supreme over the whole medical concerns of the country in their most extensive sense, having power to check all kinds of abuses in the different departments of the profession; and by wise provisions, to further in every possible way the interests of medical science: it is the chief authority to which Government look officially for information in reference to the state of the public health; the decision of points of jurisprudence, the progress of vaccination, the ingredients and efficacy of new and secret remedies, mineral and factitious waters, &c. &c. The Académie is composed of some of the most learned and distinguished men in the three branches of the profession, who hold their meetings periodically. At certain of these meetings memoirs are read, as at the Royal Institute, the merits of new works of any importance are reported upon, and every thing in the shape of discovery investi

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punctuality of machinery

crowned with a bountiful doctors, and matrons, all walls, and ready for busin summons. The old folks ap] and to be treated with a st consideration. As many as put to work at some branch as spinning, knitting, and se duce of their labour is appl Independent of the benefit tl Institution, it must be a sour to the old people to have it contribute something, howe

their maintenance, instead

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or rather elongated; so that if your position be contiguous to either end, the bass instruments throw the whole piece out of keeping.

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may happen that a double bass, a trombone, or a kettle-drum, is raging just at the moment your soul is most intently wrapped in the softest breathings of the singer. The box my party occupied, belonging to the Ministère de la Maison du Roi, was specially exposed to the inconvenience of this uncentral situation. By a happy policy these theatres are kept open for the public at the expense of Government; and are a never-ceasing source of diversion to the restless minds of these people, which they can enjoy at a very easy rate

11th.-Luxembourg Gallery. It is considered such mauvais ton by artists on this side, and perhaps pretty generally every where, to express any degree of pleasure at viewing this French school of "glare and light," that there is no alternative but to be silent, however well we may be pleased, or else lose all credit for pretensions to taste, which of course no man in his senses would do, if he could help it. I am