(3 miles from Vaise), the general station for all the lines, which meet here, covering 20 acres. Bridges have been built for the joint use of the railway and of the carriages and passengers. Omnibuses wait on the trains, 3d. to 8d. LYONS, or Lyon, 319 miles from Paris, 281 from Marseilles. HOTELS.-Grand Hotel de Lyon, a first-class hotel for families and gentlemen, and charges not out of proportion to the comfort. Hotel de l'Europe; particularly good, and commanding on one side a delightful view. Hotel de l'Univers, at the side of the Railway Station of Perrache. Proprietor, Mr. Dufour. Grand Hotel d'Angleterre et des Deux Mondes, Place Napoléon. Mr. C. Paturel, proprietor. Hotel du Parc et de Bordeaux, the nearest to the Station of Perrache. Excellent Restaurant. De France, Rue de l'Arbre Sac; Hotel Beauquis, Place Belle Cour; Du Nord, Rue Lafont, &c. Hotel des Negociants; Bayard; and Du Luxembourg. Cafés. Perle, Jeune France, Rhône, Neuf Lyon, Berthoud, &c.; many being in Place des Célestins; also Casati, Poulet, Toriani, &c., for chocolate, a cup of which taken before dinner (2 o'clock), is fr.; dinner, 2 to 3 fr. The small loaves, cakes (brioche), beer, pork sausages, and river fish, are noted. Omnibuses run to most of the best points of view near the city, and to several pretty villages round it such as, Ile Barbe, Oullins, and Longchène water cure, Charbonnières and its springs (8 kil.), Mont Ceindre, near St. Cyr, St. Bonnet-le-Froid (16 kil.) on a hill, St. Foy, Roche-Cardon, Collonges, Ecully, &c. Cabs may be hired in Place Louis Napoléon. Post-Office, in Place Bellecour. English Service, No. 2, Rue de Pavie, at 11 30 a.m. on Sundays. Chapel Evangelique, in Rue de l'Arbre Sec. OBJECTS OF NOTICE.-Views from Fourvières and Guillotière Bridge-Place BellecourStatue of Napoléon-Cathedral-St. Martin d'Ainay Church-Palais de Justice-Palais des Arts and Museum--Hotel Diet-Arsenal. Population, 324,000. This includes Lyons proper with Fourvières, St. Foy, &c., containing two-thirds of the whole; La Guillotière and Le Brotteaux, the richest quarters, on the east, or left bank of the Rhône Croix Rousse and St. Paul, to the north; where the weavers live (the master manufacturers, in St. Clair); Vaise, to the north-west on the Saône. This old and populous city is the capital of department Rhône, head of a military division, seat of an archbishopric, and of the silk trade, &c., on the grand route to Marseilles and Italy, in a fine spot, at the junction of the Saône and Rhône, backed by hills crowned with country seats, vineyards, and mulberry trees. Great part, called the Bourg, stands on the tongue of land between the riversthe Saône, as the poets long ago remarked, stealing quietly by and losing itself in the Rhône, which rushes past with a strong tide towards the Mediterranean. The point where they now join (Mulatière bridge, which the St. Étienne rail passes over), is some distance south of the old junction (near Ainay bridge), and the land thus reclaimed and called Perrache, after the architect who, about 1770, effected it by turning the course of the Saône, is laid out and partly built on. This tract includes the Cours Charlemagne, Bayard, Suchet, Champ de Mars, Cours Napoléon, &c., and is bordered by the Chaussée Perrache and Cours Rambaud, close to the water, planted with trees, in some parts, for promenades. The Roman city, founded 47 B.C. by Lucius Munatius Plancus, the consul, and called Luciidunum and Lugdunum after him, occupied the west side of the Saône (which was not crossed till the 9th century), on the hills of St. Sebastian and St. Just, where Fourvières church now stands. Great roads, made by Agrippa, went hence to the north (through the Pierre Seise, or Petra Seissa and Rochetaille, i.e. cut rock), and to Spain, Marseilles, and Italy. Marc Antony constructed the aqueducts, of which there are remains on Mont d'Or, at Pilat, and other places. Lyons was taken by the Huns, and by the Saracens (725); became the capital of Burgundy, and was at length a seigneury, held by its archbishops. The people began to choose their magistrates, 1195. Philippe le Bel incorporated it with France, 1310. It suf. fered much from the religious wars of the sixteenth century, when the Protestants of the Cevennes were hunted down. One of their leaders, the Baron des Adrets, took it by surprise, 1562; but it revived upon the issuing of the edict of Henry IV., as mentioned below. A pestilence, 1628, carried off 35,000 people in three months. At the Revolution it sided with the Girondists, and was, therefore, unmercifully punished by the revolutionary leaders, who, in 1793, sent against it an army of 60,000 men; after a siege of three months it yielded, and the scenes which followed, by order of the infamous Collot d'Herbois and Couthon, were as bloody and terrible as the Noyades at Nantes. "The name of Lyons," said Barrère, the Conventionist, "must be blotted out. It shall be henceforth called Ville Affranchie; and on the ruins of this infamous city a monument shall be erected, attesting the crime and the punishment of the enemies of liberty. Its inscription shall be, Lyons made war against liberty, Lyons is no more.'" Many of the best buildings were demolished, "au nom de la loi ;" and prisoners despatched by the scaffold and the fusillade, by Inndreds, daily. The Austrians took it 1814, and carried the keys to Vienna. It opened its gates to Napoléon, 1815, at the commencement of the Hundred Days, and he was so touched by his reception that he cried out "Lyonnais, je vous aime,"— words now carved on his statue, in la Perrache. It was the scene of insurrection, 1831-34, at the cost of hundreds of lives. The Lyonnais people are intelligent and jocose, fond of nick-names, of argument, and fighting (as the events of 1793, 1831-4, prove); but they are small-sized and almost as poor and miserable as the Spitalfields weavers, who are their cousins by a few removes, being descendants of the Protestant exiles driven out of Lyons and other parts of France in 1685, at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. This edict, when passed by Henry IV., 1598, brought peace to the French Protestants, and especially to Lyons; but its revocation by Louis XIV., sent 100,000 families into foreign countries, and so reduced this city, that a century after (1787), there were but 7,500 workmen left in it. This act of wicked folly made Christina of Sweden say, that Louis XIV. had cut off his left hand with his right. The silk trade was first introduced in the 15th eentury, by Italians, who fled from the civil wars of their own country, Colbert encouraged the plening of mulberries; Ferrandines were invented 1650, by Ferrand; poplins, about 1700; velvets and moirées, 1730; and the jacquard loom, 1802. There are about 10,000 small silk mills, employing 140,000 persons. Other staple trades are, dying, hatmaking (45,000 yearly); gold and silver work, and bijouterie (trinkets), to the value of 12 million francs; chemicals and varnishes, stained papers, beer and liqueurs, soap, tanning, steam-engines, and machinery-water-power for the works being close at hand. Design is promoted by the Ecole des Beaux Arts (school of fine arts) founded in the year 13 of the Republic, under five professors; and by the Martiniére Institution, or Ecole des Arts et Metiers, i.e., practical arts and trades, near Pont du Champ, supported by a bequest of General Martin, who made a fortune in India. A Conseil des prud'hommes, i.e., a standing committee of masters and men, settles disputes about wages, &c. It was first established here by Napoléon, and has been highly beneficial. į One of the best views of the city is from the * heights of La Pape, near the Strasbourg road, where you see it spread below you, with its rivers, quays, bridges, and faubourgs, and catch a prospect of the country, with the Dauphiny Alps, and even Mont Blanc in the distance (100 miles away). Another view may be had from the telegraph on Mont St. Irénée, or from the Church of Fourvières, or at the Belvedere or Observatory, above the west bank of the Saône, reached by the Tilsit or Palais de Justice Bridges. Go also to Quai St. Clair, and to Guillotière Bridge, at night, when the city is lit up. About 18 Forts strengthen the points around, most of them built since 1834, when the insurgent weavers, &c. were put down by the soldiery with great bloodshed. The largest are Forts Caluire, Montessuy, Brotteaux, Villeurbane, Irénée, &c. A large artillery establishment, between Les Brotteaux and Part-Dieu Forts, is nearly completed. Broad Quays, as usual in French ports, line the river banks, the best of which are-Quais Villeroy. St. Antoine, des Célestins (near the theatre and cafés), d'Angoulême, and de l'Hôpital (on the Rhône), and St. Clair, the finest of the whole. There are 28 in all. At Quai Monsieur, in La Guillotière the Rhône steamers lie, while the Saône boats land at Quai de Paris. The Rhône is about 660 feet broad, on the average, and crossed by eight bridges, besides the new one higher up, for the Geneva line, on seven arches, each 105 feet span. These are (beginning from the north), as follows:-St. Clair, suspension bridge. Morand, of wood, built 1774, leading to Brotteaux. La Fayette, foundation on stone piers, 700 feet long. L'Hôpital, suspension, opposite the Hôtel Dieu, or general hospital. La Guillotière (having a good prospect), the oldest and longest (widened to 36 feet) and shortened, 1839, being 1,152 feet, from end to end, on eleven stone arches (when first built 1190, it had 20); here 238 persons were killed in a crowd, at a fête, 1711. Napoléon, suspension, one of the latest built. Another suspension bridge is to be built between this and la Guillotière. Then comes the viaduct for the Lyons and Mediterranean line of stone and iron, on five arches, with ways for carriages and foot passengers accompanying it. Eleven or twelve Bridges cross the Saône, which is from 330 to 500 feet broad. Beginning at the south, where it joins the Rhône, we have the double Mulatière bridge, for the use of the St. Étienne railway and foot passengers, 475 feet long, on four iron arches, replacing a wooden bridge, carried away by the floods of 1840. The tubular Pont de la Quarantaine, for the Paris line. The Napoléon, suspension, in line with that over the Rhône. Ainay, near that church, 476 feet, on five wooden arches, restored 1835. St. George's, a suspended passerelle. Tilsit, one of the best, 492 feet long, 44 wide, on five stone arches, built 1808. Palais de Justice, suspension, 538 feet, replacing one carried off in 1840. Change, rebuilt 1843,-there was an old one here as early as 1050, with houses on it. La Feuillée, suspension (suffered in 1810), very elegant, with lions at the ends. St. Vincent, a passarelle, rebuilt since 1840. De Serin, of stone, built 1815, to the new Quai de Vaise. Du Mouton, suspension. La Gare, suspension, 558 feet; and the suspension bridges of Ile Barbe. A bridge is projected below Pont de Serin, near the Pierre Scisse (a rock cut through, it is said, by Agrippa), and the statue of Clebérger. Some bridges are longer than there would seem to be need of, on account of the floods, which swell both streams, after continued rains Inundations are recorded in 592, 1570, 1602, 1711, and especially in 1840, when boats floated in Place Du Bellecour, Place de la Préfecture, and les Brotteaux. The houses in the last still show traces of the height to which the latest flood, that of 1856, rose, in May of that year, after breaking its banks. By means of its rivers and the canals which fall into them, Lyons is able to communicate with all the great towns of France. The Houses are in general high, but the streets narrow and badly paved, so that, however pleasant the town looks in summer, it is shocking in rainy or snowy weather, when, from its situation, the atmosphere is very misty. Great improvements, however, have been effected since 1848, by widening and draining the old streets, and building new ones. The Rue Impériale, 105 feet wide, in which stands the new Exchange and Bank, was built, 1855-6. It runs from the Hôtel de Ville to Place Impériale, and Hôtel Dieu. Rue Centrale, behind it, is another new street, in the densest part of the city. Some of the oldest houses, worth notice, are in Rue St. Jean, Rue Lainerie, Rue de la Poulaillerie (old Hôtel de Ville), Rue Mercière, Rue St. Guze (commandery of Malta); also on Quai de Flandre (house of Roì de Ribauds), Quai Fulchiron, Place d'Albion. The Passages, or galleries, de l'Argue and de l'Hôpital, are covered arcades of modern date. There are several public Places or squares. Place Bellecour, the most fashionable, is 1,017 feet by about 690, fills 15 acres (Lincoln's Inn Fields is 133) and has a bronze of Louis XIV., by Lemot, put up 1828, to replace one thrown down, 1793, by Couthon, the terrorist, who also ordered some of the best houses here to be razed. Place des Terreaux is small, but contains the Hôtel de Ville, the Palais des Arts, and a pretty fountain, erected in 1856. One side is rebuilding. Here the band plays, and reviews are held. A flower market is also established here. Here Cinq Mars and De Thou, after their confinement in Pierre Scisse Castle, were executed, 1642, for conspiring against Richelieu; and the guillotine was set up, 1794. Place du Méridien, or des Cordeliers, a good point of view, has a column 70 feet high, with a channel in it showing the direction of the meridian, and a figure of Urania on the top, put there 1768, by Payet. In Place des Célestins stand the theatre, &c. Place du Change has the Protestant chapel. 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