A Hundred Years Ago
" THE SPECTATOR," MAY 17TH, 1834.
Marshal Sonir has obtained a supplementary vote of credit from the French Chambers, for about a million and half sterling, to defray the charges of the increase in the army, which the disturbed state of the country renders necessary. This vote was not carried without considerable opposition, the numbers being 196 to 142. It is said that the • French Government have intimated to the Ministers of the Holy Alliance, that no acts of aggression on Switzer. land will be permitted. Prince METPERNICH, it seems, has been holding threatening language to the Swiss Diet ; and the proceedings in Neufchatel have brought the Federal Government into collision with Prussia. Notwithstanding the assurances of protection from France, the expulsion of the Poles and other refugees has been resolved upon.
There are about four hundred and fifty different trades carried on in London. The shoemakers are the most numerous class, and the tailors next ; the former, above twenty years of age, amounting to 16,502, and the latter to 14,552. The carpenters amount to 13,208, and if the cabinet-makers are included, to 19,629. The bakers, butchers, bricklayers, and blacksmiths, come next ; but they average little more than a third of those trades.
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