HOTJET^, 



" Quaint old town of toil and traffic, 

 Quaint old town of art and song." 



Let us shift the scene and venture on a short ramble 

 through the highways and byways of a very antiquated 

 very enterprising French town, the capital first of 

 the duchy, next of the province of Normandy, on the 

 left bank of the Seine — Eouen. A city of 102,470 souls 

 only, Rouen has made a name for herself as a manu- 

 facturing centre. Her cotton and calico prints, known 

 as Rouenneries, her sugar-refineries, confeetionaries, 

 soap factories, tanneries ; her iron, copper, and lead 

 founderies ; leather works, cutlery, dyeing establish- 

 ments, &c, have won for her the proud surname of the 

 Manchester of France. Her port, thanks to dredging 

 operations, in the lower Seine, offers facilities to the 

 large ships of every nation ; extensive indeed are her 

 exports to, and imports from, England, Algiers, Senegal, 

 Spain, Portugal, Italy, America. Her shipping inward 

 and outward in the year 1875, represents a tonnage of 

 537,017 tons, divided between 3,467 ocean ships ; 

 whilst her coasting trade inward and outward for the 

 same period, kept employed 5,013 vessels, that is a 

 tonnage of 720,332 tons; a French line of steamers 

 from Eouen to Canada, is talked of for next summer. 

 Soon, we shall have a direct, a monied interest in the 

 old French town. 



The capital of Normandy, now the shire-town of the 

 ddpartement of Seine-Inf^rieure, can boast of an Arch- 

 bishop (at present the talented Cardinal de Bonnechose), 

 a Court of Appeals, whilst the third army- corps and the 

 second military division, have their head-quarters at 



