MORE OF LONDON.—­THE MODEL PRISON AT PENTONVILLE.—­BATHING
ESTABLISHMENT FOR THE POOR.—­ALSO ONE FOR WASHING CLOTHES.—­THE
CRECHES OF PARIS, FOR POOR PEOPLE’S CHILDREN.—­OLD DRURY
IN LONDON.—­SADLER’S WELLS.—­ENGLISH AND FRENCH ACTING COMPARED.—­
MADEMOISELLE RACHEL.—­FRENCH TRAGEDY.—­ROSE CHENY.—­DUMAS.—­GUIZOT.—­
THE PRESENTATION AT COURT OF THE YOUNG DUCHESS.—­BALL AT THE
TUILERIES.—­AMERICAN AND FRENCH WOMEN.—­LEVERRIER.—­THE SORBONNE.—­
ARAGO.—­DISCUSSIONS ON SUICIDE AND THE CRUSADES.—­REMUSAT.—­THE
ACADEMY.—­LA MENNAIS.—­BERANGER.—­REFLECTIONS.

Paris.

When I wrote last I could not finish with London, and there remain yet two or three things I wish to speak of before passing to my impressions of this wonder-full Paris.

I visited the model prison at Pentonville; but though in some respects an improvement upon others I have seen,—­though there was the appearance of great neatness and order in the arrangements of life, kindness and good judgment in the discipline of the prisoners,—­yet there was also an air of bleak forlornness about the place, and it fell far short of what my mind demands of such abodes considered as redemption schools.  But as the subject of prisons is now engaging the attention of many of the wisest and best, and the tendency is in what seems to me the true direction, I need not trouble myself to make prude and hasty suggestions; it is a subject to which persons who would be of use should give the earnest devotion of calm and leisurely thought.

The same day I went to see an establishment which gave me unmixed pleasure; it is a bathing establishment put at a very low rate to enable the poor to avoid one of thee worst miseries of their lot, and which yet promises to pay.  Joined with this is an establishment for washing clothes, where the poor can go and hire, for almost nothing, good tubs, water ready heated, the use of an apparatus for rinsing, drying, and ironing, all so admirably arranged that a poor woman can in three hours get through an amount of washing and ironing that would, under ordinary circumstances, occupy three or four days.  Especially the drying closets I contemplated with great satisfaction, and hope to see in our own country the same arrangements throughout the cities, and even in the towns and villages.  Hanging out the clothes is a great exposure for women, even when they have a good place for it; but when, as is so common in cities, they must dry them in the house, how much they suffer!  In New York, I know, those poor women who take in washing endure a great deal of trouble and toil from this cause; I have suffered myself from being obliged to send back what had cost them so much toil, because it had been, perhaps inevitably, soiled in the drying or ironing, or filled with the smell of their miscellaneous cooking.  In London it is much worse.  An eminent physician told me he knew of two children whom he considered to have