Northward of the Place Bellecour run three of the principal streets of the city—the Rue Centrale, Rue de l'Hôtel de Ville, and Rue de Lyon. The two latter are grand avenues constructed under the third Empire, and known for a time as Rue Impériale and Rue de l'Impératrice. They mark the region of the theatres and grand cafés, and the best shops frequented by the ladies of Lyons. Of the historic memories of the Place des Terreaux we shall speak presently, in connection with the Hôtel de Ville. The Place des Terreaux, and the neighbouring Place de la Comédie, present one of the most animated business scenes in the world. Threadneedle Street in London, or St. George's Place in Liverpool, may give some idea of the concourse; but the crowd instead of "moving on" is composed of noisy groups transacting business in the open air, all vociferating and gesticulating till a passer-by might be excused for thinking that, instead of every-day business, a political revolution was in progress. In the district of St. Clair, Parisian Lyons gives place to commercial Lyons. Here, the great silk firms, with their warehouses and offices, are numerous. Steep streets lead upward to the Mont Aventine of Lyons, La Croix-Rousse, with its teeming population of silk-weavers. Here, in the tall houses, whose large windows seem jealously watching the city below, every storey is a hive of busy bees. Here throbs the great industrial heart of Lyons, and the authorities. need to be on the alert when La Croix-Rousse grows sullen and discontented-for its discontent has an awkward tendency to break out in sanguinary violence. But the fortress of St. Jean, with its frowning bastions, keeps ceaseless watch and ward, and the improvements in the city have rendered it easier to quell émeutes than was once the case.

Mercantile Lyons, having transacted its daily affairs in St. Clair or La Croix-Rousse, to a very large extent retires across the Pont Morand, or Pont St. Clair, to the genteel quarter of Les Brotteaux for the night. This district was formerly a marshy plain, but has been built on since the beginning of the present century, and now presents an assemblage of fine streets and promenades, lined with handsome houses, as well as a large number of intersecting streets inhabited by workmen. It has suffered terribly from floods, especially in 1840, but is now protected by a substantial dyke. The Monument des Victimes commemorates the horrors that followed the taking of Lyons by the Army of the Convention. The monument is a compound of a chapel and a pyramidal Egyptian tomb, and marks the spot where 209 citizens were shot on December 4th, 1793. South of Les Brotteaux lies the quarter cf La Guillotière-the gathering-place of the poverty and misery and crime of Lyons. Here the crowded-out poor from the rebuilt portions of the city have huddled together in streets already crowded, and the condition of the district and its inhabitants is such as to reflect disgrace on the city, and threaten serious mischief in the future. Three or four fortresses and extensive artillery barracks hem in this abode of wretchedness, and enforce a seeming tranquillity.

On the west bank of the river Saône are the districts of Vaise, Fourvières, and St. Irénée. Vaise is an industrial and commercial faubourg of no special character. To the south of it, and commanding the whole city, is Fourvières, the sacred hill from which the archbishops ruled the city, and the site of Roman Lugdunum. Of this district, with its interesting monuments and characteristic streets and houses, we shall have occasion to say more presently. St. Irénée, close behind the Hill of Fourvières, is also replete with cherished memories of the past.

was discovered by the guards. The young knight made a gallant defence, but was slain under the very eyes of La Belle-Allemande. This alleged incident has been the theme of a romance, a drama, and two or three poems.

Lower down the Saône, on the left bank, stretches the long and delightfully planted quay known as the Cours Rambaud, a justly favourite promenade, with splendid views across the river of the Hill of Fourvières and its churches. The opposite Quai de la

Muletière, otherwise known as Les Étroits, is also a charming promenade. It is associated with the memory of Jean Jacques Rousseau in the days of his youthful poverty.

The quays on the Rhône, in consequence of the more direct course and greater breadth of the river, display a vaster extent to the eye at one time, although with less variety than on the sister river. The Quai de St. Clair is the finest in Lyons, and was formerly the rendezvous of merchants and foreigners, and the centre of Lyonnese trade. To this succeeds the Quai de Retz, and then the Quai de l'Hôpital, with its second-hand booksellers spreading their treasures on the pavement, and its bird merchants vending splendid paroquets and bright-hued canaries and humming-birds. The Quai de la Charité, planted