PARIS NOT PARISIAN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3804, 24 September 1883, Page 4

PARIS NOT PARISIAN.

From the Aunuaire dc la Vilk de Paris for 1881, recently published, avc learn how comparatively fcAV residents in Paris are Parisian born and bred. Indeed, out of every 1000 inhabitants, only 322 are born in the metropolis, Avhilc 38 come from the other communes of the department, 5G5 from the A'arious departments or colonies, and 75 from foreign countries. Other Continental capitals do not contain so many foreigners as Paris ; Berlin only possesses 13 out of every 1000, and Pesth but 14. At the time of the census of 1881, there Avercin Paris 45.251 Belgians, 31,190 Germans, 21,577 Italians, 20,810 Swiss, 10,789 English, 9,250 Dutch, 5,927 Americans, 5,780 Russians, 4,982 Austrians and 3,010 Spaniards. The German element has very largely increased since 187G, at Avhich period they only numbered 19,024. It is most abundant in the outer arrondissements of the city r , and particularly in the nineteenth. The Dutch and the Belgians (the latter numbering but 24,192 in 1870) arc found indiscriminately throughout Paris; the Swiss aro powerful in the commercial localities ; the Italians, Avho have almost doubled since 1870, in the eleventh and neighboring- arrondissements ; while the English chiefly inhabit the eighth, sixteenth and seventeenth. Foreigners, as a Avhole, increased from 119,349 in 1870 to 104,038 in 1881, and formed nearly a fifth part of the city.