LYONS, or LYON, an arrondissement of the department of the Rhone, in France, 531 square miles in extent. It comprehends sixteen cantons, which are divided into 128 communes, and contains 225,670 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, built by the Romans before the Christian era, and at present, next to Paris, the most important city in the French dominions. It is on a peninsula formed by the junction of the rivers Saone and Rhone; the quays on whose banks are the most striking parts of the city, which, though built since the revolutionary destruction of it, has scarcely any erections worthy of much admiration; but some of the numerous bridges over the two rivers are striking objects. The most remarkable buildings are the Saracenic cathedral, the hotel de ville, and the hospital called hotel de Dieu. There is an establishment for education, consisting of a primary and secondary school of great repute, with the finest provincial library in France, consisting of about 120,000 volumes, with which are connected a museum, an observatory, a botanical garden, and a veterinary institution. Abundance of Roman antiquities are to be seen in the city and its vicinity. The population is at present about 140,000 persons, but it includes the commune. The chief occupation is the manufacturing of silk goods, velvets, satins, and all other kinds of the same elegant fabrication. There are, besides, as appears by the statement below, manufacturers of cotton, woollen, and leather goods, as well as of gold lace, jewellery, paper, and a variety of chemical preparations, and of perfumery. Lyons is remarkable as the birth-place of the Emperors Claudius and Caracalla, and of the poet Sidonius Apollinaris; and, in modern times, of the sculptor Coisevor, of the naturalist Jussieu, and of the antiquarian Spon. It is in long. 4. 44. E., and lat. 45. 45. N.

A Statement of the Operative Population of the City of Lyons, distinguishing the several Trades and Manufactures in which the same are engaged, and the number actually employed in each, exclusively of their Families when the same are not employed in any Trade or Manufacture.

Description. Numbers Employed.
Masters. Journeymen. Women. Children. Total.
Silk manufacturers..... 8,000 8,000 7,000 12,000 35,000
Boot and shoe makers..... 400 2,000 4,000 2,000 8,400
Printers..... 120 1,400 1,800 700 4,020
Tailors..... 400 1,000 3,000 1,600 6,000
Hatters..... 300 800 2,000 1,500 4,600
Metal founders..... 50 600 400 600 1,650
Makers of tulle..... 100 300 500 400 1,300
Jewellers..... 150 200 250 500 1,100
Joiners..... 300 3,000 600 1,500 5,400
Masons..... 150 1,200 200 800 2,350
Carpenters..... 100 1,200 200 600 2,100
Porters..... ... 800 500 700 2,000
Bakers..... 200 300 200 400 1,100
Tin-smiths..... 150 400 120 250 920
Curriers..... 50 300 70 150 570
Carry forward..... 10,470 21,500 20,840 23,700 76,510
Description. Numbers Employed.
Masters. Journeymen. Women. Children. Total.
Brought forward..... 10,470 21,500 20,840 23,700 76,510
Hairdressers..... 300 400 150 200 1,050
Dyers..... 70 400 150 250 870
Cartwrights..... 100 300 100 200 700
Plasterers..... 80 300 100 300 780
Butchers..... 300 400 300 500 1,500
Coopers..... 100 200 100 200 600
Smiths..... 100 250 100 250 750
Saddlers..... 80 200 100 200 580
Stone-masons..... 20 150 30 50 250
Marble-workers..... 40 100 40 100 280
Scale-makers..... 50 100 60 120 330
Turners..... 80 100 80 150 410
Locksmiths..... 150 400 200 400 1,150
Unenumerated..... 3,000 5,000 4,500 8,000 20,500
Total..... 14,940 29,800 26,850 34,620 106,260

The quantity of silk manufactured during the year 1835, was 743,125 kilogrammes. The returns show an excess of 24,422 kilogrammes over the quantity of 1833, and 141,516 kilogrammes over that of 1824, which latter was the most prosperous year during the restoration. The kilogramme is equal to 2 lbs. 8 oz. 3 dwts. 2 grs. troy weight.