S.Peter's church was an iron-foundry four or five years ago, and is in future to be a museum--a considerable improvement upon its former use.

The grand old church of S.John in Dijon has been rescued from the hands which made it a depot of flour, and is being restored to its original purposes: but such instances are very rare.] [Footnote 88: This family took its rise in Dauphine, before the district had that name: the chief place of the family was the chateau of Beaumont, near Grenoble.] [Footnote 89: The final victory was near Aquae Sextiae (Aix).] [Footnote 90: The cultivation of the silkworm mulberry will probably die out before very long.

The silk crop has lately failed in Dauphine, and a commission for enquiring into the relative merits of different worms has determined that the Senegal worm produces 633 millegrammes of silk, while the worm, fed on the mulberry produces only 290.

The first mulberry trees in France were planted in that part of Provence which is enclosed by Dauphine.
The Bishop of Nismes has lately issued a pastoral letter, commanding prayers to be offered up for the cessation of the malady affecting the silkworms in his own and the surrounding dioceses.] [Footnote 91: The feudal buildings were razed by order of Richelieu, but the tower remains a landmark for the valley.

Three hundred _detenus_ were confined here after the _coup d'etat_ of December 2, 1851.] [Footnote 92: The origin of the name Dauphin seems to be lost in obscurity, though of comparatively recent date.