Safe? —Tho London correspondent of tho Jyteemans Journal sayo:— "Tho shutting of the Eiffel Tower for tho winter, fur tho execu tion of " necessary repairs,' is a step calcu lated to cause unpleasant sonsations m tho nnuds of thoao confiding tourists who ascended its dizzy height under the iirm conviction that it was as porfecl. m construction and as secure m overy particular as tho Arch of Triumph, iho gentlemen who are financing tho lower «ro not likely to havo thrown away the poasiblo receipta for Iho next six months for any but a very sufficient ronson, and no mere trumpery doiect m tho structure could have impelled them to that sacrifice. The question whether Iho Eiffel Tower is sifo is being oagorly disouasod both hero and m Paris, and thero is a sharp divergence of view among experts on tbo bu!u»-»- me story that aftor every •'«nn curls full of vivcis woi-o (jk-kod up at its buso m the early morning is munifeatly tho invention of somo Yankee onviousof Paris possessing tho highest tower m tho universe ; but if M. Eiffel's handiwork cornea to griof. it will not, bo bo eauso it is faultily riveted. The real question is whotber the foundations .aro secure, and on that point there is somo "ground fordoutt. It is a positive fuct that i'or tho last month or six weeks of tho Exhibition tho groat concrote blocks which encased ono of tho four feet of tho tower — the first foot on Iho right hand coining from the Trjcadoro— Bhowed signs of being rent asunder, and tho crevices so formed — two or three inches broad — were filled m and concealed with fresh cement more that once. The flooring o£ a wooden house erected on tho same foot goteo much out uf plumb that wedges of planking six or eevon inches deep had to ba introduced at ono end to koep it straight. These Haws woro undoubtedly caused hy eomo displace ment or subsidence of the concrete blocks, but tho officials of tho tower stated m reply to enquiries on tho spot that thojo concreto blocks wero more for ornament and finish than anything else, ond that they ufforded no support to tho tower. 