The Express. — London, England, 1851-05-17 00:00:00

LITERATURE. True , s in the Vall4 States, 4r., kering 1319 al4 1950. By the lady Enssmasr. Breast WOMET. ltvntley. No 'within of our literature of travel has under gone a more beneficial change than that which undertake. to inform us of the moral and Ors - sic-al development of the people of the United States. Twenty years ago Al ashington Irving could say "It hits been the peculiar lot of our country to he visited ity the worst kind of English travellers. While men of philosophical spirit and cultivated inind have been vent from England to ransack t h e poles, to penetrate deserts, and study the tmninet ,4 and customs of barbarians, it has been let to th..' broken-down rr„d.sman, the schem ing adventurer, the wandering mechanic, the ldanchester and Itiruintrhain agent, to be her o rne lcs respecting Ameriea." 'limes arc indeed chanzd. The di,appointed. the arrogant. or the re judiceil. are no longer permitted to form the popular ant lowities up at Amerman institutions and character. Dickens, Lyall. NLekav, Johnstone, have studied the manner, watched the institutions, or summed up the tap thilitica of the country; while a little army of writer.. remote from all illiberal influence. have com pleted the tilling up of the picture. At the present utome:st there exists no country in the w or ld o f which we have so precise. full, and authentic information as of the United States of America. _ This information is not likely to be gently ex tem2ed by the volumes with which Lady Shrift NVort.'cy now presents the public. Their author gimp 1 . ware of this, and is careful to explain that they ronilin the substance of lette:s writ,en without view to 1)110h:its, and originally designs'd to convey her travelling Impressions to friends ut home. 11cr Mork. to do her ju-tice, is written in a spirit ex tremely liberal towards America. This child of the aristner.wy secs rhinos in American society which hare romp , d the notice of more popular travellers and write r+. Thus she says of the AYERIC.OI•. fir•at iojustiee has las u done to the Amerieur , , and we ►are !wen t1..1.1.1.t0111{4 too implicitly to Is:neve the often un fair as I oafountled reports of prejudieed travellers. In at.•ad of 41,courteutts and d;soblielow to r, we hod them all that is civil and oldiring. Amongst the les. educated, so dol.'''. ore edonally some of the fault• so unsparingly Cu at may h.• fouiel ; hut th,y apla•ar to Ole, fua. as I have had an opport.anity of yudgin4 as yet, a thoroudaly hospitable, kindhearted, and geuerous-minded peopb.. Andi again : I ilk; toe Atnerieans nun: and more ; either they hare wundequity honoured Lit. ly, or rho• the critici•ms on tlont have wmolerfally ea:at:termed. They arc particularly awn. ous an d o!digiag, and .rem I think anxious that ors learn should carry away a favourd,h, imps•=-inn of theta. I h tvr nines-el hut very few i-olited Mee. Of the am lined lialdts wotolly attrilmato .1 to them, and thine ca.-. decidedly riot among the onko4 of people, for there 1.4.1q114 just ,ro murk ditf2reneo in Auterira a. any. 111 . 3 . 1, else m •Onn . respects. Th, , n p,,j ur clai.es hire base oenoe.t Away. eseetittit 11121:111 , er, and a treat deal of ' o n e s ! 4 .• well a , required refinement% and arc often, he o sir arty distinguished looking. The author was much struck by a trait which Many eel her predecessors have dwelt upon—s Lie in difference to adverse events which seems to be nom- hinution of Indian impassiveness and Saxw: phlegm.' Lady tVortley often qe us uots some illtration's of this cast or character, without referring them, however, to 'lnv generic principle. She noticed it at New, York on the oce.ision of the death of twenty five citizens in the miscrable Forrest riots, a Cill:1.1:*•plie which Seelll 4 ll fit excite neither horror nor regret. Going up the Hudson, she passed the wreck of the Empire steamer, which went down two nights before, when scores of liver' were lost. lady Worthy Imes that iu r fellow pamengers looked indifferently ut tite mournful spectacle us they would at any other sight. The only person who betrayed any concern was a lady whosc sympathies were re oerved for u cousin, captain of the ill-stormd vessel, but who was above and safe, though quite sick, from the annoyance he had since undergone. Practically. this alownee or passion is often found uaful, espe-ielly in a young world where 'People daily find themselves out of the reach of oh! Lind sur rounded by einlaustanees in which they must either act with promptitude and self-relianee or suffer. Our author witnesses to this view when she disserihes her .tmerican car-driver deseendbe , front his box upon the fracture of his vehicle, whipping down the tied likely tree by the rosulside, renewing the broken team with a little rough-and-ready craft, mid strailluway jolting along as merrily as ever. The high connexionim of our traveller procured fur her easy iniroduet hat to the most clistintruh'hed men in America. Aseordingly we have frequent notiees of the late General Taylor, Webster, Prco eoc,Willi4.ltx. The historian of the conquest of Peru is di...crawl! us looking quite a young man. even by t:a, si of la:s grown-up . daughter. There was not a p.trtic 4. of poutpo-ity about him. and his style of comersulion in of the most fre•oh ' origin ti , agree able. mid striking kind; and , with ail his stores of leur tt itt there is the most compile a'v'arice of cm:silting approaching to pedantry. The LAloitio i 7 is an 'lemma of U.\5111. WrmTrt. I hare just urn that urvat nun. Mr. Webster, and also Mr.. Webster, who, I Mid. arc uow stayintt iu this hotel. I It 4.:14 everybody must Is., I should think, v.-ry much stru.'s by his mautlititent counter. SUCV. That prodigiously ma.sisc brow—those mighty eyes, that 441.11 U as if they we?: I. ihnly I.s.kint; .1 awn the depths of age .-- a nd that rued air of typo*: on hid.. cspecleally, ams.ared to toe to cha:....trrise his aspect), hate a sort of quirt mountainous grand air about them, that make oar think that old Homer, 1..• U. 41 blind, might so have 100k...1,- or the awful sou •!' roans and Terra. Ills features hat think, more of .1. Ocieotal than the °tridental cast; but then you 5.1.1 so much intellect in an Eastern countenance. It is i•11...1 4 Very Uls Am..rican face, fur their features art or d... telly sharp and delicate. Lady IVortlev's visim extended to Mexico and Calm. .tt an inn in Vera ('r z, she fell its with a queer German ['mak, who we may call Tlli 11.,11.11:1.4,r Ito 413,.1.1.131. The hnufelverfur k a (Jernian. and .he. on the contrary. appear• la• • inten-flied in her nationality by the pro, •..of trateplAnt•ttion. 'he ...noted p.•rpe•nallyin a high state of Nut, kraut. and utterly Teutonic. tsh.• was If efy kind and gond-natured indeed to tri. although frequently she had declined alba:ether. we were told. the Idtrity of balginr la.lil, in the hotel. Ate ;splaintsl to me, in a remarkably mixture of )I( zican-Spu ii i. i . English. Emieli, German, and anything she that came into her head, leas iag it 1.. Me to linear.: tin in. her rea,on• for thin 011 . 44011:11 in di•;n. g ion sin 1... r pa.t to retire guests of her own Ws. ••Mesiean ladies mit thee airs muy desagradables. Von Senma. wife of a gcneral..son^ here. sehr truss. sulky. No eaany. I t.nk, head. lione, ham. Order count t fur she and de gene. it. husband. My buena it was; I help cook It. Tuslos good, when she see it, no taste it, take it all t..10s and true it all at cook's catboat! There, wat you . tink u dal ? Sonora gut no comilla, nein.— soup, Smote', chirkens, uslos she trowel iu taslk's extra, mit her rwci bands! And 0 vitt ! dery was linger, dsshes, and to i l° s on general, linslsoul, pour man (he blind) hear, uois • - rause to mieh, my .Ml.ly sehlycht, me can't help, he a'neot cry, pohrecito! lone hint dinner, too. Hoot awa, a bunny Senora, slat. 111.31hITI14.." Itut, if h..r languages were wonderful, so were her ;testi- Cato' . lmpressise in.'. e.I they were. While her sole,. aa- pitched an unusual htizlit to suit and m•ke tip for the II languages in a hic:i she was constraint d to utter her ...mimesis. she spoke with great rapidity. Suddenly she changed t he scene from 3lesieo to llanos. r, where it app. ar.al sbe had been housekeeper to a gentleman who was all :641 , 6aintanee of our Lite kind Duke of l'aruhridge. The English Devon Canahridge," she exelaino oa at son good prince slat! l'mne son day, all out, tour. Sl.s-1 sine. tsmic to mieh, Cambridge did"—';l think the goo.' trail did not intend any disrespect to the royal duke by thus fautilarly speaking of him, but, not knowing what liera...t was in English. when she did not use the Orman word she was quite at fauns. Well, Cambridge say. tell de family I comes, eh Ila. ha! he laugh. ....hr. Good nature prince, —soul. madame. ja, always smile and laugh. 0! tam unlike truss lady mit itt neral husband." She then proesethil to tell some won.l. clot stories about the Ilerro.t. and cows and frc-h milk. and a party and a country house, liacirado, but the extraordinary patchwork f lanneeres defied all eninpn•hension,—pateha urk?—nay, it a.,. more like silks of mined colour.: German shot with Fro ist h, and that shot o'er again with English, and crossed smith Spanish. She seized my hands every now and dun. as if about to give me a lift to assist the understanding. but I was in a hopeless state. There was a whirl of lot• irollos and Hanoverian,. and Ire- a r ilr, and chickens, and hennas, and rows. Yee., in one's twain : a human windmill, a living telegraph, nuking signs at th- rate of a million a minute before sue—and all was con fusion and mental ikirkiwss. She continued, however, fast and fariau• : and the chief actor in this scene wan evidently perfivtly %dished ; she was exceedingly diverted, and in tensely Interested by her own tale. Now she seemed almost an the point of cheering herself with hearty bravos, and now she successfully melted herself almost to tears, speak inu in the most pathetic accents, with clasped and wrung Ite .1.. We, not having the most remote notion at this krolure what partieular form of human grief she was re ps. seating. were at a loss to console her. As a houseki river she was very superior indeed, and most kind and obliging did we find her. She kept the hotel in athoirable order, and seemed to be running about from I morning till night. If an y o i th e Crildos or Mozaa ne- 'to the stall a the cobbler. He cannot walk ten sleeted their duties, there was the detachment of Ilano t ..e. yards on the Boulevarcls without 'fleeti ng a f r i en d, run light horse after them i nstanter — trot , tad . S h e hate, • . however, an unples aut custom of keeping part of the broad I P or I thirty yards in any p.irt of Faris without coming galleries that ran round the house in a perpetually Hooded I M contact with a creditor. state, from the giga nt i c sca l e of wash i ng operemens that I The. no!ternitina, with characteristic modesty, con armed always going on there. At times the soap-sad , Mier !tomer as the father of their order, which they • breaker. ran os high, it was n matter of great clith;mity to maintain has existed " from the earliest ages to the pass them with safety, E11:1 It stoats life-boat wax quite a ' desideratum.e. present lima" When, however, we have s tated that Our traveller was enchanted with there is often as much mystery attached to the TIIE seesaw( Or MEXICO. origin of the French liohemutn as to that of Homer, As to the extreme natural beauty we beheld during the I that like Homer he composes large quantities of • almost magical journey from Vera Crux to the; capital, no I verse, which he afterwards recites to his frienth, and • worda, I girl, can adequately describe it. We Pe° , 3l I which he does not have published; and that like thmnglt every variety of climate, each with its own peculiar I Homer he is a person of wandering pro smsities, ate ! productions, with aplendi,l snow-tapped houtitaith crown- , , surgeori tt „, s „ loave exhaust the points of resell:lnce. The I sag the scene, themelves crow ned with the niricenco of the reepleuiaut tropical heavens. Such more- , affinity which they claim with the troubadours att ins," such sunrises! he ATOR and cartit seemed meeting, as it' pears to be based on equally insufficient grounds, but , were, and mingling in glory without end. .Such nights! ' we must a d m i t t h at i t ' we descend to the period be- ' I heaving and bl az i ng w i t h stars . Those glorious la. teas of ' • atm. seemed almost c o m i ng d own on our li tt l e wor ld : nearer tweet' the age of chivalry and that of th e rena is sance 1 and nearer they sacred to shine, us if drooping under the ' we can discover a type of the modern Bohemian in 1 weight of their immense glory and majesty, and sinking Pierre Gringoire, celebrated in Victor Hug. (M. I towards us f You know what the Neapolitan ambassador 31urger divides the Bohemian into three classes— sant to George the Second: that the 1110011 of the king, his v i z : nta-ter, Ivas ler better than his majesty's sun. I wisMal lie , 1. The Bohemians who have become so from had seen the stein of :Mexico, which I think are not very es of vanity, and who mu s t remain so fru Itt , win unlike Italian moons; stud her moon, like great white stare., land her Sung like the skies on fire. Certainly the heaven. absence of talent. This class appears to be a SOllle- in the tropics are marvellously glorious—but earth is so , what large one, and numbers among it many who ! beautiful here, tog. ' have left profitable but common place occupa- One morning, at sunrise, coming from l'usbla, we saw glees unuer the impression that they were intreeog- 1 the great mouutain Orizava, reflecting the light of the „,.. 4 , nried Victor Hugo-, and Lasnartines, and that it was rising luminary, and looking us if it was literally. portly of gold and partly of fire, so gloriously was it beau- consequently beneath their dignity to cast up mg back thou: dazzling splendours from its huge cre.t of ' accounts. `Lamy or tlwen return to their counters as glittering snow. Between Jalapa and l'erote, and still' soon as they are tired of the dinner hour arriving I more between Vera Crux and Jalapa, the astounehilig pro-1 every day unaccompanied by a dinner, and carry digality and unutterable magnificence of the tmpical vege tation ee perfectly overpowering ! I could not have believed i l with them the reputation of being very clever young without la holdiug it, that such a Paradiae remained to this men, who have had several comedies refused with world! saute colours—such bloorns—auch forests of I mach success at the Odeon. When, however, a Sowers! Such incone...it able lusariance of foliage and 1 Boluan'aen of this class either fron t pride- or want of fruit! You cannot for a moment ° Main to Margie, " ril,e opportunity is prevented front going back to his 1 1 0011 es of these scene.—their inexhatiatilile variety —the • original occupation, his prospects are of the most indescribable exuberance—their extraordioary end match less brilliancy of colouring! desperate kind, and the amount of his distress is tat Nature seema like a perpetual miracle there. It made proportion to the length of his life. us think of the stimptuoin sultana in the " Arabian 2. The Bohemians of the second class are Mho. Nights' " tale% who changed her regal dress twelve tiim, a mians, instead of being writers and artists of posi day. Just try to fancy in those marvellous regions end- .._..., .__„, ...,„ ~n fin m om: proieepaaj! u deficiency in bwiness talents, leanly -spreading colossal bowers, under a green overhenging firmament of uptowering trees—and such hewers, tom My- tin trim' an unhappy facility for 'minting pictures viads of flowers, of • hundred colours, crowding coronal which would be too large fur any known driwing upoie (trolled; and these again intertwined and overtwined, room, or writing books which, however able, would and round and through, and sub and aupertwincel with ruin any existing publisher. The extravagant idea's tethers, and other- dill. It seemed us if there was really ixpurified •the fi • - of these men generally s:,ime in re of going tube a flood of dowers, and this was the first tor of HI, theasliag deluge; a gorgeous deluge, indeed, that would p o verty, and they fr fluently emerge front Bohemia be—its owe rainbow. 'There were iunumerahle rust-s, in- to adorn the high'est tvgions of civilisation. terwreethst with c••nvolvuluscs, flowerin g myrtles, aloes, :i. The last and most important class is that of the cherimoyas, tlaripuuelia% (a magnificent sculpture-like, Bohemians proper (.• let rretie 11011, me," as distin bell-shals d two.), the verdant liquidamber, jeassamin.:., guished front "Jo Bede: me iystar,*e). .11. Murger and othem, a ith Cr. viten and paradtical plants, festooning and trailiug theneelves about with the very wildest luau- speaks of them as “ melt who have proved their ex rimier, so that often the coiled and heapol-teafether boughs istenee in more wave than by having their births nil br.sncluse appear to Lear hetudreds of different sorts of registered." They have all made their successes in lease and towers at once. art or literature, but these have not yet been of suffi- One of the most magnificent flowers I ever Raw grow, on , t ient magnitude to enable them to quit the Qmsrtier a tree of cousiderable clients' (if, indeed, it is not a parasitical plant), and Inoka, w ith it, multitudinous clusters Late,, or to take apartments in any Hour lower than of large gorgeous, unit vivid scant blossom*, like a pyramid the filth. The members of this class are persona of planets in a blaze or a candelabra 01' c la, a ith forty whom netvasity has driven into Bohemia in the first thousand branching Manua in all directions 11"•'-' were instance, and who will ultimately leave it for a moat beautifully contrasted by the snowy white lilies I have spoken of before, wliich literally hued the road-side iu higher sphere if, af ter exercising muds ingenuity told industry in (ilia g the means of living from one many ilac's. In short, altogether, it was quite bewildering. Oue felt day to another, they have enough energy left to Oat one would tide have ten thousand eyes to see with, devote to the object of their life—an object which it acid ten thousand senses to adinire, appreciate, and nob*, must he difficult to attain, when it 1,3 Ileeer,4l9* to OU 1 (1 IS: : t o bark to the United State. Mr the right word) all the immensity } pass first of all through the dangers and temptation s and variety of thooe wuudroas royal realms of Nature. I hate said that e" the leave, branches, flowers fruit, stems, seemed all co n f u s e dly i nterm i ng l e d, an d described by M. Nlurger. i matted, and massed together in la auty. There etc heap. l of cactuses, garlanded with a ilderiaasta of mats; there I were floriputeliaa toiled about with creepers that seemed t SWUM men lOU in their Wild life-like grace; beaide, count ! he other labyrinthine complication*. But I hate said nothing of the splendid birth, that like i animated rainbow, end winged Imola:ant, were darting about MUM these transcendent seen. v. But it is quite alle le., to attempt tee describe these unimaginable regions,— : one might 14 wellatrive to cause's in words a glorious strain , of the most exquisite wade. i After leaving Puebia we inouuted up so high that it be came quite cold ; and at Pwroti, toe, where we slept one - night, we should have been glad of a little fire. There Ow vegetation was chiefly coulined to pines and firs. We had extremely hut weather for the that they'. journey; but we Lel a delightful mud must refreaLing rest at Jalapa, which ix a place of illtilaktilltlit --.4 little Cualunere of delights —a ' very kingdom of M.'s. The climate is reckoned very good, and the poor Vera Crusian, fly there to take refuge from their terrible romitu (the dreadful Vera Crux lever). I think this lovely Jalapa is unlike any town I have ever seem anywhere; its haus,s and streets do nut such, to take away the country air or everything belonging to it. lu thu-s garden•Mnettified, quiet, picturea l ue,treets, you feel ' as far out of the hard, and stale, and work-a-deey world, as if you were in the midst of a vast hilV111111:1 ' or the ilunlowy rectlessa of an untrodelen forest. I can hardly tell why st 'is so, but ..11 it ...vaned to mc. Diligeures *model to rattle there, and busy travellers to conaregate in vain ; all, still, , appears quiet, all peaceful, and holielay-like at Jalapa. It scent., as it were, consecrated by ihe own beauty. Audi Nature 11.1, NO much to say there! tier flowery WeilOlll. II fill the streets and courts with their odoriferoua ' delight.. Iler gilrilltl• inottutaina nod hills look upon you there in a lithalr“l beauteous shapes. , We found a delightful hotel in that exquisite town—all ' gall. ries, aged hulesmic., and arratla", and court, ;• and to fireatlm the delirium. air of balmy Jalapa alone is se pleasure. Is the reader aware that the nut de lietoe, aw dieine, whose none closely reamtbles t h at of this lair tarns, is produeed front et not which grows in great prattisiau neer it : Front this place it takes li. wine; and an this asmciation is wet particulary CIEWLIIIIIE. 1 prefer amain; the word iu the uhf way, " Zulapa.•• Whitt la fall front rims and lloripumlia*, t•e tumid : time to this incurious drug! But I be hove the fiswer of this -air 1610 is a very lwautiful come °hula.. Very toefill it is, no doubt ; lend, in this utilitarian age, shrimp., more to lee thought of than poor Flora', datiyelowudilly tretuurrs, and !UM% and pushes. Lady NVortley has produced three very amusing volumes. Their literary value would leave been higher if she had retraine d hunt the usi of the slang 1 phrases with which text many writers on Americo seek to decorate their works, these, once heard and understood, cease to be agreeable, especially when mixed up, as in the present ease, with the runt en prtosions of Belgravia and the Park. S olcs de la lie de DoVine. By 31. 31rnnra.. Miebel Levy, Pans. This book has net with more SW:CCM than any of nt all a simikr nature which hus been published in Paris during the lust twelve months, Sa fur as an ex tensive sale and the publication of nunwrous tditions Ix• a test. This success is not owing to any literacy tnc•rit which it might possess, for the narrative is un connected, and the sketches of character I.7i‘e no evi dence of acute observation. The subject, however, had never been treated in n complete manner pre viously, and this subject, being a numerous. impor tant, and above all, a mysterious CUSS Of Parisian society, the work was devoured with the same avi dity which was created by the appearance of the ttrst fashionable novel, or tko tirst romance of felon life. La Bohem , is the name given in Paris to the wandering tribe ..f writers, artists, and musician+, who occupy a middle position between the neadenii elan and the pauper. All who adopt art in any of its brunches as a profe.sion, and who live, not only for art but by art, begin, a, a general rule, by IJ:ink Bohemians; and M. Murger, the author of tle book in question. assures his readers that ni,s4 of the rind writer , in France hare isissed through the ordeal of Bohemia before dreaming of a professor's chair, or of an eminent publisher going down oil his knees to them for a new novel. For the large majority of its subjects, however, the kingdom of Bohemia is a desert ; it is the preface to the morgue as well as to the academy. The r, al Bohemian should possess literary or artistic habits, a scanty wardrobe, and no ready money. Of course he occasionally pays his rent and . dines with a family, but these are only rare instances. When he earns money it is by getting a stray article into the columns of some usually well crowded jour nal, or by persuading the wife of a baker or butcher, with whom he deals, to have her portrait taken, in which case the unsuccessful Lawrence too often adds pictorial insult to commercial injury. Ali Bohemians must have more or less talent in ' deed, the existence of some of them from day to day is almost a proof of genius. M. Margo- asserts that they would succeed in borrowing money trout llar pugus; but, on the other hand. when flarpagus has buried his chest in the garden and refuses to dig it up fur the convenience of any number of Bohemians, they frequently lead the must austere life and prac tice all the virtues of anchorites. When their pockets arc full no wine is too old and no amusement too ex pensive for them ; the day afterwards they dine, as usual, at the NU, int;te of chance and renew their favourite occupation of hunting the scarce game known by the name of five-franc pieces. The golicmian goes into society of all kinds ac cording as to whether his boots be fresh from the shop of the boot maker or in urgent want of a visit TAe Great Exhibitnno, it. Polar and its Pria , ;n al Con tents. Ily CWT.*: ituutivtlge and Co. The reader will first mark, on reading the title of this book, the name of the author; and the careless observer may mistake the name for that of the great Stephenson; let us, therefore, since it may he a.ssittned that the publishers have not the slightest idea of palming off their work upon the public as the pro duction of so great nn authority, at once warn in tending purchasers from buying the book helm -c as under any such mistake. 'Co some people it will ap pear strange that a person with a name only differing by one letter from that of the great man. should have amid:litany been selected to Krform n a literary labour involving a subject in which .Mr ' Robert Stephenson is known to be interested, It may, indeed, excite public surprise to find Robert Stephenson a royal imatnissimer, and Roberts Ste phenson an historian of the Exhibition under the auspices of Nlessrs. Routh-lige. Various eunclosions wilt be drawn front this coincidence. Not a few will speculate as to the entirely mythical nature of Messrs. Itoutledge's historian—not many, it is to be feared, perhaps hoped, will give him credit for ta lents so like those of his namesake as their names. The book is a straightforward compilation from the newspapers and other sources—aiming here and there, though clumsily, to be graphic. and altogether serving the purpose of a eondensed narrative of events. It would be possibm honestly to commend the bookto the at t out ion of those who me anxious to possess a cheap account of the rise and progress of the Great Exhibition, were it possible to lead public opinion to a just conclusion as to the authorship. Is Mr. Roberts Stephenson a veritable individual, with the practical sense to weave an even web of facts to gether for the book market—a writer of ordinary abilities, like thousands of lib. fellow-men? Or is he sonic oh-cure book journevman, who has consented to wear a mask meanly amaxisely 'minted to coun terfeit the man of genius and the man of worth? Have Messrs. Itoutledge stooped to the unworthy trick of endeavouring to entrap purchasers by slyly foisting a very common-place narrative upon the public as the °diving of a high and original thinker? Or have they by mysterious chance come across an individual owning the name upon their title-pogo? A Ilynui Q.I. All Nations. IRil . il y M. F. Turersi, D.C.L , Author of " Proverbial nulosophy." Trap. 13tCd 'llirty 'align:msg. [Nearly Fifty Versions. The Music composed emotively by 8. Sebastian Wesley, Mu.. Doc. Iu contemplating Paxton'u pellucid palace, more evetially in a bird's eve view Of that immense ex pause of crystal spreading over eighteen arms. it may he ikirdona . ble to retain a verse or two of Revelations, cap. x. v.: And I saw a. it were a sea of ulas , , mingled with the; an d t h em th a t h a d gotten the victory over the beast, and over hie imam-, and over his mark, and over the nnmis•r of his name. stmd on the era of oases having the Iva,. of Dol. 3. And they sing the sing, of the Lamb, eayin bruit and marvellous are thy works, 0 Lord. 4. For all the nations come and wo.,hip before thee. shall rot imitate the pious foolhardilmod of Exeter-hall bt• any unwarrantable assumption that • 1 this our world's wonder, mighty and 11113131:110U11 though it be, is pointed at bt• the text of prophecy 1,, as to indicate its name and pnrise Vitrco datum NO1111:13 pouto. _ _ - - . - We arc further content to leave in the shadowy uncertainty that en.hretals it the `• victory over the brag t" hot we eagerly catch up the beautiful lan guage of the inspired writer when he de.cribes those who take their stand within thew erptal precincts as gracefully attuning in grateful harmony the Ilarpsof God. Such truly may be deenied the bright creations of , man's intelligence winch is His gift, and honours! him most in its highest development and noblest : exercise. In the cultivation of the various virtues throughout the moral world, full scope is attbrdcd for doing lit homage to Heaven : yet is the Deity not less glorified by the worthy use of the exalted Meld ties of intellect with which lie has endowed the chil ern of men. In this frame of mind. u hen the daz-: sling irradiance of so much congas gated splendour bursts on the sight, we hail the bright expanse. as if an ocean of suggestive reflection were sprett I out be- , fore us. The " Sea of glass" may well elicit, from our mingled wonder and delight, that cry of joyous recognition (*.Aosta) ascribed to the soldiers of Xenophon ; or rather awaken in the beholder's breast the deeper feelings attributed to the comrades ' of Cortes on their first gaze at the Pacific— Silent upon a pink in Darien. ' Under these circumstances, it has not surprised us that a " Hymn for all Nations" should have been put forth by a well-meaning enthusiast, to embody, if possible, a sentiment NO natural, 60 obvious, and so universal. It grieves us nevertheless to find so noble an idea so feebly and miserably worked out in the performance before us, which we find has been cx tensivele circulated, is "set to music," and is accuus- , panitld . be " nearly fitly versions," iuto every imaginable dialect of mankind. The author, a Mr. Martin Tupper, Doctor of Civil Laws, appear s to have under s t o od the diffi- 11 ;•.11 root The I .ifint of director was in the I OPENING OF TIIE ss.• - eulty of emnhitiing in one religious anti:CM so many! JULES lANI:si ON' TIIF - • . . 1 v,• • iamh of discordant voice 3: GREAT EXIIIbiTION. ' another e,...iolded musician , Sir Henry Ilidip. The mist Therefore I devised this timplo psalm oo constructed as prosound silent.. pod the most sympathetic admiration cir scarcely to excl u d e a t ru th, or t o °trend n prejudice. Sorely (F rom t h e J owned rho Letiett..) 1 culated like a rad shiver through th a t ri s. can hl y, met !it is a gond thin; to droa ouc little seed of religious unity f I 3111 not called upon this Live for }M e wr i t i ng . anti learned together in that place from every quarter of the habitable intl. this fallow field of pCoplc. I Periods graccnully rounded. I must write straight a-head. , globe. wally itrag,:eil, in spite of ourselves, into this i Y o u will r,i,,,d, sir, in i2l , F.n4:isii paper: the addresses and the answere to them which mg- pronounced at the foot of The result of this timorous anxiety not to clash and hose no time ; 110 91.1 t we, the leisurely, ornamental ; of ch r i... ; writer:4, are ac: with any of the various creeds, not merelr t-vd, and are lugged in tow at Cie tail , this h ttr n . ..^". sur"""fed by w flatly ben ' l:-thou, and , •0 tent but of the gldke, is a ..kinn," a as! as in- I o e 'r t e l l . . harmonious in point of melody as it is intrinsically lightning. Vainly jig . w sr * ou:,f a u te . e • of a s t k ra j v a ' r 'lli n n . g . re i4 v t a h r at r a t the ar ; Th‘c•ard. hom y s. e n : w in olu t r . rio k g ' tl t ; k- ls l lo l oret t io w n i e lat oe l ev * l ' - ' - ' rer I l y w trit vapid anti void. I /r. Martin 'rapper is clearly 1101 j Grant me, at least, one instant , that I may arninge in soon,: Igrand spot-Tule an earnest and attentive mood:. Not .a cry so good a hand at a hymn as Dr. Martin Luther. j order all these visiou4, that I may explain to my., If all but harmonised with your frame of mind, mot a gesture but Neither does it clearly appear on what r articular I thew ploantasms,one minute—only one minute for rAt.ction. I was Irvin the hearm. We Freaeltruen especially, wonol..r j:mtunls he has fancied lunen-lf called upon to be- 1 tl - ., , , i , i i litifo l r i t u s k lain prayers—not an instant—not a minute-- , struck at a sps etude such it we have been so long deprived to ail these revolving wheels, and thou must I of, could hardly contain imrselves with intaiirati in, XII i we come ror the nonce the fugl mem of the world's eon- turn art I - t. . as t try turn, otherwise the wheel will crush you and I looked at etch other with an expression of astonish:a. nt eert, the Anaeharsis Clootg of the Great Exhibitl4,ll. proceeds ou its journeY• i impossilde to describe. When the Queen descended from One would think that Pope's " Universal l'ruycr " It is a strange thing is this neevisity for such fast going i her throne the shouts and hurrahs comm.:need air, -4 w ith any. in a place so soot and so calm on the surface. Speed is a rrnewc't vigour, and the Queen and her r uts'..' walked was quite as well adapted to the purpose as ti:va.e with which this city of Load, is infectod, and it round the Cry-suit Palace, which muted down Upon them thins he could pen, and quite as worthy ofexercisin of steam and ~ , g seises at once ur- the d— . 1 front its hefty • '"`c revs ' of.. "' - ' - . • the ingenuity o f t h e illustrious septuagmt who Tam tecred the “Versiona." When it is painfullv apparent, as well front the current deb - ttcs of our fegislature, as from the pre valent topics of newspaper controversy, that any attempt to procure general concurrence in religious or liturgical matters is perfectly hopeless, it had been better to abandon the project altogether. and leave each worshipper tb perform his orisons alter his own fashion. This is clearly the only feasible application of the principl e t o our E x hibi t i on . And the pon &rings of a truly liberal mind and a really good natured heart, in pensivelyteviewing the wonders of the Crystal vaults, might approxinuite somewhat to the quaint but kindly "Meditations in a wine cellar." Fraser, October, MS:— " Ile knows nor cares not what be other men's Notions concerning orthodox belief; • Others may s •ck theology in ' Ile in this grot would rather take a leaf From Wisdom's book, and of existence brief Learn not to waste in empty jars the span. If jars there must be in this vale of grief, Let them be rent. ON E 4 let the flowing van Reign umpire of disputes, uniting man with man. "'Twice better thus than in collegiate ball, Where huge iniilios and ponderous tomes Build up Ilivinity's dark arsenal, Grope in the gloom with controversial gnomes— Geneva's goy el still at war with flume's: Better to burr discord and dissent In the until' cedar's peaceful catacombs, Than on dogmarie biekerings intent. Poison the goodly hours fur man's enjoyment meant " Both yonder cask of Burgundy repine, That some prefer his brother of Bordeaux ? Is old Garumna jealous of the Rhine ? Gaul, of the grape Germanic vineyards grow ? Do,s Xeres deem bright Lathrvma his foe ? On the calm banks that fringe the blue Moselle, On Leman's margin, on the plains of Po, Pure from one common sky dew-drops thes dew-drops fell. Bast thou proa evert the juice in purity? 'Tis well !" TIIEIoN AS IT miGit r HAVE BEEN IN THE DAYS OF YORE. DT • DINCIPLE or ItETl:ooltEt.s. (Frog Pn.rh.) Strange days be these, my tu,eders 'tis a mad world, by my fay! I doe not like these Irol new times at all, the moth to mye; your sr, Mt is too Etste for me : I wolde not goe Amid ; Nue, I had liefer tr.trAille blek, an yfr I mute, instedd. The World ytts Fair may be a sight full well ynougho to WC, Of Rondo, and ware., and marchandise, in store and great plentye ; But only think, good gentlefulke, how macho more brave • shewe, We mote have hadd, in merry Hyde Park, four hundred ycer ago° ! Men rod& have hada a stout building in those oh! daps gone, And not a I'allas of Crystall, devised by l'axem. Gramercy, nays, ye woldu have seen, I nim, a goodly Italic, Sue made that ye mote lung up shields and banners on the wale. In•telbl of anodes and handiwork, sent here from foreign parte', Thereat wohle hire been bosses, and bill•, and pikes, and spearel, and darts; And diverse welthe, nu doubt, as well, fetched hither from afar ; ltat, niarrye ! all the spoyle of foes that we had Jayne In war. sauce upon . dreamer—on the artist—on the most opposite natures. Race along full speed! and nothing more is required of you. Uo ahead; but if you have the misfor tune to return on your steps you arc lost. Tik, line which you have just written—try and read it again, and it will Ma away indignant at so useless a precaution. The word which you have uttered—try and revel it—you will tint( it huh travelled out (Wreath. The day is so constituted that the ' night may seize anti gallop away with it; and night is as suddenly hurried iu its turn. There it no twilight — I there is no dawn —no intervai—no middle stage ; neither , rest nor respite; and he who would pursue the creatures of his fancy in this region of noise, tumult, and smoke would! be like a niadman escaped from the beech-tree of Tityrust— from the clots of Charente'''. When 1 tell you that night is superseded, it is a literal fact. Yesterday cooing, for instance, towards midnight, had vou been out in the vicinity of the Cry,tal Palace you would have seen through the half opened doors glimpsis of men and of meatiness the meu out of Meant and the machines like asthmatic leviathans coming up at a racing pace. And the Mat and his work, by the light of the I torch, sought and Luau( the places which had been marked Out for them Mien-shout beneath this leneitable tent. The din of hammers was heard without. This last moment of F.uropean activity, on this night, in this silence, and in this fig. had something about it of the fairy palms: in the tale, when the sleeping beauty jumps up after a nap of a hun dred years. What was Mine of that same night in the Crystal Palace is incredible ; the gold, the eilve-r. the iron received beneath that vaulted roof it is impossible to recite; nor need we add that all these tartly arrival* came Iron France. One of the privileges she lay. claim to is to com mond time—time, the waster of beings toil of gods. fee time cauttyk, she says as each hour flesi, by ; th e tim e comes, nut takes her by surarise just as she was shunt to Knish her deeilrrll.,(rlV. 0 tortoise, with the win es th e 'talons, and the glance of the eagle. Meanwhile the heavens were laden with cloud.; the rain fell at regular intervals; all the signs of the zodiac announced that to-day would he rainy and stormy, and I expressed my Mara Mr- the row. •• lhm't he deceived," said an Englishman. " Our Queen is fortunate; the sun is chained to her chariot. Site has the privilege of the Emperer Augustus, and the month of May will nut play her false." Ile said this with the air of a man porfectly con vinced of the fart, and he evidently mead net enterton for is moment the idea that the sun could possiidy Mil w nen her Majesty requinsl him for hereelf and for her guests. These English respeet and worship thenmelves on their knees in the person of their Queen. They contemplate lwr with the I lame terling as they would contemplate their own image wrought by the hand of some great artist and framed in a goblet' frame, ornamatted with all the art,,,, bearings of their house. To speak or think ill of the Queen weuld appear to them the height of extravagant alisunlity, and they would e, it to the act of a man who, of hi s o w n tar will, should smite his own cheek. These, the 'sentiments of a true people. astonish us nowadays and we have mime to the point of admiring them as something out uI all instils:try elperietm• —we Frenchmen who *t the example to every royalty in the world, awl who erewhile could never meparate the two powers of Ohl and th e king. Certain is it that °lie festival would fail in solemnity unit grandeur were it wit presided over by the Queen; nor would any one trust that pallid looking sun but ter the knowledge that he would obey the Queen; nor could there be found a voice I I enough to proclaim to the lwtions of the universe, N•ttiems, the lists are open!" were there not Ow (Alice of the Queen to an nounce it let the earth, tin means, mid the stare. Such is the case ; I ant *wry for the democrats; but there are at times in the life of a great nation certain eignl. of pea, or of which can only be given trout it great height, and it will Lea bung tine ere we erase to n-gr, t in our solemnitiea the almence of u power—sovereign for an instant-- marching in the light of My and surrounded with our manitimt respect and our unanimous sympathies. 1 re menther, iu ISIS. being present at the inauguration of an important railway; the ussemlay was nusuerous and select, the weather was splendid, and the work, which conveyed us to the shung of the ocean, wits a very fine our ; nevertheless, there we, an iudestertighie :Celine of uneasi ness, of umatiWactorinms, throughout the day, not only 'meow the pa eengers in the first train, but ulsu among the crowd which had been attracted hunt all quarters by this festival. There was the want of a head--of a visible head —whirl should hate been the °mamma of the day. We were contorted by a democrat of thev• days, ill-drewed, with an old hat on Ilia head, and looking wore like a beer drinker in a tap-coon than one of the heads of au elegant which reckon% among its aucestors Louie a'olt.ure, and the Mareehal de itichelieu—grace, wit, and majesty. atlas! once we had a king who still repremoted these gnat things of France; he was born upen thefiem-de-lis, he had grown up Mehl stones, and hived., ace bore the twofold stamp of royalty and misfortune. lit went about in his capital city, surrounded by both hated wad respect, blas phemy and indignation. 'ending equally amid or in the hoar of triumph. in the days of the last Exposition. which had illustrated that happy reige, and which will always be illustrious —in IS-11-1 remember we saw one King enter that palate in the Chump. Islyart*; he was loth king and judge; he understood everything, spoke to each in his own language; lie was initiated in the 'Lena of many n source of pr spa city, matey it eon, distress ; he paced with slow stews like any citizen. among his sulqeeta whom he sheltered beneath his awned shade'', and every oec appeared zealous to mark with pious respirt Ibe lights-et wont of this essailent man who haul demo himeell ea,rible of coping with such various tortilla, Such were his Mira of loyal preparatieu riael majesty; such was the pomp he hived, without tie's:, without escort, retire is kw weans or commercial own in his suite, mil the Queen on his ann. It Was easy to recognise in him the King ot a great nation—a king worthy of our remembrance, and who would have saved us fur a long space host we ch ow . t o h., taxed. This day we have been present at the true pomp; and et-re• monies °familia royalty. 'flint day and but a short while since we underettiod—we. the men uf this rebellious age,and who are reaping the storms and Masora sewn by our hatters —we seeptit,, who hlush toubey the laws, and who bend uur dishonoured ilea& beneath tin iron yoke of necessity—we have contemplated, and closely ton, that wit It Us imiteleka thing, a thrum --that torgotten greatness, majewty—that all powerful farce, respect. kreen the first hour of "nor ~ i tt g we Meese.. a whole people, front every quarter of this immense city, rusk to the rendezvous given to it by its Queen, and with Uluastlwat6 vitirerne,s patiently await her on her pas,age 'simply for the delight, the joy, ofpresenting her its homage, of testityiug its re•peet. A strange people is that of Eng land! It is always Cahn; it makes halt-, but always within certain limits; it knows that every new must pass and will pass in its turn ; not wishing to be governed, it govern. itself, and whoever disobey - , the feeder of thugs which has been marked out, the policeman Linda ready amtistanee Ervin the Hest mum that vows. The apeeinted hour is respected I here too; people do not say o'clock our 12, but 11 fur 11, and both the people alai the Queen p o s s ess equally the politeness of punctuality. At 11 n'eluek, then, hie Majesty charted. The torte;m started tram Ituckingham l'ahtee, drove up Constitution-kill, isaoing through the tri umphal arch laden with the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, arrived in Hyde-park, and proceeded to the I north gate of the Crystal Palace. The turleoe consisted of nine coaches, escorted by a detachment of Life Guards in MU uniform; the Qum:Ws...each emu: last. (The Queen's sect mils are easily remignised by their velvet caps.) This coach was drawn by two cream coloured horsea ; these two horses, form pant of the fatuous set which figured at the cormation of the lat. king. Oppoaite to the Queen were her children, the Prime of %fah-s am' the young Princess Int, elitist sister, wearing a I wreath Of white roses. On the left of her Majesty was seated Prime Albert. I ient, hurrahs, from stentorian %Vie( s res. oundml iu all dir. iims, b et:keel up by the booming ; of cannon and an immense Hempel' of silver trumpets, omit mewed with heraldic limners. Tie hear these warlike flourialies made us revel the solemn entrance of those old kings ; in Shaky care's dramas. Thu. did the Queen make lser entrance, bringing with her her to oth of May and her sun, the two gold sticks being home before her by two noblest of the court in about the elute manner a. the Ms 'lager of a theatre used formerly to walk before our king with his two wait candles it hi, Muds. I imagine these two tpllo sticks must here finut•l this backward prumemde • of theirs rather a long one, and that they had never such a journey in their lives. Then, the Quern, bowing to the right stall to the left to iteveral personages of her acquaint • auto laud of her court, as-evaded that brilliant throne—itself one of the marvels of die weerld of art. In this lame, on which was erected a daie, the Qu.-t-n took up her position • j at the same instant the gentlem e n- a t- arms , or c i v i c guar d of honour—who are on si nice iady un ceremonial taps, 3114.1 in the interior of the palace—placed themselves at • the Mot of the Throne. On this occasion these gentlemen at-arms left their halberds at the door. In the corteye was also to he seen the guard of le-efeaters, dust after the fashion of the soldiers of Henry VIII., with frills round their necks, red stockings, tricoloured rosette's on their gloves, and caps trimmed with rihand. It was re ' petted that the high dignitaries of the City of Londonond all the aneient =gullies-nee of the Court of Able:own, wen: alseent. The Queen romined standing in the midst of dm ents of her court. is impossible to des : l b . .s y h rina li b i t n if at O lt :? nalo eu rg t . m od. : ll' t Sm Y : m om a f ß art y n teh dw i , tn a" h t s hLf alateustnicuti.altdd°birmunrecyth undrt b, of voices, led' all the voices turd all • the choirs of London—St. Paul's, Windsor, came:der, combinml with the singers of the Royal Academy and the Sacred Harmonic Society, who were joined by a great num ber of French and Italian artists invited to th is festival. The hymn over, the Archbishop of Canterbury, dressed in a surplice, read a prayer, and, the prayer over, the famous I Hallelujah chorus of Handel resounded beneath that -0 its lofty ;unimits. The greatest order reigned at this festival, which can be compared to no other, and. for my part, to forme another order of tosociatiotio, I had never oven a similar sins that day of glory and of regret, when tier King fonds Philippe threw open to the of 1r of the nation the l'alare of Versaill. s, which lie had just oay.al and red. toned at the cost of a part of his fortune. To the filling of the palate at Versailles France oufileol -of itself sufficed; to the tilling of the pol.we in Ilyde-park all Eunspe evi a a is not surfitient, and it was 11,14,nary to call in every gi iteration of man now pre sent un ler the Mall. Such, however, is our p onion for the mother colattry, and so great is our ambition fhr its glory unit it. I Mauro, that we er; annoyed and hart to think that Franee is lint by herself beneath those daring larch. s, mid there is something murmuring and stirring within our totouishel antic!. which tell* us that all that is done around her she had b., u equal to do it herself. .dirt' this numt, lit of egotistical sadness ha. paltool we Meet France ug.tin w ith joy. au I we reeognioe her again in the effort.. she has made iu he r intelligence, in her courage, in that royal fashion of hero of preferring glory to money and honour to sue ' cc.. Yes, and to her glory lie it soil, lint or this industrial reneontie with Eughoul..teeeptol by tioin these lament dile time itt a moment when nut a Frenchman can say. " To morrow is mine," will come what will redound to ear ho nour. lit this attic of the 30,000, We had 112+IiInt us 1110 the time, doss list., and iteceAsity. England fought on her own ground, wit's all her hire..., with the peculiar genius of the nation, in the eye. of her compatriots, in hill 'mars, in the height of credit, under the august shad o w of a throne hedged round with unanimous r. s:oect, unite the shelter of a regularly established authority. 3 lid or two To. giolative bodies, which vi • with each other in it stigma spirit and liberality of motive. In favour of England were cultoted the Past, the Present, and the Future; walked upon ' 001.1 ground, she ola ye.l laws framed lovally and nor; pled with sincerity; reit!) d advantsitte trim et crything. ev from the tumult, the agitation, the reotleoonto, unit the re volutions of n. ighbouring 1554111.4. Inutee, on the t ontrary, camel° the list. with the strength merely of the noosing moment, of the t but kist expired. She ga‘e t‘i Oh, glory . 441' invention and 14.4 rot art the hot minith: of that factitious existence which she has deris sl from the lust r.•volation ; she p ar l or .. 4 k rr wor k in t i t ., ini..ot of agitation, inquietude, and sinister fore!) slteg. ; e very blow of the hammer was .truck iu vaeatiev, and oho a5t..441 for herself, •• \\ is will profit by thos• 131oeirs of ? Who will inherit the fruits of these vain efforts? What hands a ill reap the harvest. lif tit,• summer of 1t441 i" This last throw of the of her geoilis aas till on II li y Grime.. with :I bold and generous hand, awl come what a ill, hatever judgment she may herself lonnotillee on the re sults of this enterprise. and even t.oki,u, aeonint the rauhatants who tilled on the site may do her self this justice that she did not r, treat froill Ilse tnrrew ins, ill Millet, tile light a is pitched, abandoned a. she a .111 to her own rowans,. a n d calling in vain the gels to her \t hat is quite certain, what is 4ilooltately trite, and what no one can gainoav, is that this tint day of May will vomit among the great day* of England. Slli• 11,1. sliown herself in our eyes, and in those of Europe, in all her majesty •-itt all her glory. She is become at this moment the hostess and guardian of French industry : she I, is made ronu for her in the outt-hine• and now even our triiintph w o uld hear the imply... of England's; kindly t 4 • Nog. Add toge ther the noise, the movement, the agitate m, the admire than of Europe, roc, ustotnol us she is to admire Frame and the work. of Franey. to come to us first awl then continuo its journey after% ards ; iu INOI Europe will In till with England and will none to us allerwardo; laindou first, Paris alter; to-day the Crystal Palace, i'444 palac rat Ver. sailko to. rrow ; let the Queen pin+, and you still pre sent arms to the Engirt' republi e . Thew melancholy things tire felt, but cannot be expluitioll. ople don't walk on hot +, they hurry over, scarcely touching the ground with their feet. " Inetdin per lirnra Sup; tusitat titarri.eol This great ailtentiir: is at this moment the inetlriustiblo topic of conversation throughout th.• t I s, world. 'rho Ii vier is continually relating it to alionisiie,re will listra--authasuaillors speak of it to their sor.•reWds, r.tizens to their republics, fathers to their children. who will repeat it to their children. Not a horse. nor a a hilfrif steam, nor It Wave tit the treviiti, hut is MI it , ‘ road to announce the great pier, o f news, is open." Miami, s ut it are already Is ing published, pii t gees "fit littVt . an slily been 111 (:doting has already is i/e,l upnh the soh j , et. awl 1 have before toy eyes a diorama representing the Iln.. ir's passage and procession. Now, since these are the nil li.itt nt of the day, writhes. , the real on which they are (0.1 lit, uud itillate the eyes and ears of the human nice art' t”tik . t tally iipittt to thit-A• lights, to thet4• nuts. , to iilitNe ma, iiitieent results of obedivot matter, vanquished iron, 'Whited space, and couipirovel time, it ir eertainly a thousand !Mies that Fran, should not hare given the Ni•ti. 11, and llt tt her HA; .Itould But Wise been secu foreword in this hot and pacific contest. . . _ There wolde have been, fur steam engem, that run upon the tulle, Good elligies of gallant steedes, and worthy knightes in mast; For cursed pages and *oche, the work of cunning hands, ~,,, ...ondry bans,. nud cur..kts, cleft and brad with axe to ',ramie. Instedd of wyeked clod-crushers the erth to wryng and tare, Ye would have hadd a evaie:y chew of thuntscrewes and of racke , , Of pillonries for rogues and theeves that plunder their neWilioures, And sites and chalues and chopping-blocks fur witches and traitoures, Of Batty,. his 4 'ix :14 h-rd by, T warrant, in the lieu ' Then. wuld,r have 1N:1:n a T' w• with re:all detAtex of In the l.t of the .111 W order olnera d omits thming did this crowd do hull.- "way. At 3 o'clock no one 1,1/11141 11:1,o -;•I• -rot t', - t 311,11 1 / 1 1 ••••illf, VA.:, rig :111,1 I. :tr i•o•r3 thing, r t•totwilittal within that area. The o no irons on Ids rlaarIll• .11! pink acre cownoulo,dad will. splendid enuring,., Idled :tit women Illres.til a. if 1 . 111. a I.dl ; she., fr. di-looking walk'. a ere ineessantly ridden over toy a crowd of young around that green .o. ant, It: it. nth ill tee.., stood that happy rrll,* 11 AM . :11111W, the elan, of the queen and thanking her for her solivituile in fa, ourioiL; human labours. Little by littl•• the I 'toy tad P:111,••• wa, 111 t•nopte, and nothist was heard a ithin that rant spare •olvt. the I of Co• *.xpo,:tor. putting sway fount the 41114 that brilliant portion id' their fortunes. T 11.• liotpor.ithoot is proel • tl - it i. open, but it is toot ; malty courts remain to be till. .1 ; many wall. ri•111.1111 11111114 ; 41111 11410114 aim had asked fur u 1.41.0 1•110511 tll that occupied by Franee are now obliged to como•oll fheirnakedue.,u by bomowing fion•ign pro ductions from their neiglol.urs. Thi•re will he notch to .moron-ales all these varion• prodeot • t•otne to loc studied; tie re will Ise many a plagiarism detected, many a Isold spirit to tooth, awl inane a failing tutu. to, encourage. One quo•stion to he askid, mad 1 tronthle as I propose it, is wit. ther this 1.11 , 11'11111% 10/1/Ir, will long retain its hen! of si4litaters and that t..ro no, whether the crowd—and by that word st ho untlerotoosl tho• crowd of entire notion..--will, as 11114.1 ere while its intetithon and • oast 1at•4•11r.., remain Con stant to this yultiltoe of industry, to this I sinned krt . , b.) this hymn of nations, which is sung lolly once in century ? The question i• of some import ance. 'fake away, its point of fart, front this work of ell, for all, and by all, the univt•rotal con course of all nations, end iu the place of an event and a glory all that remains is a frivolous object of eunority. It has even been seen with pain —mod l am 1111 l •of those who owe it 111 that light—that a quantity of statues in hronz••, warble, soul jol oder have been called in to the assistance of all these trade. and handicrafts to whirl' it was it point of houunr to odaiol of themselves, add 1111tich, as I imagine, could very will have 11i4/111....11 With 1110 equi vocal assistant: of all these tine arts out of their pl di.. To what grad end have b,-tt introduced thew hafoo kid V1:1111•41•14 and lightly-attired nymphs in the same art tat wli de the moods of Leon. have so it their richest Ethrit • ? an.l whet fe trs can be struck into us by tht se t•entaurs and ehimeras in the courts where Pans, Versailles, and St. Ltienne have scut their %swivelled arms? This ito not the time to show us the Ilt•be of Mr. Such-a-Our, or the Bacchante of Mr. So-:and-So. the Maniac, the Allegro, or the Penstorro of Mr. Thingembolo; the object at iinsent in view is to lay before the eyes of the manufacturer and of the workman those very productions fur the a tke of which thee loto,e nine from such a distance in order that toy the study and vontparison of so mane tine works they way learn by whet noble and rugged, peat. they are to lie 1.4,1C11,11. lint we me told it was done ha torn:anent, and to till up vacant specs. Vacant siroces! What 1 . at this last judg ment of unlustry, of the lor.w sweat of the toiler in the sun and in the bowels of the earth. Vacant spaces ! when but a little while hack the whole care of all the mutes, was to know where they should be placed. Vacant spaces! This would b.o a pretty acknowledgment of impotence ,111 the pat of the human race; and, moreover, 14 1441: part fur high at to play to si rye as an ornantent and a gewgaw to the work of the arthan. A pack of blunderers, to place the Ventel dI Milo on the top of au anvil, cootple the Apollo Belvidere to a bale of Kissel, , and metunorphosto the Jupiter of l'hidias into a publiethouse sign. It is a bad mixture this of sculptured marble with r,ugh hewn 'tone, of blocks with stutues. The works of the artist should be lett to the galleries to which they rightly belong. A pretto u•,:ien to place a mahogany belstead in the mar/ des antiga.s, or a Cashmen• shawl to the great hall of the Louvre. To each species of work here below should be left its own proper sky, its own shelter, land its own sun. I must stop here, though I feel as if I had ttuuy mote thing, to say and to tell you of. A true latlye Beauty'. Queen for Mimi I knot not whom° And •anne %tout Erie inch& for Lorde iu place of Widdey- And then when rival lordet werJ mett, there mud have been a fyghte, And a er% inge " To the Resent., and Seynt George defend the rygitte !" And worthy knyghtes and men-at-arms had manfullye bone ,Dyne: Alaeke that wee bee never more to ..ee imehe timer agayne ! There mote have been 90MC traytour knave to hang and eke to drawe, By wage of good en.arapl,, and in honour of the lawe ; perchance, a herretyke in 8,140114:dd for to brenn, A , wit+ the We in merry Vuglond when Ynglidnueu were The erowde, ton, being grete and fwk, belike there had been breued A gtuul old Yar.di.h pedikace 14111011 if the multitude ; Su noble the p,up:e hare been Unwed, which mote be no but thing, And that tha Elhibieyou wale have bald a good tutting. THE COUNCIL OF CHAIRMEN OF TIIE JURIES OP ALI. NATION", met on Saturday at the Exhibition Building iu Hyde I'ark. Theft were present, Class 2, Jaeub Esq., for Monsieur A. Dumas. Class 3, Ilousieur E. Lode. Class 4, Professor Owen, F.R.S. Cass 6. (1, ucral l'oncelet. Class 7, J. K. Brunel, Esq. Class 8, Baron Charles Dupin. Class 9, l'hilip Puscy, Esq., M.P. Class 10, Sir David Brewster, ; Sub. Jury A., Sir 11. Bishop ; Sub. Jury• 8., J. H. Green, Esq.; Sub. Jury f ur 11.wdogy, E. B. Denisol, Esq. Class 11, Sir Jan., Awls rsou. Class 12, Dr. Schafflusult, for l'rufermor llersautun. Class 13, G. T. Kemp, Esq. Class 14, Count Ton Hurrach. Class 16, Hon. Cul. Auson. Class 17, 31. Von dc Weyer. Class 18, Henry Tucksr, Esq. Class 19, I Professor Holley. Class 20, Wm. ' , Akin, Esq. Class 21, Lord Wharneliffe. Class 72, Hon. Horace Greeley. Class 23, Due de Layne. Chess 24, Lord de 31auley. Class 26, Professor Roesues, for Chevalier de Burg. Class 29, Vis count Canniag. Class 30, Herr Von Viebahu. lltintt vox VIEBAIIN, of the Zullverrin, with a! deputation of the commissioners from North Germany, hail an audience of l'rinee Albert, on Monday, at 12 o clock. The deputation consisted of the following :—lferr von George Viebahn, Chief Commissioner of the Zollverein • M. W,ilding, Second Commissioner of Ihussia. Dr. Sclutafhault, Commissioner of Bavaria; Dr. Steinbeis- Commissioner of Wiirtemberg ; M. Schreiber, Commis sioner of He s sc•C assi d ; M. Mossier, Commissioner of Hesse- Daraut.adt ; Dr. Varreutrupp, Commissioner of Drautisch- I weig ;M. Gdemheimer, Commissioner of Nassau ; and M. Philipp El i+xa , Commissioner of the town of Frankfurt. Herr von Viebahn delivered an address to his 117 - al i Iliglfac*s .of which the following i s th e substance:— he , Commissioners of Germany (Zollverein and North Germany), approach the Prince, to thank him on th e ir own account , an d ; also on behalf of their different govcrufnenta, for the great and misguiticent idea, which, having bctu realised under the patronage of her Majesty the Queen, has now brought to getlicr the produce and inhabitants of the whole world in London. The Germans have :iuswerecl the call of Eng. ' land nearly in every branch, and the Zollverein has sent 1,503, and North Germany, 150; together 1,713 exhibitor.; and their produce, arts . , sic., are before the world, and the y are ready to begin commercial relations with every nation. It is oar account of this, and also by the desire of their dif ferent governments, especially considering his Royal Ilirh. ness a. a German, that the commissioners hasten to ex- prisr. their thanks, which all are proud to do, and hoping and wishing, that the exhibition will have a beneficial in fluence in the welfare of nations, most sincerely hoping it will he so, particularly for Germany. With wishes for the happiness of the Royal Family of England, and of his ltoyal Highness in particular, th.• Commassioners hope for , the general prosperity of all nations. Vlsl7OR5 FROM SWEDES.—.I letter from Stock holm, of the 3rd, says:—" It may be remembered that the Kin.; of Sweden has sent, at his own expense, several dis , tinguisheil artisans to London, to examine the Great Exhi bition. Now the Diet, on its side, has just voted a sum of 12,000 via dollars (66,000 fr.) destined to idles. 100 clever workmen to proceed to London for the same purpose." JULES JANIN. TIIE ENTERTAINMENT OMEN ItY THE METROPOLI TAN TO TOR COMKISSIONER4 is to take place on Tuesday, the 20th, and tho "Castle" at Richmond has been engaged fur the ocea,ion. The nublu chairman and commissioners are to give a reception to their guests on the lawn, now in beautiful order, at five o'clock, during which the band of the 2nd Life Guards arc to perform some favourite selections. The scene will be further enlivened by a regatta immediately under the terrace, given by the Commissioners, to enable their guests to witness one of our national sporty. Some of the best men on the river will contend for the noble president's purse for out-rigger'. The dinner is to be served in the hall-room, which will he appropriately decorated. The South AVestem Railway Company have arranged to place special trains to and from Richmond to suit the convenience of the guests. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1851.