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

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.--and 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 toil°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 the 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 any oi the Crildos or Mozaa ne- 'to the stall a the cobbler. He cannot walk ten
sleeted their duties, there was the detachment of Ilanot
..e. yards on the Boulevarcls without 'fleeting a friend,
run light horse after them instanter—trot, tad. She hate,
•
. however, an unplesaut custom of keeping part of the broad I Por
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 gigantic scale of washing 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 stated 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 admit that it' we descend to the period be- '
I heaving and blazing with stars. Those glorious la. teas of '
• atm. seemed almost coming down on our little world: nearer tweet' the age of chivalry and that of the renaissance
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 viz :
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 must 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 il 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 front pride- or want of
fruit! You cannot for a moment ° Main to Margie, " ril,e opportunity is prevented front going back to his
110011 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- .._...,
.__„,
...,„ ~nfin
mom: 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 poverty, 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, flowering 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, with 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, after 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: :to bark to the United State. Mr the right word) all
the immensity} pass first of all through the dangers and temptations
and variety of thooe wuudroas royal realms
of Nature. I hate said that e" the leave, branches, flowers
fruit, stems, seemed all confusedly intermingled, and
described by M. Nlurger.
i matted, and massed together in la auty. There etc heap.
lof 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, picturealue,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 that
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 retrained 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. ily 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;
and them that had 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, appears to have understood 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 exclude a truth, or to °trend n prejudice. Sorely (From the J owned rho Letiett..) 1 culated like a rad shiver through that ris.canhly, met
!it is a gond thin; to droa ouc little seed of religious unity f I 3111 not called upon this Live for }Me writing. 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 You 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 chri... ; writer:4, are ac:
with any of the various creeds, not merelr
t-vd, and are lugged in tow at Cie tail , this httrn...^". sur"""fed by w flatly ben 'l:-thou, and ,•0
tent but of the gldke, is a ..kinn," a as! as in- I oe'rtell.
. harmonious in point of melody as it is intrinsically lightning. Vainlyjig . wsr*ou:,faute.e•ofastkrajva'r'llinn.g.rei4v tahratrat thear ; Th‘c•ard. homy
s.en:winolutr.riokg 'tlt; k-ls llolorettiownielatoelev*l'-'-'rer I ly
wtrit
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,iilitifolritusklain 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 with
any. in a place so soot and so calm on the surface. Speed is a rrnewc't vigour, and the Queen and her ruts'..' 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 of the 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 principle to our Exhibition. 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-dropsthesdew-dropsfell.
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 ; the time
comes, nut takes her by surarise just as she was shunt to
Knish her deeilrrll.,(rlV. 0 tortoise, with the wines the
'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 his own 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 the 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 chow. to 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 possess 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 gentlemen-at-arms, or civic guard
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
:lb. .syhrinalibitnifatOlt:?naloeurgt. mod.:ll'tSmY:momafßartyntehdwi,tna"htshLf alateustnicuti.altdd°birmunrecythundrt 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 this 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 with
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 shadow 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 parlor.. 4 krr work in tit.,
ini..ot of agitation, inquietude, and sinister fore!) slteg. ;
every 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 liy
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,. and 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 would
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' republie. 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, of 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.ittnt
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 311,111/11 ••••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 fur 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,
IProfessor 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 Hessc•Cassid ; 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 is the substance:— he ,
Commissioners of Germany (Zollverein and North Germany),
approach the Prince, to thank him on their own account, and ;
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.