The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-07 00:00:00

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THE HOUSILEXPER'S PLACZ. —He ran the
gauntlet that must be run on any inch occasion. There
were the usual species of profoundly unsympathetic
women, and the usual species of much too sympathetic
women. There were buccaneering widows who
came to seise him, and who griped umbrellas
tinder their arms, as if each umbrella were he,
I and each griper had got him. There were
I towering maiden ladies who had seen better days, and who
came armed with clerical testimonials to their theology,
as if he were Saint Peter with his keys. There were gentle
maiden ladies who came to marry him. There were pro-
fessional housekeepers, like non-commissioned officers,
who put him through his domestic exercise, in-
stead of submitting themselves to catechism.
There were languid invalids to whom salary was
not so much an object as the comforts of a private hospital.
There were sensitive creatures who burst into tears cm
being addressed, and had to be restored with glares of
cold water. There were some respondents who came two
together, a highly promising one and • wholly unpro-
mising one ; of whom the promising one answered all
questions charmingly, until it would at last appear that
she was not a candidate at all, but only the friend of the
unpromising one, who had glowered in absolute silence
andckens apparent injuryllins. .—No Thoroughfare, by Charles
Di aad Wilkie Co

• EMILRBON AND CARLYLE.— They edited each
other's works in their respective countries, and they have
I been in some respects justly affiliated, bat the contrasts
between them are both striking and instructive. They
have common revolutionary spirit, a marked origi-
nality, an uncompromising aversion to decorous illorions,
an excessive disdain of traditional methods of thought and
stereotyped modes of expression ; but in Carlyle this is
tempered by a greater respect for persons and a venera-
tion for his own ideal of the past, in which he holds out
models for out imitation. Emerson sees in its great men
and events only finger-posts for the future, and is per-
petually warning his readers to stay at home lest they
should travel away from themselves. The one, always a
careful though sometimes a perverse historian, loves detail
! and hates abstractions ; be delights to dilate on the mi-
nuthe of biography, and waxes eloquent even upon dates.
The other, a brilliant though not always a pro'ound gene-
raliser, tells us that we must " leave a too aloes end linger-
ing adherence to fasts, and study the sentiment as it ap-
peered in hope and not in history." " Everything," he
writes, "is beautiful, seen from the point of the intellect,
or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience. Details
are melancholy ; the plan is seemly and noble. In the
actual world, the painful kingdom of time and plate,
dwell ears, and canker, and fear. With thought, with
the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it
ell that/ibises sing. But grief clings to names and persons,
and the partial interests of to-Jay and yesterday." Neither
of those writers has the " day light ;" both exaggerate, but
in different direction'. The one dwells on the dark side
of things, he is like a man bearing a heavy burden, and
his heel t seems at times to grow sick with reactionary
doubts till the starry firmament itself is a sad sight in his
eyes. Ths other is blown upon by the fresh breezes of
the New World his vision ranges freely over her clear
horizons, and be leer up elastic under her light atmos-
phere, exclaiming, ' Give me health and a day; and I will
make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." Carlyle is a
Germanised Scotsman, living neer the roar of our great
metropolis, with memories of Weimar on the one hand, of
the bleak grey hills of the Covenanters on the other.
Emerson is a Greeized American, studying Swedenborg
end the Phiedo in his garden, far enough from the din of
cities to enable him, " in seasons of calm weather," to forget
their existence. " Boston, London, are as fugitive as any
whiff of smoke, so is society, so is the world."—Norte
British &rive, December number.

MINISTERS GOING GUT.—The outgoing ministers
were very grave, very self laudatory, and very courteous.
In regard to courtesy, it may be declared that no stranger
to the ways of the place could have understood how such
soft words could be spoken by Mr. Daubeny, beaten, so
quickly after the very sharp words which he had uttered
when he only expected to be beateu. He announced to his
fellow commoners that his right hon. friend and colleague
Lord De Terrier hod thought it right to retire from the
Treasury. Lord De Terrier, in constitutional obedience to
the vote of the lower house, had resigned, and the Queen bad
been graciously pleased to accept Lord de Terrier's resigna-
tion. Mr. Daubeny could only further inform the house
that her Majesty had signified her pleasure that Mr. Mild-
may should wait upon her to-morrow at 11 o'clock. Mr.
Mildmay— so Mr. Denbeney understood—would be with
her Majesty to-morrow at that hour. Lord Di Terrier had
found it to be his duty to recommend her Majesty to send
for Mr. Mildmay. Such was the real import of Mr.
Danbeney's speech. That further portion of it in
which he explained wish blandest, most benetioent,
honey•flowing words that his flirty would have dons
everything that the country could require of any party,
had the house allowed it to remain on the Treasury benches
for a month or two,—and explained also that his pa
would never recriminate, would never return evil for evil,
would in no wise copy the factions opposition of their
adversaries ; that his party would now, as it ever bad
done, carry itself with the meekness of a dove and the
wisdom of the serpent,—all this. I say, wee so generally
felt by gentlemen on both sides of the house to be " leather
and runella," that very little attention was paid to it.—
" Phiuw Fins," in St. Pee. Magasuse for Deassabar.