The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-08 00:00:00

mods whir IRR meal is* ws baillwriqk lelt to Ilia Illoa
Wig thompwr, WWl' sisallsoas la Os lid.
Ws wim risrairdbognmr"in =4":1;
=idjnoig ad l Mowe, sod wie we go by the
arnaoll dr ailimmot. My hisdhossealiaM haw
with Wok VIVO% nod my Wore with Weir heiends.
The Wowing epigrammatic criticisms will give s
tante attlie quality of the author when he indulges
in disquidtion. lie is spsskiag foe hie hero :
"Dos, 11, 18—. I Wee just &Wed seeding Milton's
Tneeillee SAAR Height le the ward thee NMI to see fleet,
Wm I as SEM: ninon. The pow Melt is pm-
tosumlie la woo Ido net WI Is it the raw
peek of Homer, me Os geosubil Wen-
d/OM ef • yell has in an equal dorm the We epic
woo. Dm bias mu hemeerior to the wee= GI ths Gre-
aten we She ilismen as Christionity tit sapadee to no-
sing atithologr. bre veritably lima wit; but
as
tar idea el wed revolting in Mafia agalog
God Ahreighte, sod with Him • ideas civil war, in
order to got promdas the throes of ths usiseme, el to
me WWII, ddlmisms. If, with MOM of li. DrienWir, we
oral/ bases to Os soodslow of good and evil, s w-
ows& wefts kW= thole saymameolhas would be a
=ee*/ of post post ; Ival el
sccording to
, WI "WOW"' with a wick bite, dependent
beimeeitrestainopiatie the week Wag Is ostogeoinia with Lis
Comer, is to forsake the mom of the
Zama, seddisommi laws the epic to the mele-dremetic.
Tithe the Ws of a week sad limonite creetan revolting,
booms week and Ignsmal, spirt Memel parr sad who.
=asnd Mrsup that .salsas with Wino gosdases sad
pity, the
_pus will have am Ws wee dy of a grist
Chelethis pod. The spies of pignolem. o the epics of the
trsalWalrers Ws welltins.lit the egise of Chtisininity
ham yet to
Is mods. • , •
a y Timo, whi
" Midi's Owls of tit yews lady
in the
valor segualsdus es mod, eamlado as of the Mb of the
ex ad istsai log. Poor tramp in order to beeline ail Lig se
the en, him" up anti be burst. DWr bad it Wen
for the tong thwireeseleated himself with whims the made
d 'trent:die Life of Dv. haws bee WIWI my ambition
anew. I hared; tbiak I am read to mar as much ea
Johann Windt Ws to my deign of
living on WilsOoll 116 Wood of s metenel life. liow I
could We Daiwa Ibs woos not s mos, if he were only an
affectioeste seribillug Neeribendiand deg; I believe there
wee es much reel sieseme Is the mul of Dr. &WWI JUtIIIPOZI
as in that of
" I have been lielliabil:the;smi been Swift. Be makes me
blush,
_emu vies I am dm, end I have laid him wide.
Mims Deeillnliswers thegmeadvice always to cut .vulgar
irrilll.• I. 111. elem. it. reminds me of X eeophon.
the muds *Chit lOW ia like the hum of Wes in the wane,
pig dr d assare. Be is not swig, but very de-
pat— • ."
"1110paa's 'Pllgrim's Promos' ham Inflamed me to melt
• depleellat it spoils my sleep at night. Bun an is a rural
Mena • sag Cromwell em posts. I Love hard work in
Waft list Milton wee anything more than poetically
Iwo; Ihmob sheet of Bunyan', Aron beset in every
weed he wiles. Oh, what power them is in language eve
Is wooled with the entire conviction of him who utter,.
MI . ."
"Yo-day is Sunday, end I have reed the whole of the
Book of Job. lus greatly annoyed at the sebitrery, unna-
tural divides Isle armee. and verses , it obscures the PIPMII-
-
_end hinders the rigid undersmoding of the Bibb,
Subhamer than Homer or Milton is Jul. It I. said to be the
moat aecient of existing poems. Ido not believe it is in-
spired, ter it contains many things diet surely are not in
secordenee with divine wisdom. . . ."
The description of the wharves at New York is
life again :
The mad, vociferate cries of Whatnot, curlers, hotel-
/Imre% beggars, rowdies, and thieves, on the crowded
wheel, reeled mar adventurer out of his " open-eyed"
deem, sad meld him to the moat real corner of the real
meld. No peitemeen waved the mysterious traneuillirieg
wend se asthselly over the brutal mob that lined the there.
The eir was pshwil cad blackencd with the smoke of to-
Wee sad the two of rum. Horrid oaths mewed
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and peisied obscene jests. Falcon eyes
11i the inexperienced, and sharp (alone
were ,es he herem remoreelesaly to the very bones of
so _hue
aiehmele virtue. Harinuen were reedy to
these mike round in order to rook
611•1 =foe, a few rods ole where was mire to ha
ArA • Wind to peneence the. charge of five dollar. just,
and Wein Was at " Seeciag: If some economic coon-
, Wow shaehlaral Ms ow trunk, he wee literally obliged to
Ogle his way there
the crowd; sed woe to him if he left
Ms wile issumoisa I Every lime • steamboat lands in
Now Yak duns is • seem that disgraces even the worst
city on the face of the globe—a scene
wises test be found Overbore in any country,
tither chilled we beberore. Such a scene welerenea the
European tramiler le ear there,, and we wax tiered,/ wroth
if lie dace not declaim everything that he finds faultk.u.
The following is a specimen of the autlwr's
mingled style of description and reflection. The
hero is at the " Astor Hotel" :
e gimp and mew," wrote Quinland, late in the evening
a the ow ley, "mems to me everything hem. There are
lhohnbolgsagb Is es Wass ; (revellers are continually
Gaming end lOC Iwo Is • mamma trunping of feet up
sad bow the Woad slim sad along the halls that in-
tersect ea& busy; Wes ere d.sd osh • reverberating
creek; them ie • issirise Ma of commingled Witten
yokes, echoing all sueschoing, lend and interminable; and
I wrest is the MOlNlF•gieditig thunder of oinnibusee, the
swim mar OW hag swot. Beneath my window tho
=DEINSIIIII44IIIIIIIIIIIIII.I, with the dote of day. A
wok, of Wigs throw a glom over the crowded
WWI sail Itemmiolo as as mama( es though I were in
Me if Oise Wet WitieseUde, Wog witich 1 have read,
indsr aas deo old Muospsin dim tall the mingled timbre
of a lowbal ~kw was Wdeoly taking form and
life, rang OM la el directions, blindly eyeing egress
and 1111111111111.111. Pals feces look paler still in the gas-
light, MS ill snahre me sisk eel sal to gam upon the eddy-
ing Meese of brawn birga am to-night I shall deep
upon tin siespee 'Row, owl wimps dream of the blcesed
days that havoleibrd. A softie so thick, that, like the
&rimmed it !mph an be felt, NOM to encompass me en
every NW. !h
NW. of sea dues not constitute fellow-
ship; we or hell Iles allot of many, and yet tainting with
the weal-hernowdlifirillnelie I feel a sudden need of God,
yet he dem asit amm Is labors. The vieione that haunted
ms la we iamb by Ilis Wert of Lake Erie again float be-
fore me in rhuleery,Areudele forma I feel again the chill
of that *he when I embed here. alone, duelled witnese-
ing the .lebntie experimmele of Dr. Iloogetragen, and asked
the incommunieative shouts tell me of my Watley. There
I. peril forma won thin alenny omen of life ; and shall I
float at modem, without meet, without compel', no load-
star in the heavens?" . .

The following are American character eketchee et
the latter part of the book :
The guests have sheerly assembled. Let us take • look at
them. They era repmratstivoe of large dames in Ame-
rican life, end It Is wards while to examine them a little
closely. Hooker is an ell atiquaintance, and we will allow
him to stretch himself ern a sofa in his own honor, for the
plain reason that we re% help it. Young Pinney ilia
fogad an unused rime of Stary on the Constitution"
lying upon the centre di, and hes anemeaced reeding it
Ida linecity. Near Mr, end okeely etwerefeg Ate
ever sr barged the rowels, respesteg, sad most truly
=blAJr" Leeprerry. He b a rave, order-loving
, new her selfrepen who it easeetielly the
and alike al circumstances.
V• Win dm country in tie hear of greatest
rllan hbe essolitute the true conservative power
ilie I. beast by their example alone, the
rehires nil the and in check. With firm faith in heaven
sad kora right, they tam an immovable barrier upon
which the Mann of maw agitation beat in vain.
Ferree aim in mom. Mr. Augustus lhlybird is
dozing in • lop oar its& We have had a glirove of him
beton, and a bw were ter 'dike to Munch hie history. He
was been in New Odra; was the son of • Yankee adven-
turer, and as the ray der titer of • Louisiana planter ; was
the Mbla yam at re A dusting grandfather
taught all the sewer of tyranny and vied upon a groat
plentsdon, Wend et sendiag him to wheel. When twenty-
ems yams of emits resolved an inheritance of three huodred
therm. dears; rent a hundred thousand in gambling;
ran away to New Teat, to avoid a duel with • deadly
shot, in his native sky; was trapped into a mar-
riage with the hzsalL daughter of Deacon Slick,
ky ma ; set up as • man of
hike iillgrAvenne ; hie wife gave select par-
ties; be posed Ike Wag • god dealer richer than he we.;
r"tprieW hie bore ; mode "old Slick "—as ho called
hie ; drove good horses, drank good wine,
were pea dear high, kept hislersa, yellow wife in
• orelont beer , and new Iliad to occupy hie
pew in Ore wanes& Massy regarded it
se as en is their lire era they woe • -na• to the •• set"
et re Debtkille. Tea will never find at the Uslybirde'
• drip with hos then • hundred thousand," was an
an-
peei elm in the month of weak, self-romplarent women,
who bed net the remetest suspicion that the pneweeion of a
hunger tbserni dollars does not bring with It true genti-
11111111111t.
re of the doopyrindowe opening niacin the street site
des Nev. Dr. Per. He is the xery incarnation of a carted.
Net a bib b race et phew His long, smoothly-shaven taco
it roper with a hied et theological precieion. A snow-
oldie noolnielk tied, oblige, bon to hold his head
err His pe boots glisten like mirrors, and not a par-
ticle of bag Is ups his rich, well-fitting clothes. When he
vales is modulated according to the nicest rules
rks'aierritioszy art; and there is a studied ex-
edam he the structure of hie eentencee. Ito sal-
mon& himself as infallible as the doctrines of
hie orb this regard be is perfectly consistent; for,
whin a reveril meek divide Christendcm, what but an
infallible riper ern select the true one, and reject the
Mee? 0 engertively-gifted Dr. Prim! Heaven hoe kindly
sent yea to r ordinary mortals, to point out the only path
to salvation; and what darkness would overspread the
world if such a light as you were bidden under a bushel I
Old Morley--everybody cads him so—is reading the
money reticle in • prominent journal. He grew rich by im-
parting. tried to leave off business, almost died doing nothing,
then began speculating in stock!. Ile boasts that he is
worth "a moveable figure between nothing and • million."
His fare is now bidden behind a newspaper; his hair is thin
and grey, his temples wrinkled, his neck skinny"; he knows
that he begins to look old, and weakly wishes to hide it. An