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OCTOBER 25, 1852.

LONDON AND PARIS.-A CONTRAST.

If anybody wants to realize the charms of this metro-
polis let him spend a week, such as the week before last,
at Paris, and return kr a week, such as last week, to
London. There he will lied the air itself, if not every-
where balmy, yet always exhilarating, brightening up
every face, giving elasticity to every step, and so eb-ar
that from the top of the Arc de Triornprw, ur the heights
of 'Montmartre, it seems possible to count every
chimney and every attic window ie Pari3. More he passes
at once into the atmospnere of a brewhouse and the
odours of a stable. He breathes in steam, he sees
through smoke, he walks through mud, and he smiAls
the sewers. As he forces his way through the princi-
pal thoroughfare he is alternately stunned by the
incessant noise and brought to a standstill by the
utter inadequacy of both the pavements and the car-
riage way. There were times last week when to get
from Charing cross to the London-bridge station
would take nearly a 3 much time as a journey by the
express from London to Brighton, or to Oxford.
Paris, of course, has its disagrceables, for though
not a port, nor the seat of manufacture, except for
articles of
,luxury :and taste, it is a garrison, raid
a hundred thousand soldiers are a blessing not
without some drawbacks, But in Paris immense
efforts have been made, and are still making, suf-
ficient to satisfy the strongest craving for improve-
ment. The congested centre of that metropolis is being
perforated by splendid thoroughfares, opening the great
national and municipal palaces to one another, and giving
a clue to the intricate labyrinths that surround the Hotel
do Ville. Under the banks of the Seine vast sewers in-
tercept and carry off what we as carefully infuse into
our river, though in Paris there is not the same neces-
sity for such an arrangement as in the case of a tidal
stream which twice a day brings back its load of abomi-
nations. Among other points in which Paris sets us an
example, it is now more than half a century since a
corpse was interred, or an animal slaughtered for food,
within a quarter of a mile of the barriers. The result
of these and other arrangements is, that Paris is a city
a man is happy to live in all the year round, even when
he hos other alternatives. Its suburbs are sought rather
for cheapness and quietness, and for schools, by reduced
gentlewomen, by aunts, and grandmothers, than by
men and families. Though dissipation and poverty
shorten life there even more than here, at all events
Paris is an enjoyable city, and its inhabitants are con-
tent to make it their constant home.

--
We only contrast the condition of the French and
the British capitals just to show how much can be done
in spite of the great difficulties and hindrances inevit-
able to a place always on the verge of revolution, and
enjoying only a fraction of our commerce and wealth—
how much, on the other hand, may be left undone in
the wealthiest, freest, and quietest metropolis in the
world. It is little to the purpose to talk of this or that
foreign city, or to expatiate generally on continental dirt,
for what fair comparison can there be between this city
of millionaire s and towns where silver, if it exists at
all in an unalloyed form, is as precious as life-blood?
There is no occasion, however, to go to contrasts at all.
Every engineer, every mechanic, will tell us, what in-
deed is obvious on the smallest consideration, that
whatever is necessary to the health and comfort of a
city a mere question of .£, s. d. If it is possible
to make one street a good one, to make one house
perfectly clean and sweet, to do one hundred yards of
drainage effectually, to supply one house with a
sufficiency of pure water, it is possible to do this
for the whole city. Among other uses designed in
the existence of palaces and mansions, Providence,
doubtless, intends that they shall be specimens of what
may be d ,ne, and that, beginning from these, we shall
go on to do tho like for whole cities. Buckingham Pa-
lace, we trust, by this time has been rendered a healthy
and commodious residence, iu spite of some consider-
able difficulties. That once achieved, there is no reason
why every tenement in St. Giles's or Bethnal-green
should nut be made as salubrious and agreeable, as far
as it goes—nay, more so, seeing that the very collars
even of the notorious Church-lane are at a higher level
than the root of Buckingham Palace; but it is a matter
of demomtration that there need not be one single
nuisance, either public or private, in this metropolis, and
that the heart of London might be as sweet as the South
Downs. London might be made the very healthiest
spot in the world, for even that apparently insuperable
evil, the smoke of our coal fires, besides that it is more
of an eyesore than a real mischief, may be reduced
within very bearable limits. The obstacles to improve-
ment, then, are moral rather than physical, and the an-
tagonists we have to deal with are not so much the ele-
ments of external nature and the necessary conditions
of humanity in masses, as certain foes within the camp—
the selfishness, stupidity, and indolence of man, or rather
of some men.

The worst of it is that the more tails there is about it,
the more legislation, and the more there is that professes
to be done, the less we have in the way of actual results.
For example, there has been no end of discussion about
intramural ictermen's, and an Act was passed, now many
montha since, which was expected by the credulous
public to atop them altogether. No such thing. To the
beat of our information the spade is busy in every burial-
ground of this metropolis, and parsons, clerks, sextons,
beadles, grave-diggers, and all the rest of the sable fra-
ternity, are burying all the faster because they think
their time short. Really they have no occasion to
give way to these gloomy apprehensions. Strong in
the power of prescription, and mighty in abuse, they may
safely trust in the weakness of laws and the imbecility
of Parliament. Twenty years will find them still unmo
lasted, still gathering tees from corruption, and reaping
a harvest from death. The next generation will see our
graveyards only heaped a yard higher, and their
walls only bulging a little more, and of somewhat
deeper stain. The next generation will see the
Thames still unnaturally turbid, and its mud banks
still crimson under the July sun ; it will still be
greeted at every step with the vapours of death as-
cending from grates,areas, cellars, and the whole surface
of a soil saturated with sewerage and impregnated with
gas. The next generation will still find our paving in
heaps for three months every year, our great thorough-
fares at a dead lock ten times a day, our eats stunned
by a traffic nine-tenths of which could be carried swiftly
and silently over rails, Holborn-hill without a viaduct,
and the metrapolis in general only getting worse and
worse, because, as long at least as we continue to prosper,
it must become larger and larger.
To what purpose, then, is all this, if so far there has
been nothing but talk, and for the future there seems
nothing but discouragement ? Is it nothing, then, that
they metropolis still want the master mind who is to
render it the monument of his useful services ? On all
sides ambitious patriots are asking for something to be
dune. Everywhere you meet your Hercules panting
for his labours. After all, homely as it may appear,
what arena so worthy as that in which we live ? The
control of fifty colonies, the adjustment of the European
" balance of power," the regulation of trade, and all the
other functions of an Imperial Government, have their
several glories, but also their difficulties and their mis-
haps. Moreover, these are matters in which political
sentiment and p.,rty spirit are sure more or less to thwart
internal
improvement greatest talents and beat designs. But the
improvement of this metropolis is a work which will '
surely reward the statesman with souse degree. of suc-
cess, and which promises a comparative exemption from
merely factious obstacles. At the present rale otin-
crease, the population of this city will amount in thirty
years to that of an independent second-class State, and
ought to confer as much glory on its restorer as Hol-
land, or Belgium, or Denmark, or Portugal could on
its greatest deliverer or statesman. We seriously com-
mend this consideration to some of the many Ministers
unattached who are going about town asking for em-
ployment, and unable to get it in more usual channels.
Of course it cannot be disguised that the task requires
even more judgment than courage, and we cannot pro-
mise to back up every great scheme for the improvement
and better management of this metropolis simply be-
cause it is a great scheme. Projectors must take their
chance of that. We have only to proclaim that the work
is still to be done. London waits for its great sedile.
There is still to come the man, who will not, indeed,
" find it brick and leave it marble," but who may render
it the most wholesome, agreeable, and convenient place
of residence in the world, and that not merely for the
ten thousand fashionable families who occupy one quar-
ter of it for the season, but for the half-million families
who are confined to it all the year round.—Times.

AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH IN A RAILWAY CAR
RIAGE.—On Monday last, Mrs. Timbrell, a passenger
by a 9 30 a.m. express train from London was, on the
train approaching Warrington, observed by one of her
fellow-passengers to lean back as if dozing, but upon its
arrival at the station it was found that she was dead.
HARDY WOMEN.--A very singular exhibition took
place yesterday in the bed of the river opposite the spot
where the horologe-hill stood in days of yore. There
were,lwe should say, at least two dozen of boats, and six
times as many women in the water around them, Some
of the damsels were nearly arm-pit deep, with scarcely
one straw more than their busts above water. All were
busy—all were feeling for mussels with their feet, and,
would when found, stooping down till their chins touched the
working water, so as to secure them with their hands ; but, in
some cases, chin deep would not answer, and then over
haveug past thought
head and ears was the order of the morning. Sticking
among
the clay, treading upon sharp mussels barefooted,
and
enoughmiddle
to in
produce
water
wry,o h
facesour s ,
and
chattering teeth; but nothing of this was seen, for all
was gay and merry as a marriage bell, teaching the
spectators that happiness is common to all conditions of
life; and also realizing the old proverb, that " one half of
the world does nothood"— know how the other makes a liveli-
hood"—Montrose Standard.
WEST RIDING MILITIA.—The number of men
wanted for this branch
is for the West Riau', of military service is 3,760; this
g'uld exclusive of the number
wanted for the Ainsty, '
whichhund would increase the number
mentioned by some few
to constitute three regiments, reds.
Supposing the 3,760
present intended, it
Will give for one regiment 1
1,253. It is not definitely settled
exact number in each regiment, but a
rolment is going on for three regiments only, via., the
Ist, 2d, and 3d.

THE UNITED STATES.

(From the Times Correspondent.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 9, half-past 10 a.m.
My letter on the Lone Star movement reached this
country just as our leading journals had become
aware of the extent of that society, and somewhat in-
formed in regard to its operations. I had derived my
information when I wrote from what I believed to be
authentic sources, and I am sorry now, in addition to
what I had before stated, to be obliged to communi-
cate other facts, which nut only corroborate all that I
sgid, but which impart a still deeper signification to
this matter. Your remarks on the same subject were
immediately copied into some of our newspapers,
while others gave the substance of them in their own
editorial articles ; but my letter by the last steamer
will have already informed you of a gross outrage
perpetrated upon our fl g by the authorities in Ilivan-
nab, and you will find in nearly all our Atlantic
journals of the last week earnest language concerning
that occurrence.

I need not tell you that the recent occurrences in
Havannah, as well as the remarks of our most promi-
nent newspapers, not only confirm the truth of all my
statements in reference to the Lone Star Order, but
they corroberate to au unexpected extent the tendency
of public opinion in this country as I foreshadowed
it. The truth is, that this is likely to prove a very
ugly business for us all. I entertain apprehensions
about it which I cannot shake off. I see a drift of
public feeling among the American people which be-
tokens the precipitation of events that I think every
friend of this country would try to avert. But there
is something else that I regard as still more impor-
tant. The present Captain General of Cuba is the
worst enemy Spain has inspired, perhaps by loyal zeal
for his Sovereign and patriotic feelings for his coun-
try, he is pushing things to such an extreme that he
is waking up the indignation of that very class of
our people who will thus be hurried into a policy
which, but for such outrages, would meet with no
favour except from the Lone Star men and their
intimate adherents. The treatment which several of
our officers and vessels had already experienced
afforded some theme for talk about national insul,
American power, Republican empire, &c. ; but all
this would have slipped by, and men of sense and
discretion would have every where either overlooked
or palliated what had been done; but the late aggres-
sions and insults to the Cornelia and the Crescent city
have excited universal indignation. The British peo-
ple have never submitted very tamely in any period
of their history to insults on the sea, and it should
never be forgotten in any judgment which English-
men form about Americans, that we are only Aug lo-
Saxons, much resembling our fathers in past ages and
oar brothers of 1852, on the other side of the At-
lantic, in our good and our evil things. But it would
be strange enough if the vast difference in our history
should not work some modifications also in the deve-
lopment of national character and popular feeling.
The Americans have grown to be more sensitive on
this subject of interference and aggression onthe
ocean than even Englishmen are themselves.
I regret very deeply all that has happened
in our relations with Cuba since the first
landing of Lopez at Cardenas. I did not
lament his first repulse, nor did I much regret
on the whole, the final state he suffered, nor did I
much regret the fate of my own countrymen, any
further than my humanity might have been stirred
by the brutality of their deaths. ut Ido not desire
to see my country irritated into anew and precipi.
tate launch upon the territories of our neighbours.
Heaven is leading us fast enough, without having
the unholy impulses of bad passions to drive us 00.
Like all other Americans who take time to reflect, I
wish my country to spread her dominion no faster
than she can extend it by the arts of peace or by
friendly negotiations. For these reasons, I regret
deeply the course the Captain General of Cuba is
taking ; for it requires no gaze of a seer to foresee
what will be the result. And then suppose the up-
shot of the matter—what would be a war with Spain
to us ? She was too weak 30 years ago to repress
the independence of her American colonies, and if
she has now to contend for the supremacy of the last
of them against the whole force of the United States,
we shall only witness a spectacle which we would
not wish to contemplate.--the final degradation of one
of the oldest and most venerable States in Europe.
How much were it to be desired that at the present
moment some friendly power would whisper wise
counsels in the ear of the Cabinet at Madrid! It
would seem now that unless the present Captain
General is recalled, and his place filled by a wiser
man Cuba will he revolutionized, and the gem of the
Antilles lost to Spain for ever. There is a ferocity
about his administration which recalls souvenirs of
barbarous times, and his recent atrocities have cur-
dled the blood of our people with horror, and filled
them with indignation.
The Webster movement has gained in earnestness
and intensity during the last few days. There have
been several mass meetings in Boston, and in other
portions of Massachusetts, and every new speech that
is pronounced goes to show that the breach between
the Scott and Webster men of the United States can-
not be healed. Two evenings ago, at the last great
Webster meeting in Faneuil-hall, " the cradle of
American liberty," were the most impressive and
powerful addresses in favour of the Declaration of
Independence had been pronounced three-fourths of
a century ago, Mr. Curtis, one of the most eminent of
the Boston lawyers and citizens, closed an impas-
sioned, learned, and powerful appeal of three columns
by the following peroration :
"Entertain no vain regrets for him whom you are
now seeking to honour from motives eminently honour-
able to yourselves. For your country, for a wronged
and injured people, for a neglected constitution, you
may grieve (sensation)—but not for him. If the efforts
which you and others are now making cannot be
crowned with success, be assured that the residue of
that life will be all that your fondest wishes could
make it. (Loud applause.) You will see an old age
adorned with letters, sustained by religion, dignified
by the noblest of human pursuits, surrounded by the
affections of a grateful people, and exercising, by the
mere force of intellect, an influence exceeding that of
his own previous life. You will see the retirement of
a statesman whose rtiourcis of personal happiness are
as ample as his power of public usefulness. You will
see that great orb go down to the western skies un-
clouded and serene. Its last rays will rest on you.
The later wisdom of advancing years that will go forth
to mould the opinion of the world will be uttered to you.
In the midst of you ,defended by your vigilance. encom-
passed by your care, he will remain, and his fame will
be to you and yours :a possession which neither time,
nor accident, nor human caprice, nor human malice, can
touch or take away."
They are having I see, morover, less numerous
but equally resolute meetings in favour of Mr. Web-
ster in other parts of the country, and certainly this
movement must seriously affect the fortunes of
General Scott. A very large number of newspapers
in every part of the country have, during the tour of
General Scott through the west indulged in the se-
verest strictures upon his course. They do not hesi-
tate to say that it is a gross violation of public decency
that the Commander-in-Chief of the American army
—our little Duke of Wellington—should, when a
candidate for the highest civil office, and still in the
exercise of the highest military power known to our
constitution, choose such an occasion as this to travel
thousands of miles with an imposing suite, and at
great public expense, merely to make political
speeches in his own favour, under the pretext of
performing a public duty. No wonder that the
Bufflalo Republic should ask, as it does in the follow-
ing paragraph ,
" THAT SITE FOR 1 MILITARY HOSPITAL,--When
will General Scott find that site ? Ho has been march-
ing and countermarching, traversing and re-traversing
State after State, electrifying his Whig friends through-
out the country with his ',unsurpassed eloquence,' and
his wisdom, which exceeds Newton's and Locke's,' all
about a site for a military hospital. We should not
wonder if that evasive, dodging, unfindable site should
keep out of the General's sight till the time draws near
for him to be cited to embark for the Salt River country.
Let us not be understood, however, as insinuatiug that
the Whig candidate is on an electioneering tour, instead
of looking for that site. No, no, he denies that at every
places where he stops. He is certainly in Pursuit of that
site, which, like an eynie fatuus, lures him from place to
place, first one course and then another, sometimes ap-
pearing nearly within his reach, and then flitting again
away into another State. A very slippery thing is that
site which tho General is pursuing ; and we sometimes
doubt whether ho will ever get within the sweep of his
sword of it."
Many newspapers have made themselves merry at
a thousand peculiar remarks'of the illustrious General
on his tour, and it has already grown into a proverb
that a:Scott-man must of necessity " love that Irish
brogue." The General himself made use of this ex-
pression while addressing a crowd in Ohio. Upon
which the New York Suit makes the following com-
ments
While the General was addressing a crowd at Cleve-
land, Ohio, and telling his auditors how glad he was to
be with them, some son of Erin, whose tongue, it seems,
betrayed its nationality, with genuine Irish hospitality
told him be was welcome. Quick as thought the Gene-
ral exclaimed,—
' I love that Irish brogue. I love to hear it.'
" O'Connell himself never excelled that bit of blarney.
We expect the Irish brogue to become quite fashionable
in political circles at least; and, should Scott be elected
to the presidency, office-seekers will doubtless practise

the brogue so ai to be able ' to come round ' the Gene-
ra)."

It is well known that the General had been for-
merly a furious " native American ;" that he had
written very energetically against allowing foreigners
the rights of citizenship until they had been in the
country 21 years, or until they had served five years
at least iu the American army or invy. The hero
shows that he feels the necessity of being particularly
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Howard, the late proprietor of the Irving• home in
New York, one of the most popular and magnificent
of our American hotels, has recently sold his esta-
blishment, and it is supposed that he intends to visit
London, and open an hotel there on the American
system et an expense of half a million sterling.
Mr. M'Koy, of East Boston, has nearly completed
a clipper ship, which, it is supposed, will surpass in
size and sharpness any merchant ship now afloat. She
is to be 300 feet long, have a breadth of beam of 50
feet, with 28 feet depth of hold, three decks, and a
register of 3,40( tons. She is to be diagonally
braced with iron, and built as strong as the best ocean
steamers. Those who have seen her say that the
beauty of her mcdel exceeds that of any of our vessels
hitherto built. She is not made on contract, but will
be offered for sale when completed.
You will have observed that there have been seve-
ral very perceptible ups and downs in our money
market during the last few weeks. The time is ap-
proaching which I spoke of last spring in one of my
letters, when the first symptoms were becoming visible
of a monetary crisis in this country. I remarked
at the time that this was inevitable, and that it
would come before a long period had passed. The
enormous extension of paper money, the immense
multiplication of our banking institutions, the pro-
digious nunber of loans effected by our railroads,
canals, buillers, real estate holders, and speculators of
all grades, the influx of gold from California, even the
impetus g ven to our trade by the Australian move-
ment, and, in a word, the unwarrantable expansion of
our entetprizes of all kinds throughout the world,
must to every shrewd and forecasting mind have indi-
cated thy inevitable approach of a commercial revul-
sion. But the moment of its arrival I have never
believed to be so far off as those men have who have
been most mixed up with the agitation. Our credit
in Europe is good—perhaps it never was better. But
your capitalists ought not to shut their eyes to the
presert state of things in this country, and I hope
of pu public
these few remarks, with my former letter that I have
alluded to, may have some tendency in arresting an
andprivat e credit,
recurrence of fsuch
disgrace as we suffered in the days of our all but uni-
form unwarrantablea
y heaven expansion
save
us
from
uni-
versal repudiation!

MONUMENT IN LIVERPOOL TO THE
DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

A meeting of the inhabitants of this town was held at
naon on Saturday, called for the purpose of giving the
inhabitants an opportunity of expressing their feelings
spoil the great loss the country has sustained in the
recent demise of his Grace the Duke of Wellington.

The Worshipful Mayor, THOMAS LITTLEDALE, Esq.,
presided, and the meeting was attended by a large
number of the gentlemen, professional men, and trades
men of the town, of all creeds and parties.
The MAYOR, on taking the chair, said he had much
pleasure in calling a meeting for such an object, and to
show how great the feeling was in the town, he would
mention that three different memorials had been got up
in one day, but they were now merged into one, the
more expressively to convey the general and undivided
opinion which existed. He hoped the same unani-
mous feeling would actuate them now, and that a me-
morial creditable to the town would bo erected.
(Cheers.)

CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P., rose to move the first
resolution, and said he regretted it had not fallen to a
more capable person to propose it ; but he felt that no
eulogium was required, as the name of Wellington
would live as long as the records of this great empire
existed; and so long as the name of Englishmen existed
upon the earth, so long would generations of his country-
men recount his deeds with pride and admiration. (Ap-
plause.),HTeh
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meetingby movingr
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lution.—high estimation in which the character of the late Duke
of Wellington was held by the inhabitants of this
borough, and appreciating those great talents which,
during his long life, were unsparingly devoted to the
service of his country--resolved, that a public subscrip-
tion be opened for the purpose of raising to his memory
a column, surmounted by a statue, to be placed, by per-
mission of the Council, in some suitable situation of the
t)W111." (Cheers.)
WILLIAM BROWN, Esq., M.P., seconded the resolution.
He said, whatever difference of opinion might prevail as
to the policy which had iavolved us in Continental wars,
there could be none as to the military merits of the Duke
of Wellington. No man ever evinced a greater love of
country; nor was more careful of the lives of the soldiers
under him, always attending to their commissaries. No
man bad ever shown more patriotism than he had done.
He had been the faithful counsellor of her Majesty, groat
in war, great in the senate, and his name would live in
the hearts of his countrymen. He hoped there would be
no backwardness on the part of the burgesses and inhabi-
tants in subscribing funds for such a monument as should
be a credit to the town, and show to the nation that we
appreciated his qualities. There never was a man who
had acted through life with more disinterestedness than
the Duke—who never, in the course of his difficult and
arduous career, ever attempted a job. It was impossible
for him to say anything of his merits which faithful his-
tory would not record. (Loud applause.)
The resolution having been put from the chair, and
carried unanimously, a committee was appointed to ma-
nage the details of the proposed memorial, after which,
on the motion of F. B. Horsefall, Esq., M.P., seconded
by Archdeacon Brook, Mr. F. E. Moss was appointed
Treasurer. _ _

Mr. Buss ARNAUD related that, in 1830, he was one
of a deputation who called upon the Duke to invite him
to visit the town, and ho had on that occasion expressed
himself in the highest terms of Liverpool, and, with the
gallantry of a soldier, said, he should be highly delighted
to see the " Lancashire witches."
The Mayor having vacated the chair, Mr. Brown was
called thereto ; and on the motion of Mr. L. Mozley,
seconded by the Earl of Sefton, the thanks of the meet-
ing were voted to the Mayor, who briefly acknowledged
it, and the meeting separated.

PROPOSED REPEAL OF THE CATHOLIC RELIEF
BILL.—At a meeting of the Manchester Protestant and
Reformation Society, held in the Free-trade Hall, Man-
chester, on Thursday evening—the Rev. Hugh Stowell
in the chair—the following resolutions were passed:-1.
That the grant to Maynooth, so utterly wrong in prin-
ciple, has been abundantly shown to be no loss injurious
in practice, more especially in the conduct of the May-
nooth-trained priesthood during the late general elec-
tion; and that, therefore, a petition to the House of
Commons for its repeal be adopted. 2. That it is high
time to move for the repeal of the Relief Act of 1829,
as utterly incompatible with the liberties of this coun-
try, the rights of Protestants, the free action of the Le-
gislature, and the safety of her Majesty's Throne. The
meeting was a very large one; but there was a large pro-
portion of the sofer sex. The speakers included, besides
Mr. Stowell, the Rev. Pierce Connolly, late Roman Ca-
tholic priest, and chaplain to Earl Shrewsbury; Rev, H.
W. M'Grath; Rev. Mr. Richardson, Rev. James Bard-
sley, Rev. Mr. Trail, and Rev. G. T. Parke.
CAMPBELL THE POET.—Dr. Beattie, the biographer'
and friend of the poet, has addressed the following letter
to the Inverness Courier, describing a graceful tribute to
his memory on the part of a French gentleman, who now
inhabits the house in which ho died at Boulogne-sur-
Mer:—" At Boulogne my first visit was to the house
where Campbell died, and which, after seven years' ab-
sence, brought back many recollections connected with
the closing scone. Over the door of another house in
Boulogne, in which Le Sage (author of Gil Blas) ex-
pired, there is a tablet recording that event. I had long
thought that the death-place of Campbell was entitled to
a like distinction, and now was the time for carrying it
into effect. The house is now occupied by the. President
of the Civil Court, a man of letters and a cordial admirer
of the poet, and no sooner was the design mentioned to
him than he cordially applauded it. I then consulted
with Mr. Hamilton, the consul, and we fixed on the fol-
lowing brief inscription, similar to the one dedicated to
Le Sage:—" Ici est mort Thomas Campbell, auteur des
Plaisirs de l'Eperance. xr. Juin lIDCCCXLIV. It is
engraved on a tablet of black marble with gold letters,
and is affixed to the outer wall of the chamber in which
ho died. I was gratified by observing, the respect paid
to the memory of Campbell by the rencb, particularly
by the distinguished official who occupies the house.
He has taken pains to
preserve the rose-trees and shrubs
and flowers which the poet ad
admired and cherished during
his brief sojourn; and ho delights in presenting visitors
with a rose from the poet's tree. The chamber is held
sacred; and when I tell you that even the small pieces
of cloth with which I had stuffed the crevices to exclude
sound during the poet's short slumbers are undisturbed,
you will join with me in thanking the worthy French-
man, who, in doing honour to the memory of Campbell,
has complimented the whole country.
Ties CRYSTAL PALACE.—The offers of large sums
made by several parties for monopoly of the " pickings" to be
found beneath the boards of the Crystal Palace were all
refused by the Contractors, Messrs. Fox and Henderson' who
generously gave permission to the 1 ,bourers employed upon
the spot to appropriate to themselves any "treasure trove"
which they
.might chance to light upon in removing the
planks of whith the flooring was composed, and in turning up
the surface of the turf below. These findings have
been
quite godsends to some of the men employed upon the works.
Coins of copper, silver, and gold, crochet purses, studs, rings.
lockets, &c., have been turned up daily, to say nothing of
gold and silver headed canes, and other miscellaneous articles ;
and one day last week a poor man was fortunate enough to
°tumble upon a puns containing between 71. and Si.