The Sun.
London, England, 1836-02-12 00:00:00

Hope, Dr. Doming, Mr. Heathcoat, Mr. Strutt, Mr. Hutt,
iN Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Scholefield, Mit.D. Lewis, and Mr.
Davenport.
HOUSE OF COMMONS (COMPENSATION TO OFFICERS)
Mr. Hume, Mr. W. Gladstone. Mr. V. Smith, Sir T. Free-
mantle, Dr, Dowring, Sir R. Inglis, Mr. Elphinstone, Lord
iseount Sandon, Mr. Drotherton.
DttrtiFott Muntim.—Mr. Estcourt, Mr. Hawes, Mr. R. Col-
borne, Mr. John Parker, Sir R. Inglis, Mr. Thorneley, Sir
er,Egerton, Mr. E. Denison, Mr. Compton. Mr. Clay, Lord
I 'Stanley, Mr. Elphinstone, Mr. D. Daring, Mr. Pease.

RAILWAYS. -
The following Petitions for Railway Bills were reported
last night, and the Bills ordered to be brought in :—Midland
CoutitiesArbroath and Forfar—Cheltenham and Great
Western—Lot/dun and Brighton—Sheffield and Rotherham
—London and Blueltwall—Hull and Selby—and Birmingham
and Gloucester.
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.

It was resolycd that Orders of the Day have precedence of
Notices on Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays.

LITERATURE.

IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA, DURING THE
I:tit;!‘.YEARS 1833, 1834, and 1835. In 2 Vols.
Br TYRONE POKER, ESQ.
London: R. Bentley, 1835.
ja. an article entitled " Recollections of the Stage,"
which appeared in the New Monthly some short time
ago, an anecdote, of which the following is the pur-
port, was related of Liston :—Being professionally
engaged in a provincial town in England for an entire
season, he made arrangements personally with all who
were to supply his table with •' yeatables and drink-
ables," as Diggory would say ; in which number, of
course, the milkmaid was included. This last import-
ant personage, whether from a regard for the health
of her customers, or some motive equally charitable,
always baptized her milk, and that too by immersion,
before serving it out every morning. Liston was by
no means pleased that she should give herself so much
trouble on his account. He, therefore, watched the
first opportunity, when her sweet voiec was heard
under his window, rushed down stairs in a mOrning-
gown and slippers, and, opening the door, presented
the wondering milkmaid with two vessels, requesting
her to give the milk in one, and the water in the other,
as he preferred diluting the milk himself. From that
day forth his milk assumed a different hue—the blue-
ness, before so observable, entirely disappeared—the
out-door baptism of the milk-pail was thenceforth dis-
pensed with.

The author of these " Impressions" is something
like Liston's milk-maid—too fond of diluting. The
milk is very good, but the water predominates. This
is extremely annoying ; and the more so, because we
cannot understand in what consists the necessity for
ekeing out a couple of volumes with flippant gossip,
amid the immense mass of materials furnished by the
briefest residence in the New World. We have no
grave charge to bring against Mr. Power. He tra-
duces no class of persons—babbles no secrets imparted
to him in a confidential conversation—retails no
family slanders—and never once descends to the mean-
ness of discovering to the world the weaknesses of
those who extended to him the rights of hospi-
tality. But the instances are rare in which he looks
beyond the surface; and moreover journalizes every trifle
connected with himself, with an egotism very unpar-
donable in a professed investigator of the character
and institutions of a great nation. In fact, nearly half
of the first volume is made up of trifles,
.which might
have been set down as an extract from the universal
common-place book of travellers, to be met with in
every Guide Book sold in London. This is rather
annoying, certainly ; but where the author speaks of
the Americans,- his opinions are sound,- and his esti-
mate of their national greatness, and their individual
worth, invariably cor►ect. The following extract must
satisfy every reader that Mr. Power ascribes the pros-
perity of America to the true cause—the enterprise
and industry of the people ; while its conclusion
proves him to be a person above the little boarding-
school prejudices of Mrs. Trollope

" My first journey in Sept. 1833, between New York and
Philadelphia, was by steam-boat and railway, having cars
drawn by horses over thirty-five miles, which thus occupied
five hours and a half. In October of the same year I did the
same distance by locomotive in two hours. When first I vi-
sited Boston, the journey was performed in twenty-four hours,
by steamer to Providence, thence to Boston by stage; the
same distance now occupies fifteen hours, a railway having
been last spring put in operation between Providence and
Boston.

" Again, in 1834, the traveller had but one rough route
from Philadelphia to Pittsburg. You can now go a third of
the distance by railroad, and, getting into a canal-boat, are
dragged over the Alleghany mountains, through a series of
locks not to be surpassed for strength or ingenuity of contriv-
ance.

" In 1533, the journey from Augusta, Georgi 2, to New
York was an affair of eleven or twelve days; it is now per-
formed in three. Steam and railroad are, in fact, annihilating
time and space in this country. In proof of it, I can safely
assert that if a traveller visiting the south-west, say, from Sa-
vannah to New Orleans, will be at the trouble of recollecting
this book in the year 1837, he will find the account of the dif-
ficulties of my journey extremely amusing; since, in all human
probability, he will perform that in five days, which took me,
with hard labour, perseverance, discomfort, not to say, some
peril of life or limb, just eighteen.

" It is. these revolutions,' and such as these, that form the
true wonders of this country ; that stimulate curiosity, excite
interest, and well repay the labour of any voyager embued with
a grain of intelligence or observation, to say nothing of philc-
sophy.
"- It is to these results, their causes, and their immediate
and probable effects, his mind's eye will be irresistibly drawn,
not to spitting-boxes, tobacco, two-pronged forks, or other
conventional bagatelles, the particulars of each of which, as a
solecism in polite manners, can be corrected and canvassed by
any waiter from the London Tavern, Ludgate-street, and by
every grisette from America-square to Brompton-terrace, who
may chose to display their acquired gentility for the nonce ;'
and it is the absence of a spirit of philosophy generally in our
writers, and this affectation of prating so like waiting-gentle-
women, that stings Americans, and with some show of reason,
when they see the great labours of their young country with
the efforts of its people passed lightly by, and trifles caught up
and commented upon, whose importance they cannot compre-
hend, and which they have neither leisue nor example to alter
or attend to.

" The groat mass of Americans arc natural, therefore rarely
vulgar; and if a freshness of spirits, and an entire freedom
from suspicion, and the many guards which ill-bred jealousy
draws around the objects of its care, may be viewed, as indeed
they ought to be, as proofs of high feeling and true culture,
then are the men of America arrived at a point of civilization
at once creditable to themselves and honourable to their.women,
as nothing can be more perfectly unrestrained than the freedom
enjoyed in all good families here. Strangers once introduced
find every house at all times open to them, and the moat fre-
quent visits neither create surprise nor give rise to suspicion.
" Hospitality is inculcated and practised, and the people
entertain with a liberality bordering on profuseness : the merit
of this is enhanced by the great trouble the absence of good
domestics entails on the mistress of even the best establish-
ments. Ladies arc here invariably their own housekeepers,
yet, nowhere is the stranger more warmly welcomed, and in
no country is more cheerful readiness evinced in preparing for
his entertainment.

" The hand of welcame is also extended and sympathy en-
couraged towards the persecuted, whether of fortune or des-
potism. The exile is sure to find. shelter and security here,
without encountering suspicion, whether necessity or choice
induced him to abandon his country.

" Honoured be the land which offers to the stranger a free
participation, on equal terms, of all it holds dearest ! Hal-
lowed be the institut►ons which hold out to talent a free field,
and where honest ambition knows no limit save the equal law !
The following testimony to the industry and filial
piety of the Irish emigrants ought to convey a useful
lesson to the British Legislature. The faults of the
Irish people 'are the natural" consequences_.of the sys-
tem of misgovernment, of which they have so long been
the victims :

I shall ever love America for the happy home it has
proved to the provident amongst the from Ireland. In
almost every part of the land, they torn an important portion
of the freemen of the soil. If, on becoming American, :they
have not at all times ceased to be Irish in that full degree the
political economist would desire, there are many allowances to,
be made for them.
" Let it not be considered an unp.ardonableeoorrniti thJ
the poor Irishman runs a little riot, when suddenly aid
freed from the heavy clog by which the exhibition of his opir-
nions has been restrained at home. It is not surprising that
those who limn been for life hoodwinked should fail to see
clearly for themselves in all cases; or that,
rested guides, they are occasionally led astray.
to be,
" Wayward and wilful I will admit them sometimes
and in evil hands their misdirected energies may for a time
falling upon inte-
rested
the instruments of evil. Mistaken in judgment they
right and justice they seldom are, and ungrateful ,
may often be, for such is the lot of humanity, but t:wreuglianri•ednleesrososf
they cannot be, The evidence of their native spirit of enter-